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by river_styx 18y ago
I don’t have as much time as I used to, to do this, but I try to give the whole magazine a flip at least once, every month. Blogger needs to take some time, to learn proper comma use, and then rethink this sentence.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Just apologize for the comment, man. You're not going to change anyone's mind with a childish rant like this.
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by river_styx 18y ago
I actually had to scroll up to the banner to make sure I was still on Hacker News and not reddit.
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by river_styx 18y ago
I always thought that #2 was illustrated very well by the Ship of Theseus paradox ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus ).
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by river_styx 18y ago
BBW FTW?
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by river_styx 18y ago
I would agree with you if the colors were against a dark background. But as it is, dark colors contrast more with the white/gray background, and thus get visual priority over the light colors.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Wow, is that by design? Why would you want such a side effect?
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by river_styx 18y ago
What in particular do you find unpleasant about Objective-C? I find it quite a nice language to work with, actually.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Based on the buzz around this game, it seems that the answer is yes.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Replace "engineers" here with occupation x, and this statement will be true from the viewpoint of every x in the world. I have been in companies where engineers with questionable managerial/leadership skills were elevated to top positions.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Is that you, Socrates?
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by river_styx 18y ago
Do people seriously fall for scams like this? There are two glaring red flags in this scenario that were completely lost on the author: 1) The coincidence of someone finding the necklace and another person phoning in about it while the firs
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by river_styx 18y ago
Great, another geeky blog rant offering no substantiation or content to speak of. As a mac user, I have to agree with his premise, though. It might be a different story for Windows users.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Awesome, now I've got the skills to be scoring all the hot chicks!
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by river_styx 18y ago
So where are we now with physics, anyway? Converging on some kind of math/philosophy hybrid? Seems like as time goes by, these theories and constructs become more elaborate and abstract, which makes it ever less likely that we'll have the c
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by river_styx 18y ago
I guess that's part of my objection, really. The use of the word "universe" implies that there is only one of them, as the prefix "uni-" in Latin means "one".
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by river_styx 18y ago
If I recall correctly, the "universe" is a concept meant to encompass all that exists. How then can there be multiple universes? Wouldn't the set of all universes itself exist within the universe? It seems more likely to me that "universe"
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by river_styx 18y ago
You can maximize the videos to full screen.
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by river_styx 18y ago
*impractical
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by river_styx 18y ago
I'm not saying that one person taking on an extreme high risk endeavor is strange. Happens all the time. What's strange is that such a huge cluster of people are doing it. The anomaly is the multiplicity of the occurrence, not the occurrenc
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by river_styx 18y ago
I don't see anything inherently wrong , really. It's just strange that, given the point of starting a business is to make money, there would be so many businesses out there running along seemingly without much concern as to revenue. If you
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by river_styx 18y ago
From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiveThirtyEight.com ): The site compiles polling data through a unique methodology derived from Silver's experience in baseball sabermetrics to "balance out the polls with comparative demograph
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by river_styx 18y ago
This is the modus operandi for basically every web 2.0 company. I think never before in history has there been such a large number of businesses springing up and carrying on blithely with no idea how they're going to make money.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Exactly right. Relatively speaking, our culture is very anti-intellectual and backwards. Athletic heroes are praised by the entire community, while the math whizes are ridiculed and viewed as socially undesirable. In that kind of environmen
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by river_styx 18y ago
Okay, the first 3 posts were interesting, but why are we suddenly being spammed by all these 3D printer articles?
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by river_styx 18y ago
Visualization is for sissies. Directly editing SQL scrips in TextMate is the only way to go. :)
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by river_styx 18y ago
That's sort of what I'm getting at. Why do they need so many resources? I mean, looking at the software and its requirements, I don't see the necessity.
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by river_styx 18y ago
I realize that Facebook gets enormous amounts of traffic, and so requires the resources for scaling/high availability and all that. But how in the world have they gone through most of $500 million? What the hell are they doing over there?
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by river_styx 18y ago
Isn't that rather slow?
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by river_styx 18y ago
Seriously, what dunce would cash one of those?

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