MrFoof

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by MrFoof 14y ago
>Now I wait 5 seconds but we still have blood sugar strips with +-20% accuracy This is the part that still both sickens and baffles me. I had onset at about 20, despite not looking like a typical diabetic (5-foot-8, 140lbs). 11-years
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Memory and storage are always margin padders for a simple reason: the average user cares about the benefit provided, not the raw cost. There isn't a single OEM I can think of that doesn't do this. Heck -- go buy a server from Dell or HP.
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>Almost every episode I heard started with an entirely charmless "Uh, hello?" "Uh is this on?" scenario. I guess part of the appeal was that it was folksy and just a conversation. This is called a warm start, though in the case of the T
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by MrFoof 14y ago
I don't see it as lavish or irresponsible either -- I was just providing a data point. If I could guarantee the sales would be a non-issue, I'd certainly love to step up the production values of titles I make with more varied soundtracks.
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by MrFoof 14y ago
I'm genuinely curious as to how much music $6000 bought. That can afford quite a decent-length soundtrack. For not-very-well known composers, I've been quoted in the range of $150-250/minute for music. I assume that if I went a bit higher
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by MrFoof 14y ago
However, it's been over 10,000 a day ( every day ) for at least a year. Honestly, I stopped personally tracking his sales once gross revenue was somewhere around $50M USD. It should do well to ensure Mojang can survive some tremendously lo
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by MrFoof 14y ago
The iPad does not have Clock, Weather, Stocks, Calculator, Voice Memos or Compass. However, the iPhone does not have Photo Booth.
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by MrFoof 14y ago
In addition to the limited word list, poor repeat detection and Facebook integration, another thing that probably rubbed some folks the wrong way are the Sponsored Words. Not everyone wants to draw Doritos, KFC or Coca-Cola.
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Oracle and the End of Programming as We Know It(drdobbs.com)
73 points by MrFoof 14y ago|73 comments
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Both Intel's Ivy Bridge and AMD's Radeon HD 7700/7800/7900M have been released this week. I expect the MacBook Pro and iMac lines to be refreshed.
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I agree. Black and white, sepia-tone, deliberate flicker and visual noise (including cigarette burns) will all have their place when used appropriately and to further push well-thought stylistic choices that are brilliantly executed. Howev
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by MrFoof 15y ago
"It doesn't look 'cinematic', lacking that filtered or gauzy look we're all accustomed to" "Not all will like the change. 48 fps has an immediacy that is almost jarring." "...he elaborated his thoughts, and essentially, the crisper loo
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Lack of critical thinking. I'm not saying this in the sense of, "critical thinking should be taught in public schools". The issue is rarely does the average person look at an important decision with any real amount of thought. Yes, person
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by MrFoof 15y ago
It's been eons since I've been there, but I believe a reproduction of this is set up at the Boston Science Museum.
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Not all cities are created equally. I'm guessing Chicago is feeling much of what the same Pittsburgh is, each being on different edges of the rust belt. For example, Boston is growing at a decent rate. Boston however has a tremendous educ
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by MrFoof 15y ago
>Bank VP is a different situation Not in investment banks, which have no retail presence at all.
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Conversations only carry merit for VERY expensive purchases, such as cars. You don't need considerable planning for something such as a phone, as the cost of entry is low enough that it typically falls closer to the impulse buy end of the
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by MrFoof 15y ago
>And then there the VPs: at last count Yahoo had over 200 VPs. Really, What do these fuckers do!? These folks simply have goofy titles. I used to have one of the world's largest banks (by AUM) as a client. They had over 200 "Vice Presi
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Or, more succinctly, don't trust anything that comes from outside your application stack.
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by MrFoof 15y ago
However, he also deleted the original tweet. I'd much rather see him apologize and kept his original mistake available.
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Specifically it is the original Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior in the US).
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I'm thinking just basic geometry and some rangefinders and other sensors. It needs to know how high off the ground its rangefinder is, and how far away the base of the target is. Once it knows that, it's some basic arithmetic to determine
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Oh, I've been to step 7 before. Usually when I hit step 8 is when my friends step in and bluntly point out that it's time for me to move on. "You're on all the time -- you need to be able to turn off". "Yeah, I figured I'd call because n
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I'd agree. Every time I've quit, it's because I felt I was repeatedly getting the short end of the stick, and management was expecting me to roll over every time I brought such things up. I quit my first job at 15 1/2. I worked at a Wal-Ma
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by MrFoof 15y ago
MUMPS still has a healthy user base at that. MGH is obviously a large user base (interview with a hospital in Boston and it'll eventually come up in conversation), but the fun is when you get into the dialects of it. For example, MEDITECH
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by MrFoof 15y ago
A friend (at BioWare) and I are cracking up, because we had considered the idea of doing EC2-based hosting of Minecraft (and Terraria) servers about 6 months ago. We ran an SMP server for a while, doing lots of performance testing and prof
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Moreover, a 10-minute startup time seems incredibly anomalous, especially for a Core i7 laptop, regardless how much stuff I've had open. I've had an early 2011 (Thunderbolt) quad-core 15" MBP. Granted, I put a hybrid drive in it (Momentus
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by MrFoof 15y ago
MBPs are a bit notorious for having too much thermal paste applied during manufacturing. It's a bit hit or miss, and it's getting better, but here's a good example... * 2011 15" MBP (thunderbolt), i7-2.0GHz (quad-core, 8 logical CPUs), AMD
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by MrFoof 15y ago
>especially coupled with the free 2nd day shipping There's an added bonus if you live near a distribution center, in which 2nd day often turns into next day. In a handful of cases, I've had next day turn into same day -- ordering somet
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I agree with the headline being sensationalized. However, the default iTunes sort method will still manage to do some damage. If I recall correctly, iTunes sorts reviews mostly by how many people found it helpful. Additionally, this is as

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