Gargoyle

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by Gargoyle 8y ago
I find them incredibly tiresome, and they've lowered my opinion of HN as a whole.
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
>A lot of money? As in actual, hard currency? Yes. Definitely.
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
Have you been on that freeway? It's not really a bullet train-friendly route.
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
>extremely heavily moderated forum. I wish. The best subreddits are the ones like r/askhistorians, which are draconic in their moderation. As a result, the content is consistently extremely high quality. > the top posts tend towa
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
Yeah, with DFS (daily fantasy sports) you're even limited to x number of players from a given game, so that you're not effectively betting on the outcome of that game by selecting an entire team. I never really understood how they
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
QAnon is one of the most fascinating things happening on the internet. Spinning an obviously false narrative that somehow still ropes in more and more people. It's worth examining because it sheds light on how the less obviously false
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
I accidentally sat on my HP-15C in college and broke the LCD. I wrote to HP to see where I could get the LCD replaced. I was a college student and the thing was like $125 1986 dollars, I wanted to fix it, not buy a new one. They just sent m
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
In the very early Twitter days, writer Jay Bushman did a sci-fi adaptation of Benito Cereno, tweet by tweet. It was the first I encountered that storytelling format, and Jay has gone on to other successes in digital media writing since... I
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
>If you can't eat those costs, you don't have a business. Everyone agrees on this point. >If your chargeback rate is over 1%, you're doing something seriously wrong Not everyone agrees on this point. The point the gp is
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
It could be as simple as having over 15 years of professional experience on the resume.
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
"Google is still not having any trouble attracting engineering talent." Is this really true, though? Are they losing out on more top end candidates? There are other places with interesting work and big paychecks. Some of them aren
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
I'd personally like for baseball to change even slower than it does. The continuity is a huge part of its appeal to me.
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
Bing, because it's good enough and it's not the Google monoculture.
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
Both reddit and hacker news would be much better off with no voting at all. Strong moderators are the only thing I've ever seen keep online forums at a high quality level. Voting is the weakest kind of moderation.
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
It's also notable that TSLA has a very large community of short interests. That kind of money can drive all sorts of stories in the press...
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
Blog devoted to making meals from Game Of Thrones: http://www.innatthecrossroads.com/home/game-thrones-recipes/... Blog devoted to "revisiting rpg rations": http://cookingtheperiodway.blogspo
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
People here told me Google+ was amazing and that everyone worth associating with was on there. Is that no longer true?
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by Gargoyle 8y ago
HN users have been pounding loudly on the anti-Facebook wardrums. Where did you imagine that going?
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
>People describe being around that type as like "walking on egg-shells". That's because they really are in an anger-prone state. I know several people who have worked with Cruise on films who describe their experience as t
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Do Google employees actually believe this?
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
It would be a fun experiment to put comments like this as quotes on the "Add Comment" page so you had to read them while typing your own comment. Might make people take a second or two extra to reconsider.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
>HN doesn't allow such negativity though. You do read this site, right? My opinion is that getting rid of voting is step one to making both sites infinitely better. Extremely draconian human moderation is step two.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Sure. But meanwhile my 10 year old nephew is having life shaping experiences with the Rift I set up for him.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
The de Young in San Francisco is $26 weekdays and $29 weekends, and while it's a fine museum, it's not the Met.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Piketty's book was "pushed very hard" too. People like talking about books with big ideas.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Omikron's ad for the hardware product reviewed in the column (that let TRS-80s run CP/M software) in 1981 is a lot more colorful. http://www.trs-80.org/omikron-mapper/ And the obituary for George Gardner, the
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
With his next sentence, it seems to me he's very much aware of that. “But Ryan Coogler said the most real-as-fuck shit to me about it. He said, ‘It sounds like you’re not ready to get off the couch.’ ”
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Very tangentially related, but curious if anything thinks it would be worth reading through Abrash's Zen Of Graphics Programming at this point. Is the info in there still useful (even as a foundation) or is it totally outdated?
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I keep a file of stories to check back in on every now and then. Mostly tech "breakthrough" stories to see if they ever resulted in anything. Most often I find no followup stories whatsoever. If it's something I'm reall
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Hmm, with the TSA baggage check that probably took longer than riding a horse between the two towns.

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