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by prawks 14y ago
Donnie Darko opened the month after 9/11, and many theaters refused to show it due to its depiction of a plane crashing. Didn't go positive in the box office likely as a result. Absolutely excellent cult film for anyone interested.
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by prawks 14y ago
Not quite as bad as pagination, but probably #2 in annoyances.
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by prawks 14y ago
If a paginated article I visit doesn't have a "View All" button I typically leave. Very rarely are paginated articles so intensely interesting that I suffer through a slideshow.
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by prawks 14y ago
Also, you can't have fingers on all four arrow keys at once, while you can with hjkl. It's not only more ergonomic in the sense that you move your arm less, but also because you move your fingers less.
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by prawks 14y ago
You might be interested in this article http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/02/features/tri... Regardless of the fact that it's written by a man who resigned from the NYTimes because of plagiarism, it's still interesting imo. The
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by prawks 14y ago
> Meanwhile, many illiterate cultures appear to have healthy diets (implying thousands of years of trial and error, admittedly a form of science, works). Hit the nail on the head. America is too young of a country and culture, we don't
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by prawks 14y ago
I'm thinking it's a ploy to get people to read yet another criticism of Apple's new maps. We get it, they're bad. EDIT: Frankly, I think it's pretty hilarious this article is so long and formal.
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by prawks 14y ago
I hadn't thought about this, but it's a great point. They certainly have the money to influence politics in many ways, not all of which may be good. While this may be a step forward in the fight against SOPA-style bills, this is a huge step
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by prawks 14y ago
cough I think you mean DotA 2 cough ;) But in all seriousness, I think the MOBA genre may be just what it needs, whether that be LoL, DotA, HoN, or otherwise.
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by prawks 14y ago
E-sports really are an interesting space. International tournaments with $1+ million grand prizes are nothing to shug at. Couple that with the fact that anyone can play anyone else in the world practically instantaneously and that more and
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by prawks 14y ago
The problem with your Nintendo analogy is that Nintendo introduced a new market into playing video games (families, non-gamers). A more accurate analogy to Nokia making dumb phones would be if Nintendo had created a console that appealed to
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by prawks 14y ago
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/04/oxburgh-re... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-22/climate-change-scie... http://www.deccanherald.com/content/61233/uk-climategate-inq... Those are just 3 of the 8 organizations th
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by prawks 14y ago
Very glad to hear this. These people aren't criminals, they're researchers publishing their findings and proposed hypotheses.
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by prawks 14y ago
The key word you used is "alpha". As the OP of this thread said, you're not buying a product, you're donating to someone (probably not a very large company with lots of resources) to develop and make something you're interested in, and in r
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by prawks 14y ago
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/whales/sounds/sound... Looks like they give a 128kbps wav file. Not exactly audiophile quality unfortunately.
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by prawks 14y ago
"Hey I read this great book the other day!" "Oh really? That sounds really cool!" "Yeah, here you can borrow it..... Oh wait never mind..." " :( " I don't think it really beats paper materials in logistics. You're buying proprietary books.
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by prawks 14y ago
The point of doing it is to focus ads to generate revenue and provide a unified experience. It might not be creative, but it's not exactly uncommon.
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by prawks 14y ago
I think the problem lies in the interviewer in this case. This tool seems to be a substitute for being in an interview room and having a whiteboard to write code on in front of the interviewer, rather than an IDE with a "record-mode". As su
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by prawks 14y ago
I think this mostly comes down to things like vendor lock-in. Yes, the tool enables you to more effectively do something, but at the cost of certain freedoms to you. For instance, I can buy a hammer because it will make it much easier to dr
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by prawks 14y ago
This is a pretty naive view of the universe. Humans have been civilized as we know it for what, 4000, 5000 years? In a little over 100 years we've gone from horse-and-buggy to detecting dark matter and building particle accelerators. The un
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by prawks 14y ago
This sounds like a great way to approach the problem. While the author's boss might have too narrow of a field of view in technologies, the author shares his/her boss's strategy to use a hammer as his sole tool, regardless of whether he's d
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by prawks 14y ago
This goes hand-in-hand with people writing lots of code (especially when first starting out) and not reading much. There seems to be a huge lack of people simply reading code to learn from it, rather than poring through dozens of reco
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by prawks 14y ago
Italics tend to come across as much less imposing to readers, I use them heavily now.
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by prawks 14y ago
I can't remember where I heard this theory, but essentially it goes like this: If you see an ant on the sidewalk when you're walking down the street, you don't stop to communicate with it, or teach it how to build a television. The theory g
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by prawks 14y ago
I never understood the old TV show/movie technique, but I might have to try it now. My girlfriend's mother watches Pride and Prejudice almost every night before bed, and I never really got it.
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by prawks 14y ago
A professor of mine and I were discussing this as we were poring over some freshman 1st semester programming projects done by primarily artistic students in Max/MSP, which is extremely similar. Looking at a program from the scope of functio
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by prawks 14y ago
Looks like you have to go into the comments. A feature request is needed, me thinks.
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by prawks 14y ago
Glad you posted this, it's a very nice tool.
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by prawks 14y ago
This brings up some interesting thoughts. What if the layout of the keys on touch-tone phones were copyrighted? What about keyboard layouts? What about the notion of a folding computer (laptop)? I never quite thought about it like that befo
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by prawks 14y ago
This is fantastic! Thanks for the link.

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