rtets

Joined 11 years ago

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Member since
May 18
Deserve way more karma... disarmed bomb in megaton all by myself!

Other notable accomplishments:

* Found Lakshmana * Evolved Pikachu in Pokemon yellow * Blew up the UC in Hong Kong

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Comment · 9 years ago
In considering our time more pivotal than any before, are we not guilty of the same sensationalism and irrational behaviour that this film observes?
Comment · 9 years ago
"History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme..." Some guy, last century

Are there really no parallels for popular opinion straying significantly from established facts and resulting in irrational behaviour before natural correction...? Are the South Sea Bubble and the Cold War not two such such examples of this?

Comment · 10 years ago
"At Hack Reactor, we’re trained to mask our inexperience. In our personal narratives, we purposely omit our bootcamp education."

Assuming most people who do bootcamps are changing careers, how do you explain suddenly becoming a developer after years of another career?

Comment · 11 years ago
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

"Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years."

Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt vacuum company, 1955

"Two years from now, spam will be solved."

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 2004

Comment · 11 years ago
Is accessing foobar.google.com a puzzle in its own right?

Or is it strictly invite only?

Comment · 11 years ago
No feature or optimisation is free

One must eventually compromise in every language/system at some cost according to the value to its intended user

Many of these genuinely interesting criticisms of C# are the "other edge" to the sword we love it for

Comment · 11 years ago
this study is definitely deeply flawed - and disappointing as this would have been a really interesting set of results if it wasn't uncontrolled.
Comment · 11 years ago
This article doesn't consider the myriad issues likely to be caused by as many people arriving as late as possible - like the almost inevitable delays to event start times or how in practice you would measure who the last person to arrive was..

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