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heywhatupboys

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    Comment #38766393

    any car builtin the last 100 years have electrical components. Any car built in the last 50 have "computers".

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    Comment #38676532

    French is the lingua franca of much of the world....

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    Comment #38676517

    "read up on this wholly separate language and language culture, and you will see that I mean about French"

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    Comment #38368388

    are you talking about gmshowcase.dk ? The site YoYo games literally pulled from existence to become their own "half baked" showcase?

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    Comment #38368370

    can you get gamemaker 8 legally somehow?

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    Comment #38232375

    Being bilingual allows me to actually validate sites like this. Almost all of the English ∩ Danish are completely wrong. "Alannah, Aleesha" etc. Take this site with a spoonful of s…

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    Comment #38159699

    The Soviet Union produced some of the best video games!!

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    Comment #38159694

    > In the end, the problem is capitalism. surely, it is the underlying economic system ruining the art of modern video game development!

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    Comment #38159678

    Unity is older than the Core runtime. They had to use Mono as their base.

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    Comment #37800432

    > Technically this is not valid under strict C, but it's also incredibly common. char data[] is valid C in recent versions if it is the last entry of a struct.

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    Comment #37729286

    But that is absurd! The titles are arbitrarily given

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    Comment #37729280

    > IMO, this is also why we have "computer science"... as if computers were found in nature and we were trying to 'reverse engineer' how they are made; which is ridiculous! "compute…

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    Comment #37727481

    > all titles except for the ones indicating executive or direct reports are meaningless.

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    Comment #37727184

    You are being extremely anglo-centric. In Northern and Central European countries, it is call datalogic or informatics. Your analogy holds only when you tell it in English.

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    Comment #37727168

    all titles except for the ones indicating executive or direct reports are meaningless. It is a game, where workers strife to be granted higher and higher titles, just because their…

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    Comment #37621878

    > don't even know there is a problem here. OR, they don't care.... American centrism on HN is so bad

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    Comment #37621869

    and who says they want to? this is not a net plus game. Catering to Americans might mean catering less to other cultures.

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    Comment #37621865

    none, but they sure cant plug in their vacuum. hispital ones are red wires

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    Comment #37614019

    Not everything caters to the American sensibilities. Different cultures regard different things as professional.

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    Comment #37587160

    this is why denmark has an additional slanted plug for IT equipment and a winky one for hospitals

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    Comment #37557616

    what does this have to do with a "modem" per se?

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    Comment #37548680

    no. literally conservation of energy. humans cannot beak the laws of nature. calories in > calories out

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    Comment #37543573

    Why stop at medicine? Why does anyone get to have enforcable patents in "poor countries", make a profit, etc. etc. Do you also know people can buy the medicine in "poor " countries…

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    Comment #37543569

    Do you know how much it costs, and how many failed experiments, it takes to develop a drug?