colonel_panic

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by colonel_panic 15y ago
"Warning: Life is addictive but unremunerative." That's how I feel about lowercase life so far.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
I have to wonder how much benefit you're really getting from that coupon program if everybody is getting them. At grocery stores you basically have to use a club card to get the same prices you could have gotten if the store didn't have a c
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
No mention of an OpenGL update. Still waiting out this stone age here...
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
A lot of introverts do care what others think and tell themselves they don't care in order rationalize their social failures and unwillingness to expose their vulnerabilities. Some might be able to fake it 'til they make it, but all too man
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
The fact that the previous article created a stir is precisely why the WSJ published this one.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
It's always seemed to me that "hacker" is the only term that geeks can get defensive about without the anti-prescriptivist police coming in to ruin the party.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
I've heard of transcranial magnetic stimulation, but not direct current stimulation. Can anyone give us a rundown of the difference in results?
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
It thinks I'm a 65+-year-old male into extreme sports and uh... anatomy?
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
He's there to make Bill sound more authentic by comparison.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
This leaves out the fact that there are people whose only real choice is between taking a bus and not going anywhere. And if you're studying at Cambridge University, the Computer Laboratory is waaaaay the hell out of town.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
But let's face it, the reason we're having our attention drawn to this right now is that we've got a president running for reelection, so it gives us exactly what we want to know.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
The thing about Colemak is that if you ever have to use somebody else's computer for a moment, you can be absolutely certain they don't have it installed. Dvorak, I think, strikes the most acceptable balance between efficiency and widesprea
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
"Since programming isn't primarily normal English language text, Dvorak really doesn't help" Here's a late Christmas present: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/