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by battlebot 9y ago
Interesting side note: Coleco had a version of Slither for their gaming console which shipped with a "Roller Controller" which was pretty innovative at the time. ColecoVision crashed and burned, too, of course. A relative worked
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by battlebot 9y ago
I fight the left because of Venezuela, Cuba, and every place else where Marxist ideas have infected the minds of the masses to give assent to dictatorship. To me, the left will never conjure anything other than the ideas of misery, starvat
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by battlebot 9y ago
This article is genius is the way it depends on layers upon layers of propaganda. It's freaking brilliant--the underlying assumption that only leftist ideals are "correct" and "good" and thus everyone who voted aga
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by battlebot 9y ago
43 here. You might think you still want to be coding into your 50s, but I am here to warn you that the matter is highly subjective. I'm noticing that each subsequent job search after 40 is a little tougher and rejections are for sill
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by battlebot 10y ago
If you read about "Yellow Journalism" and how newspapers were used to accomplish things rich people wanted to happen, you will realize that Americans, and humans in general, have been subject to mass manipulation via the media for
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by battlebot 10y ago
Yeah, well, here's the thing about that: If you don't explain your lifestyle to some people most just assume you're a broke bum, which is very annoying after awhile. I'm actually going to find some job to do because I
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by battlebot 10y ago
Well the whole article came off as a humble brag, so there's that. He should just start collecting Porsches or flying airplanes or something. Jeez.
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by battlebot 10y ago
My personal opinion about the weeks and months leading up to 9/11 is that the neocon Bush Administration wanted it to happen. That is not the same as orchestrating it, but they quashed certain investigations at certain times, made it
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by battlebot 10y ago
I'm not sure if I should upvote this or not... I mean, I went to a "less competitive" college to start out with, then ended up at a major university for a masters and then another major university for a PhD. I have definite
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by battlebot 10y ago
Identity politics are garbage. Nobody really cares about your status as a transgender--it doesn't give you the special right to break the rules or to say stupid things about journalism and journalistic integrity. In essence, your fir
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by battlebot 10y ago
The whole "this is crazy" bit is a matter of opinion only, you understand that, yes? What tech companies are so upset about is being cut off from their cheap source of exploitable labor. The rest of the huffing and puffing is jus
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by battlebot 10y ago
This is a dumb idea. The whole matter is too subjective to be easily quantifiable. In a free country, no one dares to attempt to hold some kind of claim to what is true and what is not true. Any such behavior is akin to what China, East
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by battlebot 10y ago
This is a good thing--these companies should not be helping the Chinese government subjugate people.
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by battlebot 10y ago
I don't think there is a "right" or "wrong" company providing the labor. I just think that by exploiting vulnerable non-citizen "guest" workers and promising to sponsor a green card, these companies have
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by battlebot 10y ago
How did you get "higher than average salary?" All the H1Bs I have known, and I have worked with hundreds of them over the years, have all been underpaid compared to market rates. Some were outright exploited by ridiculous middle
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by battlebot 10y ago
I get what you're selling, and I agree to a point, especially about the "being dependable" part, which is why I have been that. On the other hand, my experience with my own creativity is that it peaks around midnight. I wro
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by battlebot 10y ago
Maybe try not using drugs as a crutch? It reminds me of a perverse version of what athletes use steroids for. Be your own man, not some chemically altered monster.
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by battlebot 10y ago
Wow, I feel like I wrote this myself. Unfortunately, I have had very little success being "remote only." Maybe I'll keep trying.
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by battlebot 10y ago
NY Times is arguably an unreliable source of information. They can't help but inject opinion or cant into every article. They have cheapened their brand, so can I trust their reporting?
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by battlebot 10y ago
The question I have is: Would SV be so pro-immigrant if they were forced to pay everyone a competitive wage? The H1B thing has been a scam for depressing wages for decades now. All of my H1B friends are exploited workers with no rights an
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by battlebot 10y ago
Google's political grandstanding is a turn off. I can no longer trust that they aren't censoring search results based on their political leanings. It's a deal breaker, sorry. They best tread carefully or other companies th
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by battlebot 10y ago
There is nothing in the Constitution that supports your assertion. You have been tricked--a radical, violent ideology, wrapped in a religion is out to harm all those who will not submit to it. How many Christians, non-believers, and gener
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by battlebot 10y ago
A lot of us are on this journey. Apple blew it. They lost me as a customer when I had to hurriedly replace my 2012 mac mini with a 2014 model and came to find out the RAM is soldered to the board making my 16GB DIMMS worthless. No forgiv
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by battlebot 10y ago
There was once "broad consensus" that the world was flat. I am not at all comfortable when there is so much consensus. There needs to be debate, disagreement, and healthy skepticism at all times.
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by battlebot 10y ago
This. Although I don't think your allergy flare-ups have a direct causation there--it could just be you're aging. There's ten million variables. I'm tired of the whole "you're a denier" shibboleth--there
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by battlebot 10y ago
I still suspect something will come out about that. It may be that "honey pot" operation the FBI was running got misconstrued, but I still bet there is some grain of truth to what was uncovered because all the other issues brough
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by battlebot 10y ago
Exactly. The thing that everyone is shitting their pants over is a nothingburger. NOAA once had a verifiable mission. The problem with government agencies is mission creep--they all got on the "climate change" bandwagon because
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by battlebot 10y ago
You talk about facts like you don't live in a post-positivist world! You have no idea what you are talking about. "Facts" and "truth" are part of philosophy, but bear very little value in the real world. Just get
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by battlebot 10y ago
That process was too heavy for most business needs and far too expensive as a result. It could never last. I do think developers were more respected back then. Today, developers, like all non-managerial (and to a lesser extent HR) people
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by battlebot 10y ago
In my personal take on all this, it is those people who have wrecked this entire country. They bear incredible blame for many massive failures that cost billions of dollars and millions of jobs. It is that level of a tragedy. But somewhe

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