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by unalone 17y ago
Fuck professional. What I want to know in my CEO is that he knows what he's doing. Beyond that, I don't give a shit if he's nice or the most terrifying man alive. Similarly, if a CEO is professional as all hell but knows nothing, I want not
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by unalone 17y ago
Command-` cycles between windows of only one application. Would that do?
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by unalone 17y ago
How is OS X optimized for one window/program? Switching between windows is fast. I'm not sure what you mean.
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by unalone 17y ago
Wait, how would karma transfers work? What would be the point?
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by unalone 17y ago
I don't think I'll ever use this, but I love it, for the simple reason that it consolidates Google's famous blank design. Going to that page and seeing the logo and the blank box feels really comforting, like Google's making an effort to co
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by unalone 17y ago
You also get this in Safari. Incidentally, for Mac users it's incredibly trivial to set up a hotkey for the search box. I have it mapped to CMD-E, and it greatly eases my web flow.
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by unalone 17y ago
What I mean is: Why did you delete it after you'd already edited the original comment? I'm curious.
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by unalone 17y ago
Other people will respond if they have something to say. Isn't that how it always works? Your current comment is the exact same as your other comment. You edited that one, then deleted it as it got voted down. I believe that you didn't do i
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by unalone 17y ago
Nobel Prizes are not a metric for achievement. That's insane . It's the most selective and irritatingly limited metric you could come up with. What I'm trying to get you to understand, xiaoma, is that if ranking anything is stupid, then
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by unalone 17y ago
There's a difference between saying "Hey, these places are really good!" and saying "Hey, this place ranks a little bit above this place!" I'm a firm believer in the malevolence of unnecessary statistics. The only point I've ever seen in co
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by unalone 17y ago
Perhaps the moral here is that ranking colleges is a stupid way to do things, that comparing a large enormous entity to another large enormous entity is silly, and that when you're really good at what you do, the difference between #1 and #
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by unalone 17y ago
Hey! Look at me! I spend so much time working with computers that I prefer a highly technical solution to something with an easily comprehensible interface! Then, because I also has Asperger's syndrome and overeat, I spend my time dissing p
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by unalone 17y ago
I'd question the expansion if Harvard was bloated, but they're not. If anything they're serving an absurdly small group of people considering their size. They can afford to expand without diluting their quality. They ought to. (Hell, it wou
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by unalone 17y ago
That's a weird way to ask it. iTunes has competitors, after all. Just today I bought a slew of mp3s from the Amazon store, because they offer incredible deals. If you mean will Amazon become the majority store, the answer is that they will
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by unalone 17y ago
Because Harvard has the potential to expand out and encompass even more students while maintaining its level of quality. Unless you think no student rejected from Harvard is as valuable as the few it maintains?
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by unalone 17y ago
You're spouting some fine bullshit. Suggesting that Harvard could expand to handle more students than it's handling now isn't "socialism". It's rational unless you're suggesting either that there aren't more brilliant students now than al
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by unalone 17y ago
That's the point I was trying to make. If you take only the people who're good at what they do and put a serious effort into what they do, I doubt you'll see as many failures as the 1 in 100,000 would indicate.
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by unalone 17y ago
95,000 of those geeks made their "game" by stacking a bunch of HTML pages on top of each other. 4,500 more are in "beta", which means they didn't finish making it. 400 more were built by people who didn't understand CSS, and so are ugly and
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by unalone 17y ago
That's not the death of authenticity. That's oversaturation. That's a lot of people cynically turning marketing from something useful and benevolent into a wasteful game. Organic growth is the real goal of advertising. When you make an ad,
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by unalone 17y ago
It's a matter of playing the right games. I tend to play shorter arthouse games. Braid, Blueberry Garden, Everyday Shooter, and its kin.
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by unalone 17y ago
I'd like to think those geeks are at least having fun. Seeing this article actually made me think I'm going to try my hands at making something like this—not for money, but just because it seems like a fun way to spend college.
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by unalone 17y ago
So you don't watch movies, either? Or read books? Two hours of time in which you learn nothing?
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by unalone 17y ago
It gives them a way to quickly communicate feelings, and to see what other people are saying quickly. Because it's so short, you can follow a lot of news without being overwhelmed.
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by unalone 17y ago
So you hate video games for the same reason theatergoers hate the cinema at the turn of the century. You hate the current offering rather than the medium itself.
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by unalone 17y ago
I listen to excessive amounts of music. Just today I've gone through an old dreampop favorite ("Treasure" by the Cocteau Twins), gave a neoclassical album a try, listened to both an intense breakcore album and a darker classical album by a
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by unalone 17y ago
Rock climbing might be interesting. I'm in Philly, might take you up on that offer sometime.
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by unalone 17y ago
SomethingAwful is, hands-down, the best forum on the Internet. If you've got time, this is probably the quintessential SA drama, and it's epic in scope: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=1a3f8a1a28... Also from SomethingAw
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by unalone 17y ago
In the case of Reddit, remember that the site is built to fracture into mini-communities. Once you get involved in one or two, you meet all the people there, and remember them as they show up elsewhere. P-Dub was easy to notice because for
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by unalone 17y ago
Reddit's an odd combination. Certain subreddits have notorious characters: There's S2S2S2S2S2, and MercurialMadnessMan, and RedDyeNumber4, to pick a few from memory, that appear in places like AskReddit or SuicideWatch. There are certain pe
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by unalone 17y ago
P90X satisfies both my inner nerd and my inner extremist. I started with a roommate last year. I really need to get back into the swing of it this year before I start flabbing again. http://www.amazon.com/P90x-Extreme-Home-Fitness-Horton/d

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