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I agree with Harry here, but I think a lot of developers, including maybe even Harry, are missing the point.
Programming code is not there to suit the computer, or the compiler, or the run-time engine.
If it was, we would do everything in machine code, or p-code, or whatever.
Code is there to be read by PEOPLE.
Anything that obscures that intent is, basically, just pretentious BS.
Why should I have to stop and ponder your code for even 3 seconds? Every time I see that line?
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I now have my son back. Last Christmas we finally gave in and bought our son an iPad. Since then we have become iPad widows. Nothing else interests him...until now that is. Pokemon go has got him off the iPad and onto the...iPhone. I know it doesn't sound like much...but it is. Leaving the house is so easy now, no arguments. Sometimes the signal goes and he is forced to talk about the interesting surroundings. And what's more, someone had the bright idea to make pubs pokestops a place where you get random gifts. Thanks Nintendo -bringing families back together again since 2016.
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Just another experiment by the elite pushing towards a paradigm where all reality is augmented through technology, whether it is this or "google glass" or self driving cars, and government has the capacity to alter any information past present or future.
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Oi who let you out of the soapbox?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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You define game developers as "the elite"?
I'm sure that there are one or two members here who might disagree with that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You mean there are actually people who don't want to be considered "elite"?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Their next game will be Children Go. You can find augmented children in and around your house who, contrary to your own, like to spend time with you 
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Sander Rossel wrote: You can find augmented children in and around your house who, contrary to your own, like to spend time with you
In that case, should they not call it Children Stay?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Well, you'll still have to throw a pokeball at them to make them stay 
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I can't wait for Pacman Go.
Watching people walking along, staring at their phones and konking themselves on huge, white balls will be so much fun!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Whenever I run Minecraft, my ASUS ROG Laptop suddenly decides that the power cable isn't plugged in, even though it is. Closing MC causes it to 'reconnect'.
For a time. There are other random disconnects, and a tap to the bottom under the cable plug usually fixes it, except for when MC is running.
I'm wondering if this is a hardware issue or a software/firmware issue.
I'll probably go to Best Buy and talk to someone there about it.
Still, it's weird that MC would cause it to fail to reconnect.
OS is WinX. I don't think that's the issue.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Does it also happen with other games? The graphics processor can draw a lot of power, just like the CPU. It could be that both together draw too much power and the power supply is too weak. Then the voltage would drop and it would react as if the cable had been disconnected. Try running some other more demanding game to find out.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Very likely!
It may also be that the PSU is on it's way to Silicon Heaven and starts to shut down when the current gets too much - my desktop PSU started to do that recently and had to be replaced.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Silicon Heaven
Is this place related to East Hyperspace?[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Great! That's one of the first questions I would expect from a real AI. So, you made me. Then who made you? My answer would probably be evolution in both cases, but that would probably be a problem for really religious people.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: be a problem for really religious people.
One of those has popped up in the Soap Box... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh no. One of them once condemned me to hell for playing around with something that does not exist (evolutionary algorithms) and for trying to play god.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Coming from a religious island I've been condemned to hell for less than that!
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Yes, I know. Holland. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Holland isn't that bad. Neither are the Netherlands
It's just that I live in the bible belt. We have a few very religious villages.
The island I live on has been in the national news recently because a local free door-to-door newspaper printed a story about a gay couple after which the newspaper received death threats and apologized for the article. That may not sound like a big deal to lots of people, but the Netherlands as a whole is pretty tolerant towards gay people. After the newspaper apologized the rest of the Netherlands attacked the newspaper because, according to them, they gave in to religious bigotry. Ironically, the interviewed couple lived on the island and said in the article that they never really had problems with religious people
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Look where I come from.[^] If the stork had dropped me only a little further westwards, I would be wearing wooden shoes, grow tulips and not be able to drive a car without towing a caravan.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: I would be wearing wooden shoes, grow tulips and not be able to drive a car without towing a caravan
Now you come here in the summer and dig holes on our beaches
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Since 1971 when I was not even in school yet.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I'll have to test that.
I don't have any other graphics-heavy games, so that might not be too easy to test.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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