skore

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by skore 15y ago
I think the introduction of Windows/Xbox Live was the driving force that pushed it in the triple digits million userbase here, not an actual decision to switch to MSN. If all of your friends are suddenly on another service, it's no wonder y
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by skore 15y ago
Yes, I think I use ICQ for communication with precisely three people. So I guess I see your point ;-)
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by skore 15y ago
What blows my mind even more is to imagine the sheer immensity in the scale here: A tiny speck of a probe in the vastness of space. No matter whether those aliens are hostile or not, kudos to them if they can even find the damn thing!
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by skore 15y ago
I prefer the "desperate for gold" hypothesis in which the probe manages to safely crash in the backyard of an alien scientist who is in quick need of some gold to finish an experiment and in possession of a perfectly fine smelting pot.
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by skore 15y ago
Yeah, but I'm probably just used to it and since I was referring to BREAD, it kind of made sense. I guess it's one of those age old questions like "do we say 'your' or 'my'?".
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by skore 15y ago
Interesting. I really think it is a huge location thing. Making it somewhat extra-restricted to non-virtual social networking constraints.
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by skore 15y ago
Care to elaborate? I still use ICQ and various xmpp accounts, plus skype. Had an MSN account a while back, but only for two friends who ended up switching away from it. Yes, Microsoft bought skype, but that's not really "breaking into", tha
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by skore 15y ago
Wow, that's just silly. I agree - "Delete" is simply not a subset of "Edit"ing an option in a configuration. It may be a subset of editing the entire configuration, but having a two-step process that makes a non-connected action into a chil
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by skore 15y ago
Well, Facebook does the same from a different angle, they just didn't start out with such a large portfolio that they now inject social in - they started with social and now try to inject it into anything they can get their hands on. The ba
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by skore 15y ago
I would like to further suggest we end the use of the word "war" in contexts that do not involve mandatory conscription and the deaths of large numbers of combatants until one side totally surrenders. It's really interesting to me in wha
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by skore 15y ago
Yes, for instance, the believe that the earth is young . As in: 7000 years young. Or put differently: Far too young for evolution to have worked at all. Sorry, but there really is a fundamental problem with being a biologist if your stat
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by skore 15y ago
I think at least self-driving cars could be explained with: Reducing the cost on acquiring StreetView data.
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by skore 15y ago
Oh, I'm more than happy to concede that point now that we have cleared it up. The problem is that the skirt/pants idea doesn't make for much of an interesting discussion. I think this comes down to two problems with your wording (and having
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by skore 15y ago
They are not popular, but men wearing them won't have their sexuality judged, so they probably don't have significance to your original point. I think they are not popular because they have a strong cultural association with being Scottish.
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by skore 15y ago
He later changed 'dresses' to 'skirts'. And yes, that completely changes the argument (look at the other leg of this thread).
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by skore 15y ago
Great, yes, that only changes the entire argument (exception to the rule here being kilts). Thanks for getting me 5 fresh downvotes ;-) (Also, guys: Continuing to downvote me? Come on!) [seems like we have reached the maximum depth here, so
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by skore 15y ago
I think what notch does really well is keeping the task at hand interesting to himself. Even looking at videos of him programming minecraft, you see that he does it to entertain himself. If a certain amount of time passes where he isn't lik
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by skore 15y ago
Eclipse being laggy has a lot to do with what extensions and editors you install. If you know how to configure your setup correctly (ie. not install a huge all-in-one package with tons of crap you will never need, compare different extensio
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by skore 15y ago
To be fair - that's a problem of narcolepsy (if he indeed has that) and not polyphasic sleep. I have not tried uberman yet, but from my own experiences with everyman and from what I have read of others, it can actually help give you focus a
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by skore 15y ago
I was not talking about price. I was talking about the cost of removing, from the consumer, access to tinker with the technology.
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by skore 15y ago
Your initial argument was about having your sexuality judged if you are a man wearing a dress, but not if you're a woman wearing pants. You must concede that my point - that dresses being so specifically female (let's face facts - a man jus
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by skore 15y ago
That dresses haven't still breaks your initial argument. Also - jeans ceased to be considered gender specific in society while also never being, in their shape and technical form, gender specific to begin with.
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by skore 15y ago
Yes, and I maintain that jeans simply aren't as gender specific as a dress. I have never heard that jeans are 'male'. That's why it's not a comparison of opposites.
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by skore 15y ago
Not really sure whether that applies. There is a rather combative part of geek culture when it comes to defending either your own or the established view of your immediate peers. In that regard, geeks can indeed be astonishingly egalitarian
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by skore 15y ago
That's funny, but not insightful. I assume that with pants, you don't mean plain jeans, but a pantsuit (because this isn't the 60's). There are pantsuits designed for women, but no dresses designed for men. Even further than that - a dress
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by skore 15y ago
Not exactly sure where I got this from, but I once read: "Call me - it's simpler" translates to you wanting to do your thinking inside my ear instead of your head. That being said, from my own experience, the only thing that phone calls get
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by skore 15y ago
I go by the wiktionary definition here: "Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory". To me, "pragmatic" does not carry any negative connotation. Say for instance when Apple changed t
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by skore 15y ago
Those are not mutually exclusive. He certainly cared about the moral dimension, but it was never a priority. He always introduced as much of his moral dimension as possible, which is what he deserves credit for. But again - that's a pragmat
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by skore 15y ago
I wouldn't got as far as saying that it makes him look like a complete hypocrite. After all, much of the rest of the talk, he makes no secret of his business-sense ("saw dollar signs"). To me, Mr. Jobs was above all a pragmatist, which is h
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by skore 15y ago
Interesting video, particularly seeing him reminisce about their hacker roots ("liberating" designs, "studying" what other companies are doing, buying parts on "thin air and enthusiasm") and "building tools". His justification for that is t

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