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by barbs 11y ago
Damninteresting.com is a truly underrated website. I bought their book a few years ago, which was a collation of nearly all their articles up to the time of print. They're listed in the book alphabetically, but every article was fascin
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by barbs 11y ago
Here's a cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
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by barbs 11y ago
unseraphim: you're hellbanned. And looking at your past posts, it's probably a good thing.
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by barbs 11y ago
I think classifieds sites tend to have this phenomenon of being localised to regions simply because, by nature, its usefulness derives from finding people and services in your physical area. And much like social networks, the more people us
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by barbs 11y ago
This video did the rounds a few years ago, and I think it nicely captures the sentiment of doing things alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs
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by barbs 11y ago
I think a lot of people experience a strange sort of complementary relationship between travelling and reading. Perhaps it's something to do with the notion of exploring new territory, both physically and imaginatively. This might be w
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by barbs 11y ago
I think a large part of it is due to some sort of quirk in how we read words. In the word "Berenstain", the first two vowels are e's, and I think the brain naturally expects the next vowel to be an e as well. Also, it's
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by barbs 11y ago
> Galaxy Note is way better tablet for drawing then Ipad ever was. In what way?
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by barbs 11y ago
You can get that game on Playstation 4 at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelunky . That game looks amazing, but I've been waiting for a linux port. I don't think I'll be holding my breath though. If
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by barbs 11y ago
To be fair, it's a pretty easy typo to make, considering it rhymes with the previous word.
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by barbs 11y ago
I've recently noticed that roguelikes, more than any other kind of game I play, give me the most satisfaction and pleasure. In particular, games like FTL and Nethack promote decision-making and improvisation - making the most out of wh
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by barbs 12y ago
This is really cool. Thanks for documenting and capturing the meticulous process of creating this, it was an enjoyable read. I'd love to see a really high definition photo that captures both the scale of the map and the amount of detai
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by barbs 12y ago
From the home page: Messages are not end-to-end encrypted, and this is not an anonymous system. See below for more details. We use the term 'secure' here to mean that we do not use plaintext transports. Although to my admittedly
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by barbs 12y ago
> That of course is the dream implicit in all this: A button that sends the perfect email every time. Indeed, a number of artists have explored the contours of this queasy future in recent months. A browser extension by Joanne McNeil fi
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by barbs 12y ago
I find it crazy that they're still developing expansions for that game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EverQuest#Expansions
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by barbs 12y ago
For those of you reading this and feeling dumb for not knowing what K&R refers to (like me): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
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by barbs 12y ago
Adult Swim did a skit on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
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by barbs 12y ago
Surprised you haven't heard of neocities, sounds a lot like a modern version of what you're talking about :). Neocities is a community of 42,200 sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web. We provide f
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by barbs 12y ago
How come I didn't hear about this? I don't remember seeing anything on Hacker News, and my local Internet of Things meetup don't appear to know anything about it either. I would've maybe looked to organise something in S
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by barbs 12y ago
No it didn't, it was just one word! It gave no value to the discussion at all!
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by barbs 12y ago
Interesting, I've not ever seen a recommendation for bazaar over git or mercurial. I have heard that mercurial's CLI is a bit more sane than git, and I've also read that it's easier to extend in Python. How would you com
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by barbs 12y ago
Thanks for replying to a question not asked to you, with an answer that doesn't explain your position at all.
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by barbs 12y ago
What alternative do you prefer?
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by barbs 12y ago
> They 'save' lots of time by having things brought to them, and spend that time watching TV or browsing the net despite not really enjoying those things. They're exchanging money for time to do passive activities they do
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by barbs 12y ago
I reckon it could be reclaimed to turn it into a pro-drug statement. Sort of like how that "Reefer Madness" movie is now a stoner classic.
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by barbs 12y ago
My favourite recent example was SQLite, where hundreds of micro-optimizations led to version 3.8.7 to be 50% faster than 3.7.17. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/9054...
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by barbs 12y ago
Just so people know, you can view that site in English as well. http://www.zomet.org.il/eng/
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by barbs 12y ago
My Dad recently got malware on his Windows desktop computer, and wanted me to fix it for him. He's reasonably tech-savvy but malware can happen to the best of us. I tried searching and removing suspicious looking files, but it kept com
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by barbs 12y ago
Moonbase Commander is a fantastic game that never got the attention it deserved. I highly recommend buying it from Steam or GOG.com. Despite being released in 2002, its graphics and gameplay have aged well. Playing a multiplayer game today
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by barbs 12y ago
Whilst the video was uploaded in 2013, the title implies that it was presented in 2012. (Sorry for nitpicking)

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