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Long-term and/or frequent crunching is a net productivity loss after only 4-6 weeks. This is pretty well documented and has been for a while now. I did that once and I learned first hand how ineffective it is. At this point I would never participate in mandatory crunch. Sometimes I work late...

I played D3 quite a bit around launch duoing with my Girlfriend mostly. We play pretty casually and for all its faults I feel like I got my money's worth so I will almost certainly pick up the expansion. Can anyone provide some info as to how the 2 new content modes are? I am curious to see...

Probably? I've worked for a couple of "creative visionaries" in my time and it was never a good experience. What you tend to learn is that the public perception is false and the success came from people whose names you don't know that were too busy working hard and putting out fires to be the...

False.

He is 100% correct. Hell the terrain isn't even painted well and the prefab of the building is just stuck into the terrain. It isn't blended or grounded to look like it belongs there in any way. 20 minutes is being generous, I'd say more like 5.

Like money is no object top of the line? Or really good but not the very top of the line? The price difference in the 2 can be dramatic.

I built a Mini-ITX box (Silverstone SG05) and am very happy with it. It can make a large difference if you keep your computer in the family room like I do, and not in an office. It especially matters if you have more than 1. For me it is as much aesthetics as it is space, the smaller case can...

It is the connective tissue that matters in deadlifting, the muscles themselves play almost no role at all. Deadlift weights are (or should be) so ridiculously heavy compared to the size and strength of your arms that they only come into play as a rope to hang the weight from. With the...

It is a very good engine, and most importantly it is pretty cheap. The other major advantages are that you can easily make your game web-based, and Unity is platform agnostic. It, of course, isn't the solution to every situation though. The major downside in this case is there is no server...

Agreed, if running the software is of primary importance, than a full x86 laptop in the tablet form factor (Surface Pro 2 is one) is probably recommended. For that you give up some portability via the increased weight and decreased battery life. Normally that wouldn't matter much, but for you...

Smells like feces to me. Out of curiosity I looked up Chafee's comments. Found this bit from aNew York Timesarticle: I don't see how his rather truthful comments sunk his "1 week away deal." I suppose it is possible was that the potential investors were somehow deceived and Chafee's public...

While I don't have time to comment in detail now, and I only skimmed your blog post, I disagree that fully dynamic content is the answer to content construction. This is an interesting discussion, so I will read your post in detail later today, and comment properly on it.

Who are these "other people" that are generously donating money to fund dirty, dirty socialism? Oh and...Norwegians become crown millionaires as sovereign wealth fund hits benchmark - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Or because rape is grossly under-reported in country's with less gender equality. I wonder what the rate is for Saudi Arabia?

I am utterly baffled by whatever the hell you are talking about. That Norway is full of cannibals? Maybe you consider whales people? Can you at least attempt to make a cogent point?

Other people can chime in here, but it seems if you primarily use web-based apps, they you probably have a lot of options. If possible I would first recommend you try and test the web apps using the different browsers, if they all work then you are up to cost/preference. I don't have a ton...

Your ignorance of the Norwegian justice system and its effectiveness is sho... I take that back, your ignorance isn't shocking at all.

Hmm... What does your general diet look like? If you are getting a good number of Calories before dinner, but are still hungry, it might be the foods you eat as meals are not satiating enough. It also might be psychological, in which case fiber dense veggies are probably your best option.

For this, are you looking for a tablet tablet or a tablet computer? That is a full x86 computer with a touchscreen and a tablet form factor. Also, what are your primary work tools? Do you primarily use office? Do you have custom software that you use? Any information like that would help...

'Red State Socialism' graphic says GOP-leaning states get lion's share of federal dollars | PolitiFact The infoisquite out of date though.

Actually there are 2 (I think). I am a social democrat and I think Dumar is a marxist? He may be more a social democrat as well. For the record, I was always a liberal, but I didn't consider myself a full-blown a social democrat until I saw first hand how well it worked.

I actually think it could be done even more efficiently. Most of the of the major things Nordic countries do get more efficient at large scales (like health care & taxpayer funded higher education).

Wait a minute... I think... yea... I just had a thought. What if, stay with me here, now what if there wasmoreto life than money? I mean, sure you need enough to eat, and feel safe from harm or catastrophe... but much beyond that... what if it doesn't really matter? Sounds crazy I...

I imagine New Englanders would sympathize with Arizonans and New Mexicans more. Also, thanks for making the Nordic Model case for me, all I had to do was mention it and you guys did all the work

You are pretty ignorant. The people that are heavier because they are muscular usually carry it in their thighs/ass, because those are the biggest muscles in the body and generate the most strength/power. Furthermore, lifting heavy makes your skeleton and connective tissue more dense, which...

Why? I hear this all the time but no one can say what, exactly, is different about the people living in the United States prevents this? The only barrier I see is culture, and culture can change.

It doesn't even say that, according to the chart Norway had equal or better growth than the US. I don't really follow what he is trying to say at all.

Wtf? You must be trolling.

Are you trolling? Every country on that list has a market driven economic system, including china since the 70s (2 decades before the chart starts).

You do realize thatSocial Democracy, aka theNordic Model, has been wildly successful. While not fully Marxism (Marxists and Social Democrats were actually political rivals in 19th century Germany), social democracy was HEAVILY influenced by his philosophy and analysis of capitalism.

That was it, thank you. The weapon info just says +10 defense, I thought it meant +10 defense to the defense skill, not the defense stat. Just another quirky thing about this game.

Industry standard cost metric for producing a professional game in a professional environment is ~10k per person per month.

I have a question about skill stacking and weapons if someone knows the answer, Google was no help. I made a Rampart Lance which has on it +10 Defense. However, this bonus seems to be broken? It isn't showing up in my status window, even when I have the weapon readied. Is this a GUI thing...

Deal. Thank you for the very interesting discussion.

That kind of low level tuning is done by our server programmers writing server code on a per project (or per module rather since projects share modules) basis. We don't need a dedicated DB Admin because the programmers themselves are in a better position to optimize in such a setup. If you...

Found this really goodtalk from a Zynga engineer about scalability at GDC. It is just the right amount of technical that it is thorough but understandable. Worth watching if anyone here is interested.

For the last few years they've been moving from MySQL to Spanner (Or BigTable for other applications). Here is just one example, but there are plenty of others on research.google: F1 - The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business Except for where they need very high...

Thanks for bringing this up Gecko, there is actually some really interesting stuff out there and I haven't read up on it in a while. Google, like Facebook, uses a fusion of system types (much of it proprietary). They seem to be moving away from NoSQL now, and towards something they call...

Right, but they use different setups for different parts of their system. The messaging system, which has similar needs to an online game, uses a NoSQL setup (HBASE) due to its need for very fast read-write and high scalability.ACIDalso isn't very important for such a system, so sacrificing...