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"I'm a real music nut with diverse taste, but 99% of what I hear today leaves me cold.
Heh. Don't worry, happens to everyone eventually." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by malpractice, chuckdarwin
2 days ago
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"Ok, this is gonna come out as very harsh, and it's not meant to, as your heart is obviously in the right place. But bear with me, because i know of what I speak.
Under the assumption of gaining a fourth partner, he/she would receive compensation,..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Ookseer, nev, fishfucker, tmcw, Nelsormensch, nicwolff, damn dirty ape, universal_qlc
8 days ago
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"The problem is that when you start making big changes to geological time, it's hard to build a counterfactual where humans still turn up.
I think "no New World" is a fairly common one (Terry Pratchett's Strata springs to mind, but it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ewagoner
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"schwa: I still have the scar. Took a full-tilt run in the dark straight into one of their black-painted walls.
I miss the Tricorn. It had problems - the whole layout was just perfect for mugging someone and disappearing into the rabbit warren, and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by schwa, chuckdarwin
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"mr. strange: If I'm reading your comment correctly, that top-down "expert-knows-best" attitude is how (to take my own industry as an example) we end up with confusing, user-hostile software that makes people miserable. The opinions of the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sebastienbailard, Kadin2048
2 weeks ago
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"Not an expert, but that sounds like a sick dog who's trying to eat grass to me." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
3 weeks ago
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"For the people tending towards "we're just poor little metafilter, they're big professional boingboing", this is an interesting graph.
I'm going to be checking it for the next couple of months, just to see if they really took a hit over..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lunit
3 weeks ago
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"The bitterness that's radiating off Xeni's posts is amusing. It appears she can't even bring herself to utter the name ("...the subject of the posts...", "...This person...", "...that material...")...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
3 weeks ago
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"What's the problem with this?
Is a website a collection of essays that are being republished moment to moment, and so can be re-edited at any time, or is it an archive of past publications, which should be altered very rarely?
I actually think..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
3 weeks ago
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"a) Cory appears not to be immediately responsible for the event (nor does TNH, for that matter)
Someone is censoring incoming forum posts in real time, and went back and removed the rainbow post once they got the joke. That goes beyond "we..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
3 weeks ago
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"I think possibly the users decide that, and they might not do an evaluation of the possible solutions available in the messaging space first.
I totally agree that users bend technology to their will, and I think that's great - in fact, SMS itself..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
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"One of everything? Seriously, nobody can tell you what you're going to like - get out there and experiment. (On preview - for example I'd run a mile from Guiness and... Budweiser? Jesus josher, are you out to ruin his first time?) If you're drinking..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bookley, zaphod
Last month
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"The proportion of Americans who live in such landslide counties has nearly doubled since then.
Isn't that explained (at least partially) by gerrymandering?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by konolia
Last month
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"A Google search for filetype:srt will search subtitle files that are floating around the net." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by salvia, ROTFL
Last month
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"Just before you go out, shake some crunchy treats and drop a few on the stairs. In the time it takes to eat the treats, you can leave.
Our cat now goes and sits on the stairs whenever someone puts their coat on. It seems to help that she loves the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by phatkitten
Last month
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"You need to contact the guys over at The Open Rights Group and MySociety. But looking at your site, I'd be amazed if you don't already talk to them.
I've just written and cut a whole bunch of waffle about how I want government to be more like the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DarlingBri
Last month
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"Taking a slightly different approach, tidy your code fragments up into higher-level packages, and put them in a source code repository (eg SVN). Use SVN externals to import your "helper" code into each new project when you start it. That..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by shelbaroo, Precision, lunchbox, grouse
Last month
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"Especially as the main impetus appears to be - as stated above - the broad feeling that it's 'time for a change'.
It's a truism that oppositions don't win elections, governments lose them (with more than a little help from the fourth estate, IMO)...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by klanawa
2 months ago
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"Seriously though, forget all the OMGWTFthat'sSOcool Web 2.0 nonsense and try to find a suitable guinea pig project. How about having a go at coding a simple blog engine for your site with basic OO techniques (preferably with PHP5), and/or using a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fishfucker
2 months ago
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"They obviously did it because they were home-schooled." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by MythMaker, aramaic, CitizenD, rokusan, crunch buttsteak, teleri025, newmoistness, Dillonlikescookies, Busithoth, dabitch
2 months ago
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"3. This is the crucial step. With the Last.fm software installed, play through your entire mp3 and/or CD collection, so that your Last.fm account knows what music you like.
I have to disagree with this - last.fm is a lot more sophisticated than..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chrisbucks
2 months ago
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"For the latter to have any effect, a literate culture had to exist first.
Have we got any stats on literacy rates? My belief is that literacy was an effect of printing, rather than a cause, but I'm at work and I don't have any references to back..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
3 months ago
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"I made it about 2/3 of the way through that video before I had a full on panic attack. [...] I think that was my first ever actual case of future shock.
I imagine this is a shadow of how the Mayans felt when confronted with Cortes' horses...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by marble, tehloki, rongorongo, unixrat, Cat Pie Hurts, rokusan
3 months ago
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"Throwing an idea out there:
Frustration. Something about his life is really winding him up, and he's taking it out on the people around him. That's why you can't win - he's rigging the game so you're always in the wrong.
Causes/solutions? Not a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by gregb1007, limeonaire
4 months ago
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"Wonder why the relatives were pressuring him to enter a home. From that short report, he sounds pretty competent to me." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Nattie, dabitch
4 months ago
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"Create gmail account.
Write email, with attachment, save it to pending folder.
Have friend log in to the same gmail account from his location via https, and read email.
Does anyone know whether the great firewall will
a) allow gmail..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
4 months ago
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""biscuits go soft when stale, whereas cakes go hard when stale"
That's from a British court judgement. I think the British usage of "biscuit" is not going to be a million miles away from the American usage of "cookie"...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amtho
4 months ago
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"Boot from CD and reinstall the OS. Part of the install process will be reformatting the disc." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gjc
4 months ago
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"However, I'd venture to guess that a case could be made for any job that drug use would be dangerous.
Wouldn't that include the legal ones? If the court says "tests should be for things that are detrimental to your job", hard to argue..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
4 months ago
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"Web-2.0-the-design (as opposed to Web-2.0-the-philosophy) grew, IMO, out of the frustrations of web-literate designers in the early part of the decade. They were stuck doing corporate table layouts with 9pt fonts and javascript rollover menus in..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by neko_loco, sparrows, marsha56, DOUBLE A SIDE
4 months ago
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"(An aside: look at the language many of us are using in our answers. Clipped, fast, note-like. A lot of people seem to be very anxious to get their ideas over to you. I think that's interesting, from a "people are apathetic about politics"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
4 months ago
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"gompa: I'm guessing it's the nature of Neville's girlfriend. In the book some of the vampires have "come out the other side", and are trying to rebuild some kind of society. They can't do this with a lone nutcase running around killing them,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gompa
4 months ago
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"But for a modern writer who uses futuristic technology and fantastic settings as a sort of foil to examine human nature I would give a thumbs up to Chasm City or Century Rain by Alistair Reynolds.
Cardboard characters eternally recycled...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Huw
4 months ago
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"Didn't the Soviet Union destroy itself through military spending it couldn't afford?
They were racing to keep up with the US. God knows who the US is racing to keep up with. I think the flyball governor might be jammed...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by panamax
5 months ago
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"Vinyl.
We (as a culture) have broken our ability to listen to albums and read books. We've replaced it with a twitchy, omnivorous browsing. (I'm doing 4 or 5 things right now, including writing this and listening to music, and there's no way I'm..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by snowleopard
5 months ago
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"Hmm. I think we can take an unscientific shot at it if we make some assumptions
1) Most baseball bats bought in the US are sold as baseball bats, not weapons
2) The equipment you need to buy to play baseball is the same wherever you are
3) If..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Laura in Canada, The Toad
6 months ago
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"Google for 'Sampo "Automatic Power Saving"' gives us "Automatic Power Saving Mode, Minimizing Power Consumption. During Night Time With Lights Dimmed, Monitor Will Automatically Shut Off, Thereby Extending Product..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by srrh
6 months ago
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"Philip Pullman? "Powerful, passionate and superbly plotted, they are modern classics"? I wish someone would explain that to me, because I'm beginning to think everyone else got something out of those novels that just went straight over my..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Phire
6 months ago
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""If failure to be an effective rat were due to mere sleep deprivation, amphetamines would have reversed the effect"
Hell of an assumption right there...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, violette
6 months ago
