thefalcon

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by thefalcon 9y ago
Thanks!
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Okay, I admit it, I'm not enlightened. Will somebody please Explain Like I'm 5?
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by thefalcon 9y ago
This is probably my favorite article I've read on here all year. User experience is so important and so hard and so iterative (and requires so many new sets of eyeballs) that far too many people and organizations call it quits at the 1
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by thefalcon 9y ago
They announced the iPhone months in advance of its availability. Even the iPod was announced three weeks in advance of its availability date.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I think in this case "biggest swing for the house" should be interpreted as "biggest edge in favor of the house," not anything to do with variance. Everyone knows the house always wins in the long run (that's why &q
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by thefalcon 9y ago
That's why you build a personal brand while you're riding the coattails of a popular game. See Day9, who plays whatever game he feels like playing on his scheduled "day off" and streams it. He definitely has fun, even if
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by thefalcon 9y ago
No it isn't. The deal was announced today, the linked article is from six days ago. Speculation and rumors are not the same thing as a done deal.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I have no faith that a Snow Crash movie would live up to the novel, as much as I want it to exist anyway. A series would be better, especially one with a planned ending.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
This is a brand recognition play, and LotR has huge (general audience) brand recognition.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I found the Runelords series by David Farland really enjoyable and cinematic. Great exploration of a fascinating magic system, with some very memorable characters to boot. For Sci Fi, Netflix is currently making a series based on Altered Ca
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Hopefully they're incentivized to pour a huge budget into these given the "competition" of the movies (and GoT) and they make it worth the Prime subscription. (Personally Prime has so much value add these days for me I can&#x
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by thefalcon 9y ago
"Van Gogh used a type of red pigment that gradually faded over time. That suggests the painting looks slightly different today than when it was completed." There's something kind of cool about older art changing over time and
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I have more of a general aversion to the actions of the (Core) people who support SegWit, including false promises, censorship, and other shenanigans like the 2x trojan horse which we've just seen play out: https://www.reddi
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by thefalcon 9y ago
There was a spate of articles calling Bitcoin forks "dividends" and other such nonsense which I'm sure a lot of people bought into.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Yep. In September Business Insider reported a 91% correlation between the price of Bitcoin and searches for Bitcoin on Google: http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-correlation-goo...
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by thefalcon 9y ago
The Segwit2x effort began in May with a simple purpose: to increase the blocksize and improve Bitcoin scalability. At the time, the Bitcoin community was in crisis after nearly 3 years of heavy debate, and consensus for Segwit seemed like
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I don't understand this desire to immediately assume bad faith in these situations. It's a complicated situation, involving a lot of actors. Yeah, probably some of them are acting in bad faith. But probably most of them are just t
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Thankfully 50,000 likes on Facebook is cheaper than the object at the store. (Only somewhat kidding. Don't buy your kids Facebook Likes.)
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I never understood why you would ever write-protect a floppy. Then again, I had a Mac 512k with a single floppy drive. (Insert Disk A; CRANK WHIRR GRIND SPIT; Insert Disk B; WHIRR WHIRR CRANK GRIND SPIT; Insert Disk A...)
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by thefalcon 9y ago
As I understand it, Apple committed to X years of the lightning port to certain MFi vendors, which (if true) is just another checkmark in the "why have ports" column.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Best theme music ever? Maybe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAkL2-vh2Sk
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Gargoyles.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Because the FCC needs their help to defeat Net Neutrality! Jokes aside, no, I can't recall actually ever feeling a ghostly presence -- how many people here have?
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Was his name Michael? http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=1392
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by thefalcon 9y ago
And there's a 26% chance that you'll never even interview the best because you hired someone before you ever saw them. But it's still an optimal solution to the problem, given the constraints.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Emphasis on the mini: that applies to the kind of range it gets too thanks to limited power levels.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Paid DMs can be a great experience for everyone, especially if all the people in your play group "just want to play."
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by thefalcon 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/3au0ie/thac0_origins_a...
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by thefalcon 9y ago
This is a great story, a fun deconstruction of the QR format and a nice bit of hacking to "zoom and enhance" their way to a private key.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Exactly. Your friends will still see share just as many ads, except they'll be even more obnoxiously click-baity because the ads will be that much more desperate to make ROI.

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