anthonyb

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   by anthonyb 14y ago

   "Let me dive into something concrete." That's a seriously mixed metaphor...
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   by anthonyb 14y ago

   Send an email? Most voicemail systems will have a little flashing light on top when you have a message waiting. If I'm trying to write a tricky piece of code and you keep calling me, a) I will be annoyed and b) my mobile will go off, my em
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   by anthonyb 14y ago

   It should really be marked 'unflag' though
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   by anthonyb 14y ago

   And "Maintenance" is only 7.5%!
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   by anthonyb 14y ago

   No it doesn't. Choose three words, one each from a group of positive (I like), neutral and negative (I don't like), along with something from a big list of news items which are good or bad. Now they have to choose (I like + good news) or (I
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   by anthonyb 14y ago

   I was refering to xanados' article, not the OP: http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html
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   by anthonyb 14y ago

   "A massive douche"? You'll have to explain that one, because I've watched it, and he didn't appear "douchey" to me at all.
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   by anthonyb 14y ago

   > "it is actually painstaking in its argumentation and attention to nuance" No it's not. It doesn't follow anything through to a conclusion, it just berates people who attack strawmen, or who dismiss others' arguments out of hand, wheth
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   by anthonyb 14y ago

   That article is a waste of time. It rails against poor arguments and a lack of insight with... poor arguments and a lack of insight. For umpteen pages. For some reason we're supposed to hear out people who start an argument with "I'm not ra
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    Otherwise known as lesswrong-itis.
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    I've been using Steam for three years now and haven't had any account issues like that. Loss of internet connection, yes - but that's typically been an issue on my end.
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    And now imagine the entire country was like that half of Baltimore? How would you feel then? You can at least avoid that area - they can't.
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    Well, those two jokes, in context, are about how rape is bad. In this particular case, and in Daniel Tosh's case - it's nowhere near as clearcut. Notch was casting around for something bad, and happened to pick rape :\
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    From the original spec of the problem: "only the operators +, -, x, /, and ^ (exponentiation), and parenthesis for grouping"
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    Are you seriously suggesting that there are some contexts where rape is funny?
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    FlipH is not a legal operator.
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    Except that this exact situation had happened in earlier games - see cube13's link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583135
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    It wasn't imagined - check cube13's link for a good example of where this happened in a previous game: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583135
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    Still better than $400
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    Well if it's based on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4549792 then Kickstarter should take it down. It's a civil matter, so there's no "beyond reasonable doubt" required, and if Kickstarter are helping fund infringement, then
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    er, the $400 clock is a foot-and-a-half across. You probably want the more reasonably priced normal clock: http://www.momastore.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDi...
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    > Is anyone arguing that mere accusations should result in kickstarter takedowns? Yes, it should - if it's backed by a legal letter, Kickstarter might be liable too, if the suit is sucessful.
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    I would imagine posting a bunch of tweets at once with the same number, and deleting the ones which didn't match. That's assuming that deleted tweets completely disappear though.
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    Or even just in allowing people to live in the community, and earn a wage (even if it's a subsidised one) rather than needing to be institutionalised or have round the clock care (the original context was yummyfajitas' use of the word 'reta
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    Early education and intervention saves a ton of money in the long term.
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    I should point out that just throwing out a 100 point story over nothing is a bad plan career-wise - you definitely need to be able to back it up with reasons (we need to interface with systems x, y and z, this is comparable to other system
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    So call it something else, like "an iteration".
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    Does it have to? It sounds like they're using this as a learning platform rather than a serious $/FLOP/Watt cluster. In that case you'd want to make it easy to get funding, and be optimising for initial cost. What would be the cost of 64
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    If they "don't understand (or care) that you're doing a x-point sprint", then you have big problems, since they have to choose 'x' points worth of stories to put into a sprint, and that's one of their two key responsibilities. Also, you can
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    by anthonyb 14y ago

    Sure, but a checklist is an aid to memory, not a set of prescriptive rules.