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Oh boy. Kudos to you for gathering a lot of good stuff, an A for the effort absolutely. I should point out that you're off on /some/ things (or perhaps more ac

by selmnoo 13y ago

Oh boy. Kudos to you for gathering a lot of good stuff, an A for the effort absolutely. I should point out that you're off on /some/ things (or perhaps more accurately: incomplete). For beginners, the OS I use -- you're thinking Win8, but that's only on the laptop I recently bought. I've actually been using Ubuntu for a couple of years on the main desktop. My race, car, political ideology, place of birth, current residence, current religion, religion of household I was born to, education you've got right. For my own good I will stop confirming other bits of information, I think (hope) that still leaves enough ambiguity to grant me still some freedom of anonymity (or maybe I'll have to abandon this account after another week or so, I guess I'll think about it). Oh, while I have the perfect chance to preach /why/ anonymity is important: I have family problems, because of religious differences. If my family found out my religious beliefs in full they'd be mad at me, that is one of the reasons I choose to be anonymous (in addition to a good many other, relating to professional work life and other things). One question: Why is my talking about being in a CE class of 250+ people not conclusive enough information that I've been to college? And, what was that /extra/ thing that made you confidently say 'Scratch that, you've definitely been to college'?

unimpressive 13y ago
>Why is my talking about being a CE class of 250+ people not conclusive enough information that I've been to college? Could have been a trade school, possibly a very large high school. >And, what was that /extra/ thing that made you confidently say 'Scratch that, you've definitely been to college'? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6442136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6442136 Speaking of which, you really shouldn't admit stuff like that in a public forum.
lstamour 13y ago
That'll teach me to make assumptions. I assumed Mac since you wrote somewhere that you didn't have the Java web plugin added 1 and 2 and got 4. As to abandoning your account, I wouldn't worry about it. You're far more likely to get a relative's interest some other way -- perhaps an event notification on a smartphone screen, or the auto-complete bar in a browser. The simplest approach is most likely though: dinner table conversation on some evening in the future. :)
- selmnoo 13y ago
  > That'll teach me to make assumptions. I assumed Mac since you wrote somewhere that you didn't have the Java web plugin added 1 and 2 and got 4. I don't have Java web plugin installed even on my Windows machines (indeed, when I provided the link to the rubik's cube page and complained about the java applet, I was on a Windows computer). A lot of people don't have Java webplugins installed these days... seriously, try living life without it, it's great (well, if you can -- I think a lot of people use it for work/school reasons). It's certainly not as needed as it was some handful of years ago for smooth web browsing. So if you can go without the hassles of having to update it god-knows-how many times, having different versions installed and being a mess on the computer, having yet another thing running in the background, etc... it's great. I really, really don't miss it.

by selmnoo 13y ago

unimpressive 13y ago

>Why is my talking about being a CE class of 250+ people not conclusive enough information that I've been to college? Could have been a trade school, possibly a very large high school. >And, what was that /extra/ thing that made you confidently say 'Scratch that, you've definitely been to college'? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6442136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6442136 Speaking of which, you really shouldn't admit stuff like that in a public forum.

lstamour 13y ago

That'll teach me to make assumptions. I assumed Mac since you wrote somewhere that you didn't have the Java web plugin added 1 and 2 and got 4. As to abandoning your account, I wouldn't worry about it. You're far more likely to get a relative's interest some other way -- perhaps an event notification on a smartphone screen, or the auto-complete bar in a browser. The simplest approach is most likely though: dinner table conversation on some evening in the future. :)

selmnoo 13y ago
> That'll teach me to make assumptions. I assumed Mac since you wrote somewhere that you didn't have the Java web plugin added 1 and 2 and got 4. I don't have Java web plugin installed even on my Windows machines (indeed, when I provided the link to the rubik's cube page and complained about the java applet, I was on a Windows computer). A lot of people don't have Java webplugins installed these days... seriously, try living life without it, it's great (well, if you can -- I think a lot of people use it for work/school reasons). It's certainly not as needed as it was some handful of years ago for smooth web browsing. So if you can go without the hassles of having to update it god-knows-how many times, having different versions installed and being a mess on the computer, having yet another thing running in the background, etc... it's great. I really, really don't miss it.