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Re:24/192 music downloads are silly on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @08:50AM (#8693681)
Because it does not sound better.
Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason on Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:44AM (#8635904)
>Wait for the next release and the same guy is probably going to be complaining about changes to the current UI. Off course he will. It's his point. He alreadey stated that it is not the ui that is bad. It's the practice of constantly changing things for no good reason that is bad.
Re:GNU Guix 0.8 released on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @09:44AM (#8624017)
Mandatory XKCD comic: http://xkcd.com/927/
and down
Re:Reddit on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @06:31AM (#8393643)
No, it is not. Compared to other places like facebook or twitter or the world it's feminist heaven. Open your eyes.
Re:The laws of shitty dashboards on Sunday September 14, 2014 @07:03PM (#8316541)
No you're not. I don't get it either.
Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @08:04AM (#8226642)
I really like his minimalistic writing style. Wish other authors (especially americans) would follow his example. Not every simple fact needs an anecdote.
Re:3 Must-Have Tools For Email Marketers on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @10:35AM (#7977193)
Is "Email Marketers" a euphemism for "spammers"?
Re:Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late? on Saturday April 26, 2014 @11:46AM (#7651750)
I would buy you hacker news gold for this rant. So true.
This is really great.

I for one hate the drag component in platform games. It makes them always feel very sluggish and imprecise. Most of the Mario games are unplayable for me because of this behavior.

According to this logic, is asking whether this is a java problem also off topic, because it's not a java problem? So you have to know the answer to know if the question is on topic. Great rules.
Re:I've made an open source flappy bird clone on Sunday February 09, 2014 @02:42PM (#7206794)
Is Flappy Bird the new "Hello World!" for game engines?