2013-12-08 links
- ESR ready to ship Shipper, automating everything
- Long, enlightening article about how games have been marketed through the years, and towards which demographics. "Given enough money, I could make guys buy tampons," says Roeser. "I mean, I could figure out something to do with them. It all comes down to …
"Regeneration"
Trying out a new layout.
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Kratos the furious demi-god, a man defined by violence and psychologically
jammed in that moment of aggressive self-belief right before a post-pub
headbutt, is a wilfully unpleasant protagonist indistinguishable,
dramatically speaking, from controlling a tightly balled fist through
ancient Greece. It goes without saying that it’s great to have …
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I hate to say it, but I am a very high-functioning bureaucrat who looks after licenses.
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the annoyance of providing lecture notes in ppt format
I was downloading a lot of lecture notes to read through. The majority of these were put on Moodle in Powerpoint format. This is an awful thing to do. It was making me hate LibreOffice.
So I started converting them to pdf format to read with the excellent document viewer …
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I'd like to say a few words about traditional college grading. I'm sick of it. We're obsessed with grades because we're obsessed with data. And yet grading takes away all the fun from failing. And a huge part about education is about failing. Courage, according to Churchill, is the ability …
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2013-01-20 links
- Even though I already have my own hosted VPS, this article on OStatic makes me wonder whether I should invest in a physical one at some point
- Start developing for OUYA!
- I'd heard about this article a lot before, but never actually read it: Software Is Eating The World
"My Hobby:"
browsing odd covers of Call Me Maybe on YouTube.
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