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Everyone wants it to be bigger, but we just have to work with what's there.

> It makes zero difference to the movie watching experience if the script line came from the script or the other way around. While you’re watching the movie, the effect is exactly …

To be fair, 10 years ago the programmer said "I'll need a research team and five years".

xp for gold means you get less for killing a monster than you do for robbing it, and encourages a more careful exploratory approach. Modern D&D is much more of a tactical combat ga…

Dancing is arguably the best (some might say the only authentic) way to cure quadriplegia.

I don't know what's inside Mark Wahlberg's heart, but let's suppose it's someone whom, for the sake of argument, we know truly regrets their actions: what are they supposed to do i…

This may be a definition with several edge cases, but I always thought of a program as something that was compiled and run, whereas a script was information you fed into a running …

There is no universe in which Klaus Kinski is better than either Max Schreck or Christopher Lee. There is a universe where Lugosi is better than Lee; just not this one.

Apparently someone missed the word "experimental" in the announcement.

But nobody claims that ABABCB is the only song structure.

If you're wondering why your comment is so lowly rated, I suggest you actually read the linked article before commenting on it. Or rather, before commenting on a scenario that has …

> It's better in general not to go around judging people's morality, and if you can't manage that, try to keep your moral judgments to yourself. You do realize that this is, itself…

I think you're mixing efficiency with effectiveness. It may be more efficient to store your valuables in a breadbasket, but more effective to store them in a safety deposit box, if…

It isn't that movies like The Deer Hunter are slow, necessarily. It's that the scenes are doing things other than advancing "the plot". Things like revealing a hidden character tra…

I was really confused, and thought I'd missed out on a big chunk of music theory, when I read this. Glad to see it wasn't my understanding, but the author's.

> Right now, here's the process for browsing a subreddit on mobile without the (ads and tracking loaded) reddit app: 1. Use rif is fun for Reddit ( https://play.google.com/store/ap…

The only place the Socratic Method works is in the fictional dialogues of Plato, where Crito or Meno or Phaedrus or whomever are set up as obvious straw men, answering "yes" or "no…

This seems like a weird, and possibly untrustworthy, hack. Does Python not have the equivalent of Ruby's `x` modifier?

Pretty sure most licenses have a clause stating that, if one clause is deemed invalid, that fact doesn't render the entire thing null and void. Check with your lawyer when in doubt…

I think at least part of it has to do with the fact that, if you're a critic, you see probably 500+ movies a year. You are likely to get bored with things that the casual viewer do…

> Your ChessBoard class should only be concerned with chess-board-ness. A separate second idea is that your program only needs one board. That’s not a fact intrinsic to chess board…

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again." -- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

Interesting, I wrote a quick script to use this: #!/usr/bin/env ruby def is_prime(n) ("1" \* n.to_i)!~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ end num = ARGV.shift $stdout.puts is_prime(num) ... then d…

There is a major character named "Piggy" in the book. They kill him in the end. The probability is zero that those events are thematically unrelated.