Chocobean

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by Chocobean 18y ago
gamache, I think he's referring to the AA retail store and the various brightly and unusually coloured offerings inside of it, while you seem to be referring to AA's T-Shirts. I am the owner of an AA tagged T-shirt; black, with a modest pic
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by Chocobean 18y ago
i suspect getting married had something to do with it. I used to buy tonnes and tonnes of books, collected soundtracks, assembled troops of figurines and model kit mecha units...etc. But somehow I've become like you as well -- I'd much rath
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by Chocobean 18y ago
+1 on peace offerings of tea/sandwiches. They totally let me know that 1) my spouse is committed to talk about it, not just run away or say "yea yea yea", and that 2) he isn't being defensive because he is still trying to take care of my ne
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by Chocobean 18y ago
Kylec, as a programmer you should be already really awesome with logic, organising information into structured flowcharts and be able to abstract information into skeletal frame. You know how PG's essays are pretty long but they go from sta
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by Chocobean 18y ago
interesting comparison between church and corporation. Some difference, though: 1) church leaders, the CEOs, are often poorly paid+. 2) The church's revenue source is the members, but its staffing source is also often the members: you can't
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by Chocobean 18y ago
the degree will allow me to find out what sort of training he had prior to practise, what sort of ethical standards he was traditioned under, and guess at his ability to treat something he hasn't seen before based only on "track-record." Fo
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by Chocobean 18y ago
sir, you would feel comfortable being treated by a professional road-kill picker-upper who loves his job? Credentials cannot guarantee that the doctor will love his job and that he has certain degree of professionalism, but it does guarante
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by Chocobean 18y ago
maybe in another country? maybe a long time ago? altho if the person needed to fire people this way for security reasons, allowing all of them into the building at the same time sounds like a bad idea.
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by Chocobean 18y ago
OP, you mentioned the "Protestant Work Ethic". I'm assuming you mean just the general principle of the North American "doing the best-est one can do" and not that you believe in protestant religion? But if you are protestant/religious, do g
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by Chocobean 18y ago
hacking roguelikes and muds eh? Have you ever tried DwarfFortress? Toady does it "full time" surviving on donations.
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by Chocobean 18y ago
true. a lot of time is wasted on the job site just waiting for people, for pieces to come in, to unload, to measure where they're put etc etc etc before the machinery is actually used to erect, say, a steel column. And that is not counting
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by Chocobean 18y ago
my electrician friend tells me that electricians, HVAC, plumbing and other dudes sometimes get the same set of drawings, so each of them think in their heads "okay I'm gonna put my stuff here" and conflict happens. this essentially happens
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by Chocobean 18y ago
+1 on point about family wanting to see you secure. I don't usually like quoting Paul Graham, but he really did write the best essay I've read on the subject of "Inequality and Risk". With family it's tricky; they're not as really intereste
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by Chocobean 18y ago
nononononono he defined bullying as we understood it, and then defined "teasing" in the narrow context of "a mode of play, ... with a sharp edge". Nowhere in the article does he explicate when teasing is done with intention to humiliate or
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by Chocobean 18y ago
actually no, the author cited example after example of helpful, positive, team-building, playful teasing, but never actually said what separates that from abusive teasing. The closest he gets to doing so is to imply with "age" it doesn't hu
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by Chocobean 18y ago
It was an interesting article indeed, but I disagree with him that it "gets better with aging". Think about work-place verbal abuses disguised as jest, or parental "funny" put-downs spoken to adult children, or when an adult jokes about his
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by Chocobean 18y ago
totally. I read the title of the post and I winced. Not even because I was especially teased. the gist of the article: "Where teasing provides an arena to safely explore conflict, it can join people in a common cause. Especially when they’r
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by Chocobean 18y ago
article: when stuff that can easily be copied is worthless, only stuff that isn't easily copied can sell. Question: Well, what can't be copied? Everything can be copied, always. The only difference is quality. My photocopied textbook looks
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by Chocobean 18y ago
between the quote below from the article and the excellent picture above, you should be able to see it....Try again, cuz it's really interesting. "Imagine you're driving on a circular race track. You overtake a car on the right, and immedia
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by Chocobean 18y ago
that's right: we are no only destroying our environment, we are also destroying the parts of our environment that can help us not to destroy it. Efficiency, thy name is man.
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by Chocobean 18y ago
Care to explain why Spore is a product that will promote Creationism? There is simply no element of creationism in the game. All terminology and interface point to an (albeit inaccurate) model of "evolution". Guided evolution, panspermia, s
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by Chocobean 18y ago
I agree with your comment that Spore is an entertainment game, not a scientific simulation, and I definitely see why EA went with the "entertaining art" version of Spore. the only problem is that Spore wasn't advertised to many of us that w
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by Chocobean 18y ago
I have always intended on purchasing a copy, in spite of all the DRM stuff. I wanted to play it three days early though, and obtained a copy online. I was disappointed, but I still went out and bought the copy on the launch day, hoping to h
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by Chocobean 18y ago
Am I the only one who is offended (but slightly amused) by this test? I would never work for a place that would play games like this. Are they also going to send undercover employees to talk to you about the company over lunch break as your
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by Chocobean 18y ago
archiving the rank of ___ and then going down in infamy for being the worst of the ___ is probably not an achievement.
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by Chocobean 18y ago
>>design and style matter much more than they did in the PC wars. agreed there. However, there's no stopping other phone manufacturers to pour more resources into making a pretty and usable phone. This could also work against apple
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by Chocobean 18y ago
interesting. But I thought traditionally there are way more poor people than there are rich people, and that poor people have way more kids than rich people. In fact it's a little depressing that the poor will always be with us instead of b
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by Chocobean 18y ago
a democratic people get the government they deserve. those living under a monarchy or dictatorship get to say "Well I didn't vote for you~"
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by Chocobean 18y ago
+1 on this point: "the two attract entirely different sorts of developers, and because I think Google and Apple both REALIZE that they aren't directly competing here." on a semi-related note I really don't like people comparing Android to t
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by Chocobean 18y ago
That's interesting that it's not a technical limitation, but a business decision limitation. It will take Apple probably less than 4 months to come up with the same app on the iPhone, but it will take more than 4 months to debate whether th

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