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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But Posterous isn't a serious blog engine. It is by very loose definitions of "blog engine" but it's a service trying to do stuff that Wordpress and Typepad don't do. I don't like comparing it dead-on to Wordpress. If you did, Wordpress wou
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Anything that helps! I was lucky because I got a teacher who took a lot of pains to separate the book from its context, and who got us all reading books without wondering at first why we were supposed to be reading this. Teachers like that
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Furthermore, you are alerted of any tagging and you can choose to untag. Some of us choose to keep the photos where we look sunburned and drunk tagged. Some of us untag everything that's not pristine. What's nice about Facebook is they make
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
What I do criticize is the way some people apply "Objectivism." This is certainly not unique. I also find the attitudes of many Christians to be distinctly not Christ-like. That's actually a really apt comparison! I think I'll borrow that
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In Holden's mind, yes. I'll assume you've read the book - if not, it really is a fun one to read, not stuffy in the least. But Holden is really nervous of women and of sex. There's the famous (in my mind) scene with the hooker, where he chi
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The difference is that The Catcher In The Rye is well-written, whereas American Beauty is tripe, and Donnie Darko is low-budget tripe. AB overstates everything and generally treats its audience like idiots (and hey, it won an Academy Award
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Heh. I called you an asshole in regard to your second post, not that original one. I actually agree with its intent: These posts are rather silly. But snarking about it wasn't the right thing to do, IMHO.
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The mental hospital I can see - I've heard that before - but I don't know if I'd go from that to saying it was all fictitious. It seems too detailed to be fiction, and it never slips up and reveals itself to be potentially phony. (That rais
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I might forgive you for being an asshole if you were particularly witty about it, but you're not. You're sniping for no reason.
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Remind HN: Meaningless sniping may be useful on other sites, but here we all try and contribute to the discussion.
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Richard Dawkins has a quote along the lines of, "Why do we have to look at a beautiful planet and demand a reason behind its being here? Can't we appreciate it for what it is?" So it is with life. Perhaps in the long run we'll all be dead a
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Stick to sites that use flat displays rather than threads. Threading almost always leads to crap. Flat displays have disadvantages but the linearity of the conversation leads to there being some focus in the community. Metafilter and Someth
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I find that it helps if you distance yourself from your account somewhat. When I posted under an account related to my name and my activities, I felt pressured to think and act a certain way and I monitored my karma a bit closely. Using a b
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Every single time this is posted I read it and it is still as good as I remember. Thank you for reposting this, volodia.
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You're not allowed to love free source and also love incredibly beautiful closed-source devices? I didn't know GNU was an us-or-them system; sounds a bit closed-minded to me.
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Objectivism is terrific in a few ways. I still reread The Fountainhead once or twice a year. But the more you learn of it the shallower it becomes. The Fountainhead works because it's an incredibly contained world; Roark is essentially a lo
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It wasn't a Bible quotation. It was pretty specific and relevant to his time period. I'll try to find it but I haven't had success yet; apologies.
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I'd be worried if Harry Potter was replacing Holden, but the two can stand proudly side-by-side. The alienation in Harry Potter may not be as overwhelming as it is in Catcher, but it's probably even more pervasive in how it illustrates th
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It's depressing to see Catcher In The Rye continually misinterpreted. Salinger's fault for being so obscure, perhaps, but I blame English teachers for not explaining the book well. The "Catcher In The Rye" is a snippet Holden Caulfield mis
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I don't know much about Naggum, so it's entirely possible you're right. Apologies if I misinterpreted his relationship with the community.
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A quick Google search isn't returning much, but it's hard to find a good set of terms to search for. I recall spending a lot of time in a class talking about it, though. At once point we were given quotes and asked to identify them as being
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Also remember the duality of those two people: Martin Luther King at times called for violence and Malcolm X was mostly a peaceful protestor. It's easier to put them into categories but nobody is so bluntly one way or the other. Just as I h
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I've heard this argument - the "if a large company ignores a small percentage then they're still doing awful things" - to justify a hell of a lot of griping. If Facebook was doing this willfully then I'd agree with you, but as it is they're
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Microsoft is stuck in a bad place. I don't doubt they've got some brilliant people working for them, but they made a bunch of tasteless products and now they can't even scrap it all and start again because they have to offer support for all
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Point. But I was talking about outside of bundling, since I figured it was a given. I'm guessing Microsoft here is trying to retain that hold, at a time when many people download Firefox or Chrome or Safari first thing on bootup.
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Citing The Fountainhead - not exactly the best way to make an argument. I'm a supporter of Rand and her ideals but her writing regarding human relationships is detached from reality.
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From everything I've heard of him that's right. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I rarely judge people on their personality. I know nice guys that are absolute shits, just as I know one or two nice guys that are incredible people. Simi
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But it's hardly surprising.
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The media really doesn't care much for web browser competition. Blogs, do, but the blogs that care are the ones read by people who already know IE is bad. Microsoft isn't doing some clever targeting with this. It's pretty obvious that they'
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It's marketing bullshit. There's lots of that in the world. It's not worth paying attention unless somebody in this community still uses IE by choice.

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