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by benihana 12y ago
This is so infantilizing. I'm your employee. I'm not your child. We have an agreement - I do work for you, you pay me. I like you, otherwise I wouldn't work for you. But I'm not your family member. I don't want to s
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by benihana 12y ago
The last sentence of your comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZjOk2G80GM#t=77
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by benihana 12y ago
Facebook sees the writing on the wall. They replaced Myspace. Myspace (sorta) replaced Friendster. They know it's only a matter of time before someone else replaces them. They are trying as hard as they can to make sure it's an ap
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by benihana 12y ago
>It is admirable, but their work towards a solution will be fruitless. Any Microsoft employees listening: Go ahead and pack it up. Someone on the internet has told you all you need to hear. It's fruitless. Literally nothing you do w
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by benihana 12y ago
I'm working through Unity tutorials now and this is what I did, and I'd agree. Being a web developer and knowing JavaScript is awesome for this - HTML5 games are really fun and easy. I started with a Galaga clone[1] that taught me
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by benihana 12y ago
>As compared to...who, exactly? Literally every other company selling you hardware? >by definition they're holding onto as much of your data as any other company in those businesses. Retaining information and letting others see t
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by benihana 12y ago
I hate the term poached here. It implies that PayPal owns the person, and that Facebook sneakily took their property. Why do we say "Facebook Poached David Marcus" and not "David Marcus chooses to work at Facebook."?
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by benihana 12y ago
This reminds me of Doc Daneeka from Catch-22: For those who haven't read it, he's a flight surgeon who hates flying, but since he's attached to a bomber squadron, he's required to get a certain amount of flight time a mo
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by benihana 12y ago
Correct! And pedantic, pointless, condescending comments that add nothing to the discussion other than serving to make OP seem insightful are one of the common things around!
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by benihana 12y ago
I got a similar vibe. It talks about how facebook can be bad for some people, but then basically calls out everyone for being unhealthy. I react to this the same way I react to someone who sees a small part of my life (like me grabbing a
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by benihana 12y ago
I think that disclaimer was added after the fact. I don't remember it being there when I read this story the first time. Either way, I didn't see it at all when I read the article. I'm willing to admit that I'm just not
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by benihana 12y ago
> I’ve gone through a postgraduate qualification and nine years of experience to get to where I am, so don’t presume to know more than me about how to teach children - and if you do, expect that I will be justifiably miffed. This is the
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by benihana 12y ago
This makes me sad. It's petty vindictiveness and it doesn't help our industry. Rather than accepting that recruiters have wasted his time, and moving on, the author decides to waste even more time to get back at them. And for what
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by benihana 12y ago
"Have you any idea how lucky you are that we got to you before you got on that plane?" The difference in the way he was treated by police and the justice system (and how different it is than what we've come to expect in Ame
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by benihana 12y ago
Well said. The funny thing is, switching from svn to git was what it felt like to switch from from other SCMs to svn. I think git is going to prove to be one of those pieces of software that is just transcendent.
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by benihana 12y ago
I grew up with this show, I always looked forward to watching it in school, and I'd watch it at home as well. I loved the adventures and special effects, and just adored watching it. Having said that, this show did absolutely nothing f
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by benihana 12y ago
I'm with you. I felt less like I was playing a game that interacted with me and more like I was forced to watch the cool things that animators thought of when they had access to an input device. And then every once in a while they reme
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by benihana 12y ago
> But whatever the overall argument, TDD certainly changes how things are designed I think you missed this point completely, and you made it hard to ever get it when you compared TDD to a highly contentious issue in guns - rather than t
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by benihana 12y ago
>I've brought this up before, but “literature” carries the connotation of “scientific literature” to you . That connotation didn't even cross my mind. Regardless. Are you going to wait until there is a peer-reviewed scientific
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by benihana 12y ago
I totally agree. Look at his bit about parrots (part of a larger bit about pets): >DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don&#
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by benihana 12y ago
Is there a corollary to this quote? Something about how you have a problem that can be solved optimally with a drill and adequately with a hammer, so you decide to choose the hammer because you're already pretty decent with one and you
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by benihana 12y ago
> The sun only has 2.4 billion years left According to this[1], you're off by a few billions years. The sun has enough hydrogen to burn for another 5 and a half billion years. After that, it has enough helium to burn for another bi
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by benihana 12y ago
Arrays and hashmaps are what I've used for about 95% of all the problems I've faced in my 8 year web development career
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by benihana 12y ago
I was expecting a damning email showing that Google has been in bed with NSA and lying to us, but really this doesn't seem out of the ordinary. Government agencies are huge and I'm sure they lean on private business for help and a
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by benihana 12y ago
I think I remember reading Aesop say Del influenced him a great deal. If you like Aesop, check out El-P, Cannibal Ox, Illogic, and basically anyone who was associated with Def-Jux.
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by benihana 12y ago
I didn't mean to imply that being on the far left or being made up meant 'worse' in any way. Quite the opposite in fact - I think that if someone can create a word or phrase that becomes normal in everyday usages, it's a
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by benihana 12y ago
I'd really like to see this broken down by established vocabulary and made up vocabulary. I think that would really start to show who were the best lyricists on both ends. Rappers with a lot of made up words might be on the far left, a
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by benihana 12y ago
Yep! The Kentucky Derby piece as well as the Strange Rumblings essay are both in The Great Shark Hunt as well as some really interesting political commentary and hilarious stories about the NFL.
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by benihana 12y ago
If you enjoyed this, another fantastic article by HST is Strange Rumblings in Aztlan[1] about the murder of Ruben Salazar and the Chicano movement against the Vietnam war. [1] http://s3.amazonaws.com/eob_texts-production&#x2F
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by benihana 12y ago
I'm in America and I've never had anything but incredibly good customer support from Apple. Interesting.

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