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by Dove 14y ago
I didn't know that, but googling around to learn about communist architecture took me here . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konigsberg_Castle . . . where they replaced a pretty castle with something like you describe.
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by Dove 14y ago
You know, not long ago I took somebody's "how well do you know C?" quizzes, and it was fully of this sort of question -- what C does with overflows and underflows in various circumstances. And I must admit, I felt like I had been asked wha
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by Dove 14y ago
I am struck by the relative peace, prosperity, and safety of our time. It is a costly gift from those of my grandfather's generation. I feel compelled not to waste it.
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by Dove 14y ago
I don't know. I'd think in order to D DoS a website you meant to scrape, your scraper would have to involve your botnet.
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by Dove 14y ago
Not strictly between origami artists, though; between an origami artist (Lang) and a painter. She painted his crease patterns, well-recognizable, with one or two changes that my eye parses as annoyingly illegal. If you're not into origami,
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by Dove 14y ago
When the housing bubble started, everyone was like, "We just had a bubble. This can't be another one. Nobody sees TWO bubbles in one lifetime." But then it became clear that there had, indeed, been two bubbles. Now everyone sees bubbles ev
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by Dove 14y ago
Intellectuals are also susceptible to cognitive dissonance and compartmentalization True enough! I guess what I really mean is that if rational processes don't lead to Christianity, you would never see people convert by following those p
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by Dove 14y ago
you reach a belief of god by starting from an unfalsifiable conclusion That doesn't pass the smell test. If that were true, no intellectuals would ever convert to Christianity. In point of fact, they regularly do. Take Lee Strobel, for
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by Dove 14y ago
I'm surprised that people are confused. Is there a regional difference in the way this would be phrased? In my (US) experience, "engaged with " unambiguously means working together, while "engaged to " unambiguously means getting marrie
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by Dove 14y ago
I tried to buy a book of his on my Kindle yesterday. It wasn't there. So I guess I'll be going to the library instead. I think that's what he would have preferred anyhow.
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by Dove 14y ago
I think the most important lesson to take away from this is how very awesome you can be if you have a great idea and you reach out to others for help .
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by Dove 14y ago
Yes, it's learning *nix all over again. There is an easy way to do things, which you cannot on any account find, until you complain and look like an idiot when someone tells you how to do it in twenty-eight characters. I'm moving to the "I
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by Dove 14y ago
Oh dear! That's really not the answer I was hoping for. That's about where I gave up last time -- somewhere around a dozen nested vertical and horizontal linear layouts with various weights, gravities and alignments that still wasn't gi
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by Dove 14y ago
android:background="#ffee11" on the button? That . . . actually works! Well, now I'm embarrassed. I had previously had to go this route http://www.androidworks.com/changing-the-android-edittext-ui... with text fields, and assumed it w
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by Dove 14y ago
One of our two full-time developers on the project spent most of his time fighting a never-ending war against our XML views to make the app look just as good on a ZTE Blade as it does on a brand new Galaxy Nexus. I'm definitely feeling th
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by Dove 14y ago
I wonder how hard 3D minecraft would be. Er, wow. Hard. http://egraether.com/mine3d/
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by Dove 14y ago
Inside Minecraft proper, it would be prohibitively difficult. Redstone doesn't really support programming that complex (keeping 3D state, cleared areas, randomizing the board, etc.). With a couple new blocks, though -- a new game control,
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by Dove 14y ago
I'd say it really depends on what you're optimizing for. When I'm going for a high score, I want the fastest time (and lost games don't count for anything). So I guess a lot, especially in the first few seconds, looking for good spreads an
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by Dove 14y ago
Sort of. The strength of a password, at the most basic level, is based on the number of passwords it could have been . That is to say, the number of live possibilities in your password-generating algorithm. In theory, large alphabets and
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by Dove 14y ago
I think the best way to distinguish between firearms and nail guns would be with a man in the loop listening to the sounds (which they appear to have). Construction doesn't sound like a firefight.
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by Dove 14y ago
My dad was using a powder-actuated concrete nail gun for some remodeling not long ago. It used .22 loads to drive nails. The sound it made was eerily identical to the real thing.
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by Dove 14y ago
Perhaps the most damning thing about math education is its focus on the what, not the why. For example, the quadratic formula: it is introduced and students are told that if you have an equation "of the form" ax^2+bx+c=0, you can "find x"
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by Dove 14y ago
You know, I feel like iOS and Android are recapitulating the Mac and PC wars of the '90s. Not exactly, mind you, but it feels like the same struggle between niche beauty and popular pragmatism. Between a controlled experience with a unify
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by Dove 14y ago
I don’t think anyone will argue the fact that the only other platform I would’ve been able to rapidly develop and deploy games like Nick vs Bus and Word Wars would be Flash. I would argue it. The speed with which you can develop simple g
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by Dove 14y ago
That's why you have a VIP with you. If he's not her boss's boss, the whole thing is a lot less likely to work.
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by Dove 14y ago
Yeah, I agree. The first time he told someone "Philip wants this done quickly" and they said, "Sorry, it's policy," the next move -- at least my next move -- would have been to walk to Philip's office and say, "Will you come tell this lady
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by Dove 14y ago
If you want a change request processed quickly, you should get someone in upper management to help you herd it through the system. Literally, take your VIP with you, and walk up to the desk of each admin in turn. Say, "Don't wait for Tues
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by Dove 14y ago
That "legacy code must be brought up to current standards whenever it's touched" policy doesn't seem very wise. I'm all for practical refactoring, but it's a major decision to be treated with care when it comes to legacy code. You don't al
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by Dove 14y ago
Eyewitness testimony is the leading cause of wrongful convictions, according to the Innocence Project: http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/
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by Dove 14y ago
I was amazed -- even at the time -- that anyone thought this ( http://web.archive.org/web/20000229120749/http://www.altavis... ) was a good idea. I'm really glad UX thinking has progressed.

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