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I bought the X-Files mythology collection (main storyline episodes only). The monster of the week episodes are quite average, but if you watch the mythology episodes in order it's a pretty good show IMO, especially if you're into the aliens and government conspiracy theme.

Something that I don’t see alot of people mention that is another huge problem on Amazon is that many products are exactly the same white label products with different logos and slight variations. Lots of the same alibab products slightly customized. Some consumers are paying way more than others for the same product.

I own over nearly 100 games on Steam, mostly bought on sales. Despite the tons of titles I bought, I miss the experience of actually owning a copy of the game, along with the box and manuals that came with it. More importantly though, I think it's scary that Valve can one day decide to totally ban a user from their purchased game because they didn't like the behavior or actions of an account holder (e.g. cheating in a Valve game or account getting hacked).

Damn, 1-3 & 5 apply to me. I need to leave. Now.

Love this comment. I do a lot of self-reflection and one thing I've realized and still trying to change about myself is that I'm a huge pessimist and those 3 things you listed are things I'm terrible at.

As he said, forgiveness and reconciliation. Sticking with it. I’m sure there’s limits and it’s often easy to tell when someone is sorry and trying to change versus taking advantage.

I wonder if Amazon Go is used to improve Reckognition's computer vision algorithms.

Not for me. I've tried and it's...well, it's not bad, but I don't find it meaty or burger-like in anyway.

@#2: Wow, you mean like they leave without saying anything during the interview?

Wheat and Ore early isn't actually a bad strategy either, although a tad risky. It allows you to build your first two settlements into cities quickly, which allow you to gather resources quicker, or at least trade them into brick and wood (with the help of ports) to build roads and more settlements, which can easily be turned into cities since you're already on those resources.

Coming back to the topic at hand, :) It's not surprising how few Christians are aware of the influence of ancient near east literature on the formation of the creation story in Genesis. Pastors and theologians at more conservative and fundamentalist seminaries usually deny, ignore, or try to hide this from lay Christians in fear that they will leave the faith. This fear is actually probably a projection of their own fears, as I don't see this as some sort of evidence bomb that the Bible isn't "true", whatever that word means. It's totally expected that the ancient Israelites would be affected by the ANE literature of their time, and says of the author(s) of Genesis that they were using the stories that they know, and subverting them to tell their own (non-scientific) origin story of Yahweh and the Israelites.

What about EXCELIBUR. "USE THE LEGENDARY POWER OF EXCELIBUR TO SLAY ALL YOUR EXCEL WORRIES!"

P.S.: Referring to Excalibur for those that have never heard of it. It's the legendary sword used by King Arthur.

Reminds me of Eliza Cassan in Deux Ex: Human Revolution. A virtual 24/7 news anchor.

I think internships should be about both giving and taking. Not just simply objects to practice on. If a startup doesn't have the time and money to invest in interns no matter what the payoff is, they probably shouldn't as it is wasting time on both sides.

Thanks for providing your perspective! I've always wondered what it was like on your side.

1. I totally understand this. I've actually often wondered what a waste of funds it is when I see school districts purchase several hundred licenses of our product, but only a handful of teachers and students end up using it. I understand though that it's hard to just purchase the right amount of licenses, since you never know if another teacher/student down the line might want to start using it.

4. Yes, I've been to a few local schools for support and there's quite a few teachers who are handling the simpler IT side of things. From the IT staff that I've met in schools, I think I would like the environment too.

I'm currently working for an education startup right now. We are struggling. Have been for the past few years. The biggest problems I've noticed:

1. Cost. When you deal with school districts, you usually sell for X number of devices. So for example, all devices for 5th-7th grade, something like that. When you sell alot, schools will usually ask for volume licensing. Schools don't want to see prices above $5. This goes for devices for the quality of the devices they purchase. Often, the student device is cheap, low-powered, and in the case of Windows devices, packed to the brim with all sorts of software running in the background: web filters, virus-scanners, and some educational apps. Top that off with apps that students install like Spotify and games, it slows the machine down to a crawl or causes problems that might interfere with your software solution.

2. Different school districts have different needs. Although our software solution was initially meant to be for general use by all schools, we kept running into school district that needed very specific needs to that school or district. That lead to developing new features that only a small handful of school district would use, sometimes confusing users who did not need such features, or didn't even know we had the feature.

3. If your software solution works with student information systems data, it can often be a nightmare getting school districts to create that data.

4. School IT teams are...pretty terrible. Or rather, they're swamped with so many issues from so many products and devices, that they care very little as to learn how to deploy your product properly. Have documentation? Trust me, they probably won't read it. You will most likely get an e-mail asking how to deploy.

5. Trials, trials, trials. Schools aren't going to pay up just because they see a video demo of your product. They're going to want a trial at minimum for half the school year, maybe more. Then...

6. ...Politics. Decision to purchase needs to be approved by some board.

I went to a hackathon a few years ago. At the end of the hackathon, my team member (about 10+ years older than me, I am in my early 30s) asked to contact her on Facebook. I told her I didn't have one, because I didn't. Not even an account that I didn't log-in to. She gave me a weird look, then frowned, as if I was shunning her. My other team member looked shocked as well.

I thought it was weird that if you don't have a Facebook account you're kind of looked at weird now.

Exactly. The concept of credit score should be replaced with something better, or just kill the idea.

Sorry to hear that. Pretty much the same for me since I started middle school up to now (in my early 30s). To this day I have no close friends. During my years as a student, after school it would pretty much be just me sitting in front of the computer. My cell phone call log? Mom and dad, and the occasional junk call. Post-school, as an adult, it was pretty much the same. Like the article states, it physically hurts sometimes to be truly lonely.

I hope loneliness is over for me, now that I got married very recently. If you're wondering how that happened, it was a blind date setup by my aunt. I was lucky to meet someone that liked me, and had things in common with. I was really lucky that she still liked me even after she found out I had no friends, and pretty much no social life.

I hope you are able to fight your way out of loneliness.

Yup. I tend to be very aware and conscious of how people feel based on social context and facial expressions, but I am not a likable person. People do not feel comfortable around me.

Longtime sufferer of tinnitus. This has been my understanding as well. From what I understand, once the hair dies, the brain seems to compensate by filling it with eternal noise. If there is a cure (my hopes are low), my guess is that we need to have a better understanding of the brain.

I noticed that linear algebra courses are typically offered in colleges after calculus. Is there a reason why?

Hm, never had a feeling like this at all. Been using VR since DK1, DK2, and CV1. At its current state, I think VR is really cool, and at times immersive, but it's just not immersive enough for me yet. I don't know about others, but the fact that I can see the peripheral edges of the lens breaks immersion for me most of the time. There are moments of immersion, but those are very rare. I tend to experience it in moments where I'm moving from an enclosed space to a very large open space (i.e. a tunnel in Half-Life 2 out to a city view). I think I will find VR very immersive when the lens are somehow able to wrap around your vision completely so that I can't see that I'm looking through goggles. Don't misunderstand me though, I think what we have now is incredibly cool and immersive. I did try the Vive controllers, and that really kicks up the immersion a whole lot. I'm waiting to buy the Oculus touch controllers.

When I closed it (played some games, then checked on it after about 1.5 hours), it was generation 22, Alive 2/50, Score 561,000.

"I think alot of people feel like that, uh, America told them exactly - African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, you name it...Asians...I think alot of people tonight are feeling like, you know, [the] United States told me exactly what they think of me." - James Carville, after Trump's win.

Um, it has all been recorded and/or videotaped? Why do Trump supporters keep denying the horrible things he has said when there is solid recorded evidence?

What do you consider to be non-trivial? Seems subjective. Exaggerating here, but obviously a git hub project that runs fusion reactor software is certainly non-trivial, but what about a small project that does/looks simple, but really takes a fair amount of effort to make it work? Like a triple AAA game is non-trivial compared to a breakout clone, but a breakout clone is still somewhat non-trivial (graphics, sound, "simulated" physics, GUI, gameplay logic etc.).

If anyone's curious, Naenaera means "My country". So, literally, "My Country Browser". Nae = me/my and naera = "country"

If you still played you could create a table with 120 random encounters :) Really more a tool for the DM, I guess.

Thanks for the submission. One thing I'm confused about. So, he said that in the animated scenes, the animation was done with palette shifting, and not separate components/layers. I understand that bit. However, how would the animation be done in the game? Does he mean that the palette shifting is implemented within the game, or is the palette shifting technique to easily and quickly produce art assets?

I'm so behind on my C++ knowledge. I haven't even read up on smart pointers yet.