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by aaronem 11y ago
Is that a problem with persistent IRC, or a problem with community members not stepping up to ensure that knowledge which gets developed in IRC doesn't die there?
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by aaronem 11y ago
I'm told[1] that Node isn't a new dependency... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10770732
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by aaronem 11y ago
Eventmachine and Celluloid required by default? Huh. I suppose that's preferable to just installing node.js directly, although I confess I can't see how. /s
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by aaronem 11y ago
If I had to patch an OS kernel to account for an erroneous hardware RTC, I'd probably be inclined to be a little "demeaning" too.
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by aaronem 11y ago
> so being a "lady" is somehow an "inferior role" that can be trumped by the superior, earned role of "being an engineer"? Not at all. As an accurate reading of my earlier comment would make obvious, I'
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by aaronem 11y ago
For those who don't own an iOS device, or don't feel it is the best tool to do this kind of analysis: The standard tool on OS X or Linux appears to be Kismet[1], which, while I haven't actually used it and so can't vouch
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by aaronem 11y ago
So says the script's own front matter, and it is at least better than nothing.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Or a proxy registrar, unless they've changed that rule since I registered mine.
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by aaronem 11y ago
TPB had a .com?
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by aaronem 11y ago
Turn off visual-line-mode, maybe? The fringe shows line wrapping indicators, which probably isn't good here.
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by aaronem 11y ago
"Creepy" is shorthand, which most men are at a disadvantage in understanding on account of not having spent a lifetime analyzing men as potential mates. (And now you know why the "gay friend" trope exists: as a bridge be
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by aaronem 11y ago
Apparently the two roles aren't perceived as compatible by whoever felt the need to apologize to a fellow engineer for saying something that no engineer would be upset to hear, or for that matter at all unlikely to say. If he has to ch
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by aaronem 11y ago
"Cunts"? Really? And you expect to be taken seriously by grownups? I mean, I was going to ask you why it's not okay to invalidate the experiences of women talking about sexism in tech, but totally okay to invalidate the exper
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by aaronem 11y ago
To an American it's always amusing when a European tells us our political system is unsatisfactory. Over and over and over again. Never gets old. No, really. Keep it up.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Really? Because I don't see OP making that generalization; I see OP talking about "snobs". The one generalizing from "snobs" to the entire East Coast, and/or everyone with a tertiary education, is you . I wond
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by aaronem 11y ago
So am I, and I can. It helps, I think, that I earn an excellent living at it, and also that part of "doing computers" for me is solving friends' and family members' IT-support-level problems, even when it's not espe
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by aaronem 11y ago
This kind of argument is verboten when it's a white person talking to a black person, say, because it's not OK to tell someone their experience isn't valid. Strangely, that rule seems not to apply when it's a progressi
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by aaronem 11y ago
> 21 year old boy Old enough to drink in a bar, vote in an election, die for his country, and he's a "boy"?
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by aaronem 11y ago
>5-figures per day Where among them is the decimal point?
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by aaronem 11y ago
For those like me who'd never heard the term "carrier hotel", it's what is (in the US perhaps much more commonly) also known as a colocation center.
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by aaronem 11y ago
One hard drive? One 1TB laptop hard drive? I sure hope that's not the configuration they RTM with, because they're going to have a lot of people upset about disk failure and data loss if they do.
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by aaronem 11y ago
It's not meant to be Super Mario Brothers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bros .
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by aaronem 11y ago
> massively popular (for PC games) And there's the problem. "Massively popular for PC games", at the time, would equate to "a serious flop for a first-party console game". People would buy an NES so their kids co
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by aaronem 11y ago
It's not just you. The Keen games were fun, but I'd always prefer to play Mario as a kid. I wouldn't be all that surprised to learn that part of the reason Nintendo declined the partnership offer was because id's SMB3 en
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by aaronem 11y ago
Put more accurately, it's even softer sci-fi than Trek. The deuterocanonical "Expanded Universe" material[1] goes to a lot of effort to explain and justify stuff like moon-sized space stations and jet-fighter-sized ships th
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by aaronem 11y ago
In fairness, it sounds a lot less like an inability to find more permanent housing, and a lot more like an optimization to maximize savings. Still, though.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Of course, but making an informed choice means discussing it with your doctor, and balancing a very small (yes it is, read the abstract) additional chance of ASD against a practical guarantee of biochemical upheaval, for mother and baby bot
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by aaronem 11y ago
This happens because the receptors to which the drug binds are saturated at a concentration lower than that produced by the dose you're taking. So basically everything over 100mg/d is just going straight out via your kidneys, and
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by aaronem 11y ago
Honestly? I'm all in favor of hyperbole where it counts, but come on, now.
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by aaronem 11y ago
I suppose it doesn't have to be a proper application; I've seen people manage to-do items in Windows Notepad and it seemed to work for them, God knows how. I tend to think in terms of task list management tools because I've g

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