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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
I've also experienced this. I'd curl up on the shower floor and sit until I couldn't stand the now-cold water coming out of the shower head. I spent consecutive days close to catatonia, dragging myself into work, shutting the door, coming
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
"So there you have it. It’s really not a pretty picture. But, again, I do hope that if you ever are unfortunate enough to experience these cognitive dynamics in your own mind—and I, for one, very much have—or if you suspect you’re seeing be
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Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
151 points by roflc0ptic 14y ago|92 comments
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
This is a great comment. If I could nitpick a little bit: You wrote "the metaphor I use is that suicide is the end-game of a crippling disease that attacks the brains ability to manage stress." As far as I can tell, this isn't a metaphor.
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
Controvsery is defined as: Disagreement, typically when prolonged, public, and heated There's not really any controversy here. Y'all aren't even pretending this isn't insanely offensive. You just seem to feel okay about it.
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
Gailees lists his facebook on his profile: https://www.facebook.com/davefontenot Let me just say, David, that you're a cretin. You're why my female friends don't want shit to do with geek culture. You're poison in the well.
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
This is satire of how misogynistic geek culture can be, right? Because this couldn't possibly be serious? right?
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
You wrote: > When someone says it's about the money, it's never about the money. Sometimes, it's about the money. I recognize this isn't a normal experience, but I spent a year and a half working on a team where I made 26k/yr while othe
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
How do you define renewable?
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
Sure, but my statement sort of has an implied time scale (e.g. a human time scale), and your implied time scale is cosmological. Maintaining the rational economic system that we live under requires immense energy inputs, and while it obvio
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
Shh, we have to ignore all environmental externalities other than CO2 emissions caused by burning petroleum products. Otherwise we would have to face the fact that our lifestyles are directly at odds with the health of the planet we live o
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
>> I've yet to meet an automated process that can adapt itself to any situation to suit its user's whims. That's pretty valid. We may be living in an edge case, and I trust that if everyone's experience with VS was as bad as mine,
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
I'm a junior developer who's been working with C#/.net/VS for about six months with very little guidance, so maybe take this with a grain of salt, but in my experience Visual Studio is regularly an impediment. We had a single with our setu
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
Obvious or not, it hadn't occurred to me. I'll check out those videos, too. Thanks.
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by roflc0ptic 14y ago
>>many people have built and written up methodologies for using code to make money for businesses Would you mind pointing out some examples, or naming the field of literature? When I googled "optimizing business processes with softw