jcromartie

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by jcromartie 12y ago
The closest you can get to a simple middleman-free market is eBay, sadly.
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by jcromartie 12y ago
When you can afford it, that depreciation is the price of getting exactly what you want, with a warranty, and being able to know that it has always been maintained and driven according to your preferences. All that said, I'm probably n
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by jcromartie 12y ago
This is precisely my experience. It might have a slightly odd API, but React is an extremely sharp tool to have in your toolbox.
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by jcromartie 12y ago
A note in the title would help people know that this is a reveal.js presentation, and you need to hit space/arrow/pagedown to continue.
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by jcromartie 12y ago
You will just have to take the FBI at their word that it's for your own good, then. It's not clear from that Wired article that they stopped anybody who actually abused children. What they have obviously accomplished, however, is
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by jcromartie 12y ago
This is good news?
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by jcromartie 12y ago
I just started reading Seneca. Also reading some Zen stuff too. I don't think it's about voluntary discomfort, but just non-attachment to the comfort. You can go out in the cold and it's not good or bad, just cold. If it&#x27
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by jcromartie 12y ago
Year-round warmth is a modern luxury for people outside the tropics. Plenty of people live in year-round warmth and are lucky to ever feel cool, let alone cold.
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by jcromartie 12y ago
Backbone may not be the most popular, but you will learn a lot of transferable skills by using it.
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by jcromartie 12y ago
I just found a completely new, unused (things are still in plastic baggies) Capsela 400 box at the thrift store. This is one seriously great toy. I don't know whether to let my daughter play with it or sell it on eBay...
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We didn't do this to high-value Nazi POWs.
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Entropy will increase... Everything will become increasingly decentralized and democratized thanks to the miniaturization and increasing efficiency of technology. It's all but inevitable. The only thing that can stop it is politics.
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This is an example of the phenomenon that once something is invented by people, it virtually never disappears completely.
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Coprolalia: Latin for "poop talk"
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by jcromartie 12y ago
What the hell is BrowserScript?
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This is not as spooky as what I was expecting. Maybe if all of the quasar axes pointed at us ...
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by jcromartie 12y ago
It's identity politics. People want something to make them feel special. With the decline of actual strife (sectarian, racial, gender) in society, people need to feel like they are oppressed by something. Gluten and the food industry c
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It's true: http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-f...
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At the same time, some companies that formerly embraced remote employees have decided that it's better to have them under one roof. Recent notable examples: Yahoo and Reddit have told all of their remote employees to relocate or find a
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They want everybody to volunteer to install an app that captures images while the phone is asleep? That is a surveillance state's wet dream...
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Video can do that. In fact, video is doing this here.
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by jcromartie 12y ago
Why can't we just deal with video without hiding it behind "GIF"?
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by jcromartie 12y ago
So basically YAML?
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To torture a metaphor: it's root access to your own mind.
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He keeps using the word "pointer" ...
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That's an interesting idea. It's not often that people in law enforcement or military intelligence will come out publicly and say "if such-and-such adversary were to use this widely-available technology we'd be stymied!&
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by jcromartie 12y ago
Of course the anti-privacy crusaders lead with "think of the children!"
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I think he had good points about games like Thief and System Shock 2 (and Deus Ex, which wasn't mentioned). The games were more open-ended than any shooter today, but more limited than "sandbox" games. They gave you a constra
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by jcromartie 12y ago
> expecting a game … actual gamers What's a "real game" and what is an "actual gamer" anyway?
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by jcromartie 12y ago
I find that user scores are plagued by polarized fanboy mob action. Users will rally to flood places like Metacritic with bad reviews to punish developers that they don't like for personal (or herd) reasons. Virtually all of the negati

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