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I think there's a critical mass of people interested in history, just not interested enough to overcome the consensus on the issues that are likely to interest them. If I were to post topics about WW2 for example, I'm sure I could get ten people who'd basically regurgitate Why the Allies Won and Wh...

How did History subforum become one of the struggling SD.Net's deader subforums then? I wouldn't say he was the main cause but he didn't help, despite his talent, and he shat things up. If the History forum should've been less about whimsical intellectual doodling and more about serious research an...

it would be inspired by publius but with more focus on stuff outside the government of the empire - eg rebel structures, independent terrorist organizations, clone wars revanchists, the criminal underground, etc. a link to the pdf might be nice though. Turns out I have two documents! General notes ...

What genuinely fascinates me is all the minor internet celebrities that have posted on there- Lowtax (well, okay, major internet celebrity for one post), John Biles, the Lunar Archivist, a couple of other fanfic-posters, and so on. I mean, it's a tiny Star Wars fanboard! I've seen it referenced by ...

ADR's daily post-counts more less tells the story. I think I had about 7000 posts on sdn over about 7 years... I don't know what kind of secondary effect my posts had, but my post count on its own was nothing to write home about. Whoops, sorry, not you - someone else posted some statistics about po...

The small gene pool of posters and opinions, overseen by dead handed and overly opinionated moderators, is also why the History subforum has wound up in abject failure (that too might as well be folded back into off topic). I don't think Thanas or Stas (or before, Shep) were that heavy-handed in Hi...

His latest posts in the Joel Brinkely thread has convinced me that he must be at least a little self-aware of the chum he's throwing. There may be an honest middle-ground between both those realms which he's occupying quite handily. I just looked through that thread: he does read like a toxic mix o...

You really should. Fincher's House of Cards is Big Love in Washington, good but soap operaesque and filled with dead weight. The BBC House of Cards is I, Claudius in Washington . Genius by comparison, which isn't necessarily a slight on Fincher's version, and they do all the little techniques bette...

Glad to hear you're doing well.

I thought it might be DF on an epic troll guy pushes too many of the right buttons not to be suspicious Yeah, but there's people that dumb, too. I'm using it as an experiment to see how long I can remain calm and/or how fast I'll get bored. http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=15776...

dammit but i like the menu button since it doesn't take up my screen space you fuckers with your ui design knowledge The main problem with a menu button are incompetent app designers who hide important functionality in it (same reason MacOS didn't have a right-mouse-button or even arrow keys at fir...

I'm sort of thinking about maybe getting a smartphone sometime in the next few months (possibly) does android actually suck or are you being hyperbolic? Android 4.X fixes a lot of the stupid design decisions but there are still a lot of rough edges. Google also refuses to impose design order on app...

Man I've used a bunch of current android hardware And android sucking is a huge bummer Because the hardware is so good It's sometimes very powerful but it's not always good (Pentile, non-IPS, insufficient onboard storage, worthless radio (Samsung, I'm looking at you)), etc. :( Maybe one day a compa...

I'm sorry, I really don't get the nerd love for android. Is it because it claims to be open source? Speaking of opensource, phpbb is such a a pile of shit it's amazing. Reading the dev forums is an great way to crush someone's hopes for humanity. mysql_real_escape_string >:[ but but android is like...

I'm sorry, I really don't get the nerd love for android. Is it because it claims to be open source? That, and customizability. It's like nerd catnip. Google, for reasons that defy understanding, decided they needed to make a phone operating system. Instead of thinking it through, they just did it, ...

Global Entry, it's like NEXUS, but only works in the US. Basically, it allows me (because I've had a background check and had my biometrics collected) to use automated kiosks at certain US entry airports instead of waiting in the line for a CBP officer. I also get a little slip that lets me cut the...

Prior to '41 would have been hard for the US to go to war anyway, what with not actually amping up it's own industry until Pearl Harbor. Had Imperial Japan not attacked Pearl Harbor, it's questionable if the US would have gotten involved in WWII at all. FDR was chomping at the bit and it was pretty...

If you actually understand that the "/dev/sdx" he is talking about is an alias generated by a driver which then talks to the USB stack, it's fairly trivial to construct a situation where having two USB devices with the same serial number and thus being indistinguishable to the USB stack c...

Not going to bother posting on sd.net, because what the hell is the point? Educate the peanut gallery reading it and not Xerier? Test-driven development is something I actually had a chance todo, but that requires knowing what the fucking inputs are and what the outputs need to be. :whine: Some of ...

Why does it seems that in real-world engineering, conceiving things in very conservative ways, taking minimums risks and making sure things will works in the most adverse condition is something every engineer should strive for Space Shuttle software development . This is a pretty special case, thou...

xon wrote:I forgot how much sd.net really don't like having technical questions answered.

Most people on SDN who think they know something about computers don't actually know that much?

I wonder if some mods might lock a thread before splitting a post out so then they don't have to deal with people replying to the split post while they're moving it. Anyone with more insight into how the mods work over there know if this happens at all? Yeah, I think that's what they do. It's sort ...

uraniun235 wrote:Come on dude, you don't really think he's bought off the admins, do you?

I will unequivocally say that he has no allies on the SDN staff.