07 Oct 2013, 7:35 am
I'm mildly amazed that I continued this long with anything, let alone fixation on the #1 most difficult part of my existence, but it turns out that there's a lot more to helping people than commiseration; I might go so far as to call it catharsis. Thanks, Alex for keeping the bots & trolls to a minimum and to everybody else for being so uncannily relateable. I look forward to solving enough problems to finally relate them all back to my own life, and I'm sure you do too. At least we've only got the one planet to deal with, am I right?
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07 Oct 2013, 1:12 pm
07 Oct 2013, 8:39 pm
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07 Oct 2013, 8:45 pm
Congrats, man. 
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08 Oct 2013, 12:22 am
08 Oct 2013, 1:00 am
By the way, what's your avatar?
It's Engadget's default commenter pic, edited in MS Paint, and seems due for a second edit! As a coder I hope I can keep the next 4488 posts concise as I've seemed to accumulate some repetitive strain troubles, but I'll probably just go skiing and let those work themselves out. In terms of achievements, I'm not actually sure I rank this among them but I'm still engaged by quite a number of users here in continuing to align my work with my mind, and I think when I get around to writing some web trackers, one of my first priorities will be pointing them here and showing people some useful patterns they may have missed. I keep reading everyone's take on modern interaction but it's my opinion that when it's viewed in the reflexive sense is when it makes some real changes for those viewing it.
Overall I'm much happier and more productive for this effort and finishing most of the work I must to get back to my social life unencumbered. It may be an uphill battle trying to think like an AI but damned if I'm not going to try it.
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-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos
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08 Oct 2013, 3:29 pm
08 Oct 2013, 3:50 pm
Congrats! 
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08 Oct 2013, 5:22 pm
Congratulations!
