EvanKelly

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by EvanKelly 11y ago
I remember talking about the iBot with a wheelchair bound friend when it came out. His response was "the people who designed this have obviously never been bound to a wheelchair". I think I was in 9th or 10th grade at the time, so
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by EvanKelly 11y ago
"those at the top of the game got there because of grit determination and little to do with talent. " I think I agree with your sentiment here but want to clarify and see if you agree. There's still an EXTREMELY high talent b
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by EvanKelly 11y ago
I used to mess around on exchangel.co, but mainly I'm interested in placing long bets which just require some patience rather than trading in the artificial market. I think there's another one out there too that does start up trad
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by EvanKelly 11y ago
Elgin James was always the most interesting character in that scene to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_James I met Elgin a few times outside of Righteous Jams shows and he was always super friendly to a kid th
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by EvanKelly 11y ago
I never thought the day would come where I would see Bridge Nine referenced on Hacker News.
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by EvanKelly 11y ago
Math is certainly not for everyone, but I actually found that once I started diving into pure math (NOT what was taught in my school's math curriculum) it was a whole new world. Did your school actually teach pure math? I bet a lot of
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by EvanKelly 11y ago
What do you mean by normal clothing? Do you go running in jeans?
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by EvanKelly 11y ago
I'm curious about how you came to your answer and what led you there? Were you testing a pre-supposed hypothesis that confirmed itself?
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by EvanKelly 11y ago
Thank you. I hear suicide referred to as "selfish" so often that I can hardly understand what it means. Ascribing value judgements on people suffering from very personal diseases doesn't help and may actually prevent folks wi
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by EvanKelly 11y ago
I haven't thought about how this affects car insurance. Who has the liability for collisions? Manufacturer? Owner? Last mechanic who serviced it?
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by EvanKelly 11y ago
Is "autocar" a thing? The ambiguity between automatic/automobile/autonomous really makes me hope a better word surfaces. Self-driving car is a bit too long.
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
Not really understanding how the wikipedia community operates, why were you irritated by the signature and how was writing the comments such an irreconcilable wrong? Were they inappropriate comments?
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
Awesome! One of my many unfinished projects was a networked version of The Russian Campaign so that my dad and I could play together. Looks like there's a Vassal module and we can finally get those games going.
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
The military has a history of using video games as training tools for soldiers. Modded SNES units were used for rifle training and various other games have been used for tactics. The author's description of his reactions suggests that
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
I was very wary of the "unlimited vacation policy" at my new company and asked about it during interviews. Most interviewers agreed that it could cause people to not feel free to take vacation, but that the company really meant it
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
I can't speak to the other games, but similar to Chess and Go, I love Diplomacy because there is zero chance involved in the game. Nothing ever comes down to a dice roll or coin flip.
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
I would hate that, gives too much strength to the southern powers. Italy was my favorite country to play as. You absolutely need a strong ally, but if you don't get one, you can be a thorn in everyone's side. I only really enjoy p
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
...but you need 7 people.
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
I just checked through my email to see if I could find the thread on this from the HiCapacity email list and I couldn't find it. I vaguely remember talk about a crypto party, but there's nothing in my email from that time frame.
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
Who gets to decide what is harmful? Do you simply defer to the courts? Do you think Google holds a larger, equal, or smaller responsibility than the content provider who is actually hosting this "harmful" information? In this case
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
Do you think search engines should be proactively or reactively responsible for not displaying personal information? I mean, this stuff is literally in news articles about the guy, there's really no way to proactively not index article
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
I can't reply to the other comment, but the court case in general is not about "creating profiles" of people. It only deals with things found and presented from web-spidering. I dare say that duckduckgo would have the same re
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
Are you opposed to the idea of search engines in general?
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
I think placing the onus on google for this is the wrong precedent and I think it speaks to the public and the court's misunderstanding of what a search engine does. If this man had problems with his debts being online, he should have
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by EvanKelly 12y ago
Gregory Rabassa does a phenomenal job with the translation. My spanish is decent enough to have read a few of Marquez's books in the original language, but not good enough to appreciate them as much as I did in English. I'd recomm
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by EvanKelly 13y ago
As someone who edges way more to the adventure sports side of things than the X-Games side, Red Bull's marketing has been extremely successful on me. I don't drink energy drinks much and I think I even prefer the Monster drinks, b
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by EvanKelly 13y ago
That's an interesting thought. How different would the interactive games landscape be if it was around during the renaissance. If game designers had sponsors that supported their lifestyle. As I write this, I think this is the utopian
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by EvanKelly 13y ago
If you're going to make that point, it should probably be "scared little child".
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by EvanKelly 13y ago
You've obviously thought a lot about hiring practices. Do you think hiring for "culture fit" is always bad or do you think most companies have a poor interpretation of what a "culture fit" is?
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by EvanKelly 13y ago
Thanks, I think I edited it as you were commenting as I noticed it on my re-read.

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