badger7

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by badger7 17y ago
There's a world of difference between self-reflection and self-congratulation, seldom noticed by those practising the latter.
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by badger7 17y ago
No, no, no - down-vote away, be my guest. I was LOLing at the irony of it. Much as I'm doing now about this one, in fact.
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by badger7 17y ago
The first time you do it, sure :)
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by badger7 17y ago
Indeed, but the first one was a serious point, presented tongue-in-cheek. People seeing it as just a one-liner are missing something, however slight. (The second was just a instantly-typed reaction which should have been an edit. Much gro
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by badger7 17y ago
"Just because someone is wrong, it doesn't mean they aren't smart" Indeed, just as being right doesn't mean they are smart - but the point I'm making is that HN users cover a range of cleverness, and that self-estimation is pointless (Dunni
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by badger7 17y ago
Limited tolerance is the key. Zero tolerance would be equally as bad as complete tolerance, IMHO.
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by badger7 17y ago
"The people here are smart" The people here believe they are smart. Some are correct, others are not.
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by badger7 17y ago
Some people enjoy jokes regardless of topic. Please tolerate.
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by badger7 17y ago
LOL at the down-votes :)
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by badger7 17y ago
Thinking something and saying it are two different things. Explaining this fact necessitates saying it, but we're in a different context to the original. I see no insincerity in that. "I never should should have said it, whether I still bel
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by badger7 17y ago
The trouble with humour on HN is that HN is full of other people.
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by badger7 17y ago
I believe :O is the appropriate response.
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by badger7 17y ago
How is a 'thanks' worthy of down-votes? Because I dared to present it implicitly? Can't you muppets extrapolate anything ?
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by badger7 17y ago
Bindun', I'm afraid: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=609893
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by badger7 17y ago
I like to read more than just the title before I decide whether or not to vote. When I get back, the left is easier because I don't have to read the title again.
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by badger7 17y ago
Indeed, I commented it myself a few days ago. 'Distraction from distraction' is my take - don't worry about everything else in your head, just open notepad and start making notes on whatever it is you're trying to put off. You'll forget the
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by badger7 17y ago
That's different. They still want the cigarette itself, they just don't want to be someone who wants cigarettes, if you see what I mean. The 'really caring' about stopping applies to a wider scope than the single cigarette you'd have to dec
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by badger7 17y ago
This is an oversimplification. I have a project that I care about immensely and still procrastinate on. It's because I want to get it right first time, and spend my time mulling it over instead of just doing it. I'm working on shaking that
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by badger7 17y ago
The site's absence from the time the content was deleted until the time it would have taken to restore a backup is the fault of the dirty, stinking crackers. From that point onwards, it is the fault of the person who decided on the backup s
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by badger7 17y ago
I hate that!!!!!! It's one of my myriad pet peeves!!!!!!! Along wif spellen like ur a morun, wevver it's on perpose or not!!!!! It makes you look like a drama queen!!!!!!! Which, to me at least, is a huge insult!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it's some
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by badger7 17y ago
Ditto, funnily enough, but the defensiveness portrayed differentiates my experience from that of the OA.
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by badger7 17y ago
Books? You have time to read books? (I jest - 'tis nearing the top of a very long list...)
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by badger7 17y ago
Exactly!
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by badger7 17y ago
Ha! I've not come across that before. Guess I'll have to stick to something made-up but memorable from now on :( They'll get an earfull when they ask me for it though, futile or not :)
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by badger7 17y ago
Whenever forced to use one of these authentications, I just wail on the keyboard to provide an answer. My mother's maiden name? Why, it's "sfdgh,jsdzl.kg hjsldghs,hb".
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by badger7 17y ago
The following talk is required viewing before any discussion on happiness can take place. It's absolutely and completely vital to understand the points demonstrated in this talk to have an informed opinion on the subject. http://www.ted.co
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by badger7 17y ago
I would appear to have missed those traps too. From my reading, he appears to have avoided many traps of assumption, traps that the interviewer blundered into without even noticing. IE, there is no average corpus, language is dynamic, hash
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by badger7 17y ago
One definition of arrogance is "making undue claims in an overbearing manner". You know, like turning "never having heard of" into "not having instant recall of every single CS algorithm".
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by badger7 17y ago
No? I guess I'll take that as concession :)
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by badger7 17y ago
Play directed by the child, ie, the child sees a book next to a soft toy and chooses to look at the book, rather than being directed by a video saying "let's read a story now".

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