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by jeffool 15y ago
Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone. It just wants to sit here quietly and think for a minute. Can you just do that, okay? It knows that you are so very special and so very numerous, but can you just le
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by jeffool 15y ago
Hate to be a bother, but as someone curious about getting into copywriting I wonder if you'd mind trading a few emails with me? No pressure, obviously. And I know you've got a lot going on right now, just, if you get the time.
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by jeffool 15y ago
The company I'd like to know about is Woot.com; they need to pay their writers by the truckload. I hit that site every day.
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by jeffool 15y ago
I wonder. If hourly labor was more closely monitored and people who were paid hourly were compensated for the tike they put in... What would that look like in the market? People sent home, new people hired, or at least people fairly paid fo
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by jeffool 15y ago
In addition to the accounting if Anonymous' role in things, this dabbles in a good accounting of the movement that was bubbling from many different places. Good article.
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by jeffool 15y ago
On a more serious note, I'd love to find out more about just how much weight they think this tech could support in the future. Those implications could be insane.
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by jeffool 15y ago
Too long.
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by jeffool 15y ago
I can absolutely understand what you're saying. I don't have so much of a problem with having the same name I chose in 1996, at the age of 16, though. (That's what I meant by "I'm not sure what that says about me.") And actually, my problem
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by jeffool 15y ago
He talks about that in the video (linked elsewhere in this thread, on YouTube.) It's used to keep out the more casual trolls. But on the site itself, you're not required to reveal your identity.
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by jeffool 15y ago
Only reading the 118 page thesis' abstract? Probably not. Kudos to her for writing it, and you linking it; I've saved it for the weekend. But my point wasn't that "it's an original thought that he's had and no one has ever considered it bef
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by jeffool 15y ago
... I've said too much.
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by jeffool 15y ago
Ahhh, thanks for the link! "It took me four hours to pick my AOL screenname." Same here. And I've been using it ever since. I'm not sure what, if anything, that says about me. But yeah, it's the name I've chosen to associate with.
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by jeffool 15y ago
As someone who, until recently, worked at a local news TV station, it was downright embarrassing the vocal minority of people who are actively spewing their hate. We even had a few people who regularly would write in to race-bait black repo
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by jeffool 15y ago
Actually they do disallow tripcodes on /soc/, which is hilarious. Doubly funny though, is how people there still use the name field, and rarely troll with it. The honor system largely works.
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by jeffool 15y ago
hah, and to think, I just sent an email to pnathan asking about editing his comment out of politeness to the other party. Weird. Apologies pnathan!
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by jeffool 15y ago
Er, they obviously didn't want his name associated with the post, though I agree it's a good one. Maybe replace it with "An HN user posted this, ..."? Just as a kindness to them?
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by jeffool 15y ago
We present ourselves differently in different contexts, and that's key to our creativity and self-expression. "It's not 'who you share with,' it's 'who you share as,'" Poole told us. "Identity is prismatic." moot just kinda bl
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by jeffool 15y ago
A refreshing about-face from where I thought he was going to go with it. I don't see people out protesting Apple or Google. I think people see those companies as offering opportunity and reward. In fact, I'll go this far: Reward = Work * Op
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by jeffool 15y ago
I was saddened when Carmack mentioned at QuakeCon that there were no plans to give QuakeLive.com the love it so obviously needs. Being so skill-based (as opposed to loot based) though, it really does seem to lack the appeal other games have
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by jeffool 15y ago
Games should be about story the same way a painting should be about story. Gameplay mechanics are the paints, and should be applied with intent for best results. Sure, some abstract painting is great. Tetris is as well. But that's not the n
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by jeffool 15y ago
Very! What I wouldn't give to be in a production company entering into this! I'm sure there will be some original problems, but by far and large the problems of production are solved ones. I bet it would be like being in a startup with a qu
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by jeffool 15y ago
I think many of you have severely misread this article. This isn't about Google creating content, this is about Google partnering with production companies who will provide the content. Now, don't be surprised if you see Google make more co
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by jeffool 15y ago
There are plenty of books and blogs and sites about this. Gamedev.net is probably as decent a place as any to start. But I sincerely ask you to reconsider the level of importance you're putting on doing everything yourself. Unless you're ok
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by jeffool 15y ago
All it takes is for some of them to be out of work and be willing to work for the offered amount. It's like Huffington Post firing everyone, getting people to write for free, and offering to let old writers interview for their old jobs at n
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by jeffool 15y ago
Surely we've got enough places having droughts that our control over nature will have us putting up massive water pipelines around the world. They'll need redundant desalination and cleansing plants. Anyone know what to do with all the mate
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by jeffool 15y ago
I'm a bit confused. TARP was a part of the bank bailout. And according to the Congressional Budget Office, the 700B investment will actually cost about 19B. That said, to claim that they were "too big to fail", bail them out, and then not a
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by jeffool 15y ago
Shivetya, I'm a little confused as to how, in the span of one post, you say being co-opted by Democrats dampens their legitimacy, and then say the Democrats' attempted co-option will fail, and badly.
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by jeffool 15y ago
They did, and it was quickly taken up by others. There was a great interview on it linked here earlier. Hold up. There: http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/10/07/Kalle-Lasn-Occupy-Wall-Str...
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by jeffool 15y ago
At the very least it can be said that they have one commonality, they feel their voice is unheard in society. On top of that the narrative seems to be that opportunity is not available to all, as it is those better off, regardless of how th
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by jeffool 15y ago
I have to wonder, how seriously was this considered? Still though, neat.

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