chiffonade

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by chiffonade 18y ago
> Is it being intellectually lazy or socially malleable to enjoy the occasional piece of well-written, high-budget content? No, it's not. But the television infrastructure as we know it is designed not for people who enjoy it "occasion
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by chiffonade 18y ago
Oh, please, spare me your elitism. It was an especially good one.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
What most computer people don't get about TV is that there are millions upon millions of intellectual lazy and/or socially malleable people who would rather follow the tube. It's a demographic, and it's not going away.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
In Soviet Russia, loop flies plane.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> Is time an illusion? Yeah, probably, just like all human sensory input.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> I can tell you that that was certainly not my experience- I could speak basic German at 6 months So in other words, you learned German within 6 months.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
I have no idea why you're being downmodded, that description is hilariously cynical.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
Officiated by the ISO-9001 Referee.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
English is a Germanic language. It's actually Germanic, Greek, and Latin, but...
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by chiffonade 18y ago
I didn't know this was a joke until I read the comments. Call me jaded.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
Eh, I wouldn't romanticize it too much. Silicon Valley is just a bunch of strip malls, suburban homes and office parks.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
Why not use colorful language? It's not like the Flickr, Twitter, Rumblr, Tumblr, Dumbler, Fumblr thing we have going on in the web 2.0 world is any better.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> My big question: will the rest of the world continue to use USA's economy and currency as the global economic focal point and medium? -or will it abandon them for alternatives? Here's the crux of the matter: there are no alternatives.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> something-something" will follow whatever we end up calling this mess. The boom that follow this shitcan of an economy will favor the operationally frugal and those who know how to turn a dollar out of fifteen cents. No doubt some cl
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by chiffonade 18y ago
God damn, go out and have a drink son. You have the rest of your life to learn how to traverse a fucking graph.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
You sound exactly like someone who has been in college for 2 or 3 years and thinks he now knows all the answers to every problem. Wait until you try to get a job. Then the real fun begins.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> How easy it is to live there without knowing Spanish Impossible, because if you move somewhere foreign, you're going to learn the language unconsciously within 6 months. People who have only lived in the US don't know this. It almos
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by chiffonade 18y ago
Trust me, there's no shortage of entrepreneurialism in China. Insert something about sufficient sample size and selection bias here. Is there something hard wired in Americans' (specifically white Americans') brains that assume that anythi
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> I'm a little scared of China How can you say this when the Bush administration has just spent the past 8 years systematically dismantling your privacy rights and running a global kidnapping and torture network? Meanwhile, the US impri
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by chiffonade 18y ago
If you choose not to go to college do everyone a favor and don't have a chip on your shoulder about it and bring it up at every opportunity and talk shit about people who do. Nobody really cares that much.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> virtual Silicon Valley on the internet? Yeah, that's called the Internet.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
Educated Chinese Americans send their kids to private and very good (i.e. high property tax areas) public schools. Something nobody ever mentions is that there is a huge rich/poor divide in public education quality, it's not universally ter
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> We need somewhat higher resolution, color, and a nice interface for flitting around from place to place. Laptop works fine for this. A reader is for reading linearly.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
Their technicians once left 2 active network interfaces down for 45 minutes on one of our servers when upgrading something and didn't fix it until we called them. They're just overworked like most NOC guys.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> There is something about a physical book that just can't be replaced in my head just yet. The $100 you're shelling out every year for the new edition?
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by chiffonade 18y ago
Rackspace is on the very high end of the cost spectrum, and the service really isn't that great. But at least their servers are fast and real, if you/your organization doesn't care about the budget, they're probably as good a choice as any
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by chiffonade 18y ago
They better think of an interim solution, because databases with schemas are not going away for quite a while, even if they are eventually going to be replaced by giant single key hash tables like everyone is clamoring about these days.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> So glad I'm on cluster 4. So glad I lease real servers.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
We just transitioned a customer off of MT onto some cheap dedicated servers with Amazon S3 storage and not only did their hosting costs go down, the performance went up dramatically. In the business parlance of today, my stakeholder expecta
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by chiffonade 18y ago
He'd make a killing in LA selling NY water.

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