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by ambrosite 9y ago
The thing is, I get why opening credit sequences have fallen out of fashion. They were a holdover from the broadcast television era where they served a legitimate purpose, but they are completely unnecessary in an online, on-demand viewing
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by ambrosite 9y ago
The novel and the film are two different things. I actually don't like Clarke's novel because I disagree with the interpretation he put on the film (even though the screenplay was based on one of his previously published short sto
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by ambrosite 9y ago
You mean, the opening credits/music? Well yeah, those are the same in every episode, but I assume almost everyone skips those after they've seen it the first few times. Even the Battlestar Galactica reboot had an opening credits s
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by ambrosite 9y ago
If you think that's bad, I've even heard people say that the original Star Wars movie is too slow and boring for them to sit through. As for 2001, it is a very meaningful film to me, but it does not surprise me that kids would hav
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by ambrosite 9y ago
It's risky, sure. You would have to have a good read on the other contestant, like maybe someone who bid $1001 to get out of contestant's row, so you know they are inclined to use the plus-one-dollar strategy. I probably wouldn&#x
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by ambrosite 9y ago
Here's a little psychological trick I always wanted to try, if I ever got to the showcase showdown on TPIR. Suppose the other contestant passes the first showcase to me, and I believe it is the lower valued of the two showcases. I bid
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by ambrosite 9y ago
I'm not saying whether it is right or wrong. I am just saying that realistically, this is the calculation that many people will make.
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by ambrosite 9y ago
This is a good point. The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are only 141 and 117 AU from earth [1], and they were launched 40 years ago. I have always thought that the most likely fate of the Voyager spacecraft is that they will be stolen -- not b
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by ambrosite 9y ago
>> Go talk to the people who are actually running in those districts. If you can write them even the cost of a ps4, they want to hear from you. You propose this as a solution, but for the average person it makes no sense. Suppose that
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by ambrosite 9y ago
Google owns YouTube, and they adjust their search engine algorithms all the time to penalize blatant keyword spam. I don't see why they can't do the same for YouTube, unless they just don't care.
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by ambrosite 9y ago
The question is, how long will it be until YouTube adjusts its search and recommendation algorithms to penalize this type of title spam?
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by ambrosite 9y ago
I have found this to be true as well. The first thing I do whenever reviewing an open source project is to examine the database schema. I can usually figure out what the code does and how it works by looking at the tables and the relationsh
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by ambrosite 9y ago
So what is the big deal about Fight Club? I've heard so much about it but haven't read it yet; trying to decide if it's worth the time.
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by ambrosite 9y ago
A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy. Went into it thinking I was reading a book on math and ended up reading a book about life.
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by ambrosite 9y ago
I'm not seeing much difference in the photos, but with the logos it is certainly noticeable and in some cases even affects readability.
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by ambrosite 9y ago
I find the home page of this site very nostalgic. I love stumbling across these old sites that look the way the entire web looked back in the nineties. Hell, there's even a marquee made with the 'marquee' tag!
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by ambrosite 9y ago
I've always found it easier to type long strings of numbers on the number pad. I don't know why, it's not as though I ever deliberately trained myself to use it, but for me the number pad is much faster than using the top row
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by ambrosite 9y ago
I wonder how much of this is a result of UI designers deliberately putting tiny delays/animations into their UIs to make them more "usable"? For example, it was a common piece of advice that if clicking a button opens up a di
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by ambrosite 9y ago
>> I used to enjoy picking a subject and then clicking all the DMOZ or Yahoo! links. I'd dig through webrings and and link aggregators with wild abandon. Yep, that's exactly what I used to do. That's really what "s
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by ambrosite 9y ago
I remember web rings. I used to own a couple of sites that were part of a web ring. I remember it was actually hard to get into them back then -- the maintainers only wanted quality sites and you had to submit yours for review and explain t
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by ambrosite 9y ago
I do remember those websites. For me, the difference is that now the Web is much more useful, but back then it was a lot more fun. True, you could sometimes waste hours following random links hoping to find something good, but the thrill of
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by ambrosite 9y ago
> it's not worth the "cognitive cost" to make a comment Their comment form requires login or signup. I'm already signed up and logged in here. That's reason enough for me to post here and not there. I would never
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by ambrosite 9y ago
This is exactly the problem, and it's a difficult one to solve. I've seen research suggesting that the cognitive cost of filling out payment forms and giving out credit card information makes it easier to pay $10 than $1, since it
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by ambrosite 9y ago
Which European country did you settle in?
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by ambrosite 9y ago
I walked a mile and a half alone to and from kindergarten back in the 1970s (my family lived in the Long Island, NY suburbs). I was allowed to ride my bicycle alone all over town on weekends, and sometimes I traveled so far as to cross into
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by ambrosite 9y ago
One of my favorite quotes about Jackie Chan came from Roger Ebert while he was reviewing one of his movies: "You can see how hard he is working at every moment to please the audience. If he could jump out of the screen and buy popcorn
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by ambrosite 9y ago
I never had that problem, unless you mean things like the occasional Facebook or Twitter notification ending up in spam, but I didn't care about those. Also, Gmail definitely has a problem with false positives. At the small agency wher
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by ambrosite 9y ago
Fastmail user here. I had problems with spam too when I first signed up, but then I discovered I could change the spam protection level from "Standard" to "Aggressive" in the mail settings screen (the default is "St
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by ambrosite 9y ago
I never used AIM in its prime (I was never into instant messaging), but a while back I played a free game called "Emily is Away" and it gave me a good sense of the nostalgia that a lot of people are talking about in this thread.
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by ambrosite 9y ago
He is going year by year. If you think he missed some important titles you should check the earlier article about 1980 releases. https://adamharkus.com/the-golden-age-of-the-video-game-arca...

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