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by Qz 16y ago
I'm on board for abolishing software patents, but it would help if the author understood what the (ostensible) purpose of the patent system was: This effectively undermines the entire purpose of the patent system: the patent office is char
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by Qz 16y ago
My issue isn't with the process of cataloging, but with deciding what music to play when it comes time to listen to music. Sure you can just pick some random albums from your collection and throw them on, but if you have a nontrivial numbe
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by Qz 16y ago
On today's fast computers, it is no longer necessary to design systems around the lowest common denominator of assembly language or C, seeking performance to the detriment of essential system attributes (such as modularity and reliability)
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by Qz 16y ago
The problem with 'music I own' is that then you have to organize and manage it. I have many multiple gigabytes of music on my hard drives, but I rarely bother with that anymore when I can just click open Pandora and it plays music I like w
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by Qz 16y ago
You can still do that for single-player maps AFAIK -- the Map Editor lets you run any map that you can download.
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by Qz 16y ago
Can you bump a Droid with an iPhone yet?
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by Qz 16y ago
Why would we want to bring Japan back from the 22nd century to this mess?
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by Qz 16y ago
The post title still needs to be changed.
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by Qz 16y ago
I couldn't control it with the mouse reasonably at all, control seemed laggy compared to enter key.
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by Qz 16y ago
Hmmm. That's like bio-feedback techniques, but cyber-feedback instead.
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by Qz 16y ago
Discipline, as you define it, sounds pretty tortuous. I prefer a way of life where what I ought to be doing and what I want to be doing are the same thing.
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by Qz 16y ago
My (admittedly nonsensical) reaction to the first photo: Wait -- you mean they had sunlight during the depression?!
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by Qz 16y ago
Theoretically that makes sense, but it doesn't address the real issue. If you cut taxes for the rich, everyone else just pays more, unless you directly address government inefficiency/corruption. Until that's done, no amount of tax cuts o
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by Qz 16y ago
I do like people, probably far more than I like spending time on computers. Which is part of why I dislike talking about other people, as that tends to focus on the things I find weird/strange/unpleasant/distracting/irritating about people
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by Qz 16y ago
How is Spotify at making coherent playlists? I'm tempted to try it, but I'm beyond satisfied with how well Pandora queues up songs in a sensible order without jarring transitions, and I'm wondering if Spotify is comparable in that respect.
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by Qz 16y ago
That most people still have to worry about disk thrashing obviously.
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by Qz 16y ago
Well, it's something I've observed for a long time but never said anything about, and then this topic came along which seemed to address it exactly. I mean, I used to do it a lot myself before, but eventually I realized that it really chang
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by Qz 16y ago
I try to avoid talking about other people, and often feel very uncomfortable when people I'm hanging out with (or whatever) start talking about other people. My sister does it all the time and my parents listen with rapt attention -- I try
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by Qz 16y ago
Is that supposed to be ironic?
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by Qz 16y ago
We should all strive for it, but the reality is that most people who don't have an 'active healthy lifestyle' arrived at that condition before they were adults. People who learn unhealthy habits in their childhood or adolescence have a tre
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by Qz 16y ago
Naive, yes.
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by Qz 16y ago
Oh of course. It's just that the meaning gets disconnected from the message along the way. Disk thrashing happens when you get close to 100%, but people quickly simplify "don't let my memory get used up to 100%" into "don't let my memory
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by Qz 16y ago
The pursuit of 'free memory' is one of those things that make me laugh, same as people complaining about programs that are CPU hogs. I mean, we're always after the best memory and the best CPU's only to end up running around feverishly maki
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by Qz 16y ago
Exactly -- Pittsburgh also has a lot of tech jobs, with most of the big players having branches in the city, as well as a lot of startups in the area, most of them related in some way to CMU. And if you're at all interested in robotics, th
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by Qz 16y ago
The idea is that you organize it as you go, rather than repeatedly wasting time every time you have to figure out which tab a page is on by scanning the tab bar. As other people have stated in past threads, there's plenty of room in the ide
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by Qz 16y ago
My non-computer savvy roommate generally has lots of tabs open at once, plus lots of applications open as well (which on a laptop are just system-managed tabs in effect).
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by Qz 16y ago
Here's a hint: there's no difference between bookmarks, open tabs (read or unread), and page history.
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by Qz 16y ago
Don't know about the stock thing, but finding a cheap city to live in (Pittsburgh being one) and living like you're a poor college student is definitely one way to save a crapload of money. What some people earn and spend in a year will pr
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by Qz 16y ago
Mullen was even more direct and said that WikiLeaks "might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier" Oh, and the government doesn't have that blood on their hands already? Brings to mind something about a pot and a ket
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by Qz 16y ago
Hell yes, I want it so bad.

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