rottendevice

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by rottendevice 15y ago
Just curious: why do a lot people recommend only the white of the egg, and not the whole thing?
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by rottendevice 15y ago
Hey man, the value of my Beanie Baby collection can only go up.
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by rottendevice 15y ago
The US Dollar can be used to buy anything. Bitcoin can be used on like, a few dozen websites that support it. Why the heck would you not use the dollar?
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by rottendevice 15y ago
They lack the sense of urgency brought about by the working world. Also known as making deadline.
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by rottendevice 16y ago
The Dunning-Kruger effect explains why an arrogant boss I once had thought he knew how to program.
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by rottendevice 16y ago
Good to know I'm not the only one making this website. http://www.makethatthing.com/ (shameless self promotion, I know, but I wish Dave the best of luck with his site)
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by rottendevice 16y ago
So, it's kind of like Twitter but with audio messages?
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by rottendevice 16y ago
My birthday present!
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by rottendevice 16y ago
It strikes me as kind of odd that the billboard says "We", implying that DuckDuckGo is a company of multiple people. Then again, saying "I don't track you" would sound extremely strange. I guess we (as a society) have become so accustomed t
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by rottendevice 16y ago
You could easily argue that about a hundred years of engineering have gone into computer science, and many, many more than that into mathematics and algorithms. And this is the stuff that Facebook is built off of. Also, Audi is certainly n
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by rottendevice 16y ago
This is great news for the Appcelerator guys, but I've gotten so used to writing Titanium apps in TextMate, that I'm not sure I'd really need a dedicated IDE! Still happy for the company though.
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by rottendevice 16y ago
Same situation for me, which is why I much prefer to use Twitter these days. It's considered downright rude to defriend someone on Facebook, but on Twitter, you really only have to pay attention to the people you care about. It feels a lo
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by rottendevice 16y ago
"Feel free to point me to a list of high quality in XNA produced titles." If you want to develop a game on WP7, you HAVE to use XNA. All games in the WP7 app store had to be built with it. Also, WP7 has no C++ support. John Carmack griped
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by rottendevice 16y ago
I completely agree. But this country loves extreme cases. The media tends to ignore the 40+ successful CEOs out there because it's not uncommon to see someone in that age group running a good business. But when Mark Zuckerberg became the
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by rottendevice 16y ago
> This is why natural ability is such a hard thing for me to accept - I really believe that I can be good at anything, and I believe that is true of other people as well, but if they don't believe it, how will it happen? To me, what you
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by rottendevice 16y ago
gReader is a really solid 3rd party RSS reader, that I've grown completely accustomed to. I'm not sure I really need / want to switch to the official one now.
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by rottendevice 16y ago
Heh. Makes me wonder if Kik enticed some BBM engineers to switch jobs.
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by rottendevice 16y ago
Looks like it's pretty new. They're still calling it a "beta". Maybe the mobile apps are coming next?
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by rottendevice 16y ago
Who would host the servers though? A standards organization? I doubt they could afford it. That, or it will be like email, where everyone has @example.com appended to their username. Neither situation strikes me as desirable.
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by rottendevice 16y ago
I have been waiting my entire life for this to come out.* (*Give or take a few dozen years)