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by droob 13y ago
I have yet to see a Wikipedia article that's better written than a traditional encyclopedia entry. You can praise Wikipedia for the breadth of its knowledge, certainly, but the depth?
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by droob 13y ago
Also, in this example, the part they got wrong-ish is kinda beside the point. Most people will read it as "a person with a 1-hr commute has to earn (yadda yadda yadda) more money to be as satisfied with life…"
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by droob 13y ago
"Give us $499 to substantiate these inflammatory headlines," says new report
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by droob 13y ago
Borderline?
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by droob 13y ago
I'd peg them as sophomores -- they know enough of the names and stories to feel like authorities, but don't have any depth of understanding. The Eames example is particularly hilarious, since Charles and Ray are pretty famous for
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by droob 13y ago
Bonus tips: - Save space on your bookshelves by tearing all the pages out - Hire actors to be your friends and family - Wear a suit once and return it - Wine tastings help you forget
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by droob 13y ago
Awesome that he understood the detailed history and requirements of the whole format after spending a few weeks with it, huh?
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by droob 13y ago
See, dummy? Just make money yourself and everything's fine. FRYRHELTH.
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by droob 13y ago
That example of nesting is scary -- if your CSS requires that specific of a selector, something's gone horribly wrong. You're probably fine with #nav a {}.
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by droob 13y ago
Alan Turing's Best Bio Paragraphs That Can Be Turned Into Posts To Meet Your Quota
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by droob 13y ago
This is the nerd equivalent of "MAN UP, BRO." It's not how grownups deal with each other.
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by droob 14y ago
No no no no quit it no just stop no no no no no please just no
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by droob 14y ago
> People think the binary is "bloated", while in actuality it's mostly templates for photo books and such, that doesn't get loaded or impact performance at all if you don't use them. A huge hunk of it is in databases for the location fe
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by droob 14y ago
Yeah, "don't be a dick" is a good baseline for most things in life.
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by droob 14y ago
A little context helps -- check out the overuse of certain textures over on http://dribbble.com/ .
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by droob 14y ago
It's good to have a jaywalking law on the books if someone runs into traffic and causes and accident.
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by droob 14y ago
But "witnessed" is not the same as "arrested for" or "prosecuted for".
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by droob 14y ago
I find these edge cases extremely implausible, and counter to the way crimes are investigated and prosecuted. "Possessing cocaine is illegal but IMAGINE IF SOMEONE THREW A COCAINE BRICK AT YOU AND YOU CAUGHT IT!!!"
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by droob 14y ago
Yeah, but it's undocumented.
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by droob 14y ago
Any review that includes a spec comparison matrix loses a lot of its credibility, in my book.
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by droob 14y ago
Alternate app: be an adult.
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by droob 14y ago
I don't care about their payday if it means another useful tool disappears.
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by droob 14y ago
"A large part of a bio chunked into nine parts, arbitrarily"
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by droob 14y ago
Good companion to Paul Ford's Passivator: http://www.ftrain.com/ThePassivator.html
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by droob 14y ago
"LIVIN' THE GOOD LIFE, CHUMPS, sittin' here on this dirt floor at subsistence level. GOT IT MADE."
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by droob 14y ago
"Team GhostShell said the online leaks, which are part of its Project Hellfire campaign, were made in protest against banks" Hey there, lady trying to make a car payment! Hey, guy checking his balance before he buys groceries! Your bank's a
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by droob 14y ago
This loses markdown's biggest draw: a normal, readable document outside the interpreter.
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by droob 14y ago
Nobody needs to own ten color schemes.
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by droob 14y ago
https://twitter.com/hopelarson/status/232515218046062592 "The other day I was remembering being a teen and that certainty that the world would fall at my feet every time I drew something."
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by droob 14y ago
When you hold a bunch of information in your head, you benefit from your brain's penchant for making weird collisions and connections. Serendipity rules.

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