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by fergie 4y ago
I generally support the initiative, but they seem to have omitted the most important category: class bias.
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by fergie 4y ago
Its strange that Unreal Tournament was kind of abandoned by Epic. It was such a great game in every way- so far ahead of its time. Even today Unreal Engine is probably the best off the shelf 3D game engine available. I am surprised that the
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Lessons from my dying therapist: care less, have fun – and accept the inevitable(theguardian.com)
10 points by fergie 4y ago|1 comments
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by fergie 4y ago
Yes, that is also my impression. Interesting to note that your entirely reasonable comment is currently downvoted to grey.
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by fergie 4y ago
I'm not sure if I totally believe that this article was organically promoted to the front page of HN.
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by fergie 4y ago
Big fan of the Spectator and the Guardian Weekly: They the best exponents of right and left wing thinking from the UK respectively. For best results read both.
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by fergie 4y ago
> 800 year old institution > The work is a bit monotonous and the office politics terrible > but when we take a peek outside, it doesn't look better than what we have. So we'll probably stay for the next 20 years. Hello f
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by fergie 4y ago
Yes, but according to the Friendship Paradox _your_ sexual partners are likely to have had more sexual partners than you.
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by fergie 4y ago
3 observations: 1) Granny Smith apples are quite nice. 2) Generally you should be suspicious of "good" fruits as these are the varieties that have been the most intensively bred/engineered and grown. 3) This list is so incomp
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by fergie 4y ago
I mean you can just about tell when you know for sure that one is fake, but this is scary.
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by fergie 4y ago
I quite like it. It has a progressive feeling that reminds me of the Open University, and harks back to the idealistic expansion of British higher education in the ‘60s.
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by fergie 4y ago
"Haters gonna hate" You get used to this as soon as you get any sort of success as a creator. It says more about them that it does about you. If you are getting hate, you know you are doing something right.
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by fergie 4y ago
I recently found out how cheap and easy it is to get hold of second hand books. Am currently working my way through the Scottish classics on actual dead tree. There are a few hidden treasures. Its very calming.
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by fergie 4y ago
> What database technology or approach would you go for? I feel like people consistently underestimate the difficulty of creating a data backend for a social network. It has to be readable and writable in real time, yet still performant
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by fergie 4y ago
Damn interesting used to be such a great website- this article was from its golden age.
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by fergie 4y ago
Surely config goes in $HOME and thats that? I dont see how specifying another directory makes life any easier.
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Who’s Backing Who(order-order.com)
1 points by fergie 4y ago|0 comments
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by fergie 4y ago
We weren't all here two days ago- please upvote anything that is new for you not only stuff that is new for the entire readership of HN.
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by fergie 4y ago
As others have said- its not too late. Do it, and do it soon. In 10 years time it probably _will_ be too late.
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by fergie 4y ago
After 10 years of typing perfectly on various iPhones, I suddenly started mistyping frequently a year or so(?) ago. I feel like its actually the phone and not me that has changed. Are there any Apple people here who can give a definitive an
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Companies are being forced to reveal what a job pays. It’s a start(vox.com)
4 points by fergie 4y ago|0 comments
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by fergie 4y ago
Big fan of second-hand book shopping in Scotland, and there has never been a better time to pick up cheap books. I recently discovered just how good charity shops can be- and all the specialist second hand booksellers I frequent seem to be
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by fergie 4y ago
Lots of people here are saying "it won't work", and that _has_ been historically true. However, there does seem to be a gap in the market for ways in which to pay open source software developers. I currently have "3.6m p
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by fergie 4y ago
You are undeservedly downvoted. I think that there is a strong case for using frames as a templating strategy for static sites that are hosted on say S3 or Github.
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by fergie 4y ago
Right, but you cant run an XSL processor without an application server? Or could you?
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by fergie 4y ago
SSIs are actually still a thing, but they are webserver dependent- so if you are hosting your static pages on say S3 then they wont work.
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by fergie 4y ago
The big thing missing from vanilla HTML is templating. I dont fully understand why it has never been included in the HTML standard.
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by fergie 4y ago
What is the font? I keep on seeing it on academic papers.
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by fergie 4y ago
What is your primary spoken language? What language are your emails coming through in?
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by fergie 4y ago
I think "red flag". Also vaguely sexist?

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