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by ashark 10y ago
Yeah, I get lightheaded and stupid (basically feel fairly drunk) around hours 14-16 without eating. I've been informed the solution to this is a keto diet. Ugh, not worth it.
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by ashark 10y ago
I did plenty of mavis beacon and such and hated it (though it drilled the basics into me, at least) and used the DOS command line a bit, but what made me fast and accurate was busy real-time chatrooms and IM. Basically Yahoo Chat and IC
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by ashark 10y ago
> Do you think IDE would help much? I don't think so. It'd help quite a bit with the parts that make writing this in Java different from talking through a pseudocode implementation, yeah. Or just let them write pseudocode inste
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by ashark 10y ago
> In my previous company we used ask candidates to code a very simple task: reverse a string in Java, on the whiteboard or on paper. It is a trivial task but many seasoned people failed it to the extent that we thought "you don&#x27
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by ashark 10y ago
> I also cook pasta - low pressure for 6 min gives perfect la dante! That's... about the same amount of time it takes on the stovetop, no?
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by ashark 10y ago
Seems like a good step toward dropping programming from Middle Class or High Prole to Middle Prole, to me (following Fussell's descriptions of classes).
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by ashark 10y ago
My observation has been that there's a strong correlation between "buy my ebook!" in a website sidebar and someone ticking boxes on some scumbag marketing process which they probably learned from someone using scumbag marketi
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by ashark 10y ago
Huh. "Buy my (assuredly terrible, amateurish, e-)book!" or "sign up for a free PDF copy of my book!" is one of the quickest ways to lower my opinion of a person (or website). Immediately digs a giant hole that they the
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by ashark 10y ago
> It's really hard to predict that stuff. People thought original Xbox emulation would be easy, since it was "essentially a PC", but it's the only console of that generation that still doesn't have a good emulato
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by ashark 10y ago
Welcome to the future. The economy's mostly driven by incredibly invasive advertising, normalized spyware, and kids sending each other naked pics. It's far worse than any 80s film ever imagined.
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by ashark 10y ago
The two single guys in my circle of friends use it for the kinds of communication you wouldn't want to occur in the same app where your relatives are (say, Facebook/Whatsapp). One of them's outside the app's usual age de
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by ashark 10y ago
I'd recommend Kentucky Route Zero, too, which is finally almost all out (boo episodic release models). It's what you get when people with vision, talent, some real book learnin', a good understanding of video games in gener
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by ashark 10y ago
Understood, and I concede that this veered off-topic, hence the talking past one another. And hey, I love "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" as much as the next person.
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by ashark 10y ago
I disagree. Glancing down the headlines on the front page right now, I'd say ~half would be better if they were written in that style.
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by ashark 10y ago
That and the eye-seering blue draw too much attention for what they are. Content is de-emphasized. Whole page is slightly harder to read. I don't understand these changes at all.
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by ashark 10y ago
> It could be a reality show. Have your people call my people! Mitchell and Webb had a sketch about a reality show that asked a couple to live in an early 1990s house for a while. There's a bit about the Internet in it. At one point
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by ashark 10y ago
Those are the best kinds of headlines for most informational writing. Look at a newspaper from the early 1900s. You can skim just the headlines in a minute and have a pretty good idea what's gone on. EDIT: see: https://upl
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by ashark 10y ago
> The N64, the GameCube, the Wii and subsequent offerings were all underpowered in terms of graphical abilities and raw power after that. The N64 was underpowered?
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by ashark 10y ago
The mode of play that is more fun hurts and loses to a mode that is basically button pressing (mostly because when you're making the "real" motions it can't figure out what you're trying to do half the time, and d
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by ashark 10y ago
GC was the first with analog-plus-click triggers too, I think.
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by ashark 10y ago
> And tennis. And golf. And baseball. Until you realize your standing-up-arm-waving strategy is being destroyed by the person sitting on the couch making little wrist flicks, who may as well be pushing buttons for all the motion they&#x2
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by ashark 10y ago
> I have a Wii U and Nintendo's games insist on using the microphone for stupid gameplay mechanics, like blowing on it to move platforms. Haha, really? They've done that crap since the Famicom. Didn't make it to the states
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by ashark 10y ago
ShowTime is extra on top of the $35, and I don't see any other channels on the page that aren't OTA in my area (where'd you see ESPN?).
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by ashark 10y ago
> Furthermore, if everyone's getting paid more, isn't it natural that person intensive activities like construction, infrastructure, health, and schooling will cost more? Yes, more. Not disproportionately more (except for cer
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by ashark 10y ago
As someone who'd been a skeptic of "lawsuits are killing us!" arguments, I actually thought the most convincing explanation of the many that were offered up after that SSC post is that uncertainty bred by too little (or too
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by ashark 10y ago
MMM's posts are all from the perspective of someone who: 1) has a paid off house, 2) has a lot of money in the bank, can get a job with benefits easily on short-ish notice and has no-one with chronic illnesses in his household (= incre
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by ashark 10y ago
There are no 50s-sized cheap houses within walking distance of employment centers in good school districts in my city. Out where the good schools are, they only build McMansions. This is the typical case for cities in the US. I live in a
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by ashark 10y ago
Removing well-defined restrictions on work usually results in an explicit or implicit negotiation for working conditions, which usually results in less favorable conditions for the party with the weaker negotiating position (workers).
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by ashark 10y ago
See the Two Income Trap (TL;DR: there is limited housing in good school districts and there are limited places at good universities, so when it became possible to compete for these with two incomes, it gradually became the case that you
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by ashark 10y ago
Have they said they'll test Martian equipment with Lunar landings? I'd guess it'd make a pretty poor testing ground, considering the cost of getting there.

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