iamtherockstar

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by iamtherockstar 13y ago
I eat paleo as best as I can, but the reasoning for it less about "paleo" and more about thinking about what I'm putting in my body. If you put a package of Twinkies (or comparable snack still being made) on my desk at 9 AM, they'd be gone
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Ouya and "Early adopters as beta tester"(plus.google.com)
1 points by iamtherockstar 13y ago|0 comments
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by iamtherockstar 13y ago
I can't believe there's not a pledge level like this: "If you pledge $5, we'll send you a GI Joe to put inside your B" Kickstart all the functioning GI Joe vehicles of my childhood.
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by iamtherockstar 13y ago
> I'm sorry, but Are you? Are you really sorry?
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by iamtherockstar 13y ago
I read the headline and thought that HR was literally watching Twitter while the internel jumbles were going on, and any employees tweeting about it were being fired. I thought "how innovative and terrible of HR." Turns out, the headline w
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by iamtherockstar 13y ago
Yeah, that was my question as well. I've often thought about plugins that I would want to write for Xcode, but there seems to be no documentation.
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
I spent two years as an LDS missionary in the Caribbean islands. Influence by slavery and indentured servitude, the most common races down there were African and Indian descent. White people were a rarity (so much so that it was common to
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
IGDA asks for opinions, and that's great, but it's demonstrative of how hard social change can be when it's a democracy: You wait for the majority of voting members to speak up about it before you really see it as a problem to address. Soci
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
If you're not familiar with her, Brenda wrote a book called "Sex in Games." She worked on a game about the Playboy Mansion. She's no prude, and she's very anti-censorship. Combine that with the actions in the article, and I think there's a
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
Android gained popularity because it was tied to Calendar and Gmail. These two services were pretty pervasive already, and so became the default in Android. When that happened, those two services became crucial to Android. The fear that Co
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
Huh? Since when do you always use 'ls' after 'cd' - I can think of many times that I don't need to do this, and it would annoy me if every time I called 'cd' it then printed out the directory listing as well. The popular Unix mantra is "do
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
I keep seeing people talking about this, but from my limited experience (< 1yr) working in the public sector, government work is not very hacker friendly. Hacker culture tends to value experience over traditional schooling, which doesn'
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
I loved the screen of the OLPC XO laptop. I know we're really pushing for high resolution/Retina displays, but when it comes to laptop and mobile screens, usability in portable/mobile situations is desirable.
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
At the time, I was young developer being asked to interview a somebody. If I'm honest, I was a little prideful that I was interviewing him, and not one of the other, more mature developers, so I took him through the process. I think, know
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
I agree with this, fully and unequivocally. I have to wonder if "there are ladies present" might also be construed as sexist. Maybe we just shouldn't use toilet humor in situations where we're not absolutely sure everyone will find it appro
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
I saw a tweet yesterday that said "We test life in production". I'm ashamed of companies that don't let their employees make little mistakes. If I made a mistake and the internet decided to DDoS my employer's site, I'd hope my employer thou
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
I actually just ran into this. I had a client forget to add a www CNAME record, so they thought the site was "hacked" when they added the www to their domain and got this parked site. Luckily, it's not a cached record, so when we fixed it
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
I'm curious how they plan to monetize this. It's hard for me to invest too much into the "open web" for browser games when there's not a very clear way of monetizing browser games that doesn't mean "ads". I feel like ads would affect the us
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Ubuntu at the heart of Obama for America success(insights.ubuntu.com)
3 points by iamtherockstar 14y ago|0 comments
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
> it's obvious that HN cannot have calm discussions about a variety of hot-button topics I have a need for my personal conversations with people to be enriching and helpful, and so this makes me super sad. It's a large reason why I don'
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
On the contrary, due it being the same base, it will actually make the apps faster and more memory performant on the desktop, because it has to run in a constrained environment on mobile. I think it'll make for a more performant desktop OS.
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
And Mark with his millions out of pocket to invest in a company he believes in. If they were votes, he wins. Do the capitalist thing and stop giving them money if you hate it ohsomuch.
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
After working remotely for more than 5 years, I can say with confidence that one of the best things you can do is not wear pants with an elastic waistband more than once a week (i.e. stop working in your pajamas).
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Bazaar-NG: 7 years of hacking on a distributed version control system(stationary-traveller.eu)
2 points by iamtherockstar 14y ago|0 comments
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
FPGA development has been one of those things that I've really wanted to get into, but each time, I spend days trying to get a toolchain set up (using the free Xilinx tools on Linux and/or Windows), and by then I'm tired, and decide to
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
Someone should give your teacher a medal.
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
I work on the Ubuntu One iOS team. Our apps have this same issue. I think it really affects user experience, because you can't allow sign up for premium features, but you also can't even mention those premium features (say, with a link
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
Related: There's apparently a similar thing happening with the triceratops/toroceratops. It's likely that the former is just an young version of the latter, not a different species. http://www.newser.com/story/97112/triceratops-never-exis
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
My sister home schools two kids, cooks three squares a day, and doesn't care if someone knows she googled for "bread pudding recipe." They have an old, aging computer, and when I gave an Ubuntu CD to her husband, they were so incredibly
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by iamtherockstar 14y ago
I have my feed open a lot, but not because I'm reading it. It's because I opened the tab, clicked "Start a Hangout", and that Hangout window opened in a new window. The feed window is now hidden by the Hangout window, so the analytics migh

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