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    Persona reacted to Builder in Why did you start coding?   
    I realized that gaming is a waste of time for the most part and that coding is much harder to learn than PC building.
     
    Being a good PC builder is largely intuition with regards to cable management and such but beyond that it's just memorizing long lists of components. The memorization got boring for me, because I realized that it meant every PC manufactured was largely the same and even building my own was futile because at the end of the day it's just a list of letters and numbers on a sheet of paper.
     
    For me, computers are more powerful than what they contain. Coding is about seeing the hardware as something more than those letters and numbers, it's about seeing it as a platform for revolutionizing social change and spreading knowledge to improve the collective human intellect. The PC market is commoditized, it's come to the point where there is no longer anything magical about computing. Everything is the same, and the specs are all that matters. The whole programming mentality is seeing that there's a dimension of computing beyond specs that turns computers into devices greater than the sum of the parts they contain.
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    Persona got a reaction from EmotionalSloth in i lost some weight   
    You're a dick.
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    Persona got a reaction from frostin1990 in i lost some weight   
    You're a dick.
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    Persona got a reaction from terrytek in i lost some weight   
    You're a dick.
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    Persona got a reaction from MbV93 in i lost some weight   
    You're a dick.
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    Persona got a reaction from Askew in i lost some weight   
    You're a dick.
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    Persona got a reaction from Builder in What's something so overrated but not actually that good?   
    Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
    Please people, try Linux.
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    Persona reacted to Paperchase in Experiences with non-techies   
    Back in the 9th grade 2 other buddies of mine and myself started our own school project. Our project was to dismantle a computer, make our own case, and assemble the computer inside the case we built ourselves. For the longest time a friend of mine had been saying that he knows pretty much everything about computers. Turns out he didn't know anything, but i'll get back to that.
    I went to a very cheap-ass school, so there were always trouble with the infrastructure there, so as you probably guessed the computers at the school crashed all the time. Also note that all of the computers were "hooked up" for lack of a better term to ONE Server. This was a big school with around 200+ computers all hooked up to this one server. (Recipe for disaster). Since all of the computers were connected to the same server that would mean that if there was one single error on the server, then all of the 200+ computers at my school would simply not work.
    These computers all went down the drain atleast twice a week making them completely and utter useless. And everytime the system went down the teachers always asked this friend of mine that thought he knew everything about computers. Let's call him Bob to make it easier to follow. Anyways, The teachers would always have Bob look at the computers, and tell them what was wrong. Ofcourse he didn't know what he was talking about, so he said the following: "Yeah, mhm, okay. Yes it seems that you have gotten a network system error inside the processor, it will be back up in an hour". Yes, that is ACTUALLY what he said, let that sink in for a moment. Oh, I totally forgot; The time he said that it was a "Network system error inside the processor". the teachers were trying to figure out why there was no sound from the speakers. Turns out the audiojack was not plugged in.
    Anyways I got really off-track here. My friends and I were assembling the computer into the case that we had built ourselves. When suddenly Bob came by. My friends and I were kind of annoyed at Bob, so we asked him "which one of these components is the motherboard"? I bet anyone here on the forum would be able to point out which component in a computer was the motherboard, right? Bob pointed at the HDD, of course we all laughed, because this was proof that he knows nothing about computers, and was just spewing bullshit all the time. After we all calmed ourselves down, I said: "well surely you know this is the graphics card, right? (I pointed at the CPU). Bob said: "Yes ofcourse, how dumb do you think I am? That's when I almost broke out in tears laughing.

    Since that event he stopped claiming he knew everything about computers and was an "IT-Guru". Anyways, my buddies and I delivered in our assignment, and got ourselves an A.
    Cheers! ;)
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    Persona got a reaction from Ruostunut kokis in What's something so overrated but not actually that good?   
    Completely agree mate. Problem is that most software devs just don't want to put in the time to make software Linux compatible when so many more people use Windows.
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    Persona reacted to Enderman in Looking For a Wallpaper?   
    I made my own wallpaper.

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    Persona got a reaction from BonBon Scott in Looking For a Wallpaper?   
    http://wallbase.cc/
     
    You're welcome (:
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