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Re:Fixing Toxic Online Behavior in League of Legends on Saturday April 27, 2013 @12:12PM (#5618159)
Why doesn't LoL just disable public chat? Enable chat for premades, that's it. If you're playing with your own friends you can chat. If you're playing with randoms, you don't get chat. Toxic behavior gone and people can actually, you know, play the game. The purpose is to play the game, not use it as 1998 AOL Chat Room.
Re:Creating a Radial Menu in CSS on Friday April 26, 2013 @08:25PM (#5616268)
1993's Secret of Mana was well known for its ring menu. I don't think radial menus are practical with mice, they fit controllers and console games better (where interacting with menus is slower).
How is Strikingly different from SquareSpace as far as interaction? Less features? More features?

http://www.squarespace.com/

What are some YC companies that have been acquired in the last 5 years and then disappeared?
Re:“God, I hate recruiters” on Friday April 26, 2013 @07:29PM (#5616095)
How did you go from "started programming (for real) about 2 years ago" to recruitment offers from Google/Apple and "targeting $180K"?
Re:Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? on Friday April 26, 2013 @01:29PM (#5614180)
Just as good programmers are those fluent in many languages, a good programmer should also be fluent in many operating systems.

Hypothetically, if Mac went under and ceased to exist, do you really want to be that business that relies entirely on Mac ecosystem?

IMO Linux is simply the safest OS to rely on because it's open source.

Re:Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? on Friday April 26, 2013 @01:25PM (#5614146)
Somewhat tangential: Are there many start-ups that allow talented tech people to build their own PC? I used to think most programmers knew hardware, but that apparently isn't or was never the case. Building PCs is second nature to me, and I could build a PC two times more performant than a Mac and probably half as expensive.
Re:US Navy to pay $1M to make Android more secure on Thursday April 25, 2013 @07:17PM (#5610585)
Government and multiple platforms. That's cute. I guess you've never worked an IT job in the government before.
Re:Being Really, Really, Ridiculously Good Looking on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:34PM (#5610389)
Straight porn. They don't want attractive men, it makes male viewers feel inadequate.
Re:Twitter Should Shut Me Down on Thursday April 25, 2013 @03:40PM (#5609396)
He knows he will be shut down with or without this blog post. Twitter already knows about him.

The purpose of this blog post is to save what little of his reputation is left by making it seem like he's redeeming himself. He isn't. He's waiting for Twitter to shut him down while he keeps making money as a spammer.

Re:Twitter Should Shut Me Down on Thursday April 25, 2013 @03:34PM (#5609349)
This is detestable. I hope everyone can translate this blog post accordingly. If not, here it is:

"I publicly acknowledge I'm wrong. I'm letting Twitter know they should shut me down, but I'm just going to keep riding while the money is hot. Everyone will think I'm a great guy because of this post and my reputation will be salvaged after I'm shut down."

Spammers are the lowest. If the OP has any shred of dignity left he would shut down before Twitter can do that for him.