m_myers

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by m_myers 13y ago
Calvin & Hobbes and Pogo are two of my favorites also. But for sheer volume of jokes and puns packed into each strip, it's hard to top Get Fuzzy. Its basic premise is similar to Garfield (man living with cat and dog, both of whom c
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by m_myers 13y ago
Programmers.SE originally took "not constructive" questions, but that turned out to be a mess, so they had to refine their scope multiple times until a viable model appeared. Now their scope is more or less "whiteboard"
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by m_myers 13y ago
In multiparty systems, it is possible to have a single-issue party which is actually electable (see the Pirate Party in Sweden and Germany). But in the US, any party must have a completely defined platform which is acceptable to a majority
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by m_myers 13y ago
I thought a Poboy had fried food, not cold cuts.
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by m_myers 13y ago
Hmm, where have I heard that idea before? Oh, yes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest...
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by m_myers 14y ago
Disclaimer: the following text is written for non-American readers. If you are in fact an American and your statement was simply hyperbole, feel free to ignore. America isn't the wild west. We value our right to keep and bear arms, but no
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by m_myers 14y ago
I've never been able to get into TBS because of the issues he mentions at the start. Risk II [1] had a mode with simultaneous turns, which was fun for a bit but lost its luster because it was still basically Risk. What I've come to prefer i
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by m_myers 14y ago
Please don't make it a "my country vs. your country" thing. Some people have more aptitude for geography than others; it doesn't much matter where they are (as long as some schooling exists). I'm American and didn't have any trouble. And
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by m_myers 14y ago
Which is pretty justified, in my experience. There's a reason 13-year-olds are called "minors"; most of them are not yet mature enough to make good decisions on their own, so guidance is necessary. Of course there are exceptions to the rule
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by m_myers 14y ago
> Second, and related to the first -- this man did not act simply in reaction to his epiphany. He didn't simply swing the other way, as if to say "well now I'll be a jerk to everyone else to punish them." Instead, he continued to be ge
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by m_myers 14y ago
Did you create an account first? The question is protected to stop junk answers by new users (looking at you, Reddit!), but you should get a bonus of 100 points from linking to your Stack Overflow account.
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by m_myers 14y ago
Or, you know, just download the actual game instead of a clone. EA released the first three in the series (Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, and Tiberian Sun) for free several years ago. [will edit in link when I'm not on a corporate network]
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by m_myers 14y ago
Hanlon's Razor would suggest a bug in the hardware or software as the more likely explanation. Unfortunately, when politics are involved, people default to assuming malice far more than they perhaps should.
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by m_myers 14y ago
SO now has new questions every 20 seconds or so (not an exaggeration - an understatement if anything). A high percentage are still answered, but in absolute terms, the number of unanswered questions is obviously increasing.
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by m_myers 14y ago
From this tiny sample, it appears that the US is fairly average. Has anyone compiled a fuller list of per capita campaign costs by country? I could find none.
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by m_myers 14y ago
The "suspicious" case you mention is explicitly supported by the system; you can actually write the question and answer at the same time if you want. The normal content rules still apply, of course; if the question isn't about an actual pro
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by m_myers 14y ago
That's very similar to the editing mechanism in Stack Exchange sites; a low-rep user (or even an anonymous user) can suggest an edit which then must be approved by two high-rep users or by the original poster. Or any high-rep user can just
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by m_myers 14y ago
SportVU [1] already does some interesting work with NBA statistics based on computer vision (see [2]). I wouldn't be surprised to see similar technology in the NFL soon. [1]: http://www.sportvu.com/ [2]: http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/
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by m_myers 14y ago
This announcement dates from June, so I believe the footage is already available. So far I haven't heard anyone cite the All-22 footage for anything other than Grantland.com articles.
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by m_myers 14y ago
Like http://parenting.stackexchange.com ?
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by m_myers 14y ago
It would probably be relevant to mention that your conversations with Shog9 [1] [2] took place nearly three years ago, long before he was hired (he's a community coordinator, not a moderator). [1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/29024/135
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by m_myers 14y ago
You're talking more about one-time jobs; the article focuses on hiring people for long term employment or in places where a bad experience is only mildly annoying (restaurants, comedians). In both cases, the risk of a bad decision isn't as
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by m_myers 14y ago
An interesting variation on F2P is the one used by World Golf Tour [1], which I've been playing a bit recently. Instead of forcing users to pay real money to get better equipment, it has another means of earning credits: viewing advertiseme
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by m_myers 14y ago
Replacing moderators with bots would be a terrible idea and hopefully will never happen. Kevin Montrose clarified it in a comment: > To be clear, we’re not intending to have an algorithm automatically close posts. This is aimed at impr
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by m_myers 14y ago
There was one. It was Programmers (actually proposed as "Not Programming Related"). It was a mess. It took some straightening out and now it's a decent place. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/introducing-programmer...
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by m_myers 14y ago
Oddly, Wonderlic scores have never been proven to have any positive link with future on-field performance. In fact, one study[1] actually found a negative correlation at some positions. But as with many silly personnel evaluation techniqu
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by m_myers 14y ago
If you have 200 reputation on any site in the network, you should be granted a +100 bonus when you create an account on a new site. That's enough to let you vote and comment, but not quite enough to downvote.
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by m_myers 14y ago
For those who are interested, there's a new Stack Exchange site for Raspberry Pi developers and users: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com Some example questions: "How do I run the Raspberry Pi on Solar Power?" http://raspberrypi.stacke
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by m_myers 14y ago
Are we supposed to want this? As if it wasn't already hard enough to talk to people who are constantly whipping out their smartphones.
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by m_myers 14y ago
While this is correct, I think his complaint is about the privileges that high-reputation users get. Most moderation is done by ordinary users, not by elected moderators.

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