mdemare

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   by mdemare 10y ago

   Any of you fellow SMAC fans play Beyond Earth? Is it a spiritual successor?
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   by mdemare 10y ago

   Oh yeah, totally! Surprised there hasn't been, thought it was a hit (for an RTS, that is)
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   by mdemare 10y ago

   Oh, yeah, SMAC is the best civ ever. Man, that game had atmosphere. The faction leaders were great. And the technology! Will we have to research Alphabet for the sixth time in Civ6? Well, SMAC had us research Mind/Machine Interface, Fr
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   by mdemare 11y ago

   You could easily live to ninety. If that happens, you expect to be working until ninety?
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   by mdemare 11y ago

   "Low-income residents in wealthy areas, such as New York City and San Francisco, have life expectancies significantly longer than those in poorer regions." That's somewhat surprising. I wonder if the reverse holds - do rich p
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   by mdemare 11y ago

   But there are TONS of great games on iOS! Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, NS Hex, Battle of the Bulge, Agricola, Does Not Commute, This War Of Mine, Spider 2, Tiny Wings, Prune, etc. etc. I've bought 100-200 games, many of them very good.
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   by mdemare 11y ago

   Java SE includes a lot, but it does emphatically not include a reasonable amount of useful string methods. These are the javadocs for string: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/
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   by mdemare 11y ago

   Not any capital city - Brussels specifically. There was a lockdown of nearly a week after the Paris attacks. People were really bracing for an attack, in a way that London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna, etc. weren't.
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   by mdemare 11y ago

   I agree (about Python, not node.js). This was my introduction to Python. What a mess! Nothing quite worked, and the instructions were very incomplete. Install with or without sudo? System python, homebrew or something else? Python2 or pytho
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Just imagine what would have happened if the Fed would have used their current strategy in 1995, or 2005. The same as what's happening now? Sure, then blame the Fed. Something dramatically different? Then maybe there's something e
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    I collect ebooks instead - better yet, I collect Kindle Samples, which are free. I can sleep peacefully at night, knowing that all books that I want to read are on my Kindle, and when I actually want to read them, I start reading, and buy t
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Just "bookmark all tabs" (Chrome), and name them Tsundoko. Now they're just as accessible as before; you haven't lost them. But they no longer take up screen real estate or RAM.
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Really miss him. I even read his posts on subjects I didn't care about, like Borderlands or Emacs. Read them all the way through too, sometimes more than once.
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Being good at social skills also means being effective at manipulating other people. That doesn't sound so warm and fuzzy, but it sure is a valuable skill in management. I'm not sure if women have an edge over men there.
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    If Sanders is up against Cruz, and Trump is a 3rd party candidate, it's unclear who'd win.
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    > He has no chance of winning the general election even if he were nominated. Well, that depends who he is up against. Imagine Sanders vs. Cruz with Trump as a 3rd party candidate...
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Emm Err Deux
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Jeff compares the DK2 to Quake resolution (640x480), but I think that's quite misleading. Quake looks terrible, to modern eyes, but that has little to do with the resolution, and much more with the low polygon count, low quality textur
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    Turd Cookies(zedshaw.com)

    17 points by mdemare 11y ago|7 comments
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    I remember reading that Dutch windmills kill 30K birds per year. Dutch cats kill 30 million birds.
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    > Well, sometimes it can be wonderful to be in a place without any sign of civilization, except perhaps the road you're walking on. Agree, but in Holland, that ship has sailed.
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    > In psql you can just edit your last command in your $EDITOR. Cool! How?
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Profits _are_ earnings. Companies that make no profit and trade at 30x earnings, trade at 0.
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Good luck eating 3000kcal of lentils in one day.
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Does this work when using the fish shell, which is not bash compatible?
26. 236.▲
    by mdemare 11y ago

    Actually I assumed you were a time traveller.
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    You're probably not a native speaker of English, but of Latin. In Latin, `ignorare` can mean `not to know` in addition to its meaning of `not to pay attention to`, but in English, it only has the meaning of `not to pay attention to`. V
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Another part of this mystery is that Dutch people don't really consider a 32-hour work week to be "part-time". Especially since in most sectors the official full-time work week is only 36 hours. I think I'm the only one
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Suppose there are 10M programmers worldwide. Should there be 10M programming blogs?
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    by mdemare 11y ago

    Negative interest currently only applies to a few banks and governments. The goal of the central banks here is to get people to spend/invest their money instead of saving it.