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bananabill··on How to Pick Your Life Partner (2014)
Unfortunately most people are still stuck in the mindset that everyone who isn't broken inside wants children. I've never wanted children at any point in my life, but I'm wrong apparently.
bananabill··on Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox
If vimium on firefox didn't totally suck I would.
bananabill··on Commander Keen Level Maps
True but regardless of which one is technically correct, both pretty much share the same negative connotations now. I used to always hear people talking about how the swastika is really a sign of peace, but regardless of what it originally meant, it doesn't mean that anymore.
bananabill··on We Analyzed 100M Headlines
I appreciate that this is the top comment, and starts with 'This is Why' which is the second most engaging phrase apparently.
bananabill··on Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers
I'll use this along with the metal band logo captcha plugin and be secure as hell.
bananabill··on Why Don't Computer Scientists Learn Math? (2016)
'Outside their field' was poor wording on my part. I meant more that it's not the sort of thing that most CS engineers see day to day. People forget things they don't use often.
bananabill··on Why Don't Computer Scientists Learn Math? (2016)
It just doesn't come up very much. The computers abstract it enough that you rarely need to actually look at notation like that. Unless you're doing some real close to the metal work, which the people who kept their hands raised probably were.
bananabill··on Why Don't Computer Scientists Learn Math? (2016)
"Why aren't people experts outside of their field?"
bananabill··on Car hacked to play MarioKart 64
Potentially would make flat spots in the tire but I really doubt that they're going to play this much.
bananabill··on Car hacked to play MarioKart 64
You can also hack your Porsche 911 to play doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRMpNA86e8Q
bananabill··on A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise
it's called cosmetic surgery
bananabill··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
I didn't realize Heroku used s3 until today, when my heroku app failed. Makes me wonder why I'm using heroku instead of just aws.
bananabill··on Vulnerabilities in Password-Manager Apps
The windows version is so outdated it really pisses me off. Especially since you have to use it with Wine if you want 1password on Linux.

The android, iphone, and osx apps are so clean and awesome, and then everyone else just gets crap that's 2 versions behind.

bananabill··on Guided meditation for beginners
My money is on yes, unless they've developed a unit of measurement for focus and mindfulness which seems unlikely.
bananabill··on Trump bans agencies from 'providing updates on social media or to reporters'
Sad!
bananabill··on Why Nerds Are Unpopular (2003)
Yes it's satire
bananabill··on Safari 10.1
Every time I've tried safari I've found it really slow.

Also, I can't browse without Vimium.

bananabill··on Why Nerds Are Unpopular (2003)
http://i.imgur.com/CyFyMRL.jpg
bananabill··on Simple and Terrifying Encryption Story
Interesting and succinct post.

Did the documentation specify anywhere that it expects hex values?

Even if it did it should still probably throw an error if handed a normal string. You should defs make a pull request and fix it.

bananabill··on How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days and Screwed It Up
Add in "We shouldn't put weird skeleton memes right at the top" that's like shorthand for "we aren't saying anything worthwile here"
bananabill··on When You Are Depressed, Make Something
I don't feel like it
bananabill··on [dead]
stopped reading at Monetize your Brain.
bananabill··on Programming Language Popularity on GitHub and StackOverflow
It doesn't show on my computer either
bananabill··on The Gun Industry's Lucrative Relationship with Hollywood
What makes you say that?
bananabill··on In 1562 Map-Makers Thought America Was Full of Mermaids, Giants, and Dragons
Science doesn't hurt wonder and imagination.

https://xkcd.com/877/

bananabill··on Ships Buried Under San Francisco
It's a really good one
bananabill··on Apple’s First Phone, from 1983, Never Made It to Market (2014)
I collect retro consoles, I've had about all the gray plastic I can stomach
bananabill··on Inside Magic Leap
This is going to end up like that one episode of Angela Anaconda where they're all really excited about the new Jiggle Fruit but it ends up tasting bad and they don't like it.
bananabill··on Programming is boring
Entertainment is subjective you fucking dweeb. Just say "I don't like programming, it's not for me" if you feel that way.
bananabill··on MacBook Pro
Everyone has already chewed you apart for this but

> nobody uses desktops anymore

That's just not true. Maybe you only use computers for social media and youtube but other people need things that can actually run resource intense programs.

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