epsylon

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   by epsylon 13y ago

   > I've seen a lot of very proud Europeans claiming the US has had no stake in defending them And I see a lot of proud Americans who state that they save the world out of pure altruism. I have breaking news for you: the "extraordinaril
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   by epsylon 13y ago

   It's quite more prevalent in women than in men, and it's quite rare for young people. Mine has been detected at age 24 (I'm a male) after a palpation by the company works doctor who found the thyroid slighlty abnormal. Confirmed by echograp
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   by epsylon 13y ago

   > European nations would not be able to afford universal healthcare and all the welfare if they had to pay for their security. US bases in Europe are great financial aid. Bullshit. Not only are there examples of military independent co
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   by epsylon 13y ago

   I can't believe no one here talked about Feynman. He is the quintessential example of the great teacher. http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/feynman.html
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   by epsylon 13y ago

   The performance of Firefox on Reddit is absolutely terrible. It regularly freezes my machine, at which point I do a global FF exit and restart / restore session so that it puts some tabs on "lazy load" state.
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   by epsylon 13y ago

   C++ is the 1980's Lancer with the same frame and same engine and the rest kept up to date with the latest performance tech. Fortunately for it, all the high performance cars which have been built since then can't reuse the same parts which
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   by epsylon 13y ago

   https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG :)
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   by epsylon 13y ago

   I'd say that you chose a poor example as Logitech's customer service (in Europe at least) is second to none. They will send you replacements for free very easily , while asking only minimal proofs (usually your serial number is enough). I
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   by epsylon 13y ago

   Being an introvert is a vastly different thing from what OP described. Extrovert enjoy social interaction and need it as part of their "energy", while introverted people will see the same kind of interaction take a toll and thus need time a
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    The worse for me is when I correctly fill in the captcha, but incorrectly filled in another field, and I have to solve that damned captcha again. I can't think of a good reason why you would not remember that the user did correctly solve
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    Yep, I've always found ridiculous when pirates claim they don't have the financial means to buy a $3 game to play on their $600 smartphone with a $30 per month data plan.
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    It reminds me of the way From Software dealt with people who tried playing Dark Souls before official release: the player received in-game invasions of overpowered black phantoms who he has absolutely no chance whatsoever of beating.
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    Yep that's in the first episode. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBA8DC67D52968201
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    Any industry in which testing is done by independant laboratories is better by nature.
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    You should put things back into context, because I don't think the parent poster targeted you specifically; most obese people aren't obese because of chronic illnesses but because of lifestyle choices (most of the time, having been fed and
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    > Scheme, Common Lisp and Clojure emphasize very different concepts Can you elaborate on that?
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    So Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are idiots or ideologues? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1259184...
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    That's because the primary focus of Visual Studio is C++: http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/05/vs_c99_support/
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    And Jeff Bezos :)
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    Upvoted for finally the only true explanation about why vinyls, despite being the inferior medium for audio signal storage, can still sound better than CD's or other digital sources.
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    I'm waiting anxiously for the "What is your quest?" poll.
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    Thanks a lot for mentioning this, it's awesome !
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    Knowing your BATNA (if I search long enough I can find another person who is willing to sell me the same car for cheaper) can make the difference. That's perhaps the most useful lesson I learned from GTY. In this kind of "competitive deals"
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    Jimmy "I'm not the greatest guitar player" Hendrix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gwLQAuHJv8
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    I'm pretty sure they are used to deliver power as well.
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    > Lisp -> Closure There is no single "Lisp", but many dialects including Common Lisp, Scheme (and its bazillion variants), Clojure, Emacs Lisp, Arc... > Java -> Scala Except for the fact that Scala is based on the JVM and pa
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    You can compile C code without a libc.
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    Yep, the fifth largest economy in the world and the second in Europe. Definitely not working... Oh wait
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    > you just have to assemble them into a complete solution. Many (if not most) of the security vulnerabilites of the past years come from perfectly safe components assembled in an unsafe way. Crypto-engineering is hard .
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    by epsylon 14y ago

    > Valve can pull this off, they are a game company, always building the next great game Ironically enough, Valve hasn't created a game for years. These days they are mosty a platform (Steam) company rather than a game studio.