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by beerbajay 11y ago
I was a student of Manovich at UCSD with high hopes for both his book, The Language of New Media , and the course I was taking, but I was incredibly disappointed in both. TLONM became an sort of "instant classic" in digital media
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by beerbajay 11y ago
I had a really similar experience when I was in high school, though I didn't get expelled. I made a website with photos of students (and their first names) giving the finger to the camera. People of course set this as the home page on
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by beerbajay 11y ago
Are you taking it for depression? If so, how's that working out for you? How are the side-effects?
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by beerbajay 11y ago
What a awful, sloppy article. > Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt No, being a scientist requires identifying uncertainty, investigating mystery, and doubt
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by beerbajay 11y ago
Man, all this shitting on young people is getting tiresome.
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by beerbajay 11y ago
Ugh, basic factual errors... The elements of typographic style first came out in 1992, not 2004.
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by beerbajay 11y ago
> why should anybody who hopes to make money off of content choose to show you anything? Nobody is forcing them to use advertizing to support their work/site. If they're not making money, they should change their business model
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by beerbajay 11y ago
Zepto?
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by beerbajay 11y ago
Two horizontal 16:9 screens are usually awful. Two vertical screens, on the other hand, let you see more and don't extend as far out of the center of your vision.
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by beerbajay 11y ago
It's infinity times better than the US rail system. It's "crumbling" because the system has been split up into smaller companies with some parts having been contracted out to private companies all of which now fight over
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by beerbajay 11y ago
Yeah, you probably are. I live in Malmö; the "problem area" you're talking about is a couple of blocks by Seved, where one company (Postnord) won't deliver _large_ packages due to the possibility of theft. That's no
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by beerbajay 11y ago
Is it stealing for the government to take the property of convicted drug dealers, when that property has been acquired through drug sales?
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by beerbajay 12y ago
Oh god, salt-stack is just like this. Lots and lots of documentation which looks great at first, but once you actually start using it it's frustration after frustration. The poor typography and use of YAML doesn't help...
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by beerbajay 12y ago
Good.
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by beerbajay 12y ago
The author seems to hate both liberals and conservatives equally, but his rhetoric is pure college republican; playing the victim when one is in fact in a position of power and status and privilege, and a willful misunderstanding of what is
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by beerbajay 12y ago
This was much less interesting than I had hoped. Of course there are racist subreddits; the real story is the prevalence of racist comments outside of these. My sense of it is that on 4chan you get teenage white boys pretending to be racist
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by beerbajay 12y ago
I got one when Lenovo refused to replace my thinkpad despite obviously defective hinge engineering. If I'm going to have to buy a new laptop every two years, it may as well be a cheap one. I installed crouton and have been using it as
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by beerbajay 12y ago
Here in Sweden you receive a fully-filled-in tax declaration from the Tax Office. For 99% of people with normal jobs, all you have to do is confirm the declaration on their website OR by sending an SMS OR by calling a telephone number OR by
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by beerbajay 12y ago
"Intersectionality" is the observation that your status/lack-of-status in society is the result of not just single systems (black/white, rich/poor, native/immigrant, male/female, hetero/homo, cis&#x2F
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by beerbajay 12y ago
The Vox article[1] by Amanda Taub is substantially better than either the deBoer's or Chait's articles (an article, by the way, that deBoer seems to entirely miss the point of) in that it correctly identifies the term "politi
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by beerbajay 12y ago
Yeah, I attended this talk at öredev and had the same reaction. However, this year's conference was a general disappointment, so this was unfortunately one of the best talks I saw.
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by beerbajay 12y ago
Good idea, as latex editing can be incredibly slow, but the math support failed on my first test case: $$A = \sum_{n=-\infty}^{+\infty} f(x)$$
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by beerbajay 12y ago
In Copenhagen, the authorities occasionally clean up an area from abandoned bikes and then you will see literal piles of bikes. Don't have a bike? Take one from the pile without feeling guilty. I've lived in both Copenhagen and Ma
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by beerbajay 12y ago
Many American adults seem to forget just how abusive and degrading the entire school system is, especially during high school. The people who are attending high school are not really "children" in the sense of not having an inform
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by beerbajay 12y ago
Yeah, the opinion section is the worst part of NYT, though I'm sure it's a driver of much of the traffic, at least judging from the "most read" and "most emailed" sidebars. I suspect that the by turns vague and
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by beerbajay 12y ago
Couldn't the 1MB limit be bypassed by invoking scp to transfer the files?
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by beerbajay 12y ago
> he was dealing with a vicious bully Really? Posting on twitter and github doesn't make you a vicious bully. Chad's whole post seems super defensive and unprofessional, which is typical when you point out the privilege of the
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by beerbajay 12y ago
Good luck finding an apartment in Stockholm; you need 10 years in the housing queue at least...
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by beerbajay 12y ago
Anything posted on the internet is no longer 'rare'.
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by beerbajay 12y ago
The images you're displaying on the homepage are downscaled by the browser and look horrible. You see this most in small lines, e.g. the carrier name. You should generally not be producing a single high-resolution GIF but instead a sui

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