mostlyintact

u/mostlyintact


r/apple•

Hey Apple, it's pretty obvious that you guys are having problems with growing games as a service on AppleTV. Sending me a notification that there are new games on your platform seems kind of desperate and out of character. Apple doesn't go into a market category unless it can innovate and dominate, so it's been weird that the ATV has ever existed since it's always seemed to have been a side project that no one pays attention to. The thing is though that ATV has a market niche and it can absolutely dominate, you just need to bundle the ATV with an Apple made controller.

It's really important that the controller is made by Apple and bundled with the ATV. If it's not made by Apple, the control

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r/UBC•

Hi Guys, I come from a school with a two-stage/staggered course registration system. In this system, everyone enrolls for only half their credits in the first wave, and when everyone has made their first choices, the second wave of registration occurs for the rest of the student's credits. I think this system would really help the waitlist situation at UBC since I know a lot of people who register for classes they don't need (myself included) just in case they want to take the class. But this prevents people who really need the courses from entering sometimes. Wh

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r/UBC•

I've been holding off judgement for a while now to make sure my feelings about this thing aren't knee-jerk, but after a semester with it on campus, I still don't like the new sub.

First of all it is really ugly. There's no architectural style to it at all, it's just weird angles and straight lines everywhere. The glass they use looks really cheaply made - if you look closely you can see that it's really rippled instead of very flat like high quality glass should look. It looks like it's covered in plastic sheets instead of glass.

Second, it seems to be mostly poorly utilized space. I know that some parts of it in the back is now office space for clubs, but the main part near the center c

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r/cscareerquestions•

Some background: I'm trying to switch careers into software development, and I found a good program at UBC which is a Bachelors of Computer Science in "Integrated Computer Science", which just means they'll make you take a few classes which try to integrate your previous university education into CS.

Their syllabus is almost identical to the core Computer Science BS program, except for the additional "integrated" classes.

I'm just a little confused by what a Bachelors of Computer Science is as opposed to just a BS in CS, and I'm also wondering if this ICS degree will allow me to land a development job once I

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r/starcraft•

I just finished the HOTS campaign and I just wanted to thank Blizzard for putting out such a compelling story-line in a video game.

The art and voice acting were awesome. The rendered scenes were absolutely beautiful. The details like the expressions on Kerrigan's face were filled with such nuanced emotion. And of course the music, it was absolutely stirring.

Kerrigan had great character development, and was a really strong female protagonist. A woman with her own ambitions and goals, and who didn't play second fiddle to a male character. The first I've seen in a very long time - in fact the last one I can remember is Segourney Weaver in Alien, and that was 30 years ago!

Simply, if yo

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r/typewriters•

I just got an Olympia SG-1 in the mail. It is a big, well equiped beast, but I can't seem to find any information on how to operate its various parts. I made a Youtube video since it's a good format for me to illustrate the parts I have questions about. If anyone knows about this typewriter and can help me out I would really appreciate it.

Here's the link to the video

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r/PHP•

Hey guys, so I've been learning PHP at school now for a semester, but it seems like the only important parts are the superglobals and maybe a few built in functions. Everything I've been building has used these elements in some combination. I guess my question is, what do I not know? I know there's a next step towards becoming an intermediate level PHP programming, but what would that be?

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r/news•

A 16 year old boy whose father is the managing editor of two newspapers somehow was a front page news story on the NY Times. The story was incredibly biased, with no interview of either the other students in the class or the teacher. It paints a picture of the student being discriminated against because he was asking questions in class and stuttering too much.

In a follow up article printed in the Times 3 days after the first, and buried where few would read it, the teacher points out that the student was trying to answer every question, taking up class time for others.

As someone who is taking classes right now, it is very disruptive and annoying when one student decides he is the cente

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r/China•

Hi Guys, my parents are really old, and I don't know the terms for computer things in Chinese. I've been trying to explain things, but it's really hard. I have the language setting on the computer to be Chinese, so I can't read anything to explain it to them. I would convert it to English, but they can't read it very well.

Anyway, does anyone know of a book for basic (really basic, like clicking and dragging) computer skills in Chinese that I could give them to read? A Mac one would be great since that's what they're using, but a PC one would be fine too just to learn the basics.

I'd really like to get my parents to be able to email me, and to be able to Skype and things like that... Than

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