badpenny

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1. 61.▲
   by badpenny 9y ago

   I think they probably mean the social kind.
2. 62.▲
   by badpenny 9y ago

   If you don't mind me asking, what do you do now? Are you still freelancing?
3. 63.▲
   by badpenny 9y ago

   Now and again I'll try switching to Firefox but it's just incredibly sluggish compared to Chrome so I end up switching back.
4. 64.▲
   by badpenny 9y ago

   LastPass is the only commercial password manager I recommend. I really think you should avoid 1Password. I'm not going to go into details, sorry.
5. 65.▲
   by badpenny 9y ago

   > so hammy and unrealistic That's what I liked about it.
6. 66.▲
   by badpenny 9y ago

   Maybe you're not supposed to find him sympathetic. Maybe you're not even supposed to find him unsympathetic. Maybe that's one of the things that differentiates good shows from great shows.
7. 67.▲
   by badpenny 9y ago

   I've often thought that one of the main problems with pedagogy, at least the kind that tends towards the abstract, is that it tries to give you answers without prompting the questions. I suppose you could argue that it's the stude
8. 68.▲
   by badpenny 9y ago

   It's not a competition.
9. 69.▲
   by badpenny 9y ago

   > Normal people don't connect with or understand facts. I consider myself and, almost by definition, most of the people I know to be normal and I can assure you us plebians are perfectly capable of understanding facts.
10. 70.▲
    by badpenny 9y ago

    It amazes me that people still believe that these companies care about anything except the bottom line.
11. 71.▲
    by badpenny 9y ago

    And, conversely, to some people money is everything and they can never have enough of it.
12. 72.▲
    by badpenny 9y ago

    There's a difference between improving something and reinventing it.
13. 73.▲
    by badpenny 9y ago

    I'd argue there's a lot wrong with reinventing the wheel. People don't seem to care about the inevitable waste of programmer time and effort that comes with introducing a new programming language or library, assuming it gains
14. 74.▲
    by badpenny 9y ago

    "That sounds very stylish".
15. 75.▲
    by badpenny 9y ago

    You're the one who used the analogy. Are you being deliberately obtuse? Height is a spectrum and yes, IQ is a spectrum. "Seven feet tall" is an easily identifiable point along the height spectrum. "Genius" is not an
16. 76.▲
    by badpenny 9y ago

    Because height is a spectrum and easily and accurately quantifiable, whereas "genius" is neither.
17. 77.▲
    by badpenny 9y ago

    I really don't like the popular concept of "genius". It's divisive and trivialises the accomplishments and struggles of people who aren't "geniuses".
18. 78.▲
    Chess instills new dreams in kids from rural Mississippi county(cbsnews.com)

    1 points by badpenny 10y ago|0 comments
19. 79.▲
    by badpenny 10y ago

    I recommend reading They Write the Right Stuff[1] to anybody interested in NASA's approach to writing software. [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
20. 80.▲
    Busting the attention span myth(bbc.co.uk)

    3 points by badpenny 10y ago|0 comments
21. 81.▲
    by badpenny 10y ago

    They're pretty big repos (461MB and 785MB compressed) but I'll try to get them uploaded ASAP.
22. 82.▲
    by badpenny 10y ago

    I've been trying to collect as much video game source code as I can at https://github.com/videogamepreservation/ .
23. 83.▲
    Fibonacci benchmark(crystal-lang.org)

    2 points by badpenny 10y ago|0 comments
24. 84.▲
    by badpenny 10y ago

    Do the boring work, save the money and retire early and work on whatever you want.
25. 85.▲
    In Search of Scanlines: The Best CRT Monitor for Retro Gaming(tested.com)

    1 points by badpenny 10y ago|0 comments
26. 86.▲
    by badpenny 10y ago

    So did my Moto G4.
27. 87.▲
    by badpenny 10y ago

    What do you mean by "they don't offer fiber"? At first I thought you meant they don't offer FTTP but I checked their website and they do.
28. 88.▲
    by badpenny 10y ago

    Just posting to let everyone know what a genius I am and how I could have been the next Bill Gates if somebody had done something different when I was a kid.
29. 89.▲
    by badpenny 10y ago

    I'm from the UK and have just come back from staying a month in Louisiana, mainly New Orleans, and Georgia and have spent a few months in Georgia previously. American drivers, at least in the south, are scary. Like you say, things like
30. 90.▲
    by badpenny 11y ago

    This is clearly unsubstantiated - the benefits of coffee are very clearly outlined. No they aren't. http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/156/9/842.short http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub