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When people notice an influential employee that works at a company is active in a community, that presents them with an opportunity to talk to a living breathing person that might …

Its possible that it happens, but from my admittedly limited anecdotal experience from seeing a half dozen or so people claim that they were banned for no reason and then taking a …

In a different thread someone recommended charging a small fee for new accounts to prevent abuse. Dang responded that its important for everyone to be able to participate. Between …

I think you're taking it too literally, you can manipulate lots of quotes to turn them into something they weren't intended to be. Pretty sure the quoted person wasn't promoting th…

>I know that Reddit admins read HN so please please do not kill off old.reddit.com. The redesign is absolute garbage. People have ben telling them this for years. They know and do …

Sounds rapey only if you are ignoring the fact that people have a right to consent or not consent to sexual things that happen to them.

I spent more time with videogames than encarta. However, trying to get pc games to run in the 90s taught me how to troubleshoot computers. When I had Internet access I still played…

Luckily my father introduced me to the first one as a kid. However, likely also due to being eclipsed by Wolfenstein 3d, I didn't even know there was a sequel.

They just re-recorded their first album which was a pretty straightforward but still weird trash album from 85 that's arguably as good as anything else from the era. It was recorde…

He's definitely talented and I did watch his talk a while back. It was a pretty good talk and pretty enlightening. I didn't realize how much effort some musicians put into setting …

>Doom scary creepy game? >People flipped out when Doom 3 ended up being low light horror game and not a fast paced shooter. A game can have a creepy aesthetic and even scare people…

I think you are on to something about the impact being forced to use your imagination has. Quake 1 had amazing art direction and each chapter had its own feel because each of them …

>Halo's trick was to sloooow the action down. I agree that the action was slower, however, Halo's real trick was designing a set of weapons that were fun to use, but were mostly ho…

>Diet Dr Pepper. No one drinks it because most people think even regular Dr. Pepper is gross, but Diet Dr. Pepper is nationally recognized as a household name in the US because of …

Unlike those other topics we still have a culture where they wear their technological illiteracy as a badge of honor.

They don't need to understand the tech to recognize that there's an issue, but they do need to understand the the tech if they want to have any hope of regulating social media and …

Perhaps instead of Tim meaning that its impossible for Apple to have a service outage, he was instead talking about the incredibly unrealistic things that were happening in the vid…

>IDA is great but Ghirda is the new hotness on the street. Ghidra is great but its got a long uphill battle before it dethrones IDA as the choice of professional malware analysts.

Coding and math books frequently list prerequisites by saying something like "only really trivial mathematics knowledge that any adult should be familiar with" and then you start w…

Its just too much of a coincidence to me that at the same time they got acquired by a Bobby Kotick run company they started churning out games that, while not completely terrible, …

>People Don’t realize, but industry workers get injured/die every year on movie sets (though it is better than it used to be). Is this largely due to construction projects like set…

Replying to my comment because its too old to edit. Apparently Carmack is still somewhat involved and spoke at a recent Facebook event. He talked a bit about working on this proble…

>Valve has been resting on their laurels for years. They aren't just a game development company anymore. Their primary product is Steam. If Half-Life Alyx was playable on any PC or…

There is latency and in VR latency is more noticeable to begin with than it is with normal gaming. Also, there is a good amount of compression involved so the graphical fidelity ta…

Not sure if it was the case for Chuck, but a small percentage Christians strongly believe that charity should be anonymous because it actually says as much in the bible. I'm not a …