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james-imitative

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    Comment #22275151

    I'd rather Rockerize a Dooby-on-rails application.

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    Comment #22264061

    Nay, very related!

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    Comment #22262516

    Not replying to you per se, but: also, don't waste your time creating something that won't be eroded by competitive forces. That's not you, that's me.

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    Comment #22262283

    For Nick, it was attempting to pay me so I wouldn't defame him.

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    Comment #22258408

    Anyway, the point is that aeroplanes _do_ fly. I have been in an aeroplane that flew, and it flew using wings that had engines attached to them. I have also seen a variety of plane…

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    Comment #22258036

    Suicide: too many people being "saved" from it. Ethnicity: too many people lying about it. Alcohol: too many people drinking it. -- it's also a chemical Latitude: not enough people…

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    Comment #22250204

    Yes. This. Fully anonymised is data is #not the same thing as (fully) pseudonymous data. Thank you for pointing out that very important distinction. :D

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    Comment #22249595

    The "Jonathon Blow" of reading inspiredly.

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    Comment #22247134

    Is that really _the_ Lorraine Daston? It doesn't look like her.

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    Comment #22247022

    Stupid Asshole Projection

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    Comment #22233379

    Really, really good!

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    Comment #22231121

    <3 deadcoins. Even better than sh*tcoins.

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    Comment #22220860

    Jonathan is the next nextbeard. This guy was really one of those, y'know, gëniuses.

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    Comment #22220782

    Yeah, it's because on Twitter they don't perceive the _irony_ of someone chopping a book in half. It's always a firestorm for those guys, always holistically disparaging books, art…

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    Comment #22215464

    You have obviously never worked in the business.

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    Comment #22212121

    I don't think so. I think it got removed. Thumps head

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    Comment #22212110

    Sounds like a really good solution to the problem described.

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    Comment #22210682

    Working as a safety executive at a Widget factory, I introduced automated checking of the sphericality of the widgets we were putting into beer cans. At one point some of the widge…

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    Comment #22210608

    Speaking as a full time crappy computer programmer, I don't care that much about safety. What could possibly go wrong from programming a computer badly? :(( YET at our safety meeti…

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    Comment #22200788

    Really? How bizarre.

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    Comment #22200368

    > Colombo was paralysed after the attack and died seven years later in 1978. This is a tragedy. Think what other movies this man could have made. "Tant pis".

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    Comment #22197920

    Lol. All aboard the quale whale

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    Comment #22197914

    > It's that I'm looking at / living a shot from a movie in realtime Sounds really cool! I do that too!

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    Comment #22197898

    > I suspect the author is exaggerating a bit yep