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by secstate 11y ago
Woah. Battletoads was also hard, but I'm not dying for someone to recapture the magic of the last level. It would appear that the difficulty is the only vaguely objective comment in the essay, and one could argue that most gamers don&#
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by secstate 11y ago
That's a fair argument, but in my experiences those two people do not share their interests. If you live with children in the house, you know how that goes. Now going offline with things is no promise that there will be more shared cul
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by secstate 11y ago
Best guess is that by monolithic the author means homogeneous. Watching instructional videos on nail care is more educational than Family Ties, for sure, but it's easier to get stuck on a very specific value system or culture on the in
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by secstate 11y ago
Thanks for that ... I stuck on that sentence too. What you should really do after reading this article is just stop doing anything for a few minutes. Seriously. Nothing. Don't check your phone, don't flip through the mail. Don&#x2
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by secstate 11y ago
That's all well and good, but you missed the fact that what made SFO the melting pot that it's known for today was a liberal immigration stance and an egalitarian mindset. What you're describing is conservative immigration an
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by secstate 11y ago
That's fine, but it's effectively a giant forum with volunteer moderators. I feel like it can best be described as the social equivalent of trying to steer a boat that's really 30,000 small boats all tied together. They have
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by secstate 11y ago
While I totally agree with you on principal, that's the energy argument equivalent of saying that if there's a coal power plant being built in your backyard you should move rather than complain about it. There is a huge infrastruc
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by secstate 11y ago
The problem here is that someone once did some cocktail napkin math with regards to dumping farm waste into the Chesapeake Bay and determined that the ocean is so enormous it was stupid to think some agro-waste would change much about it. I
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by secstate 11y ago
These are the sorts of deep questions that often go unasked as we humans look for ever greater efficiencies. I had to attend a seminar on geothermal wells presented by a group of ageing hippies. When I asked if any long term studies had bee
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by secstate 11y ago
Well shit, why are you downvoted? For linking to documents that dare to "revise" history and look for original source material to determine why the United States went to war? Most curious in your first link is the fact that of the
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by secstate 11y ago
I believe it's called confirmation bias, and no one is immune to it. As long as I'm commenting, I'll note that I'm a climate change skeptic, but only because the reasonable scientist among us is ALWAYS an informed skepti
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by secstate 11y ago
Haha, isn't that the truth :) Using nice headphones with Top-40 pop music is like using a Ferrari to do the grocery shopping with the kids. If you're gonna listen to it, you might as well do it with your phone speaker turned up as
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by secstate 11y ago
http://www.letters4words.com/jaxy.htm i.e. ass, poorly implemented, bad
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by secstate 11y ago
Too bad the only way to use 1Password with linux or a BSD is some jaxy browser extension.
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by secstate 11y ago
The key here is "would" hate them. In practice, running a Pharo app as a web service is actually infinitely easier to reproduce because of imaging. Try producing a running image of a Python or Ruby web app. And I say this a commit
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by secstate 11y ago
Nope, but the business model of most games is nothing like this. It's more like movies, where advance sale of licenses gets you the money to hire the team and then the clock starts and if you don't hit the milestones, the shit hit
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by secstate 11y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted. KSP offered a one-time purchase of the beta for a promise of a crack at the 1.0, and they came through marvellously. There's an example of doing a closed-codebase project for money right.
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by secstate 11y ago
While I appreciate the sentiment that leads one to say "then don't donate," and especially for a codebase you've worked on for a while, simply "open sourcing it" might not be as straightforward as all that. Yet
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by secstate 11y ago
I don't think the goal of this project is to allow public officials to respond in public, but rather to avoid having to copy-paste email chains with public officials when they stonewall or downright circumvent laws in what they believe
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by secstate 11y ago
Hrm. But if each article includes these details but there is no way to generalize the findings, how is a review going to help? Scientist A doing the study claims X effect when using 8 month old rats and drawing blood in the morning. Scienti
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by secstate 12y ago
I find the tax evasion argument the most damning. But it's not just Amazon, it's any sizable American corporation in 2015. You'd be irresponsible to your shareholders for not setting up a tax haven corp in Ireland or some oth
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by secstate 12y ago
Playing devil's advocate here, as I whole-heartedly support OSS and the myriad license under which it is distributed, including the GPL. But ... That's a really interesting argument. One could argue that the GPL is like the snake
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by secstate 12y ago
Given how little traction Apple has gained with web apps and storage, you'd think they'd be a little humble and offer a native app that interoperated with Android devices, and different storage backends (store you're photos o
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by secstate 12y ago
Couldn't agree more, and I feel like seeking personalities like these give everyone a bad name, homeopaths and ivory-tower scientists alike. It's a bit like deciding to be a vegan for years and then deciding that now it's oka
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by secstate 12y ago
And can I also add to this that, while I appreciate widescreen monitors on laptops due to form factor, the fact that monitor manufacturers just up and stopped making square displays is endlessly frustration too.
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by secstate 12y ago
Man, science journalism is so hit or miss. While I appreciate the exposure that articles like this give interesting ideas, there's something so hilariously unscientific about the presentation. For my money, I'd question whether it
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by secstate 12y ago
My 13" MBPr has this stain pattern. Here's my guess, I used an alcohol-based solvent to clean my keyboard and then closed the machine. Now I have stains of the oleophobic coating coming off in the places you'd expect it ... w
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by secstate 12y ago
Kudos to the DjangCon Europe organizers for setting this up. I was recently listening to a sermon on Abraham Lincoln (the U.S. President in office during the civil war) who suffered from such crippling depression during his life that there&
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First image of light as both a particle and a wave(sciencealert.com)
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by secstate 12y ago
I couldn't agree more. As I was reading this post I was really trying to sympathize with the author's trouble of finding contentment in his work. But as a software dev who's very nearly a "code monkey" in his 40 hou

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