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gideons

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    Comment #7822417

    We have a fairly new bunch of technologies with the internet. We're still at the point where people are exploring the problem space, what our technology can solve, what it can't so…

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    Comment #7597854

    Or as my 4th grade teacher used to say "Don't be sorry, be right".

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    Comment #5479824

    At the end of the day PG is a smart dude and a wealthy dude, but he's not a philosopher or great thinker on social interaction. His essays barely rise above the level of Rush lyric…

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    Comment #5479767

    Strawmen must die!

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    Comment #4132260

    Please, the people who matter are: 1. buyers from retail who might "play" a game only at E3 2. Marketing people who are getting a sense for how your game is being received and migh…

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    Comment #3852940

    In a video game anything the player doesn't see is a waste of time. In the case of games with large branching story lines it's a tradeoff between putting effort in to content which…

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    Comment #3652622

    That's the problem though isn't it. The buffers absorb the packets, preventing packet loss, and TCP performance goes down. Adding more initial packets puts more data in flight, mor…

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    Comment #3514335

    I don't think reversing a link-list and removing unique items requires any special Python knowledge. No magical API needs to be used, just the basics. A white board interview shoul…

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    Comment #2841489

    So you have a legacy system that is being used by other systems, you're the new super genius and can't understand the system, so you rewrite? Discounting the potential release iter…