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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
Slightly off-topic, but I remember doing flow charts in college back in 2008. I hated it. Everyone hated it. It was boring, awkward, and confusing, especially for those of my classmates who had never written actual code before. The assignme
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
You're right. And I hope my comment didn't come across as harsh. I would have said the same thing to your face, but my tone and body language would have softened it quite a bit.
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This is not a tutorial, and the title is supposed to be intriguing, not to be taken literally. Seems like you're pointing out the obvious, at least to me.
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
I can do things at the same time that don't require my attention, like driving on a known route, using an exercise bike, cooking, etc. I can and will listen to music when I'm doing graphic design. I prefer silence when I'm doing logical thi
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
You start off by telling us that you've been to Singapore just a few days and go on claiming superior insight into the country's cultural and political landscape. Then you wind up with a trite statement that contains a bunch of vague terms,
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
I'm pretty sure I get to choose who NOT to sleep with, and so do women. All rape aside of course, ho ho ho. The tone of your comment depresses me. It sounds so bitter. And confused. As if you hadn't had sex or a healthy relationship in a ve
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
I think that's pretty obvious. I wish determination was as easily spotted as the intelligence treshold.
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
That there are two sides of a story doesn't mean that they're equally likely to be true. I'd wager my house for a donut that Tesla's data is closer to the truth than the vitriol spewed by a guy who's had nothing but bad things to say about
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
I think this is sound advice. I was a long time sufferer of depression, and cognitive behavioral therapy has changed my life in profound ways. The most important thing I learned from reading "Feeling Good" by David Burns is that it can wrea
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
Callousness doesn't need a target. It's callous because it displays a severe lack of empathy and understanding. As someone who has suffered from serious depression and suicidal thought (to the point where I physically harmed myself) I can s
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
Yes. That's the reason why I put converters first, engineers second. I shouldn't have said engineers though. What I really meant was the peripheral equipment they didn't have at hand to provide a proper transfer to the digital domain. Steve
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
CDs sounded cold because converters were bad and engineers didn't have much experience mastering for it, not because they sounded too perfect. Early CDs still sound bad, and I would take the respective vinyl over the CD any day still. Moder
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
Wow. Really? Wow. No. It doesn't make the Chinese factory look good. [edit: removed because it sounded too mean to me] I suggest watching some documentaries about Asian nomads or other indigenous peoples. They live a primitive life, sure. B
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
The article claims it was a catastrophe in many ways, not in all of them. I'm glad I was born into my time, in a rich country. And why shouldn't I? I live like a king and don't have to put any real effort into anything to maintain my status
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
I guess putting years of your life into a project that could easily fail financially is very discomforting. It's understandable when they seem a bit thin-skinned. But Phil Fish – the guy behind FEZ – made me feel really uneasy. He reminded
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
I'm going to start printing out stuff and actually glue it to the wall behind my monitor. Should look awesome after a year or so. Thanks for the idea.
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
I laughed, although I might have seen it before. Reminded me of the Weekend Web series on Something Awful, so I went there and watched a few. They're funny, but almost too crass for my taste (so I won't post a link here). I guess I'm gettin
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
Those are really funny. There should be a website aggregating stuff like this. It would cheer me up. And yes, if you're doing any kind of work that you pour your personality into, you need to develop a rock-steady sense of self-esteem, or i
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
When I got my first smartphone (not that long ago) in my naïvety I installed some random free game from the Google Play store to see how obtaining software works. I don't remember which game it was, but I remember being stalled a couple min
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
That's an informative posting. But does it hurt to get about half the landmines by cheap means and do the rest with more thorough methods? That's not a rhetorical question. I'm genuinely interested.
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
No, logic is not subordinate to anything. That's you putting numbers on stuff again. I think you try to draw the term "fuzzy" into a negative light here because you have trouble dealing with ambivalence. Then you go absurd and use things li
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
That's some disturbing shit you've written there. You're disclaimer makes it even worse. I don't know what would be a constructive thing to say, except maybe that being a decent human being is based on believe and conviction, not logic. You
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
I'm a big proponent of working (i.e. laboring) as little as you possibly can in order to leave as much room as possible for convivial activities and personal growth. But I think it is disingenuous in this case to paint Molyneux as a slave d
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
Good for you.
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I'm feeling kinda harsh tonight. Guess an apology is in order. Sorry.
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Because he's 14 and super stoked about accomplishing something that many people twice his age couldn't do, so he's showing off a bit. Sometimes I'm baffled by how hard it is for seemingly intelligent people to grasp very simple human behavi
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
I agree. It devalues the article because it becomes part of an agenda instead of standing on its own.
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
Fair enough. The way he embedded the suggestion seemed contrived and inorganic to me. If some one puts a link to their Twitter account beneath a post, I know what to do if I want to follow them because of their output. If I have confidence
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by michaelgrafl 14y ago
I don't like being manipulated. Every time I see a "You should follow me on Twitter" kinda thing I make it a point to not follow the author, or maybe even unfollow them. Holding your readership in higher regards than a meaningless metric ca