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Extracts of a drinking diary of an 18th century alcoholic is highly unrelated to modern tech startups, but entertaining nonetheless. I salute HN for bringing it to the frontpage.
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This fellow has a point. This should be marked as [1995] so that all of the old vets can skip over it.
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I guess that the reward systems that humanity has evolved are complicated and numerous. We've got the basics (food, shelter), the more complicated basics (sex with a suitable mate, companionship) and the million other factors - curiosi
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My daughter on Goldieblox: "FOR ADULTS WHO WANT TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES"(bogost.com)
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It may depend on what you can afford. Pick up a smattering of modern web technologies (python, node.js, ruby is a nice idea) and join a small company / start up. This can be a shot in the arm; you'll have to wear many hats, and yo
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You're correct, but that doesn't stop hordes of qualified nerds from charging into the meatgrinder that is the games development industry. You mean I get to make games for a living, as long as I'm happy to be paid in popcorn
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Seconding this. The latest Europa Universalis game is eating all my time while I conquer South-East Asia one nation at a time. Imagine a Civ game with twice the depth and ten times the run time. My neglected partner hates it.
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There's a link in the article. It's not even a very long article...
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Woah, I bet you're great fun at parties.
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That's the thing, the initial steps sound like exactly what a hacker would look at. And we're so busy furrowing our brows to follow the technology that we don't realise the ridiculousness of what he's doing until there&#
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This is simply brilliant. The escalation from a typical nerd's "I've optimised my social life" post to absurdity had me in stitches.
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The last photo is very interesting. Why does the plot of Madagascar need to be explained beforehand? Is it noteworthy that they omitted that the initial setting is New York?
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Are the 'intel employees' the ones with _intel in their usernames on this forum? These users aren't even marked as admins, just normal members... This doesn't inspire confidence in these answers.
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This is the first major console launch in many years where the console itself is being sold at a profit - previous launches have sold the hardware at a loss, and clawed back the profits on software. I believe this is true of the PS1, PS2, P
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I meant loaded because it could technically be considered true (the broadcasters certainly haven't 'authorized' Aereo's behaviour), but the term is obviously chosen to sway public opinion before the legal battle.
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>> Aereo, the startup that features unauthorized streams of local broadcast signals. This is a pretty loaded statement. As every legal objection so far has been struck down, and the streams are authorized by the Aereo user, it seems
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Fair enough, I mean with regards to social situations, one is generally a worse performer when nervous. Fight or flight kicks in, and you start stuttering your words, stumbling and generally being a bit of an arse because your body is getti
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No, your question is loaded because of the use of the word "still", not its content.
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Asking if the Chinese still perform full-term abortions a very loaded question. Do you still beat your wife? Officially, it's always been illegal, though some officials have performed late term abortions as a result of pressure coming
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What's interesting is that there's now a societal expectation to have one child per couple, so the birth rate recovery will be spread across many years or decades. The economist has published several excellent articles on the mode
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Sorry but that's a pretty throwaway opinion, and potentially offensive, without a study or two to back it up.
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Everyone sucks at networking the first few times, and public speaking the first few times, and presentations the first few times. The exact technique you use to get over that initial bump is probably not as important as just trying it a f
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Women suffer from imposter syndrome[0] more than men and seem somewhat less confident about their abilities in a variety of metrics (e.g. they contribute to wikipedia articles related to their area of expertise less than equally qualified m
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When you're new to the game, it's quite easy to admit gaps in your knowledge and pick up on what you're missing. One reason why this remains a persistent problem, I've found, is that the more experience you gain, the mor
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Seconding this - some of us designing web applications / intranet apps for banks or government have to support IE8 for the foreseeable future. We're just now starting to drop IE6 support for the new versions of our products.
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You forgot ...thus lowering house prices in a wide area . Now the electorate are on your side!
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Around my parts of the woods, people are very wary of putting an editable grid into a web-page.. because over years of maintenance, all editable grids tend towards excel, and excel has an infinite list of features for clients to request.
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Personally I was confused as to how the fellow got around the basics of having to parse tokens until I noticed with (DATA) now that's just genius. I hate writing token parsing.
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Troy Hunt's write-ups about Intro are quite a good read. http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/10/disassembling-privacy-implic... Personally, my old hotmail account was breached multiple times, I don't trust Micr
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If I remember the runtime efficiency of prolog correctly, you might just have to wait :)

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