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by ovt 10y ago
I was wondering this as well because...pokemon came along...when? After my time, anyway, like late 90s. And then kind of died down, I think, or at least wasn't a monstrous craze at least. And now in 2016, does it mean that everyone who
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by ovt 10y ago
I wonder how common the use of "ain't" is today. I grew up in the rural US in the 1980s, and it was common. And today I don't hear it, but I live in a more... well, educted area. It throws me off when I see it in writing
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by ovt 10y ago
My take on it is that puzzles and games are doing things by hand, and the point of programming in general is to do things once and for all and save humanity the trouble of doing things by hand. Not that there's anything wrong with doin
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by ovt 10y ago
I feel it's a good development that we no longer hear about Linus so much--unlike in the 90s, when it seemed he was taken excessively seriously.
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by ovt 10y ago
I don't follow PUA stuff and had to look up sigma. For anyone else: It's a term for the cool outsider/loner who gets the chicks.
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by ovt 10y ago
The only band that mattered.
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by ovt 10y ago
You know, I felt really troubled to have been using something for 20 years and realize things had changed and it was no longer right and no longer good for me. I felt like a fool for having stuck with it for quite so long. I realize that so
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by ovt 10y ago
I've certainly wondered why they weren't interested in being more transparent.
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by ovt 10y ago
I used to run it, and I'm not sure there's value in it anymore. They often don't stay on top of security updates, and compiling anything just got worse and worse. The last straw was the fanboys at the linuxquestions forum. It
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by ovt 10y ago
I used it until a couple of years ago, but it often wasn't getting security updates and compiling anything for it was becoming more and more trouble. So I left and I don't miss it.
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by ovt 10y ago
This is certainly a big issue. In the comments, I see of course how it's so vital for all of us, and yet our problems and our advice...varies because we're all different and it's hard to express what we are and what we love i
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by ovt 10y ago
Do you have insight into why you want to corner the market on money?
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by ovt 10y ago
It became more interesting to me in the middle with 'Perhaps full independence is unlikely – but what about greater devolution for London?' and 'Localism has been a big part of David Cameron and George Osborne’s agenda, with
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by ovt 10y ago
I wonder what the author's reasoning was in being quite so self-congratulatory.
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by ovt 10y ago
No, I know about that one. There something else with an extra -at- syllable that I encounter often enough that I'm surprised I haven't just run into it again since I made that comment.
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by ovt 10y ago
I don't like deletion very much either in general, although I've seen librarians defend themselves with 1. that they totally don't have room for stuff 2. for kids' stuff, at least, if it's science, our knowledge has
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by ovt 10y ago
I believe Bret Victor said in a talk that we don't see civil rights violations and think, "Oh good, an opportunity"
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by ovt 10y ago
I partly feel embarrassed to have been wrong after all, and partly feel relieved that everyone hasn't just been losing their minds in recent years. There's another one that everyone's been sticking an extra syllable in that I
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by ovt 10y ago
Lakoff and framing seemed to be in the air around 2003 or 2004, and it was a very good development. And then everyone forgot it, or maybe were encouraged to forget it.
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by ovt 10y ago
Orientated? I wonder whether implementated will be a word one day.
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by ovt 10y ago
On some sites, I have a tendency to click on the scrollbar and drag it instead of scrolling with the keyboard -- and then when the infinite scrolling kicks in, I find myself suddenly way down the page off in the weeds somewhere. So then I e
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by ovt 10y ago
Glad they gave up, but calling it collaboration and speaking of thanking is silly bullshit.
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by ovt 10y ago
I like how he touches concisely on what brought this all about, what caused it to go as it did, and assorted effects it will have. I mean, as opposed to when we get links to articles from the atlantic or the new yorker where we fairly consi
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by ovt 10y ago
I tried to make a database of sorts as a kid. Reading about relative files and such in the commodore 1541 manual: Went very well. Writing a program out on paper: Went very well. Getting it to work at all on the computer: Total failure. I ju
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by ovt 10y ago
Ah, the bullshit american dream. Now I have to look up who it was with the "They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" line. A good line. Internet, at least, believes it's from George Carlin.
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by ovt 10y ago
Possibly it depends upon the audience. Another possibility is that someone makes an error and then claims it was intentional testing.
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by ovt 10y ago
I haven't observed that myself, but I suppose we all have different experiences in different environments.
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by ovt 10y ago
Can we quantitatively measure how in love with itself a given field is? Design seems to be way up there.
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by ovt 10y ago
I page through, knowing already that there's a problem, to see what he's thinking in terms of solutions. At the bottom I catch a reference to ProjectVRM. I follow the link and what I find is all bloggy and vague. If there's a
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by ovt 10y ago
I don't have deep knowledge of what it's like in literary land, literature degree programs, etc., but oh goodness can they blather on, Painting Pictures longer than my interest holds. "on MUNI, at bars, in bed in my apartment

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