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by nollidge 13y ago
That Guy alert: parallax refers to a 3D effect achieved by scrolling background sprites slower than those up close (think strafing in first-person shooters). Not sure if there's a word for what this is doing - scrollbar repurposing?
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by nollidge 13y ago
I auto-downvote comments that pay attention to poor proxies for quality discourse rather than just evaluating the quality of the discourse itself.
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by nollidge 13y ago
This is basically useless advice. If you're too different people will think it's weird, or just being different for different's sake, and they'll still pass you up. The real key is to be original . Except that's
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by nollidge 13y ago
Yeah I don't really get it either.
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by nollidge 13y ago
In my experience, the #1 problem by miles is that estimates are made far too early in the process, before enough detail is available to make an accurate judgment. And then those crappy estimates are never revisited once more information bec
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by nollidge 13y ago
If you're like me, I'd say stop having goals and just do stuff that seems cool. I'm not a very goal-motivated person, because it always seems far off and unattainable and like there's a lot of work I'd have to do to
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by nollidge 13y ago
Option 3 is that he was making the exact same point you are, and you failed to notice.
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by nollidge 13y ago
What you're actually asking is for people to repress their emotions, and that's way more degrading.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Christ, not this shit again. Can we all please rise above talking about personalities? How fucking drab.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Oh. So is everyone.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Oh good. A poll designed to draw publicity to what's already a brazen publicity stunt.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Ha! I think your law is basically a logical corollary of my law + SIWOTI syndrome.
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by nollidge 13y ago
It's gotten to the point where any time I see someone citing a logical fallacy on the Internet, I can be 99% assured that they don't actually understand it.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Who cares? Is he wrong?
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by nollidge 13y ago
What am I supposed to be seeing here? Chrome 31, Windows 7 x64. Maybe my proxy server is screwing something up, because I mouse over the blue area, and then the scroll bar goes wonky for a bit, and then it turns red and says "game over
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by nollidge 13y ago
Yeah, English is full of weird idioms that don't mean what they mean.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Local newspaper comments are worse than both of them combined.
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by nollidge 13y ago
> HN is not really the place to seek this type of advice. Well, a cry for help isn't really a request for advice, it's just an alarm. There's good and bad advice in the thread, so hopefully some of the good made it to this
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by nollidge 13y ago
Yeah, my Galaxy Nexus went 24 hours without charging this past weekend and is about the same age, IIRC.
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by nollidge 13y ago
A lot of mental health problems can be managed without pharmaceuticals, but since all we know about this person is that they worry a lot, it's extremely presumptuous to diagnose based on that. If the underlying problem is severe depres
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by nollidge 13y ago
Like everybody's saying, talk to a professional about this. You're going through something extreme but still relatively common, and you need not suffer in silence. Your school probably has counseling available, they'll be abl
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by nollidge 13y ago
> The risk here is minimal. How do you know that?
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by nollidge 13y ago
Wanted to comment that I downvoted not because of your first sentence, but because of the second. Hackers have not proven themselves more rational than society at large and I wish we would stop arrogantly thinking of ourselves that way.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Sure, but that's different than saying insurance is by-definition a scam.
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by nollidge 13y ago
(Checks calendar) Yep, just about time for another HN Flat UI Whine-Fest (TM).
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by nollidge 13y ago
I don't think DanBC is saying that insurance per se is a scam, but that the U.S. health insurance industry is unavoidably scammy. EDIT: Put another way: you're 100% correct that that's what insurance should do and purports
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by nollidge 13y ago
Er, except Scoutzie is only for designers, and We Work Remotely is more for programmers.
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by nollidge 13y ago
It's also $200-$300 cheaper than other manufacturer's top offerings, so...
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by nollidge 13y ago
Looks like the phone body is 2mm bigger in width and height than the Galaxy Nexus, so pretty neglible difference really.
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by nollidge 13y ago
I think listening does a bit of good. Understanding does even more, and sharing that understanding so they don't have to does even more good. The unfortunate fact is that you'll be listened to better by another white person than a

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