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by smspence 12y ago
I'm sorry, I think I'm going to need a citation for that "incredibly popular" claim. Or is it that I run in the more moderate circles, so I am unaware? Is he popular among everyone, or popular among tea-party nutter bu
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by smspence 12y ago
Ted Cruz is an extreme outlier. Everyone else in the Republican party hates him. Please don't take his dumb remarks as representative of anyone else. Here is a quote [1] referring to how Mitch McConnell (Republican Senate Minority Le
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by smspence 12y ago
Sorry. To me, it looked like the issue had already been politicized, and I was just throwing in a quick sarcastic remark. Didn't think it would be taken too seriously. I get your point.
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by smspence 12y ago
You don't get it. That would only be wrong if a republican president did it. When a democrat does it, it's fine.
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by smspence 12y ago
Extreme liberals do not want "equal opportunity". What they actually want is "equal outcome in all circumstances", which is obviously never going to happen, not even under socialism/communism.
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by smspence 13y ago
I don't really understand the "greedy old white men" part of your comment... What do you mean specifically? By the way, touch screens in avionics are gaining a lot of traction in the commercial aviation market. See one such
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by smspence 13y ago
Rockwell Collins (big avionics maker) has a good touch screen product line that has been gaining traction in the commercial aviation market. Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion: http://www.rockwellcollins.com/prolinefusion&#x2
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by smspence 13y ago
Netflix is unusable on my Apple TV. I can't even get through a 20-minute TV episode without it dropping to sub-480p quality and/or stopping completely. I've never been able to figure it out. I have the latest generation Ap
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by smspence 13y ago
He didn't say anything about the quality of Windows RT / Windows Phone products. Sounds like he was just implying that they have a relatively small installed base compared to iOS / Android products. That's pretty hard
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by smspence 13y ago
I agree with your main point that long-term health is very important, but I'm hoping you're not saying that healthy food and tasty food are mutually exclusive.
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by smspence 13y ago
In my mind, I think of Soylent as "food for people who don't like food". In the same way I think of Nickelback or American Idol as "music for people who don't like music". There are millions of these people w
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by smspence 13y ago
Because on the internet, and especially in internet comments, the world only exists in black and white. Something is either 100% true for everyone everywhere at all times without exception, or it is 100% false. There is no middle ground,
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by smspence 13y ago
Haven't similar products existed for a while now? I wonder how Soylent compares to a product like Ensure, or other meal-replacement powders / shakes that have been on the market for years already. Is Soylent significantly cheape
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by smspence 13y ago
I'm sorry you feel that way. I simply looked on the front page of HN, and didn't see any Microsoft / Nokia-related articles. So I went out and found some on another site. I can't control what is on the front page of H
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by smspence 13y ago
Again. So. Much. ANGER. RAAAAAGGGGGEEEE!!!!!!! Addressing your last paragraph: But why am I arguing with you? You've made it perfectly clear that you don't feel that I'm welcome here. You'd rather live in an Apple bubbl
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by smspence 13y ago
...it's actually a pretty big fucking problem. LOL, what is it about Apple that brings out so much ANGER on the internet? Seriously, I'm just having a field day, reading all the comments on HN, Ars, The Verge, Reddit, etc. with
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by smspence 13y ago
"if I was teaching someone Django/Python development from scratch today, I would definitely include pip, virtualenv, and git/mercurial as part of the baseline." They DO show you how to use pip, git, and virtualenv. Check
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by smspence 13y ago
Ok, let's start over. Hello, how are you?
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by smspence 13y ago
> It's my unqualified opinion that you're reacting emotionally... Oh, I see, so if ANYONE disagrees with you about ANYTHING EVER, it must only be because they are reacting emotionally and have no logical basis for their disagre
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by smspence 13y ago
Actually, I'm not sure. Is it really not technically straw man? I think it is, but am tired of typing and I feel like I have wasted a lot of time in this thread. Everyone have a good week! See ya later.
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by smspence 13y ago
Of course we could all imagine a bunch of made-up names for rooms that would be inappropriate in a business setting. Nobody is arguing that no such names exist. My problem is simply with your entire approach to your argument. What you are
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by smspence 13y ago
Except that there's no room called the "Coworker Fuck Room", so that's a straw-man argument...
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by smspence 13y ago
That doesn't sound accurate to me... You're not always talking to everybody . On Facebook you can create friend lists, and then post things that are only visible to the people in the chosen list, in the same way that you can share thing
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by smspence 13y ago
"a guy that didn't bother to use comments or any documentation and his idea of versioning system are a bunch of folders" What does this have to do with the Objective-C language itself?
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by smspence 13y ago
Let me get this straight: you are looking for healthy, sensible meals at a place called THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY. Are you serious? Read that again and think about it: the name of the place is The Cheesecake Factory. You're trying to say th
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by smspence 13y ago
My point is that there is no such thing as "American nutrition". What does that term even mean?
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by smspence 13y ago
How is that a "French" meal? You can eat those types of foods anywhere... I have had many meals that look exactly like that here in the U.S., both cooked at home and out at restaurants. Don't believe what you read on Reddit, HN, and other
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by smspence 13y ago
Then just add some extra vegetables and fruit, if that's what you want...
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by smspence 13y ago
How can we know if your typical French meal is balanced or not, since you didn't indicate the portion size of any of those foods?
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by smspence 13y ago
I wouldn't read too much into it. Check out the design of last year's invite: http://macosrumors.com/2012/04/25/apple-wwdc-2012-june/ Very colorful, many different colors of rounded squares, in many different sizes. Everyone thought the d

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