Slothrop99

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by Slothrop99 1y ago
They have this (with a slight delay) on NFL.com and ESPN. Not sure if there's a public API for it tho.
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by Slothrop99 1y ago
I actually solved the babelfish way back when, and then got stuck somewhere else. At that point I realized the game was a railroad. A lot of people's first and last text adventure experience.
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by Slothrop99 1y ago
True, I just think they cut the 'less good' parts out of the micro Zork I and then put them in the sequels. (Although the balloon part was cool.) You may or may not like the game's aesthetic, but 75% of Zork I is pretty acces
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by Slothrop99 1y ago
IMO everyone should at least try Zork I. It was the first and the greatest, there's plenty of places to go, and much of it is pretty easy. Plus all these games constantly reference it in oblique ways. You should at least try your hand
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by Slothrop99 4y ago
True. And HR is not necessarily this intelligent diabolical force "protecting the company". They are often the biggest source of company gossip! If they see you on their level, they'll say all kinds of stuff. They probably as
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by Slothrop99 4y ago
When I was a young guy way back when, I was sexually harassed at my first two office jobs by women managers. One of them framed it as "payback". Not fun to be on the receiving end of this!
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by Slothrop99 7y ago
I'm having trouble imagining a company folding in a year because one (even essential) backend employee left. Perhaps they started to micromanage you because they were going down the tubes while you were happily 'doing your own thi
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by Slothrop99 7y ago
Yeah, I'm running the Martingale simulator in OP, and getting frequent outcomes where I was able to gamble 10+ days starting with $10000. I suspect that's what gamblers really like about it -- not more money, but more gameplay. (T
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by Slothrop99 7y ago
Agreed. When I was a teenager, everyone knew it was easier to buy marijuana than any sort of liquor, because there was basically no underground market for the latter. All the knee-jerk stoners in here spamming the same point are probably ob
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by Slothrop99 9y ago
Myspace was a malware playground. Stuff like Apple QuickTime didn't have a decent updater back then, so it was script-kiddy galore. End of the line for the anything-goes web.
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by Slothrop99 10y ago
I was not good at feeding my good old cat, so I had to give her insulin injections for a while. Much later, I found the used and unused syringes in a bottom cabinet where I put them after she died. I used to work in a hospital and know you
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by Slothrop99 10y ago
I don't think that's correct. My mother is someone who watches left-wing biased news (MSNBC) all day, for example. And while I wouldn't call NPR specifically left-wing, they have a heavy establishment bias, and were running a
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by Slothrop99 10y ago
Your argument says nothing about a university's reputation and its effect on salaries, so its completely irrelevant to ZanyProgrammer's point. I wouldn't be surprised if an english major from Stanford out-earns an engineer fr
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by Slothrop99 10y ago
Right. Obviously there is some justification, but if you hung out at slashdot way too long, you'd know there is a bunch of paranoid schizophrenic people manufacturing bizarre Microsoft conspiracy theories every single day. The post eve
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by Slothrop99 10y ago
I don't know about "most guilty", but when you have a group who first and foremost values intense self-critisism, they're going to be highly obnoxious on social media because of in-group signaling. For myself, I don&#x27
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by Slothrop99 10y ago
One thing I've noticed is that most (hetro) men seem to be clueless about what women generally find attractive about men. Perhaps that's because, as the article mentioned, there's not as much consensus on male attractiveness.
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by Slothrop99 11y ago
To get that loan, you actually need the money that would make you an "accredited investor"?
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by Slothrop99 11y ago
Silicon Valley used to work around this with those infamous "Microsoft brainteaser" questions about how many manhole covers fit into a school bus or whatever. A lot of those questions were taken directly from a set of quiz books w
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by Slothrop99 11y ago
No, enormous levels of immigration over the last twenty years. If this is affecting IT worker and medical professional wages, you know it's a sucker punch to the working class, white black native american and everyone else. I made $12&
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by Slothrop99 11y ago
As someone who hung around a few usenet discussion groups well into the 21st century, the problem was less "spam" and more "trolls and kooks". It only takes a very small number of people to completely disrupt a group, an
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by Slothrop99 11y ago
Quake came out a few months earlier and had mouselook turned off by default (and I (somehow) played the whole game with only the keyboard). So I would agree that the concept wasn't well-known or established yet.
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by Slothrop99 11y ago
Certainly media companies have always worked on Macs, but the platform was actually quite bad for web development in the early days. The colors were wrong, the fonts were wrong, the entire scaling was wrong. Mac users had a defective versio
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by Slothrop99 11y ago
General Motors, which dominated the market and always set the styling trends, stuck with the same box styling for too long. The "sheer look" was introduced with the 1976 Cadillac Seville and they were still using it until the late
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by Slothrop99 11y ago
The author might not believe this, but I can't help to think that she was specifically targeted as a woman who went 'off the reservation'. And that the intent of this was to limit this woman's academic freedom. I don&#x2
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by Slothrop99 11y ago
Recently read an article from a femnist Harvard prof, which defines this contention as feminists not managing the transition between an Advocacy (victimization) standpoint, and Governance (legitimacy). http://harvardlawreview.org