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Bethesda’s has given its re-releases of Doom 1 and 2 from last year a pretty hefty update that improves performance, adds new features, and gives access to a huge amount of content in the form of free community-made add-ons. Finally! Now I can play it on a computer, rather than on the refrigerator and toaster.
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Best sit down and read this story with a mug of hot steaming (green) tea Drink fast - next week it will kill you.
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Golly!
That's a wonderfully interesting bit of research, which proves categorically that green tea is good for you.
Where was it carried out, again?
It's almost as interesting as the research from Brazil, showing how good coffee is for you.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: research from Brazil, showing how good coffee is for you
Let's add French research which proves that red wine is good for your health, and Bavarian research which proves that beer is good for your health.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Frederick the Great proclaimed (13-Sep-1777): It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. My people must drink beer. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You don't have to be drunk to work here, but it helps?
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In the Prussian army? Definitely!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Their entire research project is a giant Leslie.
In the 1970's I heard a radio 'news' about people who drink six or more cups of coffee a day have twice the chance of a heart attack as people who don't. And in addition, they found that tea drinkers seemed to average fewer heart attacks than the norm.
And this whole study is worthless BS because they forget to take into account the same thing:
In the 70's it was "coffee and a cigarette" and tea drinkers, on the other hand, were less likely to smoke than the average population. Most people who smoke die from the heart attack (nicotine) before they get lung cancer. Unfortunately in these studies, they always find what they're looking for.
Remember the three C's:
Coincidence
Correlation
Cause and Effect
And learn to observe the difference.
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And a fourth 'C' = Conflict (of interest). Always pay attention to who funds the study, especially with food-related stuff.
TTFN - Kent
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The vegetable in question looked like an ordinary, chunky Idaho spud, although protruding out of one side was some kind of antenna, a black plastic appendage bent upward. Welcome to the Internet of Tubers
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I have to say that I disagree entirely with the article writer.
It looks like a russet potato, not an Idaho.
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GlaDOS surely!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Can it be converted into a chip for faster processing?
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Ever-faster processors led to bloated software, but physical limits may force a return to the concise code of the past. "Better, stronger, faster."
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It's the new ones who are the problem.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It's the new ones who are the problem.
Amen! 
(Don't trust anyone under fifty)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Analytical thinking can lock the mind in a box. New research from professors at Stanford and Santa Clara suggests engineers lack a basic ingredient. The academics' solution is, well, controversial. You might be an engineer if...
One of many /sigh-worthy articles today (just wait for the next one though)
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So the solution, as the writer went to great lengths to point out, is a new buzzword?
How utterly ridiculous and behind the times! So 2010s!
What we really need, to definitively and completely resolve the problem, is a new "Engineers" icon!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: What we really need, to definitively and completely resolve the problem, is a new "Engineers" icon!
Truly a broad-minded solution! 
TTFN - Kent
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As expected, the engineers on this forum are skeptical towards this article (which kind of proves the articles point, well done!) 
On a serious note, I don't have a technical education, but a "soft" study in arts, culture and media and I do notice a difference in thinking between me and most of my (ex-)coworkers.
In fact, it's often a selling point that I don't think as a developer because I only learned that after my study.
How many developers do you know that can talk to users and managers without either of them being annoyed by the other? 
I'm not sure if mindfulness is the solution, but I do agree there's a problem.
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Sander Rossel wrote: a "soft" study in arts, culture and media
Did you wear slippers to class? 
Sander Rossel wrote: it's often a selling point that I don't think as a developer
Same here.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Agreed - some of the best programmers I know have music degrees.
TTFN - Kent
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The problem is, divergent thinking is terrifying to the traditional thinkers and managers, and so is almost always quashed. 
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Obsessing with “clean code” and removing duplication is a phase many of us go through. Dirty, dirty code
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