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The 3DS is within a few mm in dimensions of the DS Lite.

What would a "DS Lite-style" 3DS look like?

I am assuming this is a serious comment.

The answer is no, the 3DS is significantly different on the inside (processor, RAM, NAND) than a DS (or DSi).

The IPL is also significantly better (and is even OS-like). And there's a store.

Nb: I work for Nintendo.

I appreciated that Republia shows up in Papers, Please. Didn't realize they were the same author.

OT a bit: I remember reading the code and turning my nose up at some of the implementation specifics. But then I remembered that he's the one shipping and getting things done.

John Cook has some interesting material on testing PRNGs in his chapter for the book Beautiful Testing. His material is (was?) online free, here: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/12/06/how-to-test-a-rando...

IANAL, but as I understand it, in order for the courts to consider this a "true threat", the government must prove (beyond reasonable doubt) that the it was intended to be taken seriously (the subjective test), or a reasonable person familiar with the context would interpret it as a serious threat (the objective test).

Here's a case of almost the same thing happening in CA, from December of 2012: http://www.popehat.com/2012/12/18/the-true-threat-doctrine-i...

As someone who works in Redmond, the details of Microsoft's gigantic food court thing aren't exactly private.

This reminds me of Fog Creek's compensation transparency.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html and http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/ladder.html

To be clear, my coworker doesn't run thisiswhyimbroke, but a site with a similar layout.

It's a little extra money in his pocket, but not something profitable or rewarding enough to do full time. (He also has a few other attempts that don't do as well as the camping one, and with the camping one the income is pretty seasonal).

>Why on earth would anyone want a face associated with a program, website, or anything that's not a social media account?

A coworker runs one of those aggregate-amazon-affiliate-link sites (think http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/) for camping and outdoorsy things. He saw a noticeable increase in traffic by associating his wife's picture in his search results. He's of the opinion that a pretty face helps sell things.

Proggy has a variant with a slashed 0. Can't see I've ever seen a 7 or Z with a slash in it, though.

I think I've only ever seen this from banks or medical organizations, where the annoyance is a little more acceptable.

I'd much rather they send me an (encrypted) e-mail, but I understand why they can't.

This reminds me of how the British Navy forgot the cure to scurvy after 150 years. http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

This is the first I've heard of the Deccan Traps. Interestingly, they're "almost" on the opposite side of the globe from the Chicxulub impact (21'N 90'W to 17'N 77'E).

I wonder if their formation or activity might have been caused by the impact?

When I first started learning dvorak, my passwords consisted of a,m, the numbers and ~ (these keys are in the same positions as they are on QWERTY).

This is all to true in a lot of cases. I regret there aren't more organizations like the Center for Class Action Fairness who object to ridiculous terms where lawyers just "cash out", often leaving the class with very little.

http://centerforclassactionfairness.blogspot.com/

I don't think I've ever seen a demo card that doesn't accept any valid string for expiration/name/CVC.

Can users start a new thread via e-mail? What would that look like?

I too am a dedicated highlight-reader, precisely because it's so easy to lose my place when scrolling. I found myself reading somewhat slower (perhaps due to trying to understand what was going on and how it worked), but I wasn't clicking the mouse maniacally, either.

I suspect the author means viable for video games, not software. I don't have any proof of this, just the dearth of large-budget games make their way to Mac.

Specifically:

6 - R

7 - G

1 - B

15 - B

16 - R

8 - Cannot be R G or B

Fire drills strike me as an infrequent yet important safety measure. Unless it's some management term I don't understand?

I'm generally not one to get excited about the concept of gamification. However, I thought the variable reward stuff was novel and interesting (and obvious, in hindsight).

One of the reviews mention android, which is apparently where the prototype is. It's unclear to me, though: is this only for iOS now?

In WA, the Sales tax on liquor is 20.5% (plus the per-liter tax)

gdb is one of those tools that I regret never learning because I've always had an IDE. I was able to follow the examples here well enough, but the array assignment causes gdb to crash in Cygwin. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to overcome that (short of installing a vm & a real linux)?