amagumori

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by amagumori 12y ago
the trollface originates from the "problem, officer?" comic, not the one referenced in the article. i don't think this guy is the original creator.
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by amagumori 12y ago
i just feel that saying "i'm changing the world" is a bit of an arrogant thing to say about yourself. but i was wrong about what he did for a living.
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by amagumori 12y ago
did you even read the post you replied to?
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by amagumori 12y ago
oh, i went on your website and thought ideapod was your full-time job. sorry. well, that could be a legitimate changing the world thing, your wording just read as arrogant to me. eating humble pie now
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by amagumori 12y ago
> Is this your only job? No. I have a full-time job changing the world. dude, you do frontend development for a social network. how self-aggrandizing can you be. just say you work for a social network ffs.
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by amagumori 12y ago
yeah, s/he missed the point (if you like what you're doing, then great!) and got their feelings hurt. i went super one-sided on purpose. more fundamentally i am simply trying to remind people that life is about what you spend yo
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by amagumori 12y ago
i think in most cases it's harmful to give one single iota of a fuck about whatever it is you do for work, unless you work for yourself. 40 hours of every week of your life, at a minimum, is being used to further someone else's g
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by amagumori 12y ago
uhh...when you mention NASA engineers and Google "actually making something" while adhering to strict code quality you seem to overlook the fact that NASA and Google are organizations with thousands of developers and notch is ONE
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by amagumori 12y ago
game devs like notch have made a conscious and canny decision to value actually making something over code quality. also, notch didn't build minecraft expecting it to be a runaway success. see, you are a programmer - you make code.
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by amagumori 12y ago
and mailing everything else as well. this alone might be enough to kill silkroad-style marketplaces - or at least significantly reduce the number of sellers.
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by amagumori 12y ago
i didn't explain what i was trying to get at with "feelings come first" well enough. i believe people are constantly associating their current emotional state with their current area of perceptive focus. for instance let&#x
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by amagumori 12y ago
nah. your assumption is that i feel depressed about something. it's just an ambient feeling that is constantly present when i'm conscious, that has a negativity-reinforcing effect on my thoughts and perspective. it has nothing
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by amagumori 12y ago
the previous title, "tardigrades, toughest 1mm-long animal on earth" didn't get those page views rolling in...
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by amagumori 12y ago
as a person with severe depression, i am absolutely certain of one thing. feelings come first, then thoughts. it's impossible to think your way out of depression. it sounds like OP's empathy is a "deep" / low-lev
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by amagumori 12y ago
i think people have a lot to learn from alex and shouldn't just dismiss him as "inhuman". i think it's important as a human to commune with death. i grew up with someone like alex. we hung out every day, and following
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by amagumori 12y ago
as a millenial, i enjoy the word "millenial" because it's a great way to know when someone is about to start talking out of their ass.
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by amagumori 12y ago
> I have personally relocated for financial reasons three times in my life. I moved away from home for college, I moved to a new location for my first job, then I recently relocated to the Bay Area because this was the optimal place for
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by amagumori 12y ago
whether it was a calculated decision or not, this choice certainly helped build steve jobs' brand at the expense of everyone else, to the point where he's still widely seen as solely responsible for apple's success.
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by amagumori 12y ago
while apple has made some beautiful products like the ipod and unibody macbook, i honestly think the apple watch is pretty ugly. to me, it looks outdated today. i also think it's ugly from a design standpoint. the ipod and macbook w
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by amagumori 12y ago
it's because she's a girl.
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by amagumori 12y ago
i think the true best thing is to just build your own engine from the ground up in openGL. it's labor intensive. and it's not what you should do if you want to make a game. but, every graphics programmer has an engine. and it i
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by amagumori 12y ago
oh, the "$1/day is better than slavery, you should be happy!" guy. of course.
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by amagumori 12y ago
LOL, "thermodynamic reasons". citation needed
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by amagumori 12y ago
"even if they're jerks?" the social-justice-on-social-media movement is a platform to publicly stone people who step out of line, not a vehicle for change. you fuck up and say something "problematic" or "harm
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by amagumori 12y ago
and then they went ahead and assassinated him for real.
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by amagumori 12y ago
codechef is pretty good for this.
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by amagumori 12y ago
if you could figure out a way to get microfibers to straighten out / curl up on command (like under a DC electric field), you could make a smart blanket. it would regulate the loft of the material by making the fibers straighter or
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by amagumori 12y ago
i work 4 10's in a machine shop currently. maybe being a machinist is different from programming, but you can't do anything for those 4 days. you just won't be productive after work, you'll be spent. then you spend yo
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by amagumori 12y ago
this is a kamikaze approach to reform and requires countless people sacrificing years of their life (or their entire life) to the prison system. for instance if LSD is your drug of choice instead of cannabis, possession is a class B felony
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by amagumori 12y ago
it's not that our appetite for coveted real estate has grown. the real problem is that our alternatives to big cities are not good enough. here are your choices. you either live in an environment devoid of culture and community wher

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