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by clentaminator 11y ago
Well, do you have hobbies? Interests? Things that you think about wanted to do when you're at work? Things you have to stop doing because gosh darnit you need to get up for work tomorrow even though you'd rather carry on until mor
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by clentaminator 11y ago
A lot of comments in this thread are voicing concerns over the marketed cost/performance benefits of AWS and the reliability of their services in the case of region failure e.g. the API services goes down. But are there benefits to usi
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I think part of the reason why it seems that we're making the wrong decisions most of the time is that the actual decision-making is less obvious in a lot of situations. While everybody knows that their mobile phone can be/is trac
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Another few from BBC Radio 4 that might be of interest: - The Life Scientific - The Infinite Monkey Cage - Letter from America - Moral Maze
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I think it just comes down to frequency, "necessity" of an activity, and context. Someone might like driving, but are they going to enjoy driving to and from a work environment every day of the week? Perhaps. They might enjoy it s
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Anything you "achieve" while doing something else seems highly unlikely to be "meaningful". Useful ingame? Perhaps. Meaningful? I doubt it.
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I don't think that ads as a way of finding things you may be interested in is necessarily bad, but it's certainly not the only way. If I want to find out what's current or upcoming in videogames I can go to Eurogamer, Polygon
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I never knew about that, so thanks. This is a significant argument against the traditional cable model, at least for me. Are there other genres (for want of a better term) where this applies?
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Aside from ads, freedom of choice with respect to just what you watch seem to be the other key motivator. With the capability of streaming and on-demand services, why would any consumer put up with having to choose any channel with a fixed
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Metal Gear?!
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I agree. The double dactyl verse form ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl ) has far greater potential for comedy value.
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Personally, I just want to know what love is.
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Isn't the downside of using any information that is personal to you that it massively reduces the scope of potential words and phrases that you would end up using? There might be >97 million songs, but how many songs does one indivi
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Top for me are sites that silently truncate part of the end of a new password without informing you, then leaving you logged in thinking that the registration process completed successfully.
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Exactly what I was thinking :)
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by clentaminator 11y ago
“Nobody knows what it means, but we do it anyway.” This one comment sums up pretty much the entirety of Internet "culture", see for example neknominate, the ice-bucket challenge, etc.
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Just a humorous image I have in my head of a bunch of programmers with kids running around trying to apply "best practices" to everything in their households. Spouses, kids, not even the pets are safe from an agile methodology and
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Not intending this to sound snarky, but only on HN could I expect to read the phrases "best practice" and "children" in the same sentence.
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Carbon emissions, consumption of limited resources and physical inactivity. Few things are worse for the planet and for yourself.
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Do you object to satire too? In the right context?
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Did Netflix only analyse shows with more than one season? I'm surprised Fargo wasn't included as it had me hooked from the first episode.
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by clentaminator 11y ago
Very interesting. A few questions: - How similar is this to PageRank? - Is it possible to implement this system anonymously? - What happens if I don't want to state publicly that I respect X, for fear of backlash or more simply that, w
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by clentaminator 11y ago
I don't understand your analogy. The Scrabble problem is people not knowing the words they use. The only Chess equivalent could be people not knowing or understanding the moves they make. It has nothing to do with someone moving a quee