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by clentaminator 10y ago
The real reason you procrastinate: You fundamentally don't want to be doing whatever task it is that you're avoiding, and while it might be the logically "correct" thing to do, that doesn't mean you want to do it. W
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by clentaminator 10y ago
I'd emphatically recommend Zen Bound and Zen Bound 2. More than most other mobile games with good touch controls, the Zen Bound games really took advantage of the tactile nature of current mobile devices and their touch interfaces. Asi
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by clentaminator 10y ago
Thanks for the link. A lot of the software engineer points in that article seem to be focused at the level of writing and maintaining code, but zooming out gives you the chance to look at the nature of a software development job.
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by clentaminator 10y ago
- The feeling that everything "new" is something that essentially already exists but that you now need to relearn, because it's different in the most subtle and annoying ways - The knowledge that there is often no physical, t
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by clentaminator 10y ago
Apples/oranges? Reddit caters to, essentially, everyone, by allowing users to create separate topic groups, while HN is a single collective forum for tech-y/science-y/thing-of-general-interest-y type news.
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by clentaminator 10y ago
Was just curious as I wasn't getting the same vibe from it myself. Plus, these guys - http://www.mediamolecule.com/jobs/working_here - already have the whole "molecule" thing covered :)
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by clentaminator 10y ago
What about this is offensive?
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Is there a difference between natural fruit juice and the kind of "fruit juice" with high levels of marketing behind it e.g. Tropicana?
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by clentaminator 11y ago
One of the problems with the word "diet" is the implicit connotations with fad-y short-term weight management strategies that never last. The same thing happens with the word "fast", but the implications are often religi
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Similarly, "legacy code" is a pejorative that means "Code that I didn't write and don't understand yet because I haven't had a chance to look at it for long enough, which I would really like to rewrite simply b
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I think it's funny that both of those sites seems to get represented by a more vocal and publicly visible subset of their users, and in 4chan's case by a slightly unfair-seeming set of associations between anyone using the term &q
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I'm assuming it's a reference to http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
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by clentaminator 11y ago
But who monitors the status of statuspage.io?
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by clentaminator 11y ago
If your site is so critical that it can't suffer any downtime then why is it not provisioned across multiple independent platforms?
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Ah yes, the monthly link to an article about intelligent/gifted children and the troubles their talents cause them, leading to all the self-proclaimed gifted HNers coming out of the woodwork declaiming "Me too! Me too! Finally som
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I'd like to think that this is the more "hip" side of the tech industry parodying itself, but I have an uncomfortable feeling that it's not.
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Which for me really highlights the point that, despite using the same title, the word doctor implies two completely different but equally important types of experience.
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by clentaminator 11y ago
This pretty much highlights my main beef with the current model of broadcast television, which is that it seems designed around leading to "that question", or "What's on?". If you don't already know what you&#x
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by clentaminator 11y ago
>Imagine if you paid for a book and there were appendices about characters or something extra, but written in a language you didn't know. If you don't already know about it, you may want to check out the book Finnegan's Wa
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Nothing rude meant by this (honestly), but if the experience of discovering the island, finding and completing the puzzles itself isn't motivating enough then perhaps it's just not the game for you? I understand your point about f
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I think the best take-home from the article is simply that your screen time is a problem only if it's distracting you from the things you'd rather be doing. If you're spending the majority of your Internet time researching a
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by clentaminator 11y ago
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." An
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I think the default sorting for Steam reviews is by how helpful a review was. Looking through some of the positive and negative reviews, it seems like the positive reviews are fairly short and don't say much about the game, while the n
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "creepy corner of reddit"?
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by clentaminator 11y ago
If you're interested in score layout, Steinberg are working on a new score layout application with (from what I gather) a lot of emphasis on layout flexibility, and there are a series of blog posts about some of the more interesting an
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Any chance this was how the Ferengi from Star Trek were names?
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by clentaminator 11y ago
When three more consumer technology giants exist (perhaps oriented towards the dreadful Internet of Things), can we start to call them The Hateful Eight?
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Every other commuter I see seems to solve this problem by reading while they're walking, head down, oblivious to their surroundings.
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Learning yet another new language for the sake of just knowing another language? Not particularly. There's an incredible amount of churn in the web languages/frameworks arena. A few years ago it seemed like every week another PHP
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I also like comparisons to the chances of other things happening as a way to get a feel for the odds, for example you're (apparently) more likely to be killed by a vending machine (1 in 112,000,000), become US president (1 in 10,000,00

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