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That's literally Valve's strategy. Counterstrike, Team Fortress, Dota, Portal... Also even graphic novels are generally two person teams. I think trying to make an indie game with …

You can exit from MTGO pretty easily? There are automated bots that will buy your cards for tickets, and those same companies will give you cash for those tickets (95 cents per tic…

These are people who have never (will never?) write any actual working code. Through a combination of lying on their resume/bullshitting interviews/hiding away during the actual jo…

While that's true, it's not as big a deal as you'd think if these cars are dramatically safer. Auto insurance is a 180 billion dollar industry in the US (that's a billion with a B)…

There are actually animals that sleep half a brain at once: all the marine mammals. A dolphin can't just fall asleep underwater (it will drown), so it sleeps half at a time. There …

This isn't about censorship or trying to shut the barn door after the horse or anything about trying to prevent the spread of documents to the public (or even realistically the peo…

Just so you know, those achievements are like tracking cookies: the video game companies can't just send home whatever data they want, but they can see achievement data. So that ac…

Because it doesn't affect you or any other person or organization that doesn't have legitimate access to classified information. The key words here are "unclassified government sys…

They are already tagged like that here on Hacker News thankfully: see the medium.com?

It's more neutral because it takes out a bunch of useful information and leaves practically nothing left, like a news story that's unbiased because it doesn't bother actually sayin…

No, she's been placed in an "alternative" school. That's not a place for learning, it's a place where the state sticks kids that have to be educated but aren't in prison at that mo…

Not that it's really an issue here because Coffescript is basically Javascript anyway, but legible source is important even for developers who don't end up reading it. The people w…

In theory, companies return money to their stockholders when they don't believe they can profitably invest the money internally. Large mature energy companies are a common example.…