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by ceol 12y ago
If you wanted to prove someone has talent, you would point to them pushing out noteworthy things on a consistent basis. Sure, someone can be very talented but have only a single thing to their name, but it's just as likely they got luc
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by ceol 12y ago
That wasn't a blog post. It was an About page for a product. It's essentially the product's description.
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by ceol 12y ago
> Minecraft was grown out of the way Notch works. I'd say Minecraft was grown in spite of the way Notch works. The way he works has been the bane of a lot of modders, who are (arguably) the reason his game is so successful. &gt
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by ceol 12y ago
Wouldn't Tramadol be classified as a psychotropic just by virtue of it inhibiting your central nervous system? As someone who takes Tramadol for pain, it does have an odd effect when I'm tired: I find I become less tired, as if
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by ceol 12y ago
I'm not sure if you're joking, but opiates are grown from opium poppy plants, so that would be a good place to start if you actually wanted an abundance to feed to animals. Tramadol, however, is an opioid , which is a term that
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by ceol 13y ago
> This is a case where two people did something unusual in a work environment and garnered the attention of their coworkers. That's expected. Did this ever say it was in their office? All it said was they were hula-hooping to some
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by ceol 13y ago
> GitHub's response neither confirms nor denies any part of the story. Well, they do say: We know we have to take action and have begun a full investigation. While that’s ongoing, and effective immediately, the r
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by ceol 13y ago
That's unfair to the beanie baby industry. They were actually producing something.
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by ceol 13y ago
You mean like how we made a profit from them?[0] [0]: http://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list
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by ceol 13y ago
That would be a good analogy if we couldn't transfer money online. But, you know, we can. The whole point of Bitcoin that's been touted in pretty much every thread, hoisted up by Libertarians like a giant flag, is that it's u
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by ceol 13y ago
Yes, all six of the people who use the Windows Store.
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by ceol 13y ago
That really does nothing to disprove my point that people who can't afford movies (either purchasing, or importing, or renting in iTunes) are also extremely unlikely to be able to afford broadband internet and a modern computer and b
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by ceol 13y ago
If a $20 DVD isn't affordable, $20/mo internet isn't. (I'm also fairly skeptical that your average DVD movie is $20, as though that's the absolute lowest you'll ever pay.) Movies aren't a God-given right,
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by ceol 13y ago
Yes, it is important, which is why affluent first worlders shouldn't hold them up as poster children for their pet cause of not wanting to purchase things.
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by ceol 13y ago
Let's not delude ourselves into thinking the people who are in group (b) are the ones who have enough money to afford a high-bandwidth internet connection, a modern computer, and the knowledge to know what torrents and the accompanying
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by ceol 13y ago
Because people want to see them. People (as in the general public) really don't care about yet-another Snowden interview, so news outlets aren't going to shell out the big bucks.
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by ceol 13y ago
It's far more likely they're not running it because no one cares. Seriously, the general public really doesn't care. Why would they report on something that's going to make their viewers change the channel?
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by ceol 13y ago
I'm not trolling. I responded to the person sticking up for others and let them know they aren't alone. You should stop claiming anyone who disagrees with you is a troll, Chris; it really doesn't make you look too good. Likew
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by ceol 13y ago
rds2000 is literally saying that being a man is pitiful and should be shamed, and then argues elsewhere in this very thread that the real problem with our industry are the feminists. Me thinks he doesn't read what he types.
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by ceol 13y ago
"Credibility"? It's an argument. You either agree with it or you don't. That was most certainly an ad hominem. It was an attempt to counter a point by attacking the messenger, not the argument. Textbook, really.
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by ceol 13y ago
> You're fighting to create a world in which the intellectual currency is not reason, evidence, or logic Ah yes, empathy is the enemy of intellect! Truly an argument made by a well-adjusted person. > If I claim I'm a vict
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by ceol 13y ago
Surprising you scrolled right passed the guy calling someone a "pussy whipped mofo" to tell me that saying he's a jackass is trolling. Says something about your priorities, chrismonsanto.
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by ceol 13y ago
Good on your for sticking up to these jackasses. I've long since given up arguing it here, but it makes me so happy to see folks like you and others in this thread shouting these idiots down.
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by ceol 13y ago
> but if you were look them up, they're twittering and having fun more than building. The irony of this comment being in a long-winded post on Hacker News is lost, perhaps? You do realize the vast majority of "programmers&quo
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by ceol 13y ago
It's like you read the article or something.
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by ceol 13y ago
The patent isn't for "predictive shipping." It's for Amazon's specific implementation of "predictive shipping." You can't just boil a patent down to two words and then claim prior art.
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by ceol 13y ago
> Couldn't the low number of female computer scientists be due to the fact that not many girls are actually interested in such things? That really doesn't help anything. Why are they not interested? Are you saying something
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by ceol 13y ago
I'm on a 13" MBP (1280x720) and I found his font size to be perfect. It was actually refreshing, since I'm used to tiny fonts. It felt like using a mechanical keyboard after years of chiclets.
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by ceol 13y ago
You seem to be conflating a lot of things. For starters, no one is saying it's pg's job. The interviewer asked him if he felt there was anything he could be doing to get more women into YC. Second, "encourage" does not m
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by ceol 13y ago
Any person can be a good programmer, and the criteria for a good programmer changes each generation. Women were originally thought to be the better programmers because it was considered office-style busywork. Then it shifted to mathematicia

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