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Who asked? Most of the game industry. This and the lay-offs at Funcom today have been the talk of the town(/Twitter) before they came out and posted this.

I'd be interested to compare the "seek time" though. Platter drive seek times can be pretty nasty, but I'd be interested to see if Dropbox or some competitor could serve up better …

Yeah, I wasn't crazy about the implication that str and int only do this via special built-in magic. In reality, you can overload __new__ to return whatever you want, including obj…

For more info, the main website is at: http://www.rust-lang.org/ They recently added a tutorial: http://doc.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial.html Of specific interest to language nerds m…

I didn't mean to "alienate the president" from this in policy position terms, but speaking of rhetorical style and flourishes, it seems a little silly to use "Obama says" to cover …

While I agree with the sentiment, this isn't written under Obama's name. Its listed authors are Victoria Espinel, Aneesh Chopra, and Howard Schmidt.

This is way premature optimization, and it's based on a lot of assumptions. Did you know that, on CPython, your integer increment creates a new object each time (outside of the ran…

Hey, I see you're new here. You may be wondering why your comment got down-voted. It's not that we're a community of jerks, I promise. People just really prize a high signal-to-noi…

This immediately made me think of a quote about folks wanting to get into the games business: "Thinking that 'Hey, I like playing games, so maybe I'd like making them' is sort of l…

I looked at "Elder Scroll series" and "Fallout series" and wondered how these met the 30 hour rule. Then I remembered that the advice also suggests skipping all side-quests. If you…

Frank Lantz, Ian's friend mentioned in the article who used to work at Area/Code and now at Zynga NYC wrote a response: http://gamedesignadvance.com/?p=2383

It's a bit more complicated than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_productivity

Right, again, I think there's a political dimension to this, but I don't think Reagan created the problems two years before he got into office. My gut tells me economic repercussio…

To be fair, Carter's reign wasn't exactly an economic wonder-time, and I don't think Reagan was influencing the economy that much as governor. I do think there's a political dimens…

The US doesn't do terribly well in terms of economic mobility compared to other developed nations, either: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4662456 It's hard to…

"So you'd bet that if I shadowed 1,000 self-made millionaires while they were building their businesses, and then shadowed a random sampling of (employed) Americans, the millionair…

I have no doubt that determination and enthusiasm are positively correlated with both success and with working long hours. However, as a rational skeptic, I've yet to see evidence …

What he's calling "a mess" certainly is debt. In money, debt is debt, whether you acquired it by taking out a responsible mortgage or running up your credit card on bottles of Dom …

While I agree that being defensive at first does use up the most important part of a post, I don't think it necessarily undermines it. If you can disarm people's preconceived preju…

"And if you feel the need to deploy 'defense' against downvotes, you are either saying things that don't need to be said, or you are being needlessly defensive and thereby undermin…

In my personal experience, the difference between a crappy CFL and a good CFL is huge. Low-end CFLs are dim, flickery, have a large warm-up period and often worse color. High-end C…

I agree that these are no small feat, and while I honestly think that these things were huge gaps in the service previously, I do applaud the quick implementation of them. However,…

This is pretty much exactly what they should be doing. The fact that it took them several weeks to do it is what constitutes a poor response to the crisis. Regardless, it looks lik…

You seem to be arguing against a point I didn't make. I didn't say that "Hacker News is more qualified on economic issues than Cato" as you put it. I said that I found the case mad…