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by zipdog 16y ago
The passengers don't exactly just turn up, check their bags, and fly. They need to go through a complex medical check-up to ensure that they are fit for spaceflight. If I recall, the tickets include a two-week stay at the spaceport (to ensu
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by zipdog 16y ago
The dig at parking attendants is off the mark, I think Parking attendant is a great job (if you angle it right and get a quiet parking lot, say, long term by the airport). You are free to read to your hearts content, and get paid to do so.
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by zipdog 16y ago
"If I’d played around with every piece of technology I should be using whether I felt like it or not, I’d never have got anywhere." I feel like this all the time. Sometimes it's better to do a less-great job in a language you know backwards
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by zipdog 16y ago
The section on "Types of Players" is based on the Bartle Test ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_Test ), which is worth checking out in it's own right
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by zipdog 16y ago
oh, no I wasn't :( but if you give me a couple of weeks, I'll see if I can find time to start
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by zipdog 16y ago
I wonder if this has any bearing on the force field that 3M accidentally created in one of their factories. http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html
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by zipdog 16y ago
I think the writer misuses the word 'Truth'. He really means something like Grice's maxims for language and communication. A couple of programmers I know have been reading philosophy (in particular epistemology) and applying principles from
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by zipdog 16y ago
This is what I was thinking. FB has reached the marketshare where it's fairly safe for them to relax the control they hold, because even if a variety of open rivals appear, using the data that FB releases, FB will still be the centre of the