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by ghiotion 19y ago
Why make me enter my full name? I hate, hate, hate giving out my name on Web sites that don't need it. My internet identity is my username.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
True. Perhaps I should have put quotes around proves. Still, I remember what a big impact Zeno had on me as a young philosophy student.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Zeno's paradox, which proves that motion is an illusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes Those ancient Greeks knew their shit.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
I'm not ready to pull a chicken little. I came over here from reddit after seeing pg's post on trolls on the reddit front page. Some of the earliest comments and/or posts I saw were of the "oh man, we're screwed now" type. Obviously I ca
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by ghiotion 19y ago
If you like Clue, check out Mystery of the Abby from Days of Wonder. It's the deepest mystery board game I've ever seen.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
> or if Microsoft tried to turn it in to a Windows program, I would switch to Reddit. I like Digg more, but either of those scenarios would kill Digg for me. I find it hilarious that, even as bad as reddit's gotten, it could be anyone's
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by ghiotion 19y ago
He could use something like: http://toolator.com/ban/ Says it works with blogspot.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Man, I feel for you on this. Find his IP and block it. If that doesn't work, block his entire ISP with a message that they have this guy to thank for it. Finally, ignore him. If he makes a comment, delete it. Don't respond. From what
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Thank you. That was exactly what I was trying to get across, but you did it much more eloquently.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
This is a little embarrassing to admit, but after codepad and this post, I think I'm developing a man-crush on Steven Hazel.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
I don't get this article. The author compares 37signals to Southwest in their refusal to grant seating assignments, baggage transfer and in-flight meals. However, he makes a good argument that Southwest knew better than their customers wh
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by ghiotion 19y ago
No lisp? No arc? ;) Seriously, that's really cool. I want to break it now.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
django.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
> Have you ever seen THX 1138? I have. It's shocking to see Robert Duvall so young. I saw [Edit: not One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but To Kill a Mockingbird -- duh] recently and I couldn't believe he was Bo Bradley. Anyway... I've
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by ghiotion 19y ago
I think I understand where you're coming from and I agree with you that good software should be simple and easy to use/understand. And, I think HN is. At it's heart, it's simple software. My point was that the software doesn't stand in i
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by ghiotion 19y ago
> the system shouldn't require people poking around the blog to figure out what will work or not. I don't agree with that. The Internet has allowed way to many folk's inner Id (i.e. Id, Ego, Superego) to run a muck. They see some snip
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Oh man, if they could pull this off, that would be so great. It causes me physical pain to have to shell out $100's to VeriSign for certs.
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Monzy performs 'kill -9' at Stanford(graphics.stanford.edu)
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by ghiotion 19y ago
This falls safely into the Uncanny Valley: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=120425 http://www.androidscience.com/theuncannyvalley/proceedings20...
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Fair enough. However, I'm probably going to state what will be an unpopular opinion but one which is, I think, nevertheless true: spanking a child teaches a valuable lesson. I hardly ever do it, and I never do it as a punishment to be met
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Man, just go with your gut. I've got two kids, 6 and 1.5 (both boys) and they're night and day different. The best advice is to listen to you instincts. You know your kids better than any one else. If it doesn't feel right, it ain't rig
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Nope, I just reread it. It's as bad as I recall.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Man, based on the overall negative response this comment generated, perhaps I need to go back and reread the posting. I'm not above thinking that I'm never incorrect <-- that's a triple negative, for those that are counting.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
For fuck's sake. Shouldn't I have received this as a forward of a forward of a forward of a forward (do I need to go on?) with the subject line CARPE DIEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come on guys, aren't we better than this? Can't we transcend cl
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by ghiotion 19y ago
I measure out my life in elevator rides to the 9th floor of the crappy office I work in. That's why I started taking the stairs. Nevertheless, +1 for an T.S. Eliot reference.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Oh man, if I could give out 10 points for a T.S. Eliot reference, I would. Much love to you. The Four Quartets rivals Hamlet in its intricacy and attention to the human condition. And, it's about 1/10 the size! What a bargain!
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by ghiotion 19y ago
It's interesting there was so much antipathy towards the Vote-Up-If posts. I found them annoying, but I could live with them. Personally, what ruined reddit for me was Ron Paul, politics, and all the 911wasAnInsideJob folks. I could even
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Huh, is that true? I've found that if I can't sit and devote at least one hour uninterrupted, I'm totally useless at coding. Perhaps that's a restriction of the language I'm using (Java) and the overall suckiness of the apps I'm working o
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by ghiotion 19y ago
I've always meant to pick that up. Looks like google books has a decent online copy: http://books.google.com/books?id=aFcsnUEewLkC&dq=godel+e... I had a buddy of mine in highschool who used to bring that book with him every time we t
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by ghiotion 19y ago
See, this is why I love this place so much. I'd never heard of Church Numerals before. From the wikipedia entry: >Many students of mathematics are familiar with Gödel numbering members of a set; Church encoding is an equivalent operat

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