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papaver
13y ago
hmmm, not impressed by your 'help'. i contacted you a couple of months ago and only received the initial default response to push over my resume and info and never got a reply once i sent it over. pretty poor way to communicate and start
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13y ago
pretty sad to here this from opera. i've been an avid opera user for the last 10 years. i haven't seen as much innovation in any other browser like ive seen in opera. from mouse gestures to tab grouping to the closed tabs list to a millio
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13y ago
like the porno for pyros song goes, "cursed to be born beautiful, poor and female, there's none that suffered more." there are definitely advantages to be born beautiful but there are also several disadvantages. its too bad the article di
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13y ago
thats the magic of jam bands. its amazing getting lost in a jam, feeling the transition from one song to another, forgetting the bad has been playing non-stop for the last 30 minutes. its the newness that is most attractive for me. its t
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papaver
14y ago
reminds of the old days at EA when the coders were the rockstars and in the lime light. loved the ads with photos of techies.
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14y ago
reminds me of the buddhist quote: "If while we are washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as they were a nuisance, then we are not 'washing the dishes to wash to wash t
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14y ago
its always amusing to read articles from respected sources about beliefs one has held for a long time. it feels mostly obvious to me that underexposure to germs can lead to more problems than fix. i guess a lot of my beliefs could come fr
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14y ago
i think work is the best place to do it. just stick with it knowing that it may take a few days to get back to your original pace. don't allow your self to use the arrow keys and you will pick them up much faster. just remind yourself th
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14y ago
wow, totally awesome. the scene needs more startups like this. congrats guys. this is one of the coolest startups ive seen in a long time.
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Tweeting Teens Help Propel Pheed No1 Social App
(fastcompany.com)
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money isn't everything. you don't need a trust fund to pay for an education. a 'good' parent spends time with their kids. that's all a kid really wants. i know plenty of friends making 6 digits and double income parents, so much money b
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14y ago
whoot whoot, more trust fund babies...
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14y ago
absolutely brilliant. this article hits the nail strait on the head. i initially started learning how to problem solve when i started dabbling with my first computer. living in saudi arabia created an isolated environment. access to infor
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14y ago
oh please. aaron knew what he was getting into when he broke the law. in the end suicide is the easy way out. depression or not. i don't claim to know what aaron was going threw, but i do know he knew a huge community of people were rea
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14y ago
i must say experiencing level 5 is amazing and scary. one truly understands how reality is constructed by the perception of the senses.
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14y ago
After some thought, Ultima IV popped into my head. Specifically the beginning of the game when the player is asked several questions which don't necessarily have a correct answer but do in effect slant the players morality in one direction
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14y ago
seriously one can get coders block?? don't think i've ever experienced that. if i don't know something im in research mode. then back to coding again. i only experience 'block' like feelings when at a path in the road which requires me
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14y ago
thank you for posting this!! looks like i ran into in just the knick of time. i just recently purchased a new macbook pro with a retina display for my brother how lives out of the country. will make sure i have a samsung display so he doe
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14y ago
the problem with packs... there is so much stuff to ingest, most of the stuff goes unused. learn to use default vim first. then start adding aliases and macros as need to speed up things. most of the plugins mentioned are useless to me. de
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i try to live by the motto 'no regrets.' instead of wishing you weren't a meth head, use the experience to your advantage. help other meth heads get clean, since you can relate with them more than someone who has never been there. wishing
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14y ago
bose headphones without noise canceling, been using them for 7 years, used the upgrade plan a couple of years ago to get the newer version for half the price.
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14y ago
interestingly enough, top ten ios devices names: 42797 'iPhone' 5191 'iPod touch' 3136 '“Administrator”的 iPad' 2202 '“Administrator”的 iPhone' 1534 'Owner’s iPad' 1453 ' iPhone' 1309 'Administrator’s iPad' 1196 'Adminis
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i agree, memory is not limited in that sense. a better analogy is memory in some sense is sorted. topics that are used daily are generally near the 'front' of the que while older topics slowly fade to the background. when fading to the ba
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i think the best answer to any google interview question i didn't know is..... "i'd google it"! but seriously, why do i need to remember information about languages or algorithms i don't use daily? my memory is limited and i prefer it to b
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14y ago
i don't think the concept of daily deals is dead just the middle man version that groupon and its clones have ridden on for so long. i think companies like scoutmob, tiktok, and pirq are doing a good job in trying to find new sustainable mo
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its just not that simple. the article doesn't state how it was taken in most of the cases. i speak from experience and have seen the results of what happens to kids that mainline h. if you smoke or even ingest heroin its way way easier to
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14y ago
pretty epic pixar, thanks! good way to set an example for the rest for the fx community on sharing. have to say im pretty impressed with the state of the code. love it when i see ++index in for loops! props.
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its not really about programming. its either you are a superstar problem solver or a simple problem solver. the programming is just a means to an end. a superstar problem solver has the ability to take most problems and break them down an
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i think this quote really sums it up, "I try very hard not to use when I'm miserable, because that's what gets me into trouble." it all depends on your personality. if you can get high and be responsible you can probably cope with using in
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I don't understand people that bitch and moan about working long hours in the software industry, especially games. You can leave whenever you want, its a free will state. Would you have been bitching and moaning if all this happened yet y
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