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randac··on Some news from LWN
At least they tell you the price before making you create a login!

I ran into this gem recently:

https://www.flograppling.com/signup?next=/

randac··on A Third of Valve Is Now Working on VR
1) Valve has always had a better VR set than Oculus.

2) id, not iD.

randac··on 'Boaty McBoatface' polar ship named after David Attenborough
Should I quote everyone else stating their opinion as obvious fact?

If you disagree you shouldn't just downvote regardless.

randac··on 'Boaty McBoatface' polar ship named after David Attenborough
That's great... but meanwhile, he's being downvoted for doing exactly the same as you; sharing his opinion.

Stay classy, HN.

randac··on C# and F# approaches to illegal states
Downvoted, no explanation...

I remember when HN wasn't /.

The article tldr: Poor design is poor design.

Edit: Please, HN, do continue to prove my point. Idiots love their little echo chambers.

randac··on The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
I'd be interested to know how people feel here regarding the messy Gawker/Hulk Hogan situation also.
randac··on The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/we_and_they.ht...
randac··on Don’t Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy
Don't be ridiculous. That does not make "You are doing god's work, son. Thank you." any less ad hominem, nor do you actually demonstrate any reasons. Your argument amounts to "copy+paste coding is bad, therefore your codebase is bad", yet at no point explains why. But keep downvoting anyone who points that out :)
randac··on Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
You shouldn't have put 'Snowden' in the title. Which is pretty retarded but hey, HN.
randac··on Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
You only need look outside the US to see that's garbage.
randac··on I am not an introvert. I am just busy
Jot some notes on the back of a napkin and the issue becomes less of one. The real problem, as others have said, is agreeing to things that you would rather not go through with... Now, that I can sympathize with. Not least because I struggle with it too.
randac··on I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
Blunt force trauma?
randac··on New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline
Yeah, it works great in search results, much easier to understand for the average user...

Page 1: 1-20 of about 26... cool not too many to scan through

Page 2: 21-40 of about 46... oh

Page 3: 41-60 of about 67... errr

Page 4: 61-80 of about 87... seriously?

randac··on The Day Mandela Was Arrested, With A Little Help From the CIA
Perhaps you should exercise self-control and refrain from passing ANY judgement then, if your reasons for doing so are unrelated to the content of the posts in question.
randac··on Dear Googles: Stop asking
This annoys the hell out of me because I know as well as they do that one day I'll misclick one of these fucking things.
randac··on Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"
Given some of the other revelations, is it too tinfoil-hat to entertain the notion that Google were compelled to make the aforementioned slip-up?

Almost certainly it is, but would I be surprised if it were true? Would anyone be?

I'd be willing to bet the NSA had a good browse of the resulting data, either way.

randac··on 9/11 Suspects Can’t Mention being Tortured during Trial because Classified
Because trying to fix a broken system from within the confines of said system works SO FUCKING WELL.

Honestly.

randac··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
How is what yeukhon stated anything other than an anecdote?
randac··on Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon
Not to forget, game sharing with up to 10 friends/devices is coming.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24063613

randac··on Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon
Well, that didn't make much sense.

His point stands, however, and you only have to look at the quality of many of the Steam Workshop addons produced by hobbyists. Yes, this includes plenty of high poly models and much more, easily comparable to anything produced professionally.

randac··on The CEO of Panera Bread attempts to live off food stamps for a week
I had never heard of 'food deserts' for example. This stunt raised my awareness.

You're wrong.

randac··on XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
What makes you think they're even allowed to tell you the truth?
randac··on Essential Math for Games Programmers
I was thinking the same... I was about to browse through some of the demo code, but the links are broken..
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