unalone

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by unalone 17y ago
Video games fill the role that any art does. They help us find ourselves and fill us with a static strength that we can't get from people, who are constantly changing as fast as we are. I've actually always had the opposite reaction as that
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by unalone 17y ago
Brilliance isn't particularly difficult. A lot more people could be brilliant than are brilliant now, if they only put a little work into it.
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by unalone 17y ago
Do we need this here? PG posted the announcement directly. What makes this better than a duplicate?
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by unalone 17y ago
You can improve a text editor without making it more complex. TextEdit on the Mac is just as minimal as Notepad, perhaps a little more so (because its menu's on the top rather than in the window), but it has powerful support for fonts, page
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by unalone 17y ago
That's how it's set up. It still gets covered because the full-screen is being constantly redrawn. So I can click on it, because it's above the black screen, but I can't see where to click, because the black is always above it, frame by f
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by unalone 17y ago
So, mahmud, what's the lesson we just learned here? That you can be successful regardless of if you're boutique or enormous! Good! You agree with me! > far outweigh the cost of hiring an specialist team to target the platform. What the
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by unalone 17y ago
Modern journalist 'a shill', says Internet commenter who finds older reporters had better things to do than misinterpret fascinating archaeology as insults to the modern age
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by unalone 17y ago
That's one of the worst similes I've ever heard. I wish people who didn't understand the English language would stop trying to be impressive with it. Stick to clarity until you're sharp enough to have a style. If you define potential by "ho
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by unalone 17y ago
How is that deconstruction? You just copy-pasted the article and flipped the genders. Instead of "deconstruction", "equality"? You'd be wrong, you'd still be irrelevant, but at least you'd be wrong. As you term it now you're not even wr
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by unalone 17y ago
If you think of it with the wide-scope idea that winning economically means having more money than anybody else. Fact is there're a lot of developers who've made a shitload of money off Mac-only software, and they apparently have much more
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by unalone 17y ago
How is this misogynistic? It's a tongue-in-cheek reference to an old cliché, and it's funny. It would be misogynistic if its point was that all girls are awful; what it is saying is that it's like that stereotypical girlfriend situation w
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by unalone 17y ago
Ooh! Ooh! I managed to crash OSX! I kept my computer running for a week straight, no sleep, and had iTunes shuffle to a new song once every 10 seconds, and for each song scrobble to Last.fm and also download album art and lyrics. At some po
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by unalone 17y ago
Ok I don't see how Twitter is more cutting edge than television Let's see. Television is a form of communication in which there are a hundred channels and I am forced to pick one to consume. Twitter is a form of communication in which the
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by unalone 17y ago
It's too expensive to hunt down everybody involved. The world isn't able to go after millions of people at once. The more people use it, the harder it is to track.
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by unalone 17y ago
We have yet to see the outcome of the current copyright conflict. I think there's a point we're nearing soon where technology makes tracking impossible.
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by unalone 17y ago
Piracy was never so easy with TV and radio. Once my grandmother knows how to torrent her shows, they've lost.
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by unalone 17y ago
He's a brilliant writer and a terrible journalist. I agree with you. I can tolerate him, because he's not obnoxious about his writings (versus somebody like Cory Doctorow, who has a similar ratio of popularity-to-understanding), but at the
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by unalone 17y ago
Again I'll ask: Since when is a revolution measured by quantity? I mean, Twitter is arguably more cutting-edge than television. So in one sense it's more revolutionary. But television is spreading faster, so that's a revolution that's hit
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by unalone 17y ago
Nice observation. I published a novel, released it for free and on Amazon, and while I made some money and got some publicity, I find that blogging makes it easier to edit yourself and attract attention, and I got a few perks from blogging
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by unalone 17y ago
Why can't they all be revolutionizing the world? This meme where only one thing can be revolutionary at a time really bugs me. Revolutions happen all the time and they are all awesome . I also dislike that an article like this needs to o
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by unalone 17y ago
That works unless you really want to be a journalist.
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by unalone 17y ago
You can joke about that, but it happens. I've had a particularly good few months, and as a result I find myself getting less done than last year, when I was frequently miserable. In that last two months, I've done maybe one really neat piec
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm going to pretend you never said Civilization is available on the iPhone, because I enjoy doing schoolwork and not being expelled.
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by unalone 17y ago
Quite different from Hacker News, don't you think? We're not about articles, we're about community and discussion.
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by unalone 17y ago
Most of the people who have identities based on being smart far underperform their intelligence. Most people who have identities based on any single term underperform. I think you'd find that people who live life in a singleminded "athl
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by unalone 17y ago
I can't say this is a universal reaction. As a child I was told I was smart, and subsequently wrote off all my failures with the flippant "I learned something here, and have become even smarter." Insecurity exists regardless of intelligence
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by unalone 17y ago
Well, you make less money off a netbook sale than Apple does from a Mac sale. He points to Snell's tweet about that. But beyond that, he just points to the people who said Apple HAD to make a netbook. (Obviously he disagrees with the concep
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by unalone 17y ago
The claim chowder wasn't just "I'd like Apple to make a netbook." The claim chowder was "If Apple doesn't do this, they are fucked." Apple didn't do it; Apple wasn't fucked.
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by unalone 17y ago
John Gruber noted that Apple currently has enough cash on hand to buy Dell in its entirety.
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by unalone 17y ago
Adds too much of a hassle for too small a problem to be worth it.

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