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by powrtoch 16y ago
I was okay with it until here: "Some Americans, even some scholars, will argue against this view of anime. They want to think the Japanese worship America or worship whiteness and use anime to prove it. But they seem to be driven more by t
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Pentagon’s Craziest PowerPoint Slide(wired.com)
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Used to think that "sequel" was just an arbitrary way to "pronounceable-ize" SQL. So a friend and I retaliated by saying things like "MySquirrel".
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Not to mention http://www.horriblelogos.com/testimonials/
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On the proper use of this data: Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is that the phrases are predictors for the race/sex, not the other way around. For example, you shouldn't expect every white male you meet to like Van Halen. However if
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I don't know if hyphenation should be automatically on just because justify is, but a separate CSS property, or a hyphenate option on the "word-wrap" property, would certainly be a more elegant solution than all of these scripts.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Not that I don't like Scott Adams' blog, but every time I see (dilbert.com), I get my hopes up that just this once it'll be an actual comic.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I'd say they expect that at least some people will. If Ping were to take off (in the modest sense of people actually activating it and occasionally looking at it), I would expect it to drive up iTunes sales. I don't like that it would drive
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I've got basically the same setup. If AppleTV has got an advantage, it's in packing all these things into a neat, tiny package with a clean and simple UI. Standard procedure for Apple really, and it has worked for them in the past. To me th
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Personally I love iTunes, but I have heard it's less impressive on Windows systems. The only other legitimate complaint I know is that it's become bloated with features that not every user needs (if you don't have an iSomething, for example
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Audacity (cool program though it is) is to Logic as Notepad is to Office. Which is to say, a tiny, tiny subset of the other's functionality. Edit: I just checked up on Wikipedia. Audacity has made a good deal of progress since I last used i
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Anyone care to take bets on this "Ping" feature? I just can't see it taking off, but it could just be that I hang out in the wrong crowds.
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And it's not as though there's an open-source alternative to Logic (or Final Cut etc) anyway.
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Not really. Most people use the same username or a slight variation thereof for everything they do online. If I read a LiveJournal post you write, I can probably Google your username and discover 90% of your contributions to the web instant
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by powrtoch 16y ago
It's for the best I'm sure. Opera was enormously buggy on my PPC laptop anyway, to the point of being pointless to try and use. But it remains the best browser around on every other computer I use, so consolidation of effort seems like an a
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I'm at work. Can someone at least tell me why I shouldn't click?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Sometimes I feel as though, even above child pornography and so-called cyber terror, /b/ is the real bullet we bite when we argue for internet anonymity.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Not to mention indefensible levels of confidence. The scary thing about mobs to me (aside from the pitchforks) has always been how quickly and irrationally suspicion becomes verdict. Which I suppose is the whole point behind the post: you h
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by powrtoch 16y ago
tl;dr: Roger Ebert is undeserving of his success and we're very bitter about it.
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This is not obvious to me, can you elaborate?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The article a few days ago about people not liking overly-enthusiastic, helpful team members comes to mind. It might be that some people just get an impression like "This guy thinks he's better than us", or the fear that the new guy will dr
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Another example of "hacker" being problematically ambiguous. I assumed this article was about MS getting sent a bunch of open-soruce/Linux source code, and maybe an insinuation of MS lifting parts of it. Of course, it's open-source anyway,
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Agreed. "Don't argue" seems like a really powerful negotiation technique if you've got the charisma/intensity to actually pull it off.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
For anyone else whose jaw dropped at "the sum of a sequence of odd numbers is always the next perfect square", Wikipedia has a helpful visualization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_number#Properties
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I welcome your position, but could your provide examples where Apple has failed in the "attention to detail" department?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Well, there is this: Opposites are a tricky concept, not well-defined in most domains. Your implication is that the opposite of last is "first". But doesn't it make at least as much sense to say the opposite of last is "not last"? From a pr
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Penultimate has this in common with "literally". It's most often misused to mean the opposite of what's intended. Cue Inigo Montoya.
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I think you're a bit quick to declare something impossible just because it seems unlikely or counter-intuitive.
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Must be an HN'er.
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To me, the interesting thing is that the entire culture of usability seems to be focused on widening this gap. Perhaps the biggest rule of user interface is "the user shouldn't have to care how it works". This extends even down into program

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