anonjon

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by anonjon 17y ago
Or woman up and not grow a pair. It isn't really harsh or not harsh. There are merely realities of being human. (It may, however, require a drastic change in perspective). In reality, your circumstances and actions are immaterial to your
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by anonjon 17y ago
I struggle with this problem too, so your predicament touches on something with me. It is drastic because in this situation, you have to be drastic. Shyness a is kind of hesitation. You are about to do something, but you catch yourself an
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by anonjon 17y ago
But the majority of music that people listen to today is throwaway 'confection'. The fact is that in our current system, people who produce music of genius quality starve, while the people who write about big booty women and bananas becom
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by anonjon 17y ago
Just keep in mind that you are going to die eventually, and that life is short, so it will be relatively soon. There's so few ways that embarrassment will kill you but there's many ways that being really really alone like that will kill you
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by anonjon 17y ago
The little donate buttons we were supposed to click on to support our favorite bands as we gave the finger to the RIAA never panned out. It turns out we really were just cheap bastards that didn’t want to pay for music after all. This is
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by anonjon 17y ago
Honestly, it helps to know someone who is looking to hire. Persistence/experience/credentials are important, but without a personal connection the job market (in any profession) is a crap-shoot. My girlfriend had a similar situation (she's
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by anonjon 17y ago
just scroll down from the dailywtf article ( http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Thinking-Machines.aspx?pg=3#... for Ken Jones).
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by anonjon 17y ago
Is your last name Tolkein? Elvish is just some gibberish that he made up. I think that there is something profound and beautiful about creating your own language.
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by anonjon 17y ago
I listen to John Cage. I don't only listen to John Cage, but it is interesting. I think the problem is that you have to have a basis in music history to be able to appreciate what the hell he is trying to do. If all you have been exposed to
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by anonjon 17y ago
They are able to be rational about everything except their religious beliefs. Belief in gods and goddesses does not jive very well with Occam's razor or the complete lack of empirical evidence. I can't say for sure that gods and goddesses
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by anonjon 17y ago
Very well, I think I agree with you then. My only problem is that the majority of beliefs that we rely on in a daily fashion become superstition, even though they could hypothetically not be. Suppose I only superficially know how my car wo
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by anonjon 17y ago
"Evil spirits caused the tsunami" is no less superstition than "global warming caused the tsunami". Well. When you think about it, global warming couldn't cause a tsunami, whereas evil spirits could potentially cause a tsunami (if they ex
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by anonjon 17y ago
I think that's the point about the culture of quitting. If you have a culture where employees are expected to move on after a few years, the people who are playing politics and trying to get entrenched for job security are really easy to
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by anonjon 17y ago
I don't know why the study paints this as being a strange outcome. This outcome makes sense to me intuitively. Perhaps because we confuse momentary happiness (having fun!) with prolonged mental wellbeing. They are somewhat related to each o
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by anonjon 17y ago
ooh, i see, so it was a matter of there being two different models of the nexus one, very interesting.
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by anonjon 17y ago
You can do that... but it is much easier to have compile/load shortcuts, paren-match highlighting, and automatic indentation....
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by anonjon 17y ago
Where are you getting your info? They seem to be selling nexus one as if it has support for At&T's 3G. https://www.google.com/phone/choose?hl=en&gl=US&s7e= Also it seems that they plan on releasing nexus one to Verizon if you
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by anonjon 17y ago
You don't need need to be literate to work at a supermarket.
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by anonjon 17y ago
I have little doubt that one of the biggest advantages of going to college is that you get to do a whole number of radically different things. You can join (and administer) a half dozen clubs, take really hard and interesting classes, and m
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by anonjon 17y ago
It is very easy to presuppose that the only way to get value from advertisers is through ads. But then you are assuming that only people who will sponsor your content are either add-networks, or corporations who will require that you use tr
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by anonjon 17y ago
Ice cream is even better because it melts... if you are eating it over a period of 30 minutes, you've only had half of it because most of it melted and dripped onto the ground/your hand! If you eat ice cream really fast and then jog, you wi
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by anonjon 17y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the case that the best English majors and the best Engineering majors (or business majors) have similar (high) levels of meta cognitive ability. I also wouldn't be surprised if the mediocre students all had
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by anonjon 17y ago
If that is true then it is indeed dismaying. I will mention that college level English departments should not need to teach basic English grammar. I would expect that anyone requiring help in that area would be directed towards remedial cou
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by anonjon 17y ago
I think that is a good question, but I assume that as a rails noob you probably had some mentor(s?) who pointed you in the right direction when you did stupid noob stuff. (Even if you learn mostly through books and blogs like I do, your kn
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by anonjon 17y ago
/Does intellectual achievement or learning happen in the typical English department?/ Huh? What type of question is that? You seem to be at once completely proving the parent comments point (that the humanities are consistently denigrated),
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by anonjon 17y ago
I can't answer as an English major, but I can answer as a Philsophy major. (Humanities --Burger King-- right?). I'm now a lisp programmer. I imagine that I would be making more money (potentially anyway) had I gone through a computer scie
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by anonjon 17y ago
So here's a question, why don't you pick their brain back? I'm intrigued with the idea of having a /conversation/ with someone over coffee and not being able to get anything in return out of them. It is almost as if they are asking her to
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by anonjon 17y ago
The problem is that passion doesn't have 1 definition, it has a dozen. You and the guy who wrote the article are taking passion in the 'lust' definition of the term. Those of us who think a passion for programming is important for programme
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by anonjon 17y ago
idk where he want to school or what he majored in, but if he could study for an hour and ace the exam, it seems that he didn't really need to be taking that course in the first place. (Why not just be self taught?) There are a lot of reason
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by anonjon 17y ago
Please don't do this. I realize my comment was in wildly poor taste because Hacker News is an Extremely Serious site where only very serious people talk about very serious things. (For example, about how we are all going to get dollar-sign

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