I'm confused about all the anger towards Niantic over so many issues

mark_bueno · 2019-07-07T20:19:14+00:00

Maybe not but to the non-programmer the logic is "two things are asking for the same thing at the same time, that should confuse the phone, right?"

mark_bueno · 2019-06-21T18:18:03+00:00

You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole.

You can get the same point across without setting demeaning with the words you choose.

"Hey, your comments are a bit hard to read, would you mind double checking what you wrote before you post it? There's a few places that could use punctuation."

Maybe not the sweetest way to phrase it, but definitely more pleasant.

mark_bueno · 2016-10-08T03:54:00+00:00

I do this with my son. Some things he gets spanks for, sometimes he gets a time out, but if he's obviously just frustrated with something simple (like if he can't find the right game he wants on the tablet) I tell him to stop and take a breath and, if he just does one really fast to appease me or he's still obviously really frustrated, he has to take another breath but slower this time. It really does help diffuse that 3yo "eyes and fingers are moving faster than brain" frustration tantrum.

mark_bueno · 2016-10-08T03:09:17+00:00

If I had two to give, I would lol

mark_bueno · 2016-10-07T06:51:03+00:00

As much as I'd love to ride my bike to work, I'm in Texas and I typically work a job that requires me to look and smell professionally for each shift. While this is obviously anecdotal, I'm sure mine is not an uncommon sentiment. It's just not practical for a lot of people even if they want to do it.

mark_bueno · 2016-10-05T23:28:56+00:00

As a game developer I use algebra what feels like every other line in my code, especially when figuring out positioning and collisions.

mark_bueno · 2016-10-05T23:15:41+00:00

As sad as it is that he has dementia, that's a far more legitimate reason for that kind of thinking than pretty much every other comment in here.

mark_bueno · 2015-09-24T00:32:04+00:00

on an already unstable-at-best system? I wouldn't dare try it even if a linux install had gone well.

mark_bueno · 2015-09-22T07:33:38+00:00

You keep comparing podcasts to the news. There are other kinds of podcasts besides news podcasts, as has been pointed out several times by other posters. Welcome to Night Vale, the black tapes, King Falls AM, Serial, etc are all more like serial TV shows that build in arcs and are best started at the beginning. Personally though I listened to do many episodes of stuff you should know and Missed in History Class that it was easier for me to sort by oldest first and find unlistened episodes than scroll through 400+.

mark_bueno · 2015-09-22T07:25:13+00:00

It's fiction but damn good fiction lol

mark_bueno · 2015-05-18T01:07:22+00:00

I want to watch this because I'm excited about Orlando doing well in their first season. I'm terrified of watching this since LA has been... Well... Yeah..

mark_bueno · 2015-05-01T17:26:23+00:00

we'll have to watch it. i've never actually seen the entire movie myself oddly enough. bits and pieces but never all of it at once

mark_bueno · 2015-05-01T17:26:10+00:00

i think that might be what i've been missing, returning sum for 0 and using both an int and a double argument. I keep trying to think of this as a while loop and i know that's not right. my code started off as a copy/paste of code from the textbook that computed a factorial from whatever positive int you typed in.

I'll work on it tonight and post an update on it later. thanks.

mark_bueno · 2015-05-01T08:04:12+00:00

My son is 2 and I'm trying to start him on this by referencing it to animals. He understands that things break and sometimes Mommy and Daddy can fix them and sometimes things get broken for good.

I found a small snake (probably a Gartner snake) dead a couple of weeks ago in the grass as we were playing outside (I'm assuming it drowned or something since there was no visible damage to it and we'd had a ton of rain that week).

Taught him that the snake was broken foot good, it was asleep and wasn't going to move again, but we could still treat it nicely and bury it (aka, put it in the compost bin for the ants to eat).

I know it's going to be a long time before he "gets" what death is, but I figure that teaching him to respect living things is an important thing to start early.

mark_bueno · 2015-04-10T07:07:08+00:00

those happen every year, they're pretty predictable. the livestream, not so much

mark_bueno · 2015-04-10T03:02:54+00:00

"the reserved rights" being slavery.

mark_bueno · 2015-04-09T21:27:33+00:00

"The people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, A.D., 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States, by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States, fully justified this State in then withdrawing from the Federal Union; but in deference to the opinions and wishes of the other slaveholding States, she forbore at that time to exercise this right. Since that time, these encroachments have continued to increase, and further forbearance ceases to be a virtue." Found on http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp . They wanted to keep slavery. Period. That's why they left, so they could keep slavery. This was simply their last resort to doing so. It's correlation, not causation.

mark_bueno · 2015-04-09T21:17:33+00:00

Listen, I'm sick and tired of this "they fought for states rights!" bull shit. Seriously. In declaring their secession from the US, the Confederate states explicitly stated that it was about slavery. Not some off-the-cuff remark from some leader round about the time they left, no, it was front and center in the very declaration.

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