RunningWild

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by RunningWild 12y ago
Up to a point, I agree. Beyond that point it becomes churn and reinvention for the sake of itself.
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by RunningWild 12y ago
Another year, another wheel reinvented.
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by RunningWild 12y ago
On the downside, there's less cost for being stupid which I think is probably bad for influencing cause-effect considerations, even though one effect is potentially death. When I was a kid there was no nerf-padded society (late 70&#x27
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by RunningWild 12y ago
I don't think that's what he said or meant.
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by RunningWild 12y ago
Find a place where you can actually download them and do so. You're still drawing from the cloud, albeit just not dynamically.
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by RunningWild 12y ago
I love the trend of "Let's fix technology. With more technology!" The constant one-up-manship and the preposterous amount of options of all these tech companies makes me yearn for the days of DOS.
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by RunningWild 12y ago
I liked the "oh, I probably shouldn't have been texting right there" look on the girl's face and the fact that her brother laughed at her for it. I once owned a 1968 GTX with 635 HP. The closest thing I could compare the
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by RunningWild 12y ago
This is completely hilarious. Kudos!
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by RunningWild 12y ago
The part with the kids was the best.
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by RunningWild 12y ago
Except that (probably) no one predicts where bullets go for a living whereas, for weather reporters (or, more accurately, meteorologists), it's their job. I theorize if we started smashing them in the balls with a tackhammer every time
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by RunningWild 12y ago
What most people call talent is just the byproduct of motivation and hard work.
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by RunningWild 12y ago
Just watch "Sneakers" instead of that drivel of a movie.
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by RunningWild 12y ago
Here, you'll enjoy this, on me. Apogee's old catalogs and all their mailing materials : https://www.scribd.com/doc/134559074/Apogee-Catalog There's a bunch of other id and Carmack related docs up t
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by RunningWild 12y ago
I installed Doom on my high school computers and carefully hid it so the technology department (who were clueless) couldn't find it (by putting it in a renamed subdir in the Windows dir and renaming the .exe and .wad file and handling
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by RunningWild 12y ago
There is, read by Whil Wheaton. Whether the 2nd part is good or bad, is another matter : http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu...
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by RunningWild 12y ago
Just remove voting altogether and let the strength of the argument/statement prevail rather than allow a mechanism that rewards groupthink.
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by RunningWild 12y ago
"AI : A Modern Approach" is considered the high-level standard text on the subject. It's coverage is fairly broad, but it prioritizes the idea of an AI "agent"; an autonomous "thing" attempting to underst
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by RunningWild 12y ago
Their parents didn't hug them enough.
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by RunningWild 12y ago
What are you talking about? Many countries have gone "first" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline#Decline_by_n...
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The Computer Chronicles – Programming Languages (1990)(youtube.com)
3 points by RunningWild 12y ago|0 comments
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by RunningWild 12y ago
This doesn't mirror my own experience. Typically the 5-star reviews often fall into the category "worked great for me" or fanboyism, but it's generally ambiguous how extensive of a test they've performed on the ite
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by RunningWild 12y ago
Of note to anyone mentioning "Masters of Doom" are the following two items : - Apogee Catalog from this time period : http://www.scribd.com/doc/134559074/Apogee-Catalog and - The Book of id (from the Id