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  1. ShakyJake

    The Astronomy Thread

    I mentioned this before in the (I think) Politics thread. What if the U.S. started to mine the shit out of the asteroid belt (or NEOs) for precious metals to pay off the national debt? Setting up the infrastructure would be significant but would pay for itself easily in the long run.
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    A Series of Unfortunate Events

    That's odd. Initially I thought "Is this for kids?" because it seems silly. But it got fairly dark after the initial introduction of the children. I've never read the books, but I did see the movie with Jim Carrey a few years back. Honestly, don't remember much about it.
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    A Series of Unfortunate Events

    Watched the first episode and really enjoyed it. Harris is great.
  4. ShakyJake

    Planet Earth II

    Omg those little turtles. :( Surprising to me, I think I enjoyed the Cities episode the most.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Stellarium
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    I bought a 2014 Fiesta a few years ago and was absolutely shocked at how fun to drive the car is, even with it's meager 110hp. Deals this past Fall were too good to pass up. Traded it in for a 2016:
  7. ShakyJake

    Megyn Kelly leaving Fox News

    Meygn's pretty but I never knew what the big deal was beyond that. I'd rather watch Jeanine Pirro.
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    Black Mirror

    San Junipero was my favorite. Really did not care for the final episode.
  9. ShakyJake

    Homeland

    Doubtful. He didn't even know what a fucking windshield is called.
  10. ShakyJake

    Humans

    Yeah, just ended a couple weeks back. I liked it although not quite as much as the first season.
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    The Good Place

    Saw this thread, decided to check it out. Ted Danson kicking that damn dog into the sun cracked me the hell up. Totally love it. Great show. Plus it's doing well in the ratings I believe.
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    Homeland

    Watched the premiere episode. Some thoughts:
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    Homeland

    First ep of S6 has leaked.
  14. ShakyJake

    Star Wars : Rogue One

    I saw this for the first time a couple nights ago. First off, I'm not a huge Star Wars fan -- I'm more of a Trek guy (TOS, TNG, DS9 -- not the new crap) but I actually really enjoyed this. Much more so than TFA. Other than the main protagonist I actually liked the characters. For me I've...
  15. ShakyJake

    I suck with people and need advice

    I suggest forgetting about it. Not worth the hassle.
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    People of Earth

    Downloading now. I'm a sucker for this stuff, even though I don't really believe alien abduction is actually going on.
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    Scream Queens

    Glad Chanel #5 got a happy ending. I doubt this will be back for a 3rd season, but damn I enjoyed this series. Always got a good laugh or two each episode.
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    The Magicians

    I was kind of disappointed that they didn't have a resolution with Martin at the end. How he could be trusted to "make a deal" with is beyond reason.
  19. ShakyJake

    What Did President X Do for You?

    Fucking win. That's what he's going to do for us ALL.
  20. ShakyJake

    The Magicians

    Yeah, she's the blonde with the glasses and short skirts.
  21. ShakyJake

    The Magicians

    Maybe not, but they quite obviously exist.
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    The Magicians

    Wow, fucking great show. Might push itself over 12 Monkeys as my favorite Syfy series. Despite the Harry Potter / Narnia similarities, this show is not for kids. Some seriously twisted, dark shit goes down. Highly recommend. Oh, and Alice's boobs.
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    Incorporated

    Rodney!
  24. ShakyJake

    Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

    I've only seen the first movie. Loved Transformers as a kid in the 80s but the movies didn't really click for me. Hate the robot design. Is that Unicron in this one?
  25. ShakyJake

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Haha wow, Sourcesafe. Well, if it makes you feel any better, a certain service of our application is running VB6 code. We have to keep Windows XP VMs around in order to run the IDE.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Looks like this is for Angular 1. We're working with Angular 2.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    That's pretty much it, yep. Which isn't realistic. Creating UI widgets that "feel" right and aren't buggy pieces of shit is hard (not to mention on a platform we're unfamiliar with). Like I said, our development staff isn't that talented. What they're asking is akin to NASA management...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Research is over. They are now full-steam ahead with development. So at this point I doubt there's any changing course. I mean, if we DID decide to do something different then it would mean that the research team completely wasted a year -- and I doubt anyone on that team would admit to that...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I've come here to rant because I have no one else to share my frustrations with that understands what the fuck I'm talking about. So our company's application is a Silverlight app that is quickly becoming a problem because newer browsers are not allowing the plug-in to function. Having said...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 is probably the easiest. Well, for me, it was the one I scored the highest on compared to the other two (486 and 487).
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    Black Friday 2016 - I Had a Vision, Stay Home

    I missed some good deals because of this shit. Thanks, Arbitrary.
  32. ShakyJake

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    I dunno, dude, they're all living in shitty trailer parks now. But, hey, fuck 'em anyway. Just learned they didn't do shit for the pilgrims after all:
  33. ShakyJake

    High IQ, making friends and influencing people.

    I'm very introverted which, in the past, used to bug me because I felt like something was wrong with me. I kept feeling like I should try and be more social. But, a few years ago I took a Myer's Brigg personality test which categorized me as an INTJ. It was at that point I realized that, hey...
  34. ShakyJake

    How smart are you?

    BTW, Trump voter = genius. Bigly.
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    Ash vs Evil Dead

    Quite possibly best comedy on TV right now. Hilarious.
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    New cold war?

    Crazy conspiracy theory, but I've been wondering lately if TPTB want to instigate some sort of global, catastrophic war in order to "reset" the dire financial situation that is crippling the U.S. and Euro countries?
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    Poll Who's your favorite?

    When I first saw #4 I was like "god damn". So she got my vote.
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    Poll Do you think Trump will actually win the presidency in November?

    See, that's interesting because we may very well have the same scenario. Polls show Hillary will win, thus Hillary voters don't bother because they don't like her anyway expecting those who do to carry her over the finish line. Shock and awe ensues - President Trump.
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    Poll Do you think Trump will actually win the presidency in November?

    I didn't really follow it too closely, but what happened with Brexit? Were the polls way off or was the stay/remain polls pretty close? And what's the story on this "monster vote"? Why it's not accounted for in the various RCP polls?