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by autarch 16y ago
This is an interesting blog post, but I have to nitpick at a couple points. First, the author says "Touching someone without their consent is assault." I hope that's just a not-so-well-thought-out sentence. What was described in the [origin
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by autarch 16y ago
I had a Wii for a while, and the motion control thing was fun at first, but it wore itself out pretty quickly. I think the thing I appreciated most was the ease of aiming when playing Metroid.
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by autarch 16y ago
Kinect sounds like some impressive tech, but it doesn't really sound fun to me. Obviously I'm not the target audience, but I wonder how many people out there want to play games in this manner. It might be a cool novelty, but is it a lasti
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by autarch 16y ago
So you've accounted for protein, but you need a lot more than that. For example, without vitamin C, you'll get scurvy. Without B12, your nervous system can be permanently damaged. I'd highly recommend a diet of more than just beans, rice, p
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Founding Fathers Version 2.0(dilbert.com)
16 points by autarch 16y ago|32 comments
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by autarch 16y ago
I would probably want them to at least know what they are, and why they are relevant to a task (or not relevant). If they'd mostly programmed in modern dynamic languages (Perl/Python/Ruby) I wouldn't expect them to know most of the individu
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by autarch 16y ago
I'm pretty sure potatoes and other starches are not included in the definition. I don't think hash browns are the solution, though they make for a delicious problem.
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by autarch 16y ago
Another flaw in this sort of study is that there's an enormous disconnect between what we say we would do, and what we would actually do. I might say "yes, I would push Chip/Tyrone over the rail", because I really do believe that's the
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by autarch 16y ago
I think there's a few key points to take away from Agile ... 1. Involve end users (aka customers) in the process as much as possible, since if they don't like the end result your work was wasted. 2. Do work in small chunks. Releasing every
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by autarch 16y ago
I live in Minnesota, and I have high hopes that in the future Minnesota will secede from the US and become part of Canada.
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by autarch 16y ago
"My 10-minute routine dropped to a minute ..." Jesus, what the hell is wrong with this guy? Or maybe I'm the freak, but I don't spend ten minutes on the toilet. Usually it takes 30s-2m to do my business. Maybe he should consider a change in
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by autarch 16y ago
The legend of Wing Chun attributes its development to a woman too, though it seems like the real origin is unknown.
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by autarch 16y ago
Bah! I am the future of humanity. All you short people just need to catch up.
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by autarch 16y ago
Delta, which has most of the gates in Minneapolis, does not sell exit row in advance, and I wouldn't count on getting it when I'm going to be flying for 10 hours to Italy. Northwest would sell the exit row seats in advance, but unless you h
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by autarch 16y ago
I'm 6'7" (200 cm), so being stuck in a typical economy class seat is extremely uncomfortable for me. On my next long trip (from Minneapolis to Italy), I chose to spend about double for business class, because the prospect of 10 hours flyi
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by autarch 16y ago
It seems to me that anyone taking such a job may be embracing permanent exile from Japan. Even though the salary is probably quite good for the new country, it seems unlikely these folks could ever save enough money to go home and start a l
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by autarch 16y ago
Um, you can download a flash game and serve it yourself. Of course, maybe they could've embedded a "phone home" check or something.
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by autarch 16y ago
That anime was really confusing. I'm not sure I could come up with a simple plain English explanation. Was it a dream? A computer simulation? An alternate reality? I mean, really, wtf?
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by autarch 16y ago
I think he's been busy. Contrary to the other reply, he does have a job. My understanding is that family life has kept him very occupied.
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by autarch 16y ago
Best line in the story ... "Indeed, the new phone applications seem to promise hours of unrelieved, humorless argument."
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by autarch 16y ago
You don't know what the word "ironic" means. That's my feedback. Ironic does not mean sarcastic.
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by autarch 16y ago
It would've been very interesting to see some examples of people who've chosen to eat diets that are not the standard diet for their country. In particular, I'd like to see what vegans, raw foodists, Atkins dieters, and so on are eating.
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by autarch 16y ago
"If the right order were given, and all these computers worked together in one concerted effort, a botnet with that much computing power could crack many codes, break into and plunder just about any protected database in the world" Uh, no,
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by autarch 16y ago
I think this makes a really good point. What the blog post advocates is essentially blackmail. There's a huge difference between planning for a month or two off with several months notice and simply walking in to your boss's office and tell
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by autarch 16y ago
The article would be better titled "Most Expensive Cities (if You Live Like an American)". That's the only explanation for all the African cities. No doubt American food, and in particular, American brands , are very expensive there. OTOH,
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by autarch 16y ago
Japanese people living in the US are no doubt perfectly comfortable writing their name out in Latin characters for the benefit of the barbarians they live with.
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by autarch 16y ago
I just can't take an article seriously when it has "Get your credit card and start paying for those softwares" and "I think convincing someone to give your their hard-earned dollars is a valorizing". Maybe step one is learning to write?
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by autarch 16y ago
I don't understand how this variable pricing thing is going to work. Will raising the price really make people give up looking for parking and go home? It seems to me that once you've gotten in your car and driven to your destination, you
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by autarch 16y ago
This article seems to be implying that Laura is somehow less of a success than Ivan, but is that true? Laura has, without support, involved herself in organizing volunteer activities, successfully sought out a scholarship and leveraged he
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by autarch 16y ago
TIOBE is crap. See Tim Bunce's analysis of TIOBE ( http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/04/12/tiobe-or-not-tiobe-lies-... ) for details. Why do people keep quoting TIOBE like it means something?

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