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dhugiaskmak | 12 years ago | on: How Watching 'Unbundled' ESPN and AMC Could Cost More Than Your Whole Cable Bill

Better unless you live in the same broadcast market as the team you want to watch. In all leagues that I am aware of those games are blacked out and TV is your only option.

dhugiaskmak | 12 years ago | on: Desert Bus: The Worst Video Game

It's a significantly better game than the festering, cancerous legion of predatory money extracting non-games that have turned the iOS and Android app stores into cesspits of addiction and credit card fraud.

dhugiaskmak | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Ever wish you could save what you had just heard? Thank my 2-year-old

The rules about what you can and cannot record without consent vary by state and situation:

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-co...

dhugiaskmak | 12 years ago | on: Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala

I just finished the most recent session of this class and I found it incredibly frustrating that there was no discussion of the homework assignments after the due dates had passed. What's the point of having homework if there's no way to get the correct answers and get feedback on your solutions?

And take the "in Scala" part of the course title with a grain of salt. You're only taught enough to complete the exercises.

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox?

It didn't work for me at first, so thinking that I had somehow failed to clear the cookies I tried it again and was able to log in.

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: I'm tired of trying to meet new people. So I've built another social network

So it's Reddit?

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip

You have the Constitutional right to join a well-regulated militia.

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future

Well, they saved quite a lot by not paying the billion and a half dollars that they owe Washington state in taxes, so they can afford it.

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: Things You Think Aren’t Sexist, But Really Are

I agree with everything she wrote.

But please stop with the "Dude" this and "Dude" that.

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content

So NBT is a site for Christians to find Christian music?

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: Germans and Jaywalking: An American's Perspective on the Berlin Tech Scene

Limit them how? What is it that you think the Germans are suffering from that requires them to be more like the residents of Silicon Valley?

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: Confessions of A Job Destroyer

http://books.google.com/books?id=45EEAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA171&...

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

Well, getting you somewhere faster.

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: The new SimCity

The first impressions article from Ars was a lot more useful to me:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/simcity-impressions-we...

That article gives me the impression that it's more of a Sims game with Sim City bolted on than a real Sim City game.

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: Dalvik patch for Facebook for Android

  are we supposed to buy new phones every five years now?

No. Every two.

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says

... wasn't Radiohead's first album, is what you forgot to say. It's easy to be magnanimous and "experimental" when you've already got yours via the traditional route.

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: The Nightmare That Keeps Microsoft Awake: Android On The Desktop

You can't have a "track record" of something after doing that thing only once.

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: Sleep problems could jeopardise future missions to Mars

An irregular sleep cycle seems pretty mild compared to super space bacteria, a weakened immune system, and problems with radiation.

http://boingboing.net/2013/01/07/another-danger-for-astronau... http://boingboing.net/2013/01/04/how-space-radiation-hurts-a...

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: Rescued by a Bailout, A.I.G. May Sue Its Savior

  They also have the same mandate as the board of any other publicly traded company: maximize value for the shareholders.

This is wrong.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2012/06/26/the-sharehol...

dhugiaskmak | 13 years ago | on: I’m Bored. What’s Next?

You aren't bored, you're boring.