BrandonM

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by BrandonM 16y ago
Yes! Let's all live in fear of criminals and professional failure, constantly self-regulating our activities in order to avoid temporary loss. Do people really have no concept of cost-benefit analysis?
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I'm not trying to say that I'm rich, just that I've been part of those circles lately, and my perception is starting to change a little bit. Note that the "secret in-crowd" you mention is more likely to be the kind of people that you want
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As for womanizing, again it shocked that after so little time passed after her wife's death, he jumps into the scene (and with a vengeance). It's not like she died suddenly. They had ample time to prepare for her death, and by the time sh
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I largely agree with you, but I think framing the argument in terms of "status seeking" is slightly disingenuous. Etiquette is not all about status seeking. Placing cutlery at 4:22 when you are finished with your meal seems like a silly eti
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I don't really follow what you're saying here. I was simply trying to illustrate the difference between being rich or poor. It has very little to do with A/C or gadgets. For the most part, the difference in the amount of enjoyment, food, sh
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by BrandonM 16y ago
My father wouldn't have cared about an iPad. Gadgets are not a substitute for quality of life; they are merely a means of distraction. I would argue that you are the one missing the point. The difference between being rich and poor is not
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Since we're talking about extraordinary claims, let's examine a claim that is definitely not true, but very interesting. If we run a study with threshold p=0.05, there is a 1 in 20 chance that we will erroneously report the claim to be tr
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Also, in this very blogpost: That’s why we actually don’t mind having several versions of every question, where there are variations in wording or circumstances. The more chance that someone types a question into Google and finds their exa
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You're forgetting that the people that are being "greased" are those same "others." I've worked as a server, a host, and a valet, and I would have been very grateful to make an extra $10-20 here and there. In a way, the rich are subsidizing
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I'm forever confused by technical users who laud DDG's ! support. I love DDG and use it as my primary search engine, but Firefox has featured keyword searches for years now. Any search box anywhere can be turned into a URL keyword search. I
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Good tip. Start with a shebang!
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I use grep several times a week. If the job is one that will leverage command line skills, it would make sense to understand grep. It's not like "grep [f]oo" is an alien command; it's basically a pattern.
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It looks beautiful to me, and I'm reading it on a thin client VNC session to an old Debian-stable login server that makes half the web look broken.
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I think we're forgetting that Hacker News is attracting an increasingly broad audience. How many random strangers would you have to ask before finding one who knows what vim is? How many computer science majors? It's easy to forget that "Un
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> I found it extremely annoying to have to 'reset' my hand position every time I wanted to type text in insert mode. Did you not consider keeping your hand in the standard place? I very rarely use h , and when I do it is a simple momen
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Right, but that platform could just be "social bragging" through Facebook, other websites, and other methods entirely. It's as simple as showing off to your friends the cool things you're learning while encouraging them to do the same. Mean
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I agree with your general sentiment. I think the distinction should not be between WoW and real life, but between real skills and fake skills, between real progression and fake progression, and who is controlling the experience. In WoW, you
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I love the idea, but why does WoW need to do this? Any game could do it. A fitness club is especially well-placed to accomplish it. Hmm... I think it could also work well as a Facebook app. I'm going to mull this over and see what I can com
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Don't forget black-eyed peas et al.
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I think my comment was misinterpreted by some. I don't disagree with his statement or with him saying it on Hacker News. I find it interesting that memes appear everywhere, even on sites that think they are "above them." Another example of
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I agree with your "foolish" comment :)
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12-15 seats per row * 2 rows * 2 people per seat = 48-60 seat belts per bus. Does $150-250 per seatbelt seem that unreasonable to you?
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You've managed to stumble across Hacker News meme #17.
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But the vast majority of the seized funds are from a source that is demonstrably not click fraud (his Youtube videos). The author shows the injustice of Google's heavy-handed, binary method of labeling people fraudsters and taking thousan
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Another lesson is to avoid saying amazingly haughty things like, "clever only to people of pedestrian intelligence." Metacommentary is annoying, but here goes. His comment was downvoted because it was demeaning without furthering the discus
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If this is the case, I think the article could have made it more clear that the problem was with software not under the author's control. All the article mentions is "the application registering the device," and I assumed that it was their
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What's the problem with sending "Content-Length: 0" as part of the PUT headers?
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ed golf, eh?
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Agreed. I'm surprised by all the "qa"s I'm seeing. I've always used "qq" for quick macros and kind of assumed everyone else did as well. It's especially convenient considering that @ and q are right next to each other on a qwerty layout.
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To be fair, I borrowed from a couple others here, but that was generally the approach I had in mind. Of course, we aren't genuinely doing what the author intended. The point was not to copy-paste the line, but actually to perform what would

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