m_myers

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by m_myers 15y ago
Too Long; Didn't Read. It's a short way to say something is long (or that your attention span is short). When it is used at the start of a sentence, it is introducing a short summary (ostensibly accurate, but sometimes a joke). Someone on Q
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by m_myers 15y ago
I like email. But things I like can be even bigger distractions than things I dislike. Reading even the most interesting email is not the same as being productive (although it could possibly help productivity later -- maybe).
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How do you quote a passage that has used '[sic]' mistakenly?(english.stackexchange.com)
86 points by m_myers 15y ago|19 comments
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by m_myers 15y ago
You're obviously not accounting for obesity statistics. (I kid, I kid! Sort of.)
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by m_myers 15y ago
And the ultimate form of exercise is swimming. What?
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by m_myers 15y ago
This isn't going to work for the (largish?) segment of the population which reads comments before clicking through to the article.
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by m_myers 15y ago
It's probably important that this was a conscious organism. Although the shock factor would be higher if a tree had been jailed. And "stolen" is much too strong a word. Let's say "illicitly obtained". And it wasn't the "use", it was the
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by m_myers 15y ago
But your university gives you a flat fee for bandwidth, does it not? If so, then their incentive is to help you use less. A telco which offers per-GB rates would rather you use more .
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by m_myers 15y ago
http://xkcd.com/638/ "We've searched dozens of these floor tiles for several common types of pheremone trails. If there were intelligent life up there, we would have seen its messages by now."
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by m_myers 16y ago
Surely you're thinking of the interrobang‽ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang
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by m_myers 16y ago
Interesting; it turns out I make right around MV$100,000. Never realized that. But given two roughly equal-valued salaries, I think the higher absolute salary is still superior. Savings, for instance, don't scale with cost of living; saving
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by m_myers 16y ago
Yeah, but he could barely walk at the time. That's pretty raw material right there.
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by m_myers 16y ago
And now that both sides have made mutually contradictory and equally unsupported statements, I believe the first round is a draw. Galactus will have the honors in the second round. Proceed, gentlemen.
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by m_myers 16y ago
DO full time homeschooling; my parents tried it with me and the results were great. Two can play this game. :)
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by m_myers 16y ago
You tweeted it. That makes it yours according to the rules of my tribe.
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by m_myers 16y ago
Flagged. This site gets more like reddit every day...
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by m_myers 16y ago
Reverse April Fool!
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by m_myers 16y ago
Nope, not kidding, just ignorant. I'll delete my comment.
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by m_myers 16y ago
Chuck Moore written backwards is still Chuck Moore.
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by m_myers 16y ago
What's funny is when someone asks a question and you think "Oh, I'll bet I could answer this with a little googling." And the top result turns out to be the question you're trying to answer.
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by m_myers 16y ago
I wish.
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by m_myers 16y ago
Me: "Kazzafi" Google: Did you mean "Gaddafi"? Hmm, I think I have a potential solution...
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by m_myers 16y ago
I disabled HTML and you wouldn't believe how fast my browser is now.
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by m_myers 16y ago
gNewSense is actually the "GNU/Linux" distribution: http://www.gnewsense.org/ The laptop is the Lemote Yeeloong -- which I'll grant isn't much better to English ears.
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by m_myers 16y ago
Would you prefer "Mao", then? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328174
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by m_myers 16y ago
> At age 28 Genghis Khan had nothing and was barely starting to get control over his own small tribe. He eventually ruled over the largest land empire in human history. Now that's something to shoot for.
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by m_myers 16y ago
If you see answers on Stack Overflow that are simply noise, like "it won't get approved for the app store", please flag them. To some extent a "don't do it that way" answer is acceptable, but it's better if if also answers the question as
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by m_myers 16y ago
Fries in a milkshake? That sounds even worse than my friend's practice at Mexican restaurants of using the honey (intended for sopapillas) on his tortilla chips. Never could figure that one out.
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by m_myers 16y ago
Definitely a typo. They left out a "one" at the end.
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by m_myers 16y ago
Monk lied to me? Are you saying Monk lied to me?

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