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by jsrcout 6y ago
I didn't know YouTube even had ads for several years. Family and I all use adblock. Then I watched a video on someone else's computer and it was like, where did all these ads come from?
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by jsrcout 6y ago
I've always wondered what the chances were that two people with synesthesia would have similar subjective experiences. In general pitch corresponds with brightness of the colors. Bass would be a metallic, more roughly textured brown; m
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by jsrcout 6y ago
I have it, I "see" sounds and especially musical notes as flowing shapes with color and texture. Very strongly as a child, sadly faded quite a bit by now (in my 50s). It's definitely a blessing. It adds several additional dim
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Agreed, you want to do it the hard way first to get real insight into the problem. By the time you get around to actually automating it you'll be ready to. Am fortunate in my present position that the projects I get tend to be complex
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by jsrcout 6y ago
I like to think of the first virtue as Proactive Laziness. I'll work hard right now (on something that's fun, automating tasks!) to avoid doing a lot more hard work later that's boring (doing the same tedious task manually ov
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Anything with the word "Enterprise" in its name or description. Any "Enterprise" search system will be useless or unusable [0]. Any "Enterprise" file/document management system will be a nightmare in any p
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Wow, thanks for that link! Great stuff.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
I legit always thought it was because they were too cowardly too nominate Kyle's Mom Is A Bitch, which was the high point of the movie for me. Especially considering the all the dance numbers, costumes etc.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Commando - now that was a fantastic tool. Thanks for reminding me.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
And VMS' printed documentation was fantastic. You could practically learn C by reading the compiler doc. It really went above and beyond.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
I fondly remember Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the Macintosh, and software that followed it. Even if you'd never seen a given application before you could easily discover its features and how to operate it. Having said t
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Thank you! Macintosh MPW had a very similar feature back in the day, it rocked. Haven't seen it since. Added to my .emacs!
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Schwa - thanks for reminding me! Absolute genius.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Bianca's Smut Shack. What a great community; really felt like home. And of course, early Slashdot (hi Rob!).