doctorRetro

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by doctorRetro 7y ago
I'm curious about the tagline "Ideal for resumes or team sites". Why is this ideal for these use cases, and how would it be implemented, and what is the benefit?
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
That's actually pretty clever. Credit where it's due.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
Nothing really poignant to say about this, other than thanks OP for posting something positive to read today.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
It sounds like your job sucks more than your field. And I'm not saying that to discredit your point of view. I know. I've been there. My last job was pretty bad and it left me wondering whether I hated the job, or the field. I end
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
Thank you (and all other respondents) for clarifying that. The website doesn't do a great job of explaining it.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
So this is a third party application (or one of several) I can download and install to make editing a text file sitting on my desktop easier and more accessible? Easier and more accessible than, say, opening it in Notepad? I apologize if I&
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
I don't get it. I mean, I understand what I'm looking at; a word cloud of music genres that is each linked to a sample. That part I got. But when you label your website 'Every Noise at Once'... I kind of expect to hear m
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
Pardon a nitpick moment. "Boeing’s control software ... was called DICE, or Decision Mission-Control Software." Okay, well, I see where the D and the C in the acronym comes from, but...
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
Seconded. I've complained before about websites that try to get too magazine with their articles and how it ruins the narrative. But this? This is done really, really well.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
"I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport – It Wasn't Easy" "I had to ... speak with a Delta representative at their information desk ... then request a passport scan when it was my turn to board." That soun
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
I agree on at least the first half of your statement. Although I'm not sure I'd say 'delusional' as much as - I don't know? - Jingoistic? Bombastic? I feel like I should be playing Command and Conquer to that sound
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
And I can corroborate.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
A while back someone posted a comment on another story about travel and tourism - I forget who - basically saying that travel is the ultimate extension of selfishness and narcissism. I disagreed, and I still do, but I will agree with that s
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
Aside: Shout out to the telemarketer who pressured me to get a land line years ago because they're the only guaranteed access to emergency numbers and "never go down."
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
Thanks for that warning. It's appreciated. I had to take a break in the middle of the article before continuing.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
“I think Facebook needs to shut down." As I've spent the last few years pissing away absurd amounts of time on the platform, gotten in countless fruitless arguments, and seen the truly vile and toxic elements of my communities exp
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
A big reason I still love my 12 year old car (a Mazda, by chance) is that it doesn't have a touch screen. I've borrowed a number of cars over the years that have touch screens and I hate them; they're distracting, they'r
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
> ...the way police works/seems to work in the US ... is the exception. Nope. I can't agree with this, as much as I wish I could. It's an easy fallacy to think the U.S. is the exception when it comes to power mad, duplicit
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
Agreed, but even then, I'd argue that particular parody of nerd culture has already long since been normalized. Maybe all BBT did was broaden it a little bit, but a parody it remained.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
Why stop at cars? How about: [Device] owners should control data collected by [the device]
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
My 12 year old car (perhaps obviously) doesn't have a touch screen, and every time I drive a card that does have on, I find it to be either a complete distraction and/or a UI failure. Cars don't need to be gadgetized.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
I'm fine with that. Sooner the better.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
Facebook will not change until there is sufficient external pressure - be that an authority, competition, etc. - to force it to change. End of. We've seen the same story for the last couple of years; Facebook is bad with privacy, Faceb
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
Yep. I see this shared on FB every few months with the usual take of "LOL, WhAt aRE tHesE KiDS dOiNG?" Well, they're being active in a social environment, and having fun. And I can't find anything wrong with that.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
So... it's a re-post of an earlier article, updated to reflect the difference in time. Is that what I'm supposed to make of it?
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
Abbreviated: "I hate this medium because of my strawman reasons."
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
It's there, but further down. The list goes Austria to United States, then Afghanistan to Zimbabwe... for some reason. Canada is in the second block. Again, for some reason.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
The second photograph - the candidates standing awkwardly at pseudo-attention - would make an excellent album cover.
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
So W3W is effectively domains for lat/lon and/or street addresses. This feels like an idea trying desperately to justify it's existence. Or to paraphrase, the answer to a question no one asked. Reviewing the critiques of this
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by doctorRetro 7y ago
See, that's a perfectly valid and logical reason right there. Unfortunately, the author didn't go into that and just left it at personal preference.

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