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by V-2 8y ago
It was creatively translated as "Kac Vegas" by the Polish distributor. ("Kac", originating from German "Katzenjammer" and pronounced roughly like "cuts", therefore kind of rhyming with "las"
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by V-2 8y ago
He also suffered from mental issues and delusions. He experienced visions that weren't drug-induced. I wouldn't also describe his career as "very long and successful". I think that's quite an oversimplification, as
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by V-2 8y ago
So that's why books are printed on till rolls! ;) Seriously though - here's what a Wired article looks like on my 24" monitor. Chrome, no zoom. https://imgur.com/a/axlx8dX Text occupies 420px out of 1600
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by V-2 8y ago
I've never even watched The Lost - and neither Quantum Leap nor BSG, for that matter. The ending of HIMYM was awfully contrived. The ending of Mad Men, however, was thought-provoking. Brit Marling had a good ending in "Another Ear
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by V-2 8y ago
Sometimes code simply cannot speak for itself, and then a comment is very welcome, sure. What I learned though is that a lot of programmers suffer from a form of a "comment blindness". I was once asked to explain a piece of code f
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by V-2 8y ago
> - Subroutines must have one entry point and one exit point, and accomplish one task. Sometimes code is much cleaner if you exit a method or a function early. Especially in languages with automatic memory management where you don&#x27
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by V-2 8y ago
> Nobody tries to design GUIs in IDEs Design , or encode? Because visual designers in the latter sense typically have many shortcomings, and are usually used mostly for preview purposes.
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by V-2 8y ago
I made another attempt to switch from Chrome to Firefox only now, like I've been doing every year or so for several years now. Sort of a tradition. This time it was the extensions that didn't cut it. One of the first things I do (
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by V-2 8y ago
HN effect has kicked in already (?) - the link is down
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How does Netflix know what race I am?
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by V-2 8y ago
> Algorithmically modifying the poster frames / thumbnails of shows to be more appealing to users. Again promoting engagement and misleading users of the true content of the show. But it's not necessarily "misleading&quo
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by V-2 8y ago
> Also tastes better. Seriously? I'd take a good steak over potato chips every single time.
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by V-2 8y ago
It was mediocre and ridden with plot-holes, even by the (very forgiving) genre standards.
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by V-2 8y ago
Uncompelling ending has by now become sort of a trademark of the (otherwise original and highly captivating) productions involving Brit Marling.
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by V-2 8y ago
Eg. see the web app repo: https://github.com/TelegramOrg/Telegram-web/blob/master/app/... I pity the maintainers.
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by V-2 8y ago
Telegram's source code is such a big ball of spaghetti I would feel really sceptical about its reliability (without, admittedly, having used it).
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by V-2 8y ago
Fix-width layouts are a pet peeve of mine. What's the point of having a large monitor with 1920 or 2048 pixels in the middle, if the content only takes up like 40% of it.
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by V-2 8y ago
It depends what we mean by quality. They could be of higher durability (although they didn't necessarily owe it to the fact they were hand-made in and of itself).
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by V-2 8y ago
Link unavailable from the EU.
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by V-2 8y ago
> A book club can play just as much of a role in public life as the next club. Ultimately, everything does - butterfly effect and all that. But it doesn't always take the form of openly intending to make it happen - eg. lobbying f
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by V-2 8y ago
> whereas the humans use a process that, although flawed, can be improved over time to get better results than chance. Indeed the research they refer to - that reports frequent misdiagnosis - points out a logical reason for it happenin
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by V-2 8y ago
There's a difference between an individual and an organization that intends to have an impact on the society. The society can't, or shouldn't demand that I give up privacy of my inherently private matters. But it is very reas
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by V-2 8y ago
> Too often, when secret societies are brought up, many people have convinced themselves that secrecy must mean something nefarious is at play "Must" is an exaggeration, but it is certainly a red flag. > Considering that
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by V-2 8y ago
Generally speaking, if a society isn't "evil" - and the situation doesn't really fit into any of the 'whistleblower' or 'opposition against an oppressive regime' scenarios - then why does it have to o
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by V-2 8y ago
And not only that, and not only in this picture. I was being ironic.
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by V-2 8y ago
It wouldn't, and it hasn't. It's been renovated and reinvigorated.
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by V-2 8y ago
Indistinguishable aside from the clothing. http://chrisniedenthal.com/en/works/slub-1982 https://static.polskieszlaki.pl/zdjecia/wycieczki/2015-03/ry...
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by V-2 8y ago
There aren't two different words, you'd just casually say big city, small city, or "miasteczko", a diminutive from city / miasto. But English still does distinguish between the two, so when you read about a "to
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by V-2 8y ago
The good ol' "no true Scotsman".
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by V-2 8y ago
Typically DIY and/or family in the West (or possibly Western charities). Also trade trips to some other socialist countries that would happen to be better off at the moment. Depending on when exactly, it could be Czech Republic, Hungar

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