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Nonsense. The world can always use another joke. It's rough out there.
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This is exactly the level of humor and intellect you'd expect from 4chan. See how I didn't say anything there?
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I always wonder just how well body language really correlates with intention, in general. For example, whenever I'm standing in a pair or group, and somebody walks over, I always consciously reorient myself to help include the new pers
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EWOP applied to economics. There's this really popular show called Breaking Bad that revolves around the main characters' heroic efforts to do this.
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Lately I'm experiencing the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon with regard to Poe's Law.
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The copy on that page brings this to the brink of Poe's Law. Maybe they're just ahead of their time.
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They're social diseases, after all.
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This misses my point completely. My point is that the term 'software engineering' is not meant to denote a type of engineering. It may include engineering as a loose metaphor, but the term 'software engineering' stands
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I think this [silly] argument is nothing more than a special case of the argument over whether words have inherent meaning, or derive meaning from usage. I don't think 'software engineer' was ever meant to denote a new subtyp
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The very question gives me an ugh feeling. I try to do right by my friends and family. I try to do no harm to all you random NPCs. I don't try to do anything by my employer, except stay employed for as long as I want to, and do as good
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The word 'responsive' has been sprayed all over these pages. I take it I'm supposed to read that word a certain way in this context, but I don't know how. Does it mean you can click things? Something more? Something else
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Over twenty years of this, the only reason I have ever bought any console is for exclusive games.
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Indeed. I opened the thread to see how pedantic pedants could get about pedantry.
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What determines the time/speed of each circle?
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I'm also in awe over the number of people who played along. This reminds me a little of the film Compliance, which I happened to see last night. I think humans are very susceptible to stories. Once a narrative gets rolling, people seem
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The first time I tried to play Minecraft, I didn't understand it. Once I did understand the basic idea, I simply had to have the game. I would have gone through any sign-up process there was to get the game, and paid anything up to abo
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I won't call it luck, but there were certainly circumstances that enabled Minecraft. For example, Notch being born at the right stage of personal computers; the development of Infiniminer. But all successes will have such circumstanc
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I'm having a hard time thinking of a reason to have a preference - let alone a strong preference. I'm spending most of the time typing into a text editor, where my experience depends on the editor, not on the OS. Another chunk o
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This is going to be mostly speculation. There are a couple of members of my family who work in government. I've had long conversations with them in which my goal was to understand their distinctive point of view. A few things stand out
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It depends what you mean by meme . In the original sense as used by Richard Dawkins, yes, hackneyed phrases are memes. But the now-common usage, as in Internet meme is more specific than that. It's more like an inside nerd joke - th
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I've been a working software developer for 15 years. Professionally, I've done everything I would have hoped to do if I'd had a degree. I've worked at Prestigious BigCo, Tiny Startup, Game Studio, and a couple others. I
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Then we would only need to define a genius as one who has produced a work of genius, and we'd have our geniuses back. "There are no generals, only those who have at one time attained the rank of general."
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I wish there was a legal body that could order the author to explain his core thesis in one paragraph.
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That isn't a singular problem. Helping a group is not just another way of discriminating against them. Just as slapping someone's face is not just another way of kissing them.
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But innovation doesn't work like that. It isn't that anybody will decide a good online dating process by committee. Rather, entrepreneurs will keep trying the ideas that they have until one blows up. Like so many things, we'l
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Maybe I'm just too old to understand, but this seems a little creepy to me. My friend hasn't introduced me to their friend, but I'm going to start chatting to them on FB? How would my friend feel about this? If someone else c
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I do all of those things from a phone. It must be a little easier from a tablet.
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For a different perspective from the connotations of 'exploiting' and 'habit': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogen
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I am trying to find a way to reconcile two realities. On one hand, whenever I encounter books or articles on language legalese (particularly in C and C++), it is always immediately apparent that I'm somewhat out of my depth, despite pr
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"Maybe it's speed, though I really wonder about that, given our blistering fast processors and endless banks of RAM" I've seen this thought hundreds of times over the last decade, and I don't think it's a ver

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