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by frossie 16y ago
It wasn't wikihow by any chance?
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by frossie 16y ago
I'll never forget reading the EA spouse stuff for the first time. It's like the emblem for "Never, EVER, treat your staff like this".
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by frossie 16y ago
Yeah I agree there aren't many sandbox driving games per se, but many race games have open modes, or modes that can be played as open (eg. the Crash Team Racing time trial modes). The problem I have with GTA is not that the Kid! Is! Ruined!
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by frossie 16y ago
When you sit behind your kid and take care of him [...] then almost any game would be ok I agree about your larger point (there is a huge difference between supervised and unsupervised play), but no, almost any game would not be okay for
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by frossie 16y ago
Somebody needs to write a little app with his ladder program idea, if it hasn't been done already.
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by frossie 16y ago
I have come to the conclusion that RSS is definitely not the optimal way to interact with HN. If I have only a minute, I check the front page to see what the big stories are. If I have more than a minute, I check the "new page" and try to d
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USB True Random Number Generator(entropykey.co.uk)
58 points by frossie 16y ago|46 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
There aren't enough ways one can say how totally broken science funding is. Big upvote for the OP for actually trying to address some solutions. However what concerns me is that there isn't a single unifying voice; some people want to tweak
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by frossie 16y ago
Let's be clear. "Open source" actually means distributed with a license compatible with the open source movement. Unlicensed is not technically open source. (Semantics, I know, but it can make a difference - not knowing exactly what your ap
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by frossie 16y ago
OMG s/he adds butter and mayo to cheese-on-toast... my arteries just exploded :-)
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by frossie 16y ago
The Autopager Firefox add-on takes care of the pagination.
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by frossie 16y ago
So let's say Derek looks at this particular place's calendar and sees that in the recent past and in the near future, it has typically been booked for 20 of the 30 days of any given month. Well, 2/3 of $4332 is a great jump-off point for n
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by frossie 16y ago
Despite their gender bias, knitting and needlework are very "hackery" activities. Won't burn calories though :-)
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by frossie 16y ago
I’ve gone through this “diet” three times (see graphs). The first time I went from 83kg to 75.5kg over about 3 months. The second time, from 80kg to 71kg over 4 months. My latest iteration of this diet has me down from 75kg to 68.5kg in ab
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by frossie 16y ago
This is why I like to have "meeting days" - hopefully one, (or less optimally, two) days when people are subject to be asked to attend a meeting. Sure, that can mean that you may end up wiping a whole day to meetings, but at least it allows
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by frossie 16y ago
They are better than a bad chair, but there are definitely decent chairs for less. Also, somebody at my shop had an Aeron (after suffering a lot of ergonomic-induced damage - folks, never work through the pain) and the webbing actually "wor
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by frossie 16y ago
Are you arguing that anybody who is successful is by definition doing everything right? Maybe they are successful because they do more rights than wrongs. Or they were in the right place at the right time. Or because they lacked a better co
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by frossie 16y ago
From the time we are little kids, we live in a world of no. No dessert until you finish your vegetables. No, you didn’t clean your room. There’s a lot of big frustration around such a little word. Ironically, a lot of current parenting a
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by frossie 16y ago
you can criticize someone's work, behaviors, or ideas without leaving them feeling lousy and resentful about it Exactly. It's not a choice between being a jerk and handing out free passes. You can be very critical while also approaching t
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by frossie 16y ago
How can I forget? The spam level is through the roof - every company I have ever done business with is exhorting me to buy one of their wares "for Dad". I realise there is some good intent around many of these special "appreciation" days, b
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by frossie 16y ago
Good grief. Take up the offer of the HNers that have replied to you offering to front the issue for you.
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by frossie 16y ago
Is this company an employer, or a business partner, or is it just some random company that we are talking about?
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by frossie 16y ago
Yes. Each time someone clicks on your little up triangle, whether a comment or a submission, you get +1 karma. Users with a lot of karma also see "down" triangles and can downvote comments (though not submissions), so try and stay within th
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by frossie 16y ago
I am guessing the justification for the (admittedly editorialised) title lies in this extract: The central paradox of limerence is that someone who is actively limerent feels like they are experiencing the most unique, rapturous experience
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by frossie 16y ago
Since I made the original objectionable comment I would just like to say that shpxnvz explained my annoyance very well. The issue is not the technology, it is the way they chose to demonstrate it by riffing off the three little pigs but the
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by frossie 16y ago
Is there a technical term to describe typos that form legitimate words and therefore don't get flagged by a spelling checker?
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by frossie 16y ago
... and then the third little big actually put some mortar between his bricks...
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by frossie 16y ago
I'd never thought I'd do this on HN but I'm going to tempt the karma gods and do it anyway because you seriously need it: <hug>
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by frossie 16y ago
Well thank you for being so gracious about it :-) As I tend to suffer from the same problem, let me offer a bit of advice that I have encountered: the difference between coming across as knowledgeable and know-it-all is the motives you ascr
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by frossie 16y ago
A mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it. So true.

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