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by Afton 17y ago
I'm sorry, but that's a silly question. Assume the following: 1. first child. 2. standard spread of non-child-related stressors (money, job, relationship, illness, family). 3. standard spread of impulse control across the population 4. slee
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by Afton 17y ago
Interestingly, neither does yours. You make a claim, I express that I don't believe that claim. I'm pretty sure that makes it your move... ps. sorry for the lateness of the reply, I don't know how to receive any kind of notification that I'
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by Afton 17y ago
Jason Birch, with/for the City of Nanaimo has led the way here for a few years: http://www.jasonbirch.com/nodes/ http://maps.nanaimo.ca/nanaimomap/
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by Afton 17y ago
I think jcw's point was that while vim has these features, no additional features are really required. I interprete the exchange this way: question "how does it stack up". answer: "meets minimum bar".
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by Afton 17y ago
Except if you double-click the slides (for editing). Then the formatting is fixed. But yeah, it's a drag if you happen to be using IE7.
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by Afton 17y ago
David Marr is amazing. I remember being completely awed by Vision. I think more than any other author, Marr showed that cognition could be made computationally tractable (focus on vision, but before him it was just a mess). I don't know tha
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by Afton 17y ago
So...If this was from a workshop, is there an audio track?
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Learning Advanced JavaScript(ejohn.org)
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by Afton 17y ago
> Windows has plenty of programmatic text editors that offer most of the features of vim profound disbelief.
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by Afton 17y ago
The order is logical, it maps to the way many americans speak. E.g. July 4th, 2000, which is always spoken as ... er... the 4th of july, 2009. Well. uh. Bad example.
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by Afton 17y ago
That article is worth posting to HN. Please do so. It seems just obvious to me that a frank discussion about the economics of health care would be a prerequisite for health-care reform.
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by Afton 17y ago
Actually, electric wheelchairs are superior for this purpose. People with mobility issues generally aren't going to want to stand for the 5-10 minutes. I've never ridden one, but if it requires core strength at all to lean-steer, then tha
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by Afton 17y ago
My naive concern has always been about the fallout of a spectacular launch fail of the sort that involves fuel rods spread over a large area. If this is a solved problem, then my fears are unfounded. Let me know.
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by Afton 17y ago
The redfin UI needs to be massively cloned for location based services. Honestly, I love craigslist, but when I'm looking for houses to rent, I want to specify a polygon on a map. Maybe it's just me.
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by Afton 17y ago
Make blog post. Post entry to HN. :)
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by Afton 17y ago
This is interesting. I wonder if it means anything more than "depressive people are those that are unable to let go of failure"? Seems like an apt description of many generally depressed people I know. Side note: Anyone have thoughts on whe
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by Afton 17y ago
I believe the time taken to write tests for things that have never failed is wasted. Yes yes yes. I've seen a lot of tests that, if they failed, would have meant that a thousand other tests would have also failed, and that test w
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by Afton 17y ago
Here's an example 1. write a sed script that strips out html-tags from arbitrary, well-formed HTML. It's pretty hard to fail to notice that 5 people used the one-liner from http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/unix/sed.html , but can't expl
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by Afton 17y ago
I TA'd and taught an intro to unix course at UCSC a couple of times. We found that repeatedly pointing out the tools that we'd use to catch duplication (grep/sed/awk), and show how they worked was the only thing that reduced the cheating
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by Afton 17y ago
I recommend checking out [unlocking the clubhouse]( http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&#38... ). It goes into this in significant detail. Too much detail for me dredge up from my read of it 3 years ago.
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by Afton 17y ago
My memory of these terms is weak, but isn't this metalinguistic contrast? You're not using the word 'of' when you stress it here, you're mentioning it.
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by Afton 18y ago
Three points. 1. Practicing writing 140 character messages makes you better at writing 140 character messages. It's a point of faith that this skill will transfer to longer works. 2. A better title would be "Twitter as a framework for pract
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by Afton 18y ago
Don't know if you're still monitoring this, but making me sign up for a new service in order to provide feedback on the site is unacceptable. I'm sure it saved you time not having to write feedback handling code, but I think this is a total
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by Afton 18y ago
Under recently played, there are a set of, well, recently played songs. And a big spot where album art would go. Is there some relationship between these two? The image was always blank. Is this "going to be there" functionality? If so, I'd
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by Afton 18y ago
It was also 'anti child care' because it was a pittance in terms of child-care expenses. No one can find anything like adequate daycare for $100 a month.
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by Afton 19y ago
Thank you for that thoughtful response. While I suspect we disagree on many points, I too think that dealing directly with the disenfranchisement would have been a more important lesson/exploration.
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by Afton 19y ago
Actually, I agree with you. I assume that you are reading into my comment some enormous weight of dialog that I wasn't a part of. I'm unsure about how to respond since I feel like we're talking at cross purposes. So with the fair warning th
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by Afton 19y ago
I think you may have gotten bored and stopped reading. They got the lego back.
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by Afton 19y ago
Does this mean you disagree? You believe that a class based capitalist society isn't unjust? Really? You think you have the same rights as anyone else in your society? Interesting. You might think that a class-based capitalist society is th
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by Afton 19y ago
This idea was suggested by Paul Buchheit in July. I think it's a good idea. I occasionally hit 'send' when I mean 'delete' and once I do, that's it, it's sent. PB's original idea was that just about every action should be undo-able. The ori

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