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WhyNott

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    Comment #27986360

    I mean, that does not contradict at all what OP is saying. /s

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    Comment #27287965

    Or maybe he has an interesting theory he understands deeply, and think its valuable to show how this theory can give insight to the problem in question. Why be so cynical?

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    Comment #25956581

    To be fair, "law doesn't work backwards" is an estabilished legal principle.

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    Comment #24809641

    Surely the right lesson to take would be to try something like posting links several times? To paraphrase, even if success always comes from accident, there are always ways to make…

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    Comment #24667392

    Have you ever seen the way modern AAA video games are made? I have a feeling they are really the product of our time (large amounts of money, poor labour laws, etc), and we are not…

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    Comment #24661035

    There is a specific reason to say it: 98% of polish population belong to a single ethic group, and even of the remaining 2% the vast majority are what most people would consider to…

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    Comment #24597375

    I don't think I've ever seen a map that places United States in the center. Is that really a thing?

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    Comment #24548275

    Are you sure about this? I've heard the quote applied specifically in the context of RAII, where he complained that there is no such thing as a generalized "resource", and that the…

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    Comment #24548229

    ...Except that he did talk about all of his games almost from the get go? He showed earliest prototypes of Braid and Witness publicaly when the games were just blocky protypes, in …

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    Comment #24547322

    I feel like this is an example of what Jonathan Blow calls a "Big Idea" or a "100% solution". His thesis is that when you make a feature of a language too abstract and usable in ma…

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    Comment #24324172

    Thank you a lot for your comment! I could tell from the tone of the article that the person writing it was clearly biased, but I didn't realize how far they have stretched their na…

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    Comment #23305485

    Actually, you are wrong (or maybe you just haven't made it clear, so I'll spell it out here). * * is not intended to stand for "kurwa mać", it stands for "jebać pis". Its a referen…

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    Comment #22756509

    So I searched and I found that my library has a book with this exact title, but by a guy named Shyamalendu Kandar. I've read the introduction and the preface, and nothing suggests …

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    Comment #22025340

    FYI, a fusion between prolog and haskell already exists: its called mercury. Its a statically compiled language with decent performance characteristics (at least, in its category).…