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throw_away_623

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    Comment #47231422

    A lot of the game was spent walking from puzzle to puzzle. I think prioritising graphics was a good choice, because one was forced to notice the landscape.

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    Comment #47231218

    Mine are Rust and Go. Rust: I simply don't like the syntax Go: It just feels "wrong". There's something off about it. I feel as if it is an evolutionary dead end.

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    Comment #47231099

    It's actually not that unconditional, and is something you have to work for. They will of course be happy that you come from work and show affection as they are social animals, but…

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    Comment #47205777

    Isn't it available here? https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/other/#releases-2012

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    Comment #47204715

    The reason people talk about the mouse is that it's one of the worst ideas they ever had. At the time, I remember someone claimed that the reason was that they were afraid people c…

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    Comment #46769530

    Postgres supports enum that would fit this use case well. You get the readability of text and the storage efficiency of an integer. Adding new values used to require a bit of work,…

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    Comment #46766379

    Is there enough information to show exact addresses? For example "221B Baker Street"

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    Comment #46766079

    Are the names of cities/streets included in the tiles, or do they have to be placed from a different data source?

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    Comment #46765902

    Are you planning to add persistent events as well, so that events are not lost due to crashes

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    Comment #46759848

    I’ll take “just use Postgres” over “prematurely add three new systems” any day. Complexity has a cost too. Using Postgres too long is probably less harmful than adding unnecessary …

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    Comment #46453828

    > I sometimes wonder if this is what happens when people get older and happened to me early, or if it's just a personality trait. It's a cliché but I (almost 50 years old) have fou…

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    Comment #46453194

    I think you are on to something. My theory is that the brain is good at compressing memories, so if you do mostly the same things every day it's not stored as a separate memory. I …