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oliveoilon X-COM

Was I the only one to ever hit that bug where on some missions you randomly found so much Elerium-115 so that you no longer had to worry about depleting it as a resource? That made the game suddenly lot easier to finish.

Also, disagree that the "Terror from the Deep" was poor. It was more of the good stuff and much much harder.

oliveoilon Berners-Lee: WWW is spy net

am I naive to think we all would get spied on a lot less if we cleared our browser cookies every couple of hours or at least daily?

oliveoilon Danish government builds Minecraft world of Denmark from geodata

building whole cities and landscapes by putting together small bricks piece by piece? would be surprised if they were not all over it in DK, the land of lego.

oliveoilon F1 2014: All aboard the 'power train' - new rules explained

Same here, stopped watching around 1998. I though it's mostly about the car (which is largely random per-season, yes) and instead of celebrating the design/engineering behind the only things celebrated around f1 are the personalities of drivers, their excesses and their egos.

oliveoilon Facebook's legal team bans developer of F.B. Purity from Facebook

I think Facebook is not after FB Purity. They are after anyone who could come up with a plugin that scrapes the content and stores it to a db. People using the plugin would get access to the db in exchange: companies could look up prospective employees, ex-girlfriends spy on their defriended ex-boyfriends, etc.

Hell, the idea is so tempting that someone is definitely doing this already. And you'd only need a percentile of the users to get the information for every other facebook user.

oliveoilon Functional programming with Python

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/

oliveoilon Introducing the Humble Indie Bundle 6

can someone explain to me how you can make money on a game like Rochard (one of the games in the bundle)? There is such an incredible amount of detail in the background in each scene, it looks like few thousand hours of work just that.

oliveoilon btjunkie says goodbye

Wouldn't it be enough to just move sites like this to for instance Russia?

oliveoilon Every Linux screen locker bypassed with a keypress

  yum update xkeyboard-config

with the Fedora repos enabled fixes the issue now (the fixed in version is xkeyboard-config-2.3-3.fc16.noarch).

oliveoilon JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old.

We are very sorry, but also very excited!

Damage controlling like a ninja.

oliveoilon A Dirty Business: New York City’s top prosecutor takes on Wall Street crime

But I said 'better enough'. There are of course investors that can legally get above the index.

oliveoilon A Dirty Business: New York City’s top prosecutor takes on Wall Street crime

One day, mathematicians will prove that any fund doing better enough than the index must be insider trading. All those people from the 90s and 2000s, long retired by then, will be convicted. It's like in cycling when they measure too much hemoglobin in the blood they conclude the guy's doping. The funds' financial records will be their frozen piss samples.

oliveoilon LulzSec: Why we do what we do

This thing must be fake. I thought they were doing it for the lulz.

oliveoilon Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin

> Such rapid inflation will not go on forever.

Isn't it deflation if you can buy more with the same amount of the currency?

oliveoilon Love in GIT

got to keep those top level text files up to date.

oliveoilon Wikileaks Founder: Facebook is the most appalling spy machine ever invented

53 people recommended this.

oliveoilon The Mystery of the Tainted Cocaine

just a smuggling idea: why don't they build an unmanned sub to shuttle the drugs around the border? it could go much deeper (no air needed), move real slowly, stay submerged for a very long time at one place, navigate completely automatically using GPS (except someone needs to pick up the cargo on the other end) and if caught it's hard to catch the smugglers.

oliveoilon Google.com has an animated logo using an HTML/JavaScript particle simulator

hmm.. a clever trick for non-chrome users to realize how slow the javascript in their browser is?

oliveoilon Google Chrome Labs (Featuring Tabs on the Left)

hmm two things come to mind:

1) finally something that would make me switch for a 'wide-screen' lcd. 2) if you can resize the bar then all of the webdesigners' estimates about "this much should always fit the screen without scrolling" are off (if they still make them).

oliveoilon User Interface Design Pattern Library

is it a design pattern or an antipattern to call the main page just "Home"?

oliveoilon GCC optimization flag makes your 64-bit binary fatter and slower

uhh, what is that disgusting thing on the picture near the top?

oliveoilon MenuetOS - An OS written entirely in assembly

that's the thing with assembly, you can't port it that easily.

oliveoilon That Misery Called Meditation

.. which is brilliantly chosen because the article later evolves quite unexpectedly. (huh, guess I spoiled it now).

oliveoilon My [husband] works for Electronic Arts, I'm ... a disgruntled spouse. (2004)

Couldnt agree more.

>I know people who would be much happier doing games >development subjects at uni but are reluctant because >future employers may not give them non games dev jobs

This is a good thing in my opinion, it could help regulate the talent flowing into the industry so the companies wake up and start making better environment for the engineers.

oliveoilon My [husband] works for Electronic Arts, I'm ... a disgruntled spouse. (2004)

> Especially as a programmer, why would you put up with something so ridiculous? It's not that hard to find work doing development elsewhere.

I think this is partly because they feel specialized in what they are doing and their feeling of specialization sort of binds them to the game industry.

The other part being the glamour wisty is writing about.

oliveoilon My [husband] works for Electronic Arts, I'm ... a disgruntled spouse. (2004)

there's something seriously fucked up with the game industry. A uni friend with a reasonably good theoretical CS degree tried to get a junior gameplay programming job last year and was told/signalled his knowledge and experience is not game-specific enough. So what I suspect is that the people who manage to get in have spent some sweet time getting there (perhaps even on specialized uni courses) and keep telling themselves this is what they really wanted (wasn't it just yesterday here on HN someone posted the wiki article about cognitive dissonance?). And it's the same across large portion of game companies at least, most notably those crunching out MMO games (there's a great blog about that that I can't find right now).

oliveoilon Being Present: You have ten to twelve years to connect with your kids

And you get to improve the economy too!

oliveoilon Greenspun: Let's stop investing in our kids

How about an added value in a well educated person. Like he or she feels better about themselves, is more likely to contribute to society with things as art (or open source software) as well as more likely to succeed starting a new business and bring in even more of that MONEY.

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of course they responded somehow, that's the next best thing after not silently removing once published poll. we can hope their intentions are clear, but we know nearly for sure the poll was there, some voting happened and then it was removed (the 'nearly' being the possibility of the story all made up by androidforums.)

oliveoilon [dead]

upvoting this.

I seriously couldn't care less about EVO 4G or iPhone. But I loath and fear manipulative media like nothing in the world.