Is this by chance the card?

That dude is going to be 80 and still making fun of popular songs. And I will probably be just fine with that.

in·vest inˈvest/Submit verb gerund or present participle: investing 1. expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial schemes, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercial venture.

Terrible article. Everyone knows buying/selling bitcoins is nothing like investing in stock. It's more akin to investing in gold or another commodity like a foreign currency.

Everyone also knows it's 99x less stable. It's easy to manipulate the market. Theft is rampant. Everyone knows these things. But to say you can't invest in bitcoin is silly.

Bitcoin is considered property, or at least the government had plans to consider it so. It's as much property as buying a computer application is. Which take that as you will. It's hard to classify bitcoin because it's such a unique thing. If nothing else it's akin to currency.

I don't condone dropping your life savings on bitcoin but it's a hobby for a lot of people. It's also made quite a few people very rich.

I played some magic the gathering at a friends, then came home to listen to music and read comics.

Edit: Yes I'm a giant nerd.

You know I am.

I've been sick of the shallow discussions for a while now. Browsing the programming tags on here I think I'm already in love.

Pretty much any song that fits the situation. Highway to hell, whatever that song from the Sarah Mclachlan commercial is. Stayin alive. He has an amazing vocal range apparently.

I was roleplaying with some friends this weekend and I acquired a singing pony. So, I mean, that was pretty cool.

These are good people. I like these people and I don't even know them.

Very well-written and insightful read.

Your yelling the next point of the plot made me spit out coke as I was reading! Very well done sir!

(didn't want to spoil it by quoting)

Couldn't help it.

I saw this today, I was like, woah.

Honestly I've been expecting something similar for a long while. The dude went on a ridiculous hiatus, then just started messing with users, then suddenly became a good guy and started moderating again. It was all a pretty good indicator something was up.

if we were going to allow googling I'd just write an irc bot that scrapes google and throws an answer up.

I'd be up for it, if I can carve out some time to join. My month is fully booked, including weekends...

And pay attention in math class. An understanding of Calculus gives you a Neo-like view of the Matrix that is the world. Trust me on this, because it'll be a while before you see it.

Math is love, math is life.

Seriously though... Math is so useful. It may be because I'm a programming major, but I really wish I remembered more from my highschool math classes. I've always been good at it, but I haven't used it in so long it takes me a while to get back the basics every time I go to do something even remotely complex.

The whole py2 versus py3 thing drives me crazy.

I think we've finally gotten to the point where I can move to python 3 without much worry. But in the beginning it was a serious problem. Nothing worked. Absolutely nothing.

Simple really, be yourself. Some people are bound to be rude and hateful, but the majority isn't. Just focus on enjoying yourself and doing what you want to do.

Definitely take any extra curricular opportunities that you can, if they interest you that is. Don't force yourself to do something you won't enjoy. But I really wish I had been more involved in highschool. That's where you'll meet new people and have the most fun.

I mostly lurk, and I don't feel like I'm afraid of making a comment. But now that I think about it, there have been quite a few times where I've started to reply, then thought "that's stupid" and just deleted the comment. Of course I've been doing that on a lot of sites as of late, so it may not be intimidation from hubski so much as it is me finally realizing I'm stupid.

My roommate and I have hardly seen each other since we moved in... He was gone all last week and I assume will also be gone when I get home today.

I'm not the cleanest person, nor is he, but we have an understanding to clean shit up in common places. I was sick all weekend so I slacked a bit. Guessing it'll slide this time.

Other rules consist of:

1. You can do dishes (I do most of the time), but odds are good my girlfriend will do them when she comes over anyway

2. No one in the house gives a shit if you blast music or anime at ridiculous hours of the night. Neither of us sleeps.

3. The whiteboard is used strictly for passing games of tic-tac-toe and riddles. Anything else is frivilous.

4. If you order pizza you are god for the night.

5. I hope you don't mind seeing me naked. If you do, keep your eyes shut at all times.

6. Anything else just bring it to my attention and we'll work it out.

I loved it, got quite a kick out of the names. And the use of the song in the story was excellent.

Kind of inspired me to do my own interactive story I've been thinking about.

Some day, some day.

It's terrible isn't it? I can't stand shoes.

Glad to see you're checking it out too.

I was previously attempting to write a MUD in python... it's no picnic either. So I decided to use the language I know best C... So far... things are okay.

If you're looking for good fantasy, there's a series called "Tyrants and Kings". It's kind of SciFi fantasy. But the world is great and the characters are fairly interesting. I read the first book when I was a freshman in high school. I read the second book at some point but never bought the last book. They're also on my list to reread sometime this summer.

I don't doubt the question of the risks. But I feel like 5 years is a good amount of time to know that I'm not in any more danger than I would be with cigarettes. There is of course the question of the liquid ingredients. But if you buy from a reputable seller you can be fairly certain that the ingredients are propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, and artificial flavors. All of which have been studied for a long time. We know how they break down in the body and that they are relatively safe. That of course doesn't mean that ingestion via the lungs is just as safe as ingesting them via the stomach or intestines.

All that aside though, from my own experience I feel 400x better than I did while smoking, which is enough for me.

And on the note of building coils, it's basically that with a mechanical mod the only way to regulate the heat of the coils is by changing the resistance of the coils. The lower the resistance the hotter the vape. It also means there's less wires and electronics that would increase your resistance. Another important thing is that you can change the surface area that will be heating your liquid. That of course means more vapor! That's the basics of it anyway, as I understand them.

Edit: I didn't mention the danger of purposely short circuiting high discharge batteries to generate heat. That should be self explanatory. Well you aren't really short circuiting, but you can very easily get to that point if you don't know what you're doing. /responsible-adult-rant

Yeah, I've used it. And ew. But I took a class on it.

If you haven't done much programming I recommend getting a book that goes over the basics really well.

I used this for a class and it has a lot of really good examples in the back that you have to make. It really nails in the basics. It seemed like a really good book for beginners. But I kind of just googled my way through things since I'd been coding for so long I really just needed the syntax.

Edit: Sorry for my weird link placement. Took me a while to find it...

When I was younger videogames were my life. They inspired me to go into programming. As I got older I found I spent more time analyzing the technical aspect of games and enjoying them less. Now I find it a chore to sit through games most of the time, and I really don't have the time to get invested as I want to. I still play some games, I spent almost this entire weekend playing pokemon. I beat it a couple days after it came out then didn't touch it for months until this weekend. I knew I wanted to relax this weekend and I used the game to facilitate that. I'll probably do something similar this weekend since I know from here on out it will be work and school 24/7.

My mother was always strict on limiting game and computer time. She still is with my siblings. She loosened up on me when I got older as I spent most of my time on the computer programming and learning. I'm extremely glad she recognized that. All in all I don't think it affected me negatively, as refugee said I really enjoy reading and that gave me more time to enjoy it. Or to go outside and ride my bike around town.

The way I see it is that videogames are harmless unless they're put in the right hands. But that can be said for anything. If someone is going to go on a spree of violence they would have done that whether they played games, saw movies, or whatever else. Games are just a good scapegoat. That said I never really got into the extremely over the top games like saints row or GTA. I just knew they weren't for me. I'm a nintendo fanboy and I'll probably stay that way.

The number of particle generators I've written for fun is too damn high, but now I want to make a javascript one. Thanks jerk.

More on topic, good job. Can we see more stuff like this here?

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces....

Oops, thought this was reddit, my bad.

You did, and honestly this entire article raises questions I really don't want answers to.

Well I got a parking violation from a state I've never been to the other day... Oh, we're not just trying to one-up eachother...

Seriously though, bureaucracy is fucking awful.