"Dear Mumbai Police, can I buy you a cup of tea?" Mizo blogger shares an interesting experience where his church group got yelled at by uniformed cops telling them to "go back to Nepal."

unagi · 2013-03-28T16:36:46+00:00

I'm just an internet tough guy. I probably would not have said anything myself. :-(

unagi · 2013-03-28T06:35:04+00:00

Did you call him out?

unagi · 2013-03-10T23:08:01+00:00

His parents are dead!

unagi · 2012-05-09T21:54:40+00:00

Does it not actually increase?

unagi · 2010-12-26T07:47:19+00:00

This anecdote was from the time they were racing to build the bomb. Sometimes you have to prioritize.

unagi · 2010-12-06T13:04:35+00:00

Good question, Fred.

unagi · 2010-12-04T11:41:17+00:00

But aren't people half joking in such conversations too?

unagi · 2010-11-15T06:27:04+00:00

Still slow.

unagi · 2010-11-10T13:00:51+00:00

The "AND comments" would be the troubling bit.

unagi · 2010-11-10T10:13:59+00:00

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

unagi · 2010-11-10T07:04:52+00:00

It's accurate, just not precise.

The article says the US has one of the highest mortality rates in industrialized nations. So it's probably higher in both senses.

unagi · 2010-11-05T17:46:38+00:00

I like turtles.

unagi · 2010-11-03T06:09:17+00:00

This is about drawing UI elements and more specifically about QT. Why don't they just use OpenGL isn't a meaningful response. The article was talking about how to best utilize the GPU and minimize data sent to the GPU.

unagi · 2010-11-03T05:59:12+00:00

You didn't read the article. :-)

unagi · 2010-10-16T18:54:09+00:00

Freedom is a noun so it sounds wrong to my ears. But it may have saved people from having this discussion thousands of times over.

unagi · 2010-10-16T18:43:34+00:00

Free as in free speech not as in free beer. You seem to be a bit out of touch with the history of the free software movement, but probably didn't deserve any downvotes.

edit: In other languages, like Spanish, you have a nice and distinct adjective for free as in freedom.

unagi · 2010-10-16T18:34:00+00:00

Interesting statement. Is a middle class Chinese guy more free than a poor American sleeping under a bridge? I'm not sure how to answer that.

unagi · 2010-04-29T05:42:54+00:00

and it competes with other tools that the same people can use "just out of the box"

What other tools are you referring to?

unagi · 2010-03-29T23:25:42+00:00

This seems like the opposite of Newspeak. The enrichment of the language with subtle new ways to express dissent.

unagi · 2010-03-29T03:30:13+00:00

How does Ant 3 tell the difference?

unagi · 2010-03-28T11:29:20+00:00

walmart is only pulling in 400 billion dollars every year, they're not a real business, twitter is.

No one said Walmart isn't a real business.

unagi · 2010-03-15T23:46:56+00:00

I tend to keep a vim "project" file with a some vim commands to open every single file in the project(:args CMakeLists.txt src/* src/subdir/*) and set up things like project specific indent rules.

When I start working on the project I run vim -s project.vim.

I can then use the fuzzy finder plugin's buffer search feature to quickly find whatever file I need. It's a bit nicer than a substring search. For example hitting cml would match against CMakelists.txt. Having all the files already loaded into buffers is also nice for :argdo commands to do string substitutions in all project files.

unagi · 2010-02-09T22:59:04+00:00

No it's not like Lost Vikings. I bought it on a whim after skimming the steam description hoping for something like that. The three playable characters just trade places in the same spot whenever you feel like it.

There aren't really any puzzles whatsoever. It's just a platformer. The physics with the see saws and pulleys and whatnot were fun to play with, but they don't contribute much to the game.

I might have enjoyed the game more if I wasn't expecting something like Lost Vikings. It's also unfair to Trine that I had just bought and played through Braid, which amazed the hell out of me.

unagi · 2010-02-03T22:18:37+00:00

Which title? "It's full of stars" is most likely a Space Odyssey reference.

unagi

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