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by xxr 21d ago
>when you do it on a phone the portability and something about the form factor and touch interface seems to supercharge it I recall reading something a while back (maybe even by someone at Rovio) that the simple finger motions across the
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by xxr 7mo ago
When I read the title, I thought "morg" was one of those goofy tech words that I had missed but whose meaning was still pretty clear in context (like a portmanteau of "Microsoft" and "borged," the latter of whi
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by xxr 7mo ago
Yeah, isn't this why we're told everything "moves so much slower at a bigco" than at a startup?
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by xxr 8mo ago
Was going to say that I hope Joe doesn't end up going to prison for an unspeakable crime, but then I saw it was an acronym.
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by xxr 8mo ago
>they broke all the time While I was reading the OP I kept thinking about how an accounting firm's entire ability to do business rested on the continued functioning of a parallel-port dongle. I just have to imagine that they had a b
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by xxr 9mo ago
I imagine this is a temporary gig until the burbclaves build out their own armed security services and he moves on to high-speed pizza delivery.
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by xxr 9mo ago
> The founder of FedEx actually wrote a business pitch paper for an overnight shipping company. This paper was given a low grade by his professor. He went on to form this company, which become a success, despite this low grade. Was the p
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by xxr 9mo ago
“Initially, Ravel was to create a variation on the music of Isaac Albéniz, but copyright laws prevented him from doing so.” [your article] “[Koji Kondo] had planned to use Maurice Ravel's Boléro as the title theme as it perfectly match
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by xxr 9mo ago
A few years after this, a documentary was made about some of the men still living at the Sunshine (mentioned in the first paragraph): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0m2FaC8GUs
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by xxr 11mo ago
Great assessment of Dave Barry
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by xxr 11mo ago
> The most timeless thing here is Linux retaining its "highest hacker to user ratio". More so than BSD? Or still more than just the OSs Carmack listed?
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Chuck E. Cheese's Annual Report For Kids (1982) [pdf](showbizpizza.com)
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by xxr 1y ago
I’ve been seeking out classic phpbb-style forums more and more for community. I just stopped browsing Reddit a few weeks ago after realizing there was nothing I’d truly miss: no characters that I’d come to know, and no reason to maintain a
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by xxr 1y ago
Very sorry for your loss. An uncle had bladder cancer about 15 years ago, and while he survived, it began a very steep decline that led to his passing in 2022.
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by xxr 1y ago
Right off the bat I get something that sounds like something Frank Klepacki would have used in the Red Alert 2 soundtrack (likely pulled from Methods of Mayhem). Nice.
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by xxr 1y ago
> For example, TFA looks like a page I'd have browsed in IE5 as a kid, but if you look at the markup, it's using HTML5 tags and Flexbox (which became a W3C WR in 2017), while a period site would have used an HTML table to get t
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by xxr 1y ago
Does this result in a “you get to live but you’re never allowed to fly a plane again” situation?
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by xxr 1y ago
> In inclined to believe that neither would have become trillion dollar companies if they had been acquired by Yahoo. People also like to point to how foolish of Blockbuster it was not to buy Netflix when they had the opportunity to, but
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by xxr 1y ago
Does it work the way CAN-SPAM is supposed to work (marketing can be unsubscribed from with rules about what constitutes "transactional" messages)?
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by xxr 1y ago
>app icons are just "advertisement" You wouldn't believe the volume of actual advertisements that show up as push notifications on my wife's phone
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by xxr 1y ago
I feel like everyone on the inside knew it was coming very soon which is why it seemed so peculiarly Ozzy-focused down to the cake that Geezer Butler brought out to him at the end of the show (and I imagine the contingency plan was to have
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by xxr 1y ago
I’m a little surprised that one of the supposed advantages of Laserdisc over tape is resistance to humidity. Wasn’t delamination/corrosion (LaserRot) a not-uncommon problem for LD? I’m guessing humidity issues (particularly mold) were
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by xxr 1y ago
It’s a joke (hence the “/s”) on the “[PL name] is [words beginning with the rest of the letters of the Pl name]” snowclone. However as time approaches infinity I’m sure it will get a recursive backronym.
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by xxr 1y ago
These recursive initialism PL names are getting out of hand /s
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by xxr 1y ago
These are all Peter Thiel joints, I think.
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by xxr 1y ago
In a code review a couple of years ago, I had to say "no" to a dev casually including pandas (and in turn numpy) for a one-liner convenience function in a Django web app that has no involvement with any number crunching whatsoever
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by xxr 1y ago
I'm working on a little 2D action puzzle game in Go on top of SDL (with bindings via https://github.com/veandco/go-sdl2 ). The prompt I've given myself is "Chip's Challenge meets Hotline Miami,"
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by xxr 1y ago
Heh, I just watched The Wild Robot with my nephews, and the film uses pretty much this same trick early on.
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by xxr 1y ago
"Always code as if the guy^Wold lady who ends up maintaining^Wrunning your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live^Wwork."
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by xxr 1y ago
The trick they use to handle the transition from Russian to English dialogue is so cool.

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