MrRage

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by MrRage 16y ago
According to Jobs, he's the only reason computers have typography whatsoever: > Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer w
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by MrRage 16y ago
Could you expand D being practically dead? or link to some sources on that? I haven't heard such strong statements about D before, and I'm curious to learn more.
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by MrRage 16y ago
> Since this was before 911 - the 'terrorists' in question were presumably the IRA, not sure they had much of an online presence back then. You do know that 9/11 was not the first terrorist attack on the US by Islamic extremists, do you
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by MrRage 16y ago
I've always preferred Window's font rendering because its very readable on a low DPI screen, which is most of the screens out there.
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by MrRage 16y ago
> TL;DR: Microsoft isn't turning around because they're still mostly ignoring the Internet. I would suggest that Microsoft's floundering around in the mobile space is a bigger deal than ignoring the internet. e.g. it's not like Apple ge
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by MrRage 16y ago
There are a lot of movies that are rent only or even watch it only if I see it on TV. But good movies (for some definition of good) are worth multiple viewings.
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by MrRage 16y ago
I'm curious if you know anything about the band Fugazi. They've remained independent of the industry but have had a lot of success.
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by MrRage 16y ago
> "Revolver" by The Beatles is a good example - the record is quite uncomfortable to listen to on headphones because tracks are panned hard left or right, creating a completely artificial sound. The Beatles were only preset for the mono
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by MrRage 16y ago
> Windows 2000 and XP were very good operating systems I by no means am some Microsoft hater, but I'm amused about this tinted rose glass nostalgia for XP. It's easy to say XP is a good system now with the maturity of three service pa
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by MrRage 16y ago
Droid Sans Mono looks nice to me, but if you can't tell a zero apart from a capital o then you're asking for 30 minutes of trying to figure a really stupid bug at some point in your life.
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by MrRage 16y ago
The site says they used a "contact microphone," so I assume what we're hearing is vibrations in the rocket not so much the air.
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by MrRage 16y ago
I think that's acceptable for video games, especially the sort of video games that Nintendo makes. For video content I don't think so. I'll watch upscaled DVDs for certain types of content (e.g. don't really care if episodes of Big Bang The
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by MrRage 16y ago
I agree with all you said, but why hate programmers? That just seems a bit personally offending. Why not instead hate new software projects?
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by MrRage 16y ago
Warning: The petition just got overtaken by an army of trolls.
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by MrRage 16y ago
But are these coal seams burning as fast as if you mined them and burned it for heat, electricity, etc?
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by MrRage 16y ago
Slower than golf?
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by MrRage 16y ago
I respectfully disagree, but I also acknowledge that this it is a very subjective judgment. Maybe I shouldn't pull a Roger Ebert and try to argue that something isn't art only to get flamed to death. But for me, personally, even if there's
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by MrRage 16y ago
If you think Old Spice makes excellent deodorant, body washes or whatever then by all means support them with your wallet. But why buy a product just because you liked the commercial? I just see that as being suggestible. People didn't spen
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by MrRage 16y ago
These ads certainly had better aesthetics than most, but something dies inside me when an advertisement is considered art. I also don't understand why you would view buying Old Spice as a charitable donation.
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by MrRage 16y ago
I see. My point was that good advertising should increase sales not slow the decrease of sales. But I guess when you're running a business that's tanking the OP would be correct in calling the ad effective.
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by MrRage 16y ago
For those who are downvoting me, care to explain why I deserve it? Where am I wrong?
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by MrRage 16y ago
If that's the case then you can say the commercial is ineffective, because you can say that the commercial didn't raise sales. You can never conclusively say that the commercial raised sales when they're up or lowered sales when they're dow
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by MrRage 16y ago
Isn't JRuby implemented in Java?
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by MrRage 16y ago
I didn't say you would loose your data. I said wipe out your data with the implication of it being wiped off your phone. That being said, maybe my understanding of how iPhone updates happen is a little flawed. I'm not too clear if it wipes
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by MrRage 16y ago
It's pretty shitty to have to wipe out your data just to get it to function like it should.
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by MrRage 16y ago
Don't you mean a millisecond long sleep? I never saw a sleep function that interpreted its parameter as seconds. Edit: Well, now I know better.
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by MrRage 16y ago
I've been considering writing a desktop app. I've been wanting to get into the JVM action, but dimly remember being scared off by Swing years ago. What about Clojure makes it better at using Swing?
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by MrRage 16y ago
Full disclosure: I live in Texas so I see lots of trucks. First it's clear that lots of people buy trucks. But from my experience only a fraction of the people who buy trucks actual use them to any extent. That is people buy them for commut
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by MrRage 16y ago
The context is trucks and SUVs (which are technically trucks) are wildly popular in the US, but less so in some areas like on the West coast. This remains true in large cities, i.e. it's not just a rural thing.
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by MrRage 16y ago
> PCs are going to be like trucks. They’re still going to be around. They’re still going to have a lot of value. But they’re going to be used by one out of x people Boy, you can tell Jobs lives in a bubble, or else he would know this tr

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