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stop comparing yourself to other people

As a point of reference, the story of North Korean prisoner Shin Dong-hyuk ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr6Rw0ltFxc ) is the single most broken, fucked up, yet amazing thing I …

Got all 35 - I did brute forcing with a few rules: 1) Don't worry about the colors at all, because you can usually shuffle them around to get the right order. 2) If there's a parti…

Don't forget the qualifier - "the company will take all profits from the game until the cost of hiring artists for the graphics is payed off". So, what do they offer? - Tutorials/c…

I wonder what your friends would think about you if there were a website exposing inconsistencies between your public and private persona.

Here's a possible solution that doesn't exclude round robin games: 1. Play round robin as usual, but use the results of this to uniquely seed the teams (tiebreak any way you want) …

Wow, nailed it. I totally missed the Washington Post incentive angle.

$1.49 might be a play to attract developers whose revenue is tied to the lowest app store price point.

It's much harder to circumvent the $80, otherwise they would.

So, where's your rules list?

Shut up and deal with it? I really wonder what this world would be like if everyone who had a career, family, or life to risk over being a whistleblower took the safe, sure path an…

Ah, yes, that's brilliant. I never thought of that one. Continue dealing with a company that will not pay as promised for your previous work. Can you give an example where this cou…

This is the natural result of a commoditized profession. Talented people will not be rewarded to the extent they deserve, and will leave.

I agree with you completely.

That's my favorite xkcd - so simple, and true. Ironic side note - I tried to use it as my ESPN.com forum account avatar, and was denied.

Set up a recursion: 1000x - .001 (repeating) = x The .001 repeating = 1/999, simplify, voila.

Remember the people who thought music piracy was over after Napster got shut down? Once the masses get used to a certain convenience, and that convenience is taken away, someone wi…

This. When I went shopping for gifts, it was remarkable how much the Lego section had changed from a decade ago. It was mostly filled with Star Wars sets, which were expensive (rel…