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Kapelson

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About Kapelson

Armchair programmer, physicist-in-training.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #3788174

    When I was 12 or 13 (around the same time as above), I was told I was getting something "very special" for Christmas. I thought it was a drumset, and I was PSYCHED. Turns out it wa…

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    Comment #2787176

    Maybe it's a momentum thing: an arrow with more wood would be heavier, and as a result it would create a greater impact. Weird metaphor indeed.

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    Comment #2761116

    Ugh, don't remind me. Now THAT's a student-pessimistic system if I ever saw one.

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    Comment #2744899

    The idea here though is that mobile devices will eventually become versatile enough to be used in these environments. My phone has an HDMI output and bluetooth capability, what, ot…

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    Comment #2742120

    I treat obfuscated code as a kind of puzzle. "Given a crazy string of seemingly random semicolons and numbers, can you discover what it does and how it works?" It's like a magic ey…

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    Comment #2741791

    Regardless of whether he was being a dick or not, the issue is still there. A helpful dick is still valuable, and banning him is really only hurting the project as a whole.