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by breadbox 12y ago
That may be good advice for people who are considering whether or not to publish something. That's not a good attitude for a social networking service to take, nor should it let Twitter off the hook for being clear about the limitation
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“Protect my tweets” doesn't(elsewhere.org)
15 points by breadbox 12y ago|7 comments
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by breadbox 12y ago
Sigh, the classic justification for toxic behavior. "Oh, we need to have absolute freedom to verbally abuse anyone who disagrees with us, so that we can have a truly open dialogue."
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by breadbox 12y ago
Sometimes we turn to art (such as games) to forget about the problems we face in our reality. Sometimes we turn to art because we're desperate to see our reality reflected somewhere else, to be reassured that we're not alone.
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by breadbox 12y ago
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sT1c5m_...
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by breadbox 12y ago
It's self-fulfilling. I was a potential listener that was driven away.
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by breadbox 12y ago
Oh look, yet another music classification system that lists twelve different genres of music invented after the CD player but has one genre labelled "Classical" to cover several centuries of wildly varying musical styles.
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by breadbox 12y ago
Yep, that's pretty much how you have to do it. (If all you need is increment/decrement, though, you can actually do it pretty concisely with decimal-digit strings. Skipping the binary-to-decimal conversion greatly simplifies displ
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by breadbox 12y ago
Indeed. There are few wide-spread programming languages around any more that lack such things as, say, any form of arithmetic whatsoever.
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by breadbox 12y ago
I have to say, if the audiobook bundle just threw in a digital copy of the actual text -- a file that would be measured in kB instead of GB, I might add -- then I would be all over that. But audio- only ? I doubt I'll bother. Audiobook
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Humble Audiobook Bundle(humblebundle.com)
1 points by breadbox 12y ago|1 comments
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by breadbox 12y ago
There is no doubt in my mind that the "milkshake" one is the most sticky, and once it caught on people would definitely remember it, which is really what you need to make an icon become universal. Getting it to catch on in the fir
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by breadbox 12y ago
Getting better judges would spoil the point of this event, namely to drum up some free publicity for the organizers. Alan Turing would probably be depressed at having his name associated with all these silly events.
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by breadbox 12y ago
It's a safe bet that any rule regarding English grammar that includes the word "always" is either a) mistaken, or b) so obvious that you probably wouldn't be questioning it in the first place. Commas began life as indica
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by breadbox 12y ago
HQ9+ already fills that niche well enough.
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by breadbox 12y ago
I tend to think a lot of things are good things that can also be abused.
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by breadbox 12y ago
It wasn't really the graphics that I was referring to as much as being in a video game arcade. I wanted to see adventure games break out into the mainstream.
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by breadbox 12y ago
Oh jeez -- Thayer's Quest. That game was a complete money sink. A quarter only bought you time, and there was no such thing as a skip-ahead button, so just getting through the opening cutscene ate up most of your first quarter. I spent
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Cannabis Chemistry and Cooking(blog.seattletechnicalbooks.com)
1 points by breadbox 12y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 12y ago
I was at the perfect level of education to appreciate the information in GEB. I was a young programmer and math enthusiast with an average high-school education. My knowledge of Boolean logic went as far as De Morgan's law. I knew next
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by breadbox 12y ago
This is all I can think of: http://xkcd.com/385/
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by breadbox 12y ago
I would say that it changed my life. However, I read it when I was 18, at that point where any number of books have the ability to change your life.
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by breadbox 12y ago
And as others have noted, this doesn't make sense given that passwords are case-sensitive and are required to include uppercase characters. If there's a mechanism for specifying case on the phone, there can be a mechanism for spec
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by breadbox 12y ago
That is a textbook example of behaving like a boss from hell. The only proper response to that is "I'm not the one with the problem. If it's bugging you, then YOU can be Margaret." (Presumably followed up by a call to th
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by breadbox 12y ago
You're imagining who you are now being in that state, not who you would be after enough brain damage to leave you in a vegetative state. Imagine that you're not (for example) laying down long-term memories, or that your ability to
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by breadbox 12y ago
... and the gcc flag would need to be -m64. But I don't think it's this easy. If grub is in 32-bit mode when it hands you control, I would think you would need to switch to Long Mode before you could execute 64-bit code. So your e
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by breadbox 12y ago
Possibly. On the other hand, the comments on this post seem to mainly show interest in the medical technology. (Just imagine the top-voted comments on a similar post on Reddit...)
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by breadbox 13y ago
I try to avoid using Javascript whenever possible, though that has nothing to do with Brendan Eich. And just to clarify, my hypothetical was in response to one specific argument. I didn't say that I personally was joining those calling
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by breadbox 13y ago
If the owner of my neighborhood coffee shop had gone on record as supporting SOPA/PIPA/et al, I would be strongly inclined to stop going to that coffeeshop and giving them any of my money. I would also tell my friends about the si
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by breadbox 13y ago
You can see it as punishing an individual. But for others, it's more an issue of not supporting someone who is trying to make their lives miserable.

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