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by jff 13y ago
Yeah it's a cool as hell demo, I just think it would be really annoying if I were forced to use it to play games. You could even turn it into a minigame of trying to get the game working. Re-seat the cart. Wedge another on top. Try it with
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by jff 13y ago
Not like it's really that hard to solder SMD. I soldered 40-pin SMD all the time with nothing more than a fine-tip soldering iron, a syringe full of flux, and a magnifier or microscope.
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by jff 13y ago
That would be the same kind of skeuomorphism everyone decries in Apple's applications etc. Why should I virtually flip through a big stack of virtual cartridges, drag one into the slot, press it down with the mouse, and press the power butt
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by jff 13y ago
I think people who are into science and tech are getting more varied. We laugh about the idea of the football-obsessed "jock", but for some reason locking yourself in a room to play Final Fantasy all weekend was seen as admirably geeky. Mos
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by jff 13y ago
I guess my experience at such a small rural community was an outlier. Football was huge, our team was great, but we also had a good band program and quite a few of the band members were also football players--they'd march the half-time show
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by jff 13y ago
"Google's take on Android"? Don't they mean just "Android"? Because the shit that comes on a regular S4 is "Samsung's take on Android", no matter how Samsung would prefer to define things.
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by jff 13y ago
who then need to go -> mt gox -> money in order to get any damn use out of it.
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by jff 13y ago
Why, oh why, would anyone be running x86 hardware in this Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Thirteen? It's been what, 10 fucking years that we've had AMD64 now, you can get free 64-bit systems from the curbside, just toss that goddamn PIII
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by jff 13y ago
Do you write kernels? No? Then shut the fuck up with your GC FUD. Lisp somehow managed to get past that and become the golden child of HN; will it take 50 years and pg's blessing before people stop whining about this in every Go thread?
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by jff 13y ago
I'm pretty sure he was joking, in the same spirit as the comment one level up.
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by jff 13y ago
If you don't think Go is fun, you've never made a channel of channels of functions.
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by jff 13y ago
Yeah, I updated to reflect that. I was basing that statement on the replies I'd see on golang-nuts when the weekly generics thread came up.
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by jff 13y ago
It gets brought up continually on the mailing list. The Go authors have repeatedly stated that they will not be implementing generics. They don't seem to miss them, I don't miss them, and indeed most people who write much Go don't seem to m
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by jff 13y ago
Immigration is not criminalized; illegal immigration is. Is current immigration law perfect? Certainly not, but when someone violates a bad law, he is still in violation of the law. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immig
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by jff 13y ago
> undocumented immigrants may be in violation of the law, but they are not criminals Then what, precisely, is the definition of a "criminal" if not someone who violates the law?
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by jff 13y ago
I'd say the second half is probably false. I wouldn't doubt that somebody managed to find a weird number where the owners were evasive, but this sound a lot like "My uncle works at Nintendo and he told me there's a secret level if you can g
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by jff 13y ago
It's a bit more expensive, but I also like taking Zatarain's boxed black beans and rice ($2), getting it started, then tossing in some chunks of raw chicken as soon as it starts boiling. It's quick, you basically mix the ingredients togethe
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by jff 13y ago
"You bastard! Just you wait, in 8 hours I'll be done printing my zip-gun and THEN you'll be sorry!"
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by jff 13y ago
I think you have a bright future in the opinion pages!
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by jff 13y ago
The best reason to avoid carbohydrate-rich foods is exactly the reason they figure so heavily in the diets of many nations. Rice, bread, these things pack a ton of calories. This is not great for a computer programmer who sits on ass all da
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by jff 13y ago
The total time it takes to start the rice cooker, slice a chicken breast (it can even be frozen, just slice it small), and give the chicken a quick fry in my cast iron pan (which I then rinse out and wipe clean, 10 seconds cleanup) is proba
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by jff 13y ago
Oh hi, fellow Discworld fan.
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by jff 13y ago
And yet if your arsenic comes from a "natural source", you can feed it to animals and still call them organic.
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by jff 13y ago
The only good thing about Ubuntu version names is how easy they are to mock. I personally prefer "Onanistic Otter"
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by jff 13y ago
It chugs on the 360 too. It's just slow in general and has only gotten slower/less usable since I started using it 2 years ago.
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by jff 13y ago
Can we just fuck right off with the whining about Reader at this point?
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by jff 13y ago
I'm a member of the Order of the Engineer. Their oath is a pledge of responsibility in engineering, in the interest of the public good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer
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by jff 13y ago
This is even more infuriating. I think I saw it on Cracked.com before I realized their content is crap. You'd copy part of the article and it would automatically include something like "read more at cracked.com blah blah blah".
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by jff 13y ago
Have you ever met someone who didn't know cigarettes are addictive and dangerous? They print it all right there on the box, and at the bottom of every advertisement (are there even still cigarette ads? I never see them around), and you can'
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by jff 13y ago
"Please step into the 'free speech zone', your opinions are frightening the others"

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