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GotAnyMegadeth··on Fake Friends with Real Benefits
I think the upper limit for one list is 5000 [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/TwitterForNews/status/340206438364368896

GotAnyMegadeth··on Fake Friends with Real Benefits
To get round this problem I use TweetDeck, which allows you to have more than one column on display. I've only tried the desktop version and haven't tried any similar mobile apps though.
GotAnyMegadeth··on Vodafone reveals direct government wiretaps
If it's struggling from corruption then that is even worse. What happens when someone who is corrupt gets in charge of the surveillance? They could do anything, like have everyone they don't like branded as terrorists.
GotAnyMegadeth··on Pints in the sun
"Clear your schedule, there is a 5% chance of it being sunny in a pub in your city between 8am and midnight this coming Wednesday."
GotAnyMegadeth··on Why Game Developers Keep Getting Laid Off
Only if you had enough money to survive for 2 months...
GotAnyMegadeth··on 24, the Monster, and quantum gravity
Ahh, I was thinking that p^2 - 1 = 24n held for any n as well as any p, but I can see that's not necessarily the case. Thanks
GotAnyMegadeth··on 24, the Monster, and quantum gravity
Does that not mean it is "trivial" to find all of the prime numbers because you can just go through the 24 times table?
GotAnyMegadeth··on 24, the Monster, and quantum gravity
Multiply and divide by N, where N is the base
GotAnyMegadeth··on The Open-office Trap
Due to RSI I have my mouse set to the lowest possible sensitivity, I'd like to see my settings merge with his
GotAnyMegadeth··on That one pixel
You can use the Windows key and the arrow keys to move windows around, maximise, minimise, etc...
GotAnyMegadeth··on Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
I'm pretty sure current cars with controls guarantee accidents and deaths
GotAnyMegadeth··on Physicists Prove Surprising Rule of Threes
A teacher asks a group of students to prove that all odd numbers above 1 are prime numbers. After a short while the students begin arguing about the best proof.

Mathematician: "We should use proof by induction, I can show 3 is a prime number by listing all of it's factors, and then from there I can show that 2n + 1 is prime ..."

Scientist: "What? that doesn't make any sense. What we need is experimental data. Let's collect enough points, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13. Six points should do, now look, the general trend is that all of them are prime. We have one anomaly, but it's probably just caused by a random fluctuation in..."

Engineer: "Nah, all this theory is pointless, we only need to know if they are prime in the real world. Let's just take a few and see if they work for our purposes. 3 - prime, 5 - prime, 7 - prime, 9 - nearly prime, 11 - prime, surely that's good enough."

Computer scientist: "While you lot have been wasting your time arguing I have been writing a program that will do all the work for us"

All of the students gather around the CS's computer and watch as he presses go.

Computer: 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime 3 is prime

GotAnyMegadeth··on ‘Alien’ creator H.R. Giger is dead
He did a piece of artwork for the front cover for Triptykon's album Melana Chasmata that came out this year. Not sure when the artwork was done though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melana_Chasmata

GotAnyMegadeth··on Show HN: OpenRA – RTS project that recreates Command and Conquer games
They should probably post some more news so that the 1st of April jokes isn't the first thing you see...
GotAnyMegadeth··on Algorithm for Capturing Pokémon
In Gen I you could just save before attempting to catch one, so if you did kill it you could just restart from your save point. You couldn't really do this in Gen II for the Legendary Dogs because they showed up randomly, and sometimes you had the horrible decision of; never catch Entei or redo those last 3 hours of cave...
GotAnyMegadeth··on Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus
I once read about a lab that was doing research on various sea creatures, but primarily crabs. The experiment involved having 100s of a certain type of crab. Every day the crabs were counted, and each day there was quite a few completely missing. The head researcher suspected one of the lab assistants was stealing and selling the crabs, so they set up a camera to watch the lab overnight. It turned out that it wasn't one of the assistants, but instead the lab's octopus. Every night it was waiting until everyone went home, then taking the lid off it's tank, crawling several meters across the floor, opening the lid of the crab tank, eating a few crabs and then crawling back, remembering to replace the lids of both tanks.
GotAnyMegadeth··on Euthanasia Coaster
This is completely anecdotal and not exaggerated. I don't read the Metro much. But, I have literally never read an article/headline in the Metro that I have believed.
GotAnyMegadeth··on Show HN: Algorithmically generated Heavy Metal headlines
The RSS feeds from various metal news websites, I can email you the full list if you're interested
GotAnyMegadeth··on Show HN: Algorithmically generated Heavy Metal headlines
Clickable: https://twitter.com/RealMetalNews
GotAnyMegadeth··on Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands
I read it as a "Now listen here", not a "Now they have the internet on phones you know".
GotAnyMegadeth··on How successful are you?
Same here, apart from I'm home by 6pm, but I cruise in at 10am
GotAnyMegadeth··on TechCrunch covered Vic Gundotra's departure badly
I think that YouTube comments have become unusable. I used to read through the comments and lol at the arguments whilst listening to music, voting various things up and down as I went. But now the comments seem to come in no order, often aren't relevant and when I've tried to vote something, the music stops and it starts taking me to another page. I've never waited to see where it's taking me mind.
GotAnyMegadeth··on A simple way Google could have avoided fucking up Google+
There's some explanation in there somewhere:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/idukg/valve_vs_most_...

GotAnyMegadeth··on A simple way Google could have avoided fucking up Google+
I know what you meant, but just pointing out that the average Twitter user certainly won't see all of the content of anything they follow.
GotAnyMegadeth··on Programming paradigms that change how you think about coding
Verilog is Turing complete and can do standard IO, so you probably don't even need a simulator/wave viewer.
GotAnyMegadeth··on Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger
Can you have folders on iOS? I've bundled all of my messaging apps together.
GotAnyMegadeth··on The Fallacy of Android-First
For me it is exactly the other way around, apart from the cheap bit.
GotAnyMegadeth··on How the Most Expensive Game Jam Crashed And Burned in a Single Day
The Death Metal scene has pretty much no sell outs. There are a few examples, but it is definitely a community where selling out is the worst thing you can do.
GotAnyMegadeth··on Does Porn Hurt Children?
> Does porn cause harm? That it does is indisputable.

Isn't the whole point of this thread, and the whole international debate, that it is disputable?

GotAnyMegadeth··on Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
Increasing the price by 10 times is the same as a 900% price increase.
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