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by phaus 13y ago
>You line up Charlie Rose to do one of his famous softball-tossing puff pieces.. You can't claim that Amazon destroyed the credibility of CBS and at the same time claim that one of their top anchors regularly gives "soft-ball&q
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by phaus 13y ago
There are very few assignments in the Army that involve coding on a regular basis. In fact, most people who spend 20 years in the Army as IT specialists end up leaving without ever learning anything at all about programming that they didn&#
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by phaus 13y ago
I'm sure many of Yahoo's employees and investors appreciate Mayer's efforts, but I don't think she really had a big impact on anyone else. I have to admit that I don't know much about Sandberg, but her Wikipedia pag
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by phaus 13y ago
He was still winning the other day, so I'm not sure how that was a great way to keep people from voting for him.
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by phaus 13y ago
>If they don't want to create a patent office court to adjudicate these cases, at the very least Congress should authorize the appointment of special masters to do fact finding in patent cases. I'm not sure if special appointme
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by phaus 13y ago
So on one hand you are criticising a 19-year old for attempting to add value to peoples' lives without asking for anything in return, because you feel his efforts are insufficient, yet you yourself are actively refusing to bring anythi
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by phaus 13y ago
Its not an effective way to frame an argument. Claiming that it is an appropriate response is basically saying that people who write overly complicated websites are so stupid that they cannot understand a reasonable, adult conversation. Thi
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by phaus 13y ago
Blog spam is for generating ad revenue or gaining attention for a product. This guy isn't selling anything, and there aren't any ads on his site(at least none that I see on my iPad). If you don't like what he has to say, that
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by phaus 13y ago
Since when did we start demanding background checks on people that publish free tutorials on the internet? But since you asked, he explains in this article that he was rated around 1800. He also clearly explains what that means. He then des
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by phaus 13y ago
I agree. I never mentioned formality. I just happen to think that it was poorly written, even by the standards of informal writing.
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by phaus 13y ago
I think profanity does has a place in the English language, but I found this article childish from the start. I also agree that web sites should be simple, but this reads like it was written by a 6th-grader.
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by phaus 13y ago
I'd love to purchase all three volumes in a way that supports the group responsible for the free online version, but when its only $20 more expensive to get a really nice hardcover edition than it is for a set of .PDFs, that's a r
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by phaus 13y ago
While I feel that every student should read a Brave New World, it is not included in every high school cirriculum. In the US at least, it is actually pretty rare for a school to include it.
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by phaus 13y ago
Orwell based his writings on his first hand experiences with communism. I agree that 1984's world is unrealistic and destined to fail, but it is in fact pretty much identical to the world that the Soviets were attempting to build.
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by phaus 13y ago
I wasn't really claiming that its easy to win MTG tournaments. I was just illustrating that fairly standardized play begins at a much lower level than it does in chess, because even beginners can buy a world class deck for a small amou
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by phaus 13y ago
I play every once in a while, but I've never studied or practiced enough to go beyond around 1200. I have trouble forcing myself to spend more than about 3 seconds per move. I also don't think about playing while its my opponent&#
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by phaus 13y ago
For ranked players, you are absolutely correct. That being said, there is still quite a bit more variety in chess at any level than there is in any given T2 cycle of MTG. With MTG, even if I went down to my local card shop for Friday Night
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by phaus 13y ago
I think you misunderstand that for a long time, Id Software has made a lot of money turning 3d engines into a commodity. For John Carmack, the emphasis has always been on developing new graphics technologies that advance the entire gaming i
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by phaus 13y ago
The publicity definitely helped the game grow, but at the same time, people who play tournaments rarely deviate from decks based on the ones that the pros are using.
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by phaus 13y ago
So, no offense to him but then you call him a douche? Even if you did mean to be offensive, what exactly makes nice people douche bags? I find it far more douchey when people make fun of people that are different from them, and when they th
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by phaus 13y ago
Sounds like he thinks very highly of tennis. Most people like to think that the things they like are better than the things everyone else likes. The truth is, any skill-based game can be extremely intense at the highest levels of play.
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by phaus 13y ago
In some ways, the internet ruined games like MTG. I still like to play, but the widespread availability of tournament decklists stifles creativity. There are still formats where you see a wide variety of decks, but T2 play normally involves
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by phaus 13y ago
>If you see many, many people getting obsessed with a game, and you think it's boring, it's usually a sign that you're not understanding something. I love chess, but this type of thinking is flawed. Using this logic, the T
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by phaus 13y ago
A couple of the coffee cups might not be direct copies, but the majority of them clearly are. The proportions and shapes are all nearly identical. If you described this logo to ten random web designers and asked them to draw what you descri
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by phaus 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised it Picasso hadn't ever said it at all. Even if he had, Picasso created his own genre of art. Actions speak louder than words. It really doesn't matter where the quote came from. Even when put into prop
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by phaus 13y ago
Really? I looked at all of them and only found one that wasn't an obvious copy. I've seen similar sites where lots of the accusations seemed sketchy, but these are all really blatant.
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by phaus 13y ago
Why am I not surprised that Adobe is on the list. They are one of the O.G. patent trolls. RIP Macromedia.
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by phaus 13y ago
The gigantic tip and the lack of pressure sensitivity guarantees that this stylus won't work any better than the ones you can buy from amazon for a dollar. It sure looks like its well made, but take a look at the end of it and explain
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by phaus 13y ago
Most of the company's products are keyboard cases for iPads. They designed the iPad keyboards to mesh well with Apple's design aesthetic. Now that that they are branching out, they are just trying to keep things consistent.
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by phaus 13y ago
I've used one of those and I found it to be an equally terrible experience. Not sure if they fixed them, but the first few generations of that product left scratches on the screen.

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