🔗 Quick links thread
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@blakeyrat Will Smith robotic arm had more acting chops than the rest of the cast.
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@cartman82 Trivia: how many words of text can you get about a video game without TELLING PEOPLE THE NAME OF THE VIDEO GAME?
Turns out it's a fucking lot.
(They're talking about Kingdom Come: Deliverance.)
I mean I know you only posted that because it popped up on your GamerGate Talking Points iPhone app, but seriously, if you're going to talk about a fucking video game, tell us WHICH video game you're talking about, is that so hard? No? Good. Ding! Next message: "everybody who cares about diversity in entertainment products is a thought-criminal trying to destroy society!" Thanks, iPhone app!
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@blakeyrat I'll have you know it's an android app.
Since you liked this so much, just for you, here are a few more 4chan funnies:
/pol/ shares their world view through cartoons
4chan makes some fanedits and shares them with Tumblr
Enjoy!
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Next message: "everybody who cares about diversity in entertainment products is a thought-criminal trying to destroy society!"
Oh and also: no, but they might be an asshole if they try to get a game designer fired after losing an argument on twitter.
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@cartman82 I failed to spot the funnies.
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@Zecc said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@cartman82 I failed to spot the funnies.
It's kind of like, "laughing with" one moment, then "laughing at" the next.
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github is moving to a per user payment
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Video game designer Daniel Vávra is called racist by an SJW for not putting black people in a videogame about medieval Czech kingdom. Explains that this is because there were none.
That is really hard to follow. Which way does the conversation go? Why are some bits bigger than others? Is it actually coherent in any reading order? Why did I spend so long trying to work this shit out?
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@Zecc I find it pretty easy to tell Chinese and Japanese apart at a glance; Japanese tends to look more “open” overall, as the non-Katakana scripts use fewer strokes than Chinese characters usually do.
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
GamerGate
You've got a pretty big hardon for GG, don't you.
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@FrostCat you didn't know?
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(Quora) Why do people love the Linux operating system?
All the slashdoters come out of the woodworks to post answers. Painful to read.
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@dse FBI is one thing, your local town council doing it is another.
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Robots didn't take our jobs
Sort of libertarianish take on job scarcity.
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The page starts blank, then begins to transform based on the code that is typed out. Just sit back and enjoy.
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Robots didn't take our jobs
Sort of libertarianish take on job scarcity.
I was lazy enough to avoid reading an article about economic, but this was an amazing analysis!
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@dse in though it was OK except the part comparing the US and India's employment situation. They're nothing alike and America's is better.
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@dse Anyone who's labelling Trump and Bernie as having the same politics is a nutjob, but he has a lot of good points.
I'm not sure the social safety net is why people don't have cooks though; there's this strong independence preference in America that suggests having someone wait on you, drive you around, and cook your food is "lazy" and undercuts your moral fiber. We don't value service work at all, and routinely sneer at folks who take "burger-flipping" jobs. Furthermore, a software architect hitting the gym, enjoying breakfast with his family, having a 1.5 hour commute, and having time for a leisurely walk after dinner is not a software architect working 10-12 hour days, and therefore is one that is "lazy" and likely to be out-competed. Is it any wonder those service jobs are vanishing?
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I'm not sure the social safety net is why people don't have cooks though; there's this strong independence preference in America that suggests having someone wait on you, drive you around, and cook your food is "lazy" and undercuts your moral fiber.
As an American, nothing is more disgusting to me than the Brits who go to Dubai so they can have full-time servants. (Except the ones who take possession of those servants' passports-- something actually legal in Dubai-- which turns them into slaves. That disgusts me more.)
@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Furthermore, a software architect hitting the gym, enjoying breakfast with his family, having a 1.5 hour commute, and having time for a leisurely walk after dinner is not a software architect working 10-12 hour days, and therefore is one that is "lazy" and likely to be out-competed.
Whaaa?
Maybe that's East Coast thinking?
Where I am, anybody who's a "software architect" has "made it" and sets their own schedule. (Hell, I wouldn't take a job where a "senior developer" couldn't mostly set their own schedule.) In fact, I'd be wary of one who worked 10-12 hour days regularly, because it would stink of a person being promoted before they had the maturity to delegate properly.
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Discusses attempts by former NSA employees to voice their concerns (through the official 'protected' channels) with the NSA's data collection program.
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
As an American, nothing is more disgusting to me than the Brits who go to Dubai so they can have full-time servants.
Americans who go to Dubai can have full-time servants too.
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@dkf Those aren't Americans. Those are "some assholes who maybe temporarily resided in the US but didn't learn anything from it".
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@blakeyrat Ah yes, the No True
ScotsmanAmerican argument. Carry on.
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Sort of libertarianish take on job scarcity.
Minimum wage thread is
Also, I LOL'd at this line:
...where she stores her children while not in use.
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So I was checking Google for some random keywords in the meditating guy thread, which is when I found this:
Escape 'Their' TRAP and Set Your Soul FREE
What the heck did I just read?
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What Color is Your Function?
High level overview of the async patterns in languages like javascript, C#, Java and Go. Very interesting allegory usage to pinpoint the problem with callbacks and promises.
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@cartman82 The author's not quite right about his hunch that generators and green threads are isomorphic, since you can't yield from a function called by a generator. Fixing that requires making an actual stack somewhere, which generators (as usually implemented) weasel around. Stacks are rather expensive, but allow the code to achieve that isomorphism and let you convert a convoluted async function nest to something that looks simpler.
OTOH, perhaps we just need to remember that asynchronous code (whether done with callbacks or threads or any other mechanism) is fundamentally more complicated than synchronous code. We can pretend otherwise, but we're just fooling ourselves…
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@dkf said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
we just need to remember that asynchronous code (whether done with callbacks or threads or any other mechanism) is fundamentally more complicated than synchronous code. We can pretend otherwise, but we're just fooling ourselves
To be fair, we've been fooling ourselves for decades.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~waldo/Readings/waldo-94.pdf
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@flabdablet said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
To be fair, we've been fooling ourselves for decades.
True, and a good paper. The one difference from then to now? We've now got lots of distributed applications; the paradigm finally took off in a big way. I guess we've done it by stopping trying to pretend that distributed things are local, and by finding applications that really win from distribution, such as the web…
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Game Publishers in 2016: How to Throw Your Life’s Work Away in Seconds!
Beware the predatory game publishers on Steam.
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@fbmac I'm fairly sure we've had a lot of pictures from there over in the Fox Ideas thread.
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@boomzilla said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
A New Jersey man claims his boss drunkenly grabbed his crotch so hard that doctors had to remove a testicle.
Symbolically, this happens all the time.
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Fox News:
Given the outrage the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy The Interview caused, McKean perhaps wisely chose not to delete or damage people’s profiles or leave comments critical of King Jong-un.
Pretty sure Kim prefers the title"chairman".
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The Korean social network has been taken offline and, presumably, the network administrators are working on their excuses.
No they are hanging from their balls
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@Zecc said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Fox News:
Given the outrage the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy The Interview caused, McKean perhaps wisely chose not to delete or damage people’s profiles or leave comments critical of King Jong-un.
Pretty sure Kim prefers the title"chairman".
He is normally referred to as "The Marshall".
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Some free pdfs:
Mathematics for Computer Science
Eric Lehman and Tom Leighton
2004Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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@M_Adams said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Mathematics for Computer Science
Eric Lehman and Tom Leighton
2004This one looks very useful. I'll probably never have the time to level up my math, but if I ever DID, this looks like a good choice.
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@M_Adams
Enjoy the bookmark notifications.
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Edgy anarchist on reddit asks legal advice on how to avoid mowing his lawn
Correction: his dad's lawn. Representative exchange:
An amazing disaster. Be sure to "unroll" Dysnomi's posts, as he was downvoted into oblivion.
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Be sure to "unroll" Dysnomi's posts, as he was downvoted into oblivion.
i don't know why, but that reminds me of someone else.....