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Comment Re:Write clear code, remove comments (Score 1) 472

by birdspider on Friday September 07, 2012 @10:21AM (#41259861) Attached to: Comments On Code Comments?

Darn, hitting options->save while editing on ./ ate my msg, so I just say:

Yes, also comments need maintenance as well as code does. Guess which is more up to date.

Comment I wonder (Score 2) 144

by birdspider on Friday August 17, 2012 @04:34AM (#41021375) Attached to: Chinese Man Builds His Own Prosthetic Hands

why no one bothers to hire him. I can imagine that his (hands-on) experience, both form producer and consumer side regarding prosthetics is quite rare and china has to be in great demand of such skills, that is being such a large and industious country.

Comment linux or not (Score 2) 328

by birdspider on Sunday April 24, 2011 @05:15AM (#35919758) Attached to: German Company To Install Linux On 10,000 PCs

I hope they secure their sensitive data on those laptops

Comment subjective suggestion (Score 1) 418

by birdspider on Thursday November 25, 2010 @08:49AM (#34341814) Attached to: Have I Lost My Gaming Mojo?

You might try out Sword of the Stars or Dragon Age (this was mentioned before).
The former one is particularly 'gripping' in MP, the later has awesome between-character dialoges.
("And now we have a dog, and Alister is still the stupidest member of the party")

Comment crystal clear (Score 1) 228

by birdspider on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @03:40PM (#33512390) Attached to: Lo-Fi Phones and the Future

the only voip solution that withstood long (more than 8 h) sessions and has a very good audio quality over that time in my experience is the mumble project

Comment I tried, but... (Score 1) 169

by birdspider on Monday August 16, 2010 @02:11PM (#33266142) Attached to: Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe

Though I'm from Austria, I am in now way whatsoever involved with patents, I tried to look "AM 7738/2003" up @ patent search engine, without luck. I just noticed that when I filter for Austrian patents the prefix changes to AT XXXXXXX, so I'm not sure what to make of the AM
fyi...

Comment cargo-dest/passanger-dest (Score 3, Interesting) 107

by birdspider on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @07:55AM (#31746436) Attached to: <em>OpenTTD</em> 1.0.0 Released

FYI, there is a patched version flying around the openttd forums which implements cargo and passanger destination, which means that cargos and passangers want to go to a specific location not just to any city,
this gives the game much more depth
http://wiki.openttd.org/Passenger_and_cargo_destinations

Comment Re:Velcro or Ties (Score 1) 323

by birdspider on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @08:03PM (#28789845) Attached to: Cable Management To Defeat Clutter?

..., they seem to like getting in knots just sitting there somehow.

I couldn't read this comment without thinking of the lg Nobel Prize Math Category Winners from 2008 and their work.
enjoy

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