Zarkonnen

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by Zarkonnen 13y ago
So "There will be a certain fragility to this existence." but "They may have lives that are quite happy and rewarding" - how? If you are constantly one minor incident away from doom, you are not happy, you are stressed.
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by Zarkonnen 13y ago
Agreed. This isn't about things being safe for work, this is about letting people not have panic attacks when they click through on an article.
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by Zarkonnen 13y ago
I'm going to have to point out that "One of the most admirable things about hackers is their ability to accomplish great things without - or in spite of government." is in itself a pretty political statement. But I definitely
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by Zarkonnen 13y ago
Yeah, this isn't actually substantiated. Blackwater/Xe/Academi has been sold , but it's not clear to whom: http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/01/04/did-monstanto-finally-... . I'm not s
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Tilled into the soil(zarkonnen.com)
2 points by Zarkonnen 13y ago|0 comments
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by Zarkonnen 13y ago
Ah, the tyranny of structurelessness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessnes... Seriously - in the absence of formal power structures, informal ones will always form, and they are often less accou
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by Zarkonnen 13y ago
This is really cool - Continuities: how interested are you in merging in additions to the game? I'd quite like to add raiders and medicine.
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by Zarkonnen 13y ago
Wow. This is incredibly judgmental. You're assuming that everyone else functions and succeeds in the same way you do. If I knew that someone I was going to work with even half-seriously judged people on the status of their sink -- I'm not s
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Nice business, would be a shame if something happened to it... (patent-blaster.com)
3 points by Zarkonnen 13y ago|0 comments
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
So this is turning real coal into imaginary value. Great.
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
IndieStatik's really nice - lots of in-depth stuff as opposed to rewritten press releases. (OK, they gave my game a positive review, so maybe I'm biased.)
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
Clarification: the article author isn't Cas. So the author writes iOS games, whereas Cas writes Java games. (Though they are Java games which cleverly bundle their own JRE, avoiding a lot of the horror that can come with it.)
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Hallway Testing in the Cafeteria(patent-blaster.com)
2 points by Zarkonnen 14y ago|1 comments
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A parable about problem solving in software development(drmaciver.com)
55 points by Zarkonnen 14y ago|29 comments
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Well-behaved Games: A rant-slash-manifesto(zarkonnen.com)
1 points by Zarkonnen 14y ago|0 comments
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
My father spent most of a decade running a company developing a non-invasive blood sugar meter: http://www.diabetesnet.com/diabetes-technology/meters-monito... After many years of struggle, the company folded from a lack of investment: me
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EFF donation matching in memory of Aaron Swartz(zarkonnen.com)
3 points by Zarkonnen 14y ago|0 comments
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
I reiterate that you should do promotional brazil nut hot sauce. :) (It's high in Selenium...)
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
I just woke up my girlfriend by singing this to her. I am a terrible person.
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
Yeah. The problem here isn't really whether we have to turn up the aircon in the summer. The problem is agriculture. Right now, when there's a particularly hot summer, you get (at least here in Switzerland) lots of news stories about poor v
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
That was pretty much my experience with the Mensa test too. The straight mathematics section was quite easy. All the pattern-matching ones were maddening because you could construct good chains of reasoning for all the options.
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
One of the things this comes down to is whether our measures of wealth are sensible. A country hot enough to require air conditioning will have an increased GDP, but this GDP is really just for bringing it to the norm of another country tha
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
Pinochet was brought to power by a brutal coup displacing a democratically elected government. They rounded up thousands of dissidents and killed them. The reason you get shunned is that you're cheerleading for a mass murderer. What are the
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
This is kind of making me froth: of course parachutes are tested. Lots and lots of R&D time has gone into developing better crew/passenger escape system for aircraft. The authors are simply whining about evidence-based medicine, which i
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
I agree. He does himself a massive disservice by dragging Freud and whatnot into it. Ultimately, what he's saying is "Stress, especially stress you're not aware you have, causes pain. Process the stress and the pain will leave." And that wo
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
Interestingly, humans can also win against horses in the very short distance. Sure, horses are much faster, but they get up to speed slower.
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
I like the idea a lot, but as it stands the format is pretty US-centric. I've written up some suggestions on how to fix this at https://github.com/fesja/businesstxt/issues/2 The core problem is definitely that many small business sites, e
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
Quite. I think the whole article can be abbreviated to "Facebook large but not very profitable".
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
clutches my copy of Snow Leopard, hissing
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by Zarkonnen 14y ago
Indeed. Or footballers with massive lesions in their brain from all the impact trauma. (And by massive I mean walnut-sized holes in their brain.)

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