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I have used Discourse on a Chromebook more than PC
Commiserations.
Is a Chromebook not a PC?
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s a Chromebook not a PC?
No. Maybe I should have used desktop PC to be clear, but some laptops are still tinker-able. Chromebook is a tablet, limited to some apps.
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On a PC yes, but my bet is on the demise of PCs. I would hate to see that day, but it will happen. PCs will be expensive professional tools, everybody else will buy tablets and phones.
PC prices aren't even keeping up with inflation. Also, tablets aren't good for everything. IMO they are better for consuming content, and PCs and laptops are better for creating content.
Chromebook is a tablet with a builtin keyboard and trackpad, limited to some apps.
FTFM
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That is something I want to try, specially if I do not have to buy macs for cross platform developments.
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You need interface builder to make iOS and mac apps, which means you need XCode, which means you need a Mac. No escaping that.
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Interesting perspective on why allowing social programs to depend on the billionaire's whims might be a bad idea.
MIGHT.
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So TL;DR is basically "because the government knows better what to spend this money on"?
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So TL;DR is basically "because the government knows better what to spend this money on"?
Maybe it knows better.
And if government is democratically elected, that means you (technically) have a say on what the money is spent.
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http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
The better isn't better. It's the browser responsability to have sane defaults. Fuck CSS, and fuck any non-basic html tag. Better, fuck HTML, give me a Markdown based internet.
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Several rape victims confess they don't feel traumatized my their experiences.
I find this very interesting. It fits with my loosely held theory that rape is partly so horrible because people today consider it to be horrible. This is supported by the fact that, throughout history, most sexual experiences were what we would consider rape today. But since people didn't consider it rape at the time, it wasn't perceived as being "traumatizing" (of course, who knows really).
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And if government is democratically elected, that means you (technically) have a say on what the money is spent.
βThere are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what youβre doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then Iβm not so careful about the content of the present, but Iβm very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody elseβs money on myself. And if I spend somebody elseβs money on myself, then Iβm sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody elseβs money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody elseβs money on somebody else, Iβm not concerned about how much it is, and Iβm not concerned about what I get. And thatβs government. And thatβs close to 40% of our national income.β
β Milton Friedman
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βThere are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what youβre doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then Iβm not so careful about the content of the present, but Iβm very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody elseβs money on myself. And if I spend somebody elseβs money on myself, then Iβm sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody elseβs money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody elseβs money on somebody else, Iβm not concerned about how much it is, and Iβm not concerned about what I get. And thatβs government. And thatβs close to 40% of our national income.ββ Milton Friedman
Very nice way to describe the problem of government.
Yet, it's still the only way to get some of the things we want.
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Yet, it's still the only way to get some of the things we want.
True. You just have to keep all that stuff in mind.
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Interesting perspective on why allowing social programs to depend on the billionaire's whims might be a bad idea.
MIGHT.
More to the point: Zuckerberg didn't actually do anything. Yet he's getting tons of positive press. He moved money from one account he controls into another account he controls, SO GENEROUS.
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What's interesting there is the people who were roofied more than once, and especially the (at least one) who was roofied three times.
That shows a stunning lack of self-preservation.
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27 posts were split to a new topic: Coding is hard, let's go shopping!
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This book should be required reading.
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I can't remember if I read the book (probably just browsed through it), but I definitely saw one of Pinker's speeches on youtube. Some very interesting points there. A good reminder we should try to take a step back when judging the society we live in.
I have issues with some of his points, but I agree, people should read / see this.
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I have issues with some of his points,
You didn't read the fucking book! You don't get to "have issues" with some of his points! You do not have that right! Read the fucking book!
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###What I Learned from Working in Failed Platforms
This guy had the WORST luck when picking platforms to work in.
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You didn't read the fucking book! You don't get to "have issues" with some of his points! You do not have that right! Read the fucking book!
Luckily we live in a time where I DO have the right to comment on a body of work based on watching a 1 hour lecture instead of reading a book. As Pinker would surely say.
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You didn't read the fucking book! You don't get to "have issues" with some of his points! You do not have that right! Read the fucking book!
http://www.amazon.com/Talk-About-Books-Havent-Read/dp/1596915439
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This is really cool:
Sit on stage during a Carnegie Hall performance. Move the view around as you watch to look at different musicians, the conductor, even the floor or the ceiling.
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I've always wanted to sit in the middle of the stage at Carnegie Hall during a performance and stare at the ceiling.
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I've always wanted to sit in the middle of the stage at Carnegie Hall during a performance and stare at the ceiling.
That... would explain a lot.
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Sit on stage during a Carnegie Hall performance.
About the only thing significantly different to doing the same with an amateur orchestra in a much smaller hall is the hall itself. Plus the fact that the orchestra seem to know the notesβ¦
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###Screeps
A MMO strategy game where you give out orders using javascript.
Sounds like the worst of both worlds to me. All the annoyance of writing code, without any of the benefits of creating something useful. Then again, that other javascript game was pretty cool, so this might work out too.
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Somehow, by the time I get to the construction part of the tutorial, the game starts insisting my script isn't terminating. And I've no clue why.
And it does it every game tick so it's hard to do anything about it regardless.
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Total biscuit is losing it.
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Sequels, amirite?
A newly discovered clay tablet in the Sulaymaniah Museum in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has corrected the order of chapters, filled in blanks and added 20 lines to the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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corrected the order of chapters
TIL Some books are apparently so incomprehensible that the chapter order is irrelevant to your understanding of the story...
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TIL
Some books arePulp Fiction is apparently so incomprehensible that thechapterscene order is irrelevant to your understanding of the story...<Some guy just pushed in front of me and took my seat on the train. Fuck him, especially since he just got off...
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The order of the story is not the order that the events happened in.
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Heh, I should've used Primer, where the order of the events is not the order that the events happen in...
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I didn't like pulp fiction's concept, but memento did something cool with the order of events.
The main character was unable to form new memories, so he couldn't retain anything for more than a few minutes. The movie has the scenes in reverse order, so you watch it from a perspective more like his.
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I didn't like pulp fiction's concept, but memento did something cool with the order of events.
That's actually one of my favorite movies. An overlooked gem IMO.
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I think this one is maybe a bit clearer...
The great thing about Primer is that it's only 70mins long, so you can immediately watch it a second time to figure out what the hell just happened...
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TIL Some books are apparently so incomprehensible that the chapter order is irrelevant to your understanding of the story...
Kafka's The Trial apparently had its chapters actually rearranged (or rather, arranged in the first place) by his literary executor after he died, as he saw fit.
And then there's The Castle, which literally ends mid-sentence because he just gave up on the novel, but said executor decided to edit it a bit and ship it anyway.
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The one I linked showed which bits of the alternative timelines were actually scenes in the film, so I like it better and also.
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And then there's The Castle, which literally ends mid-sentence because he just gave up on the novel, but said executor decided to edit it a bit and ship it anyway.
Isn't this where...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jViTte8VAzU
... we came in?
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Kafka's... literary executor...
I read somewhere that Kafka left instructions to have all of his work burned after his death, as he never intended for any of it to be published, which does put things like trailing off mid-sentence into context when you
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Wow! I forgot how great that video is.
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That whole film is amazing. Now I wanna rewatch it, but I won't have a chance until friday at the earliest. So it's driving me nuts.
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That whole film is amazing. Now I wanna rewatch it, but I won't have a chance until friday at the earliest. So it's driving me nuts.
As a film, it's an unwatchable disaster.
As a feature-length music video for the album, it's pretty great.
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