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SquidLord

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About SquidLord

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/lextenebris; my proof: https://keybase.io/lextenebris/sigs/9Fy9UgWjKwkQRMw2JOFpJnBsiltZwgFH0SECZQEHocQ ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #23708253

    > Probably not the best terminology to use on a post about people with disabilities. You've obviously never hung around with people with disabilities. "Political correctness" is no…

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    Comment #15910199

    The backlash that involved the requisite "three days of hate because something changed on the Internet" and then moved on to "everyone is using it and pretending that it was always…

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    Comment #13000536

    It's adorable. I love it when people let their kids on the Internet.

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    Comment #11179635

    This has about as much reasonable intellectual bearing as suggesting that language is an inequality expanding lever just like many other forms of capital and one of the reasons Goo…

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    Comment #11179599

    > online retailers are becoming 'salesmen' Let me fix that for you.

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    Comment #11179572

    When you design a service but charge for it as if it were a product, the inevitable result is that in short order you discover that if there is a demand for the service you offer, …

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    Comment #11179368

    One of these days we will effectively figure out why serious organizations can't seem to do even basic audio leveling on prerecorded videos that they intend for public consumption.…

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    Comment #11179321

    That is a significant and incredibly poorly defended assertion that you're making there, sir. Given that there are dozens if not hundreds (possibly thousands) of open journals, man…

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    Comment #11143547

    3D selfies, you say? https://sketchfab.com/models?q=selfie&sort_by=-likeCount

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    Comment #9704288

    Is there a reason the standard response isn't "I write code for money. Are you giving me money yet?" "Don't give it away for free" is the rallying cry of photographers and graphic …

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    Comment #9105688

    If the potential to be rendered to a blacksite or tortured to death somewhere less polite isn't sufficient motivation for people to be careful, I'm not sure "security" is their big…

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    Comment #9105659

    Ironically unsaid: "People like myself for twenty years and nothing to sell."

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    Comment #9105619

    If you can't do it on desktop, you can't do it at all. Mainly because some of us have real work to do. If the only "usable" implementation is on a hard-to-physically-secure mobile …

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    Comment #8884492

    They'll never know if they are, and if they do -- they'll never know by who. If that's still a problem, I humbly suggest that those people might not be the right audience for a soc…

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    Comment #8884469

    I'm just waiting for the inevitable realization when he realizes he can cut out Lua from the architecture and go straight in with Scheme.

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    Comment #6248177

    You know, "you are too stupid to be allowed to make your own food," is probably not a good selling point for most people. I'm going to go out on limb and suggest that it's not a go…

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    Comment #2274381

    Interesting stuff, but no real sharable content yet, as far as I could tell.

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    Comment #2044871

    Me, I'm a Google fan so the Galaxy Tab running Froyo (Android 2.2) is always going to be a winner unless you want to get seriously into iPad synthesizer aps (where it has a huge ad…

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    Comment #2044860

    The "LCD tablet" market has a lot of space to play in, in terms of price point. I picked up a Cruz Reader from Borders at deep discount for Christmas; its been an awesome eReader /…

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    Comment #2044818

    So ... why NOT be a dentist website designer, at least part-time? You know the business needs, you know the lingo of both (you're here, anyway) ... It sounds like a job that fills …

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    Comment #1147058

    Crazy Chinese birds visiting YCombinator? Brilliant! Rated A++! Would buy again!

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    Comment #1133473

    It has to be phrased "wuz robbed," ie. "Damn, man, they stole yo' DVD player! You wuz robbed!"

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    Comment #1100002

    He has no answer, for he is HEADCRAB ZOMBIE!