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  1. ShakyJake

    King of the Nerds

    Yes she should have immediately known this. Unless, I suppose, her knowledge is more about engineering than stellar dynamics. But I knew it and I'm just an armchair astronomer. This may have been my favorite season. I really enjoyed most of the challenges.
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    Computer Issues

    Weird problem: A a few weeks back I bought a replacement motherboard to use with my old AMD Phenom II 965 chip. The board is the ASUS M5A97 LE 2.0. The thing seemingly froze up randomly. I sent it back, got a replacement and this one is doing the exact same fucking thing. Previously I...
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    The 100

    12 Monkeys.
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    Desktop Computers

    oops. wrong thread.
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    Episodes

    That's crazy!
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    The 100

    I watch Empire and it's really only for Taraji Henson since I liked her on Person of Interest. No fucking clue why the ratings are so huge. I guess it's the hip-hop shit? It's FOX's equivalent of ABC's Nashville. Hopefully CW will marathon The 100 over summer. Maybe pick up more viewers...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I do know you're not supposed to use exceptions to determine program flow. I don't see any of that, but I have witnessed huge swaths of code wrapped in try/catches. That annoys me. The problem with several of my team's engineers is that they will mindlessly hammer out dozens (literally!) of...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    What's "bad programming"? I don't consider myself a mastermind or anything, but the people around me who (apparently) have way more experience are HORRIBLE coders in my opinion. And that's the thing: "In my opinion." -- I'm starting to wonder is it just me? Is it just a "style" people adopt...
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    Justified

    "You shot me in the back!" "You wanted to get hit in the front, you should've run toward me." Gonna miss this show.
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    House of Cards

    Haha yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Dude hangs himself with her scarf like 5 feet away and she's lying there sawing logs.
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    TV show recommendation thread

    I think a lot of American shows want to pump out a ton of episodes in order to get it into syndication. I think you need something like 60 episodes in order for it to sell into syndication.
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    TV show recommendation thread

    I really enjoyedHappy Valley. Ireallywanted to see the antagonist die a horrible, horrible death. Fucking hated that guy. Anyway, BBC One series and, as with most British shows, is very short. 6 eps and you're done. But I believe a second series has been commissioned.
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    Bates Motel

    I suspect Charlie told Norman to drive her Porche back to the motel, since she would be whoring it up with some dude later that night.
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    Bates Motel

    This is back as of last night.
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    House of Cards

    Why? Do you think he was burying a red-haired mannequin? I don't even recall the reason why hehadto kill her. I know she was Corey Stoll's call girl. But did she actuallyknowanything? Can't remember. Season was pretty 'meh'. I didn't really understand his motivation for pushing...
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    The Last Man on Earth

    I thought the first half was mildly amusing. But I had my doubts that the show would have longevity with just Will Forte talking to Wilsons. Then Kristen Schaal showed up and things really picked up -- two years of no human contact then finally discovering another living person - only to find...
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    The 100

    Durrr. Just realized "Ton DC" is Washington DC. Only one episode left. Hope Arlo makes things right.
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    The Walking Dead

    If there's one thing I learned this episode is that Carol has a great smile.
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    RIP Spock. I actually liked the Voyager ending -- except the shoehorned Chakotay and Seven of Nine romance. That came out of nowhere. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't great like TNG's. But it was fun watching a future-fitted Voyager kick Borg ass.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Look at those game prices! $69.99?! Remember this is back in the early 90s.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Personally, I'm now more interested in other JVM languages, such as Groovy or Scala. I've heard cool things about Groovy -- about how it removes a lot of the "gunk" you have to deal with in Java.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I don't have any professional experience with Java, but I did read two giant tomes on Java 8 just recently. The impression I got was that it's very similar to C# - very easy to learn if one knows the other. Java often requires more boilerplate code to do the same thing, though (e.g. no auto...
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    RIP Leonard Nimoy

    Damn
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    The Blacklist

    And it's really not doing too well in it's new time slot.
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    The future, what will it hold for us?

    Oh, I'm sorry. By "future" do we just mean 5 years from now?
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    The future, what will it hold for us?

    Perhaps not the same physical body but the possibility exists for your consciousness to be "downloaded" into a new vessel.
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    The future, what will it hold for us?

    Actually, barring accidents, I can foresee us extending life indefinitely. Hell, "backing up" the contents of our brains and downloading into a new body is a frequent subject in science fiction. Of course this brings up the whole debate about the "soul" and what not, but it doesn't remove the...
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    Mad Men

    Haha, from that season 7.5 video, they definitely look like they're in the 70s. Jessica Par? is so hot...even with those teeth.
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    Gotham

    Wow, that actor nailed it.
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    The 100

    Yeah, I consistently look forward to it every week. It's a shame the ratings aren't higher, although luckily it's been renewed for a third season. Also, I love the intro.
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    black-ish

    Bumping because I routinely get some good laughs from this. The two younger kids are adorable and the little girl really is hilarious. And, for some odd reason, I actually find the mom sorta attractive. Even with the weird eye.
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    King of the Nerds

    Kind of waste to ship in former contestants to only have them dance for a couple minutes.
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    Grimm

    That was a pretty bad ass fight. It's pretty obvious Juliette is starting to dig the new her.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    One point I'd like to make from personal anecdotal evidence is that those with degrees tend to poo-poo those who don't. At my place of employment it's quite obvious that those without degrees are seen as lesser beings. Quite a bit of intellectual snobbery goes on. So I can see where a hiring...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I managed to get a developer position by coding tools for our operation department. This caught the attention of some higher-ups and they brought me in. I have no degree. And, quite honestly, I am not impressed by those that DO have software engineering degrees here. I am quite confident...
  36. ShakyJake

    King of the Nerds

    He looks like a Betazoid with those super dark eyes. I think it WAS pretty shitty voting fat boy into the nerd off. I don't ever recall him having a "short fuse" before that point. But, Kaitlin is my favorite of all the nerds, so glad she kicked his ass. Kaitlin actually has a decent...
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    Social Attitude Test

    Political Values Progressivism 57.5 Socialism 25 Tenderness 25 Your test scores indicate that you are a tough-minded cultural centrist; this is the political profile one might associate with a nihilist. It appears that you are skeptical towards religion, and have an indifferent and...
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    The 100

    I thought for sure "The Commander" was gonna put the moves on Clarke at a couple points. Anyway, exactly what is Clarke's plan? Because I'm pretty sure people that's been kept in small cages and routinely had their blood drained aren't going to immediately start kicking ass once freed.
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    King of the Nerds

    I actually kinda like the NASA chick. I appreciate the fact that she doesn't want to play those stupid alliance games.
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    Nightcrawler (2014)

    Yeah, watched it last night. Really enjoyed it. Oddly, the trailers depicted Louis repeatedly saying his motto, "If you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket" , but he actually only said that once at the beginning.