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c_r_w commented on Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI   cs16.samke.me... · Posted by u/samke-
bakugo · a year ago
Yes, the Steam client was originally built on top of the same VGUI library used in Valve's games, and used the same style as HL1/CS/etc back then.
c_r_w · a year ago
Was VGUI built on GTK back then? It looked exactly the same as other GTK apps I was using in the early 00s.
c_r_w commented on SUSE Liberty Linux: secure your Linux future without fear of vendor lock-in.   suse.com/products/suse-li... · Posted by u/thesuperbigfrog
itpcc · 3 years ago
It appears you have content blocking enabled. To use all the features of this site, use a non-private window, or turn off content blocking for this site.

Yeah... No need to fear of vendor lock-in huh?

c_r_w · 3 years ago
Came here to say the same thing. "Liberty"... I'm using a Pihole to block trackers.
c_r_w commented on Playstation’s New Partnership with Discord   sie.com/en/blog/announcin... · Posted by u/minimaxir
c_r_w · 5 years ago
Interesting on the heels of the (supposed) failed bid from Microsoft. This would dramatically improve Playstation's cross-platform capabilities, as their games are increasingly going cross-play.
c_r_w commented on A physical breach is a nightmare scenario for Capitol IT   twitter.com/jacobian/stat... · Posted by u/rmason
meragrin_ · 5 years ago
Last I heard, it still had not been determined who shot her. What makes you think the Secret Service was involved? They don't typically protect Congress.
c_r_w · 5 years ago
It does seem to have been a plainclothes USCP officer per new reporting. I had read possibly erroneous reports that he was part of Pence's detail.
c_r_w commented on A physical breach is a nightmare scenario for Capitol IT   twitter.com/jacobian/stat... · Posted by u/rmason
meragrin_ · 5 years ago
> The one person who almost got into an area where they really didn't want people was shot dead.

The videos showing her get shot had several police in the area and they never looked like they were very interested in protecting that area before she was shot.

c_r_w · 5 years ago
Difference between the Secret Service and Capitol PD.
c_r_w commented on What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?   thecorrespondent.com/100/... · Posted by u/anielsen
jessefrederik · 6 years ago
Hi this is the author of the article. You're just making the exact mistake this article is about: you assume people who click on your ad and then buy something, bought something BECAUSE of your ad.

From the article: "Suppose Luigi’s Pizzeria hires three teenagers to hand out coupons to passersby. After a few weeks of flyering, one of the three turns out to be a marketing genius. Customers keep showing up with coupons distributed by this particular kid. The other two can’t make any sense of it: how does he do it? When they ask him, he explains: "I stand in the waiting area of the pizzeria."

It’s plain to see that junior’s no marketing whiz. Pizzerias do not attract more customers by giving coupons to people already planning to order a quattro stagioni five minutes from now."

It's the same in online marketing, you often target people who are searching for say a pair of shoes. People who are searching for shoes have way higher baseline probabilities of ending up buying a pair of Nikes, whether you show them a Nike ad or not. So if you do not correct for this 'selection bias', you have no idea what your ad did.

The research I describe in the article clearly shows (and please look it up yourself, the links are all there) that selection bias is HUGE, and that it's hard to know ROI, because true advertising effects are tiny if you measure them in an experiment.

c_r_w · 6 years ago
Does this apply to mobile app install ads? I just don't see how those products are accessible to consumers in the same way without the awareness driven by highly targeted, experimental ad campaigns. I'm thinking King.com or Supercell type companies.
c_r_w commented on Introducing nushell   jonathanturner.org/2019/0... · Posted by u/bradleybuda
pvg · 7 years ago
Wonder if the temptation wasn't there to just call it 'nutshell' and if so, how it was resisted.
c_r_w · 7 years ago
Hugely missed opportunity, I thought it was nutshell for 30 minutes before I noticed the spelling.

Can you imagine the cute squirrel logo? Mouth full of peanuts? Nushell sounds like an new wave band.

c_r_w commented on Jsonnet – A data templating language   jsonnet.org... · Posted by u/fhrow4484
geezerjay · 7 years ago
Love the concept, but the name is far from being the best.

There's already a relatively popular tool for JSON processing called jq, whose name in some languages already reads like "jk".

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

c_r_w · 7 years ago
I had that question and also the "just kidding" question when I heard the name. What can you do, naming things is hard.
c_r_w commented on Jsonnet – A data templating language   jsonnet.org... · Posted by u/fhrow4484
c_r_w · 7 years ago
Some devs from my company just recently published https://jkcfg.github.io/, building on lessons learned from many years of configuring Kubernetes. Since we are discussing JS for config management.
c_r_w commented on Terminal latency (2017)   danluu.com/term-latency/... · Posted by u/andyjpb
nxrabl · 7 years ago
c_r_w · 7 years ago
Thanks, I knew I had seen this before but unbelievably there is no date on that article.

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