Comment Stackexchange (Score 5, Informative) 188
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/ is a great place to ask game development related questions.
Comment If you want a Drupal job, get known around Drupal. (Score 4, Interesting) 523
For some of the Drupal-shops, including the one I work at, community involvement is highly rated. Contribute to the larger modules, Views/Panels, or Core itself. Get some CTR-rating. (certifiedtorock.com). The number may look meaningless, but people look it up when they are introduced to a new "Drupal-person". You can ping 'letharion', me on IRC if you wanna get involved in the community.
DrupalCon sounds like an excellent place to go, people are often recruiting at them.
If it gives you more hope, my employer, NodeOne, has a large percentage of people with similar backgrounds as your, including myself.
That said, CmdrPony makes a good point. Why not do something of your own?
Comment Why do we still talk to the MPAA? (Score 1) 300
The MPAA(and RIAA) exist for a single purpose. Being the media Mafia. If they were to one day wake up with a conscience, they'd also be without a job. MPAA is just the front that gets to take the betting, and we should really focus more attention on those who fund the MPAA/RIAA. Universal, Sony, EMI, Warner and friends.
If _they_ decided that respecting their customers mattered, MPAA would be gone overnight.
Comment Incorrect headline (Score 5, Informative) 546
The headline says "Use C++ instead of C" which is incorrect.
C++ is, as made obvious from the text, an option, not a requirement.
Brokers Get Strict Social Networking Rules 50
eldavojohn writes "If you're a broker or work for a brokerage firm then you better think twice before posting content to Facebook and Twitter. It seems the static parts of the pages like your profile must be approved and fall under the watch of FINRA. But a post to Facebook or a tweet might constitute a 'public appearance' representing your firm. Which means that 'firms must supervise these interactive electronic communications under NASD Rule 3010 in a manner reasonably designed to ensure that they do not violate the content requirements of FINRA's communications rules.' It's days like these I'm glad I don't work on Wall Street or have jury duty."
Game Difficulty As a Virtue 204
The Wii and various mobile gaming platforms have done wonders for the trend toward casual or "easy" games. But the success of a few recent titles, despite their difficulty, has caused some to wonder whether the pendulum has swung too far; whether a little frustration can be seen as a good thing. Quoting:
"The evidence is subtle but compelling. For one example, look to major consumer website GameSpot's Game of the Year for 2009: Atlus' PS3 RPG Demon's Souls, which received widespread critical acclaim – none of which failed to include a mention of the game's steep challenge. GameSpot called it 'ruthlessly, unforgivingly difficult.' Demon's Souls was a sleeper hit, an anomaly in the era of accessibility. One would think the deck was stacked against a game that demanded such vicious persistence, such precise attention – and yet a surge of praise from critics and developers alike praised the game for reintroducing the experience of meaningful challenge, of a game that demanded something from its players rather than looked for ways to hand them things. It wasn't just Demon's Souls that recently flipped the proverbial bird to the 'gaming for everyone' trend. In many ways, the independent development scene can be viewed on the macro level as a harbinger of trends to come, and over the past year and into 2010, many indies have decided to be brutal to their players."
Submission + - Opera 10.0 released (opera.com) 2
neonsignal writes: Opera 10 has been released. It now supports rich text email, the 'turbo' Opera proxy server feature, some HTML 5 support, XML 'pretty printing', extra skinning features, and a 100/100 score in the Acid3 test. There has been no official announcement as yet.
Comment GWN had something similar a while ago (Score 1) 209
Assuming that you want to do the remote thing with SSH as suggested above (and not actually sit down at each desk), you might find the "Tips and Tricks" section here interesting:
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/20080930-newsletter.xml
Comment Re:Corporate culture (Score 3, Insightful) 883
I beg to differ.
That myth has been perpetuated "forever", and it's always "10 years into the future". It was 10 years left 10 years ago, and it will be 10 years still in "10-20 years, your lifetime".
If oil prices hadn't been at the low they are, I'd say that the myth is even deliberately upheld by oil companies to increase oil price.
"We will run out of oil soon!" is at best, a grave simplification, and at it's worst, a direct lie.
Google it, and at the very least you will get a more nuanced picture than "10-20" years.
Or read, "The Next Millionaires", and you will get a completely different picture. (Of economics in general, compared to what I was taught in school atleast)
Comment Bloodninja rules! (Score 1) 11
I didn't give a crap about the story, but yes, the Rhinoceros made me laugh out loud :D
