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"I found one of those and I wrote a Hypercard stack (program) which scrolled a never-ending stream of meaningless but important-looking messages on the screen. Then I put it into the server room at work with a stern "DON'T TOUCH" notice. It..." [
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10 days ago
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"Not exactly what you're looking for maybe, but my friend told me that appliance stores include the "real" price of things like fridges and washing machines in what looks like a meaningless serial number.
Say there's a fridge marked at $1,..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"FWIW I said get a gun and learn how to use it. This is solid advice for anyone living alone in a large city in the US.
If you're ever puzzling over, you know, why people from other countries seem to have such a low opinion of Americans sometimes ....." [
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Last month
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Computer languages considered in linguistic contexts?
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2 months ago
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"Can someone confirm something for me? That post, apparently from Cory, on the "Lessons Learned" thread, is it really from him?
Because I'm just flabbergasted -- after a long long wait during which I, like a lot of people, hoped he would..." [
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2 months ago
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"Not that long ago a lottery in Australia, because the major prize wasn't won for so long, accumulated a jackpot that was significantly larger than the cost of playing every single combination.
A syndicate invested a huge amount of money in..." [
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2 months ago
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"I don't know the name of it, but it's apparently a common question in those psychometric tests which are popular nowadays, as in, "when you stand on a high place, do you ever get the urge to jump off?".
My friend had that question on a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vsync
2 months ago
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"Can I suggest a GreaseMonkey script/Firefox extension which auto-redirects 404s from BoingBoing to the Wayback Machine archive?
And can I reiterate that lots of other people have been "unpublished" because they happened to have been..." [
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3 months ago
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"Just chiming in with: it's a huge PR disaster for them;THN should be ashamed of herself for posting like that in the role of a mod;they've made the whole thing much worse with statements which have been contradictory, evasive, spiteful and far from..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, grobstein
3 months ago
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"The argument about vampire predation is nonsense, and not even amusing nonsense.
See Vampire Ecology in the Jossverse (written by a PhD candidate in ecology) for what many consider to be the definitive work on the subject of vampires and their..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Elsa
3 months ago
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"That's great. Congratulations, hadjiboy.
But "transatlantic" is wrong because he's in India. And anyway, it's the web. It's not anywhere.
One day we should have a good housecleaning of the US-centric tendencies of MeFi, the way the..." [
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3 months ago
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"I agree that the definition of genius will determine how this argument plays out, and that it will probably not end well.
Here are a couple of (half-remembered) remarks about Feynman, who a lot of people consider a genius: "Dick's method? His..." [
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4 months ago
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"I read somewhere that if you have a gathering of computer programmers, it's a safe bet that there are more guys called Steve than there are women. I've tested it a few times and it's never been wrong yet...." [
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4 months ago
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"I'm going to come right out and say, I think you're just plain mistaken, or at least, focusing on the wrong thing.
A given person from India who can't drive doesn't need different training from a given person from American who can't drive. India..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by peacheater
4 months ago
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"You've got my vote. Yes, preview, both kinds, are completely broken for anyone who wants to post code. I can't believe the kind of wank that gets added to MeFi, when stuff like this is broken and has been for years.
We can have Twitter feeds, AJAX..." [
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4 months ago
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"Does nobody else suspect that Heather stalked the GoogleMaps car obsessively and tried to pass if off as an accident?" [
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4 months ago
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"I've also seen it live at the Sydney Opera House, with the Ensemble playing along.
And every single internet geek I knew was also there.
Web developers, programmers, database guys, online journalists, software engineers ... a bomb would have..." [
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4 months ago
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">I named my child Clementine, thinking it would be a nice old-fashioned name. However, her name is one of his top 20 names in 15 years, since a few celebrities have recently named their children the same.
Even if it was the celebrity factor,..." [
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4 months ago
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"We have a rule that we're not allowed to say "you always" or "you never".
It's surprising how much milder "you SOMETIMES leave your dirty socks on the floor!" is, compared to "you ALWAYS leave your dirty socks on..." [
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4 months ago
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"This is just a general comment about web development, in case people don't know, but it might be useful in context.
Say, theoretically, you hired out the same job to two different people, one a proper web developer and one an amateur: you would..." [
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5 months ago
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"One obvious aspect of a near-monopoly like this is that, from the venue's point of view: you have to deal with at least n ticket vendors, where n is greater than zeroif n is greater than one, however, you increase your paperwork, legal fees,..." [
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5 months ago
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"I agree with blacklite, there are really huge gaps in quality. Lots of unconscious incompetence on display there.
Hint: classic Tarantino dialogue rendered directly into cod-Shakespeare, with the repetitiveness intact, makes uncomfortable reading...." [
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5 months ago
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"I'd like to go for a slight derail, and ask, what is it that makes guys want to go for these elaborate, bizarre stunts? Specially-prepared tin cans? Burying yourself in sand in a white tux?
Are they doing it because they don't know how to express..." [
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5 months ago
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"Agreeing with b1tr0t. What are your needs? Figure that out and go from there." [
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5 months ago
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Don't Smile 'Til Christmas
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5 months ago
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"Here's a talkative perl script which does the kind of thing you want:
use strict;
use File::Copy "cp";
while (<*.html>) {
my $filename = $_;
my $first_three_letters = substr( $filename, 0, 3 );
cp(..." [
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5 months ago
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"I once had to to judge a Goons competition on a radio station I was working for.
Entrants were told to write to us, saying what the Goons meant to them, "using twenty words or less".
I awarded it to the person whose entry read: LESS...." [
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6 months ago
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"Just so's you know?
When Margaret Thatcher dies? It's not going to be nice." [
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6 months ago
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"A cricket aficionado once explained to me that "all sports imitate a battle, except for cricket, which imitates a war".
That only applies to Test cricket, I suppose, and it didn't make me like it, but it might explain some of the appeal;..." [
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6 months ago
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"> I think it's some sort of subconscious instinct in people to gather together.
I agree, on an instinctual basis, but I also remember reading some research about this by psychologists in a UK university. They specifically studied car parks and..." [
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6 months ago
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"My instant, Gladwell-style "Blink" answer to this was roughly the same as booksandlibretti's: unflappableness.
Whatever happens, they display confidence and deal with it rather than panicking, hesitating, prevaricating, wavering, etc...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippity
6 months ago
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"Everyone's obsessing over "mee-di" and not noticing the other weird pronunciations?
He says "audio" as if the first two syllables rhymed with "rowdy". And he pronounces "monophonic" "mono-PHONE-ic"...." [
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6 months ago
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"The only sensible answer to this question is, there is no way of explaining to someone who doesn't have a child what it's like. It changes you, it changes your life, it radically changes your priorities and your outlook. Even if you describe all that..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by chicainthecity, Elsa, JohnYaYa, hippugeek, heartquake, GuyZero, SpacemanStix, hatmandu
6 months ago
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"You realize Stavros lives in Korea, right?
What on earth does that have to do with it? Is it impossible that he should be racist, or anti-Korean, or have subscribed to clichéd stereotypes about Koreans, because he lives in Korea? Clearly, it is..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by matteo, suedehead, koeselitz, Blazecock Pileon
7 months ago
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">You're an idiot.
That's a matter of opinion. The fact that you're a bigot, however, is there on the page for all to see.
(Please note, stavros will now want tell us tales about stupid/rude/violent Asian people he has known, in order to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by matteo
7 months ago
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"To derail slightly, I once consumer-tested Mac OS X and Linux with our toddler. Linux is definitely better. Why? Because Mac dialogs are modal: they take over the screen until you click a button or hit a key which makes them go away.
Linux..." [
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7 months ago
