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   by secstate 12y ago

   Haha, I remember having to turn the original PlayStation upside down to play RE2 because the design placed the motor for the disc tray right under the laser and the heat would cause distortions in the beam ... or so I was lead to believe. E
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   by secstate 12y ago

   Haha, that's pretty great. As someone who works from home, I think this would make me 1,000x more efficient. Actually, having worked as a reporter in an open plan office ... never mind :)
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   by secstate 12y ago

   Just finished reading "Fiasco" by Stanislaw Lem. Between that "Cyberiad" I feel like Lem doesn't get enough credit. Maybe part of it is not being in the Western European writer's camp? At any rate, I would say:
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   by secstate 12y ago

   Excellent points. I live in a community with a fair few retired state officials, and the China fear/admiration is also entrenched amongst folks who are already very wealthy, and have a passing interest in staying on top of internationa
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   by secstate 12y ago

   This, of course, is the irony of the higher education debate. Those having the debate very likely did not go through the voc-ed tracks (which is effectively the "revolutionary" model the Flatiron School is providing). That doesn&#
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   by secstate 12y ago

   Thanks for pointing that out, another_sigh. I just wish my comment hadn't been buried while being argued against. And my point had nothing to do with the merits of rural life, but pointing out the over simplification of proposing inten
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   by secstate 12y ago

   Sweet. I'm actually from inner city Chicago. I just like the coast of Maine more than being surrounded with shit I don't want and people I should envy. My problem, I know but it's real, and a lot of people are affected by it.
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   by secstate 12y ago

   Holy shit. There's only like 700,000 of us. We're probably related. Also, my point had nothing to do with optimization and everything to do with segregation. I would continue to argue that rural Maine struggles with age, education
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   by secstate 12y ago

   I have direct experience with numerous friends, some with families and others unmarried, moving to urban areas hoping to be exposed to more racial and cultural diversity. Sometimes they find it, sometimes they don't, but it certainly d
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    by secstate 12y ago

    Sigh. I wasn't expressing a fear of institutional oppressions of white people. All I'm saying is that in a desperate attempt to integrate white and black people, you're missing a myriad other -isms. For my sake, your final pa
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    by secstate 12y ago

    I think one of the problems with the "avoid neighborhoods with segregation" solution is that it's more or less the same idea as affirmative action. As soon as you choose not to rent an apartment because "there are too ma
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    by secstate 12y ago

    I couldn't agree more. I've watched folks come and go in the various jobs I've had, and aside from one very painful case, most of them moved on due to cultural incompatibilities and not incompetence. I feel like the "Git
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    by secstate 12y ago

    Here's how I have come to address this issue (fyi, I'm using django-configurations and my own starter django project configured with it + ansible roles for deployments: http://github.com/powellc/outline ): Yo
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    by secstate 12y ago

    I've got the t440s. Not sure the readers has the same specs, but this got it working on mine: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_integrated_finge...
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    by secstate 12y ago

    Slick! I actually have my own version of a django skeleton project that helps me build new sites and apps faster. I love Django, but 0-60 speed with the vanilla framework is gotta be somewhere around an hour or two. Having a project skeleto
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    by secstate 12y ago

    I'm sorry. But Gandhi is just one of many who practised non-violence. Are you honestly going to sit there and tell me the MLK, Jr. had no real impact on the world either? I'll just go ahead and leave this here: http://e
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    by secstate 12y ago

    Am I the only one troubled by a statement like this: "As to whether I should be slathering my kid with sunscreen or not, the good news is that I’m not causing any damage by doing so." At the end of an article that otherwise claims
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    by secstate 12y ago

    Hah, well I did qualify it with a weasel word, so I didn't think I needed an example. But I would note that we're likely at least as peaceful as the ancient empires of Greece and Rome, and probably "relatively" more peac
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    by secstate 12y ago

    Well, I wrote my congressmen. What else can we possibly do? This is, however, a fucking travesty of justice. How can you possibly be caught committing a crime and have the higher-ups formally apologize, and say they wont do it again? This i
20. 500.▲
    by secstate 12y ago

    nod What other agency can take explicit part in countless political coups around the world and come out non-the-worse-for-wear? [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat... [1] http:/&#x2
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    by secstate 12y ago

    From the article, new the barges would have been $4 mil apiece. Even if they got them for a song, that would still put each north of one million, and that's before you buy 64 containers gut them, weld them together and install windows.
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    by secstate 12y ago

    Amen. I think this thread could use a little: http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ It has never been about whether PHP can get shit done, it's that given languages that ac
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    by secstate 12y ago

    Sure, sound works fine for a bit, but wait until you want to plug a USB headset in. First time, great. Second time, fail. Log out, log back in, headset works again. Lame!
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    by secstate 12y ago

    I appreciate the grey area here and that probably calling Catmull a monster is taking things a bit far. But especially the email about Jill getting poached suggested that Pixar had zero interest in promoting her internally, while Sony was o
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    by secstate 12y ago

    I feel like this HNews post is just a plug for an Uber ad. This is just a summer marketing gimmick.
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    by secstate 12y ago

    LOL. Which is one of the huge benefits of Django, IMHO. You can slam the speed of template rendering and the ORM all you want, but in the Django tutorial the first thing you do is use the framework to model data and display it to a user. Th
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    by secstate 12y ago

    I'm pretty sure Flask is as robust as it's going to be. Flask is Django without all the batteries included, which is what you're asking for. Throw Jinja2 templates in there and SQLAlchemy for an ORM and that's exactly wh
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    by secstate 12y ago

    Yes, but a team with tons of yardage has no promise of putting it in the endzone, or even field goals. It's the same issue as with possession. The Netherlands just dominated Chile in their last pool match today, but they had 34% posses
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    by secstate 12y ago

    Backup, backup, backup. ;)
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    by secstate 12y ago

    I loved BeOS after a co-worker at one of my first jobs waxed poetic about it. Bought the BeOS Bible and read all about it. Really wish it had been more ready for primetime. As it was, you pretty much needed the BONE extensions to make it us