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by barbs 10y ago
I think his comment was intentionally tongue-in-cheek
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by barbs 10y ago
It's $9. Still annoying though
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by barbs 10y ago
Browser extension idea - gif freeze. Pauses all gifs by default.
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by barbs 10y ago
hahaha! That's awesome! I'd love to read a blog post about it when you're done if you're willing to write one up :)
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by barbs 10y ago
I'd recommend Pandemic. It's a little bit different to most games in that it's a co-op game, but it's a lot of fun and I feel challenges most people's perceptions on how board games should be. Stone Age is a fairly
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by barbs 10y ago
> They all suck. All of them. Period. End of discussion. It'd be nice if you explained why they sucked
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by barbs 10y ago
Is it networked? Just wondering about the possibility of time-drift
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by barbs 10y ago
I have an old laptop (seems to be from the mid-00s) donated from a friend that I installed Arch Linux on and have constantly on and plugged into my network. It runs an ssh server and I can log into it anywhere remotely. It comes in handy fo
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by barbs 10y ago
For anyone that likes this sort of thing, I found a few videos of old LAN parties from 1998-2001: https://youtu.be/ch__Ah2iCtQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X43soJt7jI https://www.youtube.com&
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by barbs 10y ago
Sorry, was on my phone. This works: https://www.facebook.com/LastWeekTonight/videos/912968418832...
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by barbs 10y ago
You can see it on Facebook: https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=912968418832168&id...
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by barbs 10y ago
He says he sent it to a non-profit organisation (looks like RIPx Medical Debt) which "specialises in forgiving medical debt with no tax consequences for the debtor". I'd try and find some links but I'm currently on my ph
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by barbs 10y ago
More information on their direct website, for those who are interested: https://www.givedirectly.org/basic-income
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by barbs 10y ago
You could make your username be some random hash?
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by barbs 10y ago
I agree, it's quite frustrating. Oh well, back to torrents I guess!
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by barbs 10y ago
Please stop dictating what this discussion is about, and what people can and cannot discuss here. This is perfectly relevant.
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by barbs 10y ago
The term "ad hominem" is typically used to describe the fallacy of attacking the person making an argument, rather than the argument itself. Sure, I'm discussing his character, but I'm not trying to win any argument here
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by barbs 10y ago
Not by much though. https://zedshaw.com/2015/06/01/dear-paul/
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by barbs 10y ago
I can't really speak for Zed's expertise and/or value to the programming community. From what I gather, a few of his projects are widely used (Mongrel comes to mind), and he seems to know his stuff pretty well. I also identif
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by barbs 10y ago
> The main reason so much modern software is bad is that people aren't willing to pay for even a fraction of the actual value it delivers. That's a very broad statement, and is untrue in many instances.
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by barbs 10y ago
I like the concept though I kind of wish I could zoom out and see more than the top 5
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by barbs 10y ago
Practically, I can't see a reason either. But I imagine it would gain popularity by virtue of the Google brand and marketing.
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by barbs 10y ago
It's a hoop because it's an unnecessarily complicated process for something which should be so simple, but we're forced to do it because Microsoft deems it so. Also, that process is not immediately obvious and certainly not i
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by barbs 10y ago
And their product is Windoze
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by barbs 10y ago
I imagine the OS would be open-source, which would probably make it more trustworthy than Windows. Not saying it'd be completely trustworthy, however...
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by barbs 10y ago
> Too many users changed a setting you don't agree with? Just block access to that setting or call it something else to confuse enough people to the point that the numbers are "good enough" for management. Ergh, agreed.
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by barbs 10y ago
> Here's an idea: boo people who are in the "TSA pre" lines. What does that solve?
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by barbs 10y ago
The unintuitiveness of how many combinations you can get from such a small amount of items is why the birthday "paradox" is so interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
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by barbs 11y ago
"If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die." - Arunachalam Muruganantham :)
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by barbs 11y ago
Sega's 8-bit Master System console is still being sold in Brazil. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/brazil-is-a-video-game-...

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