JimmyM

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by JimmyM 11y ago
Here is one possible reason that Foucault might be popular amongst HN types. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v7n2/gerrie.html
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by JimmyM 11y ago
95% of the more complex errors I've seen* in CSS have been some combination of a misunderstanding of positioning ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/position ) and the box model ( https
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by JimmyM 12y ago
I'm working through Introduction to Algorithms by Corsen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein. I've just finished Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi. A fantastic, thrilling, unnerving read. Tamerlane&#
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by JimmyM 12y ago
I think the mediocre stuff is often necessary for people on the outside of relatively specialist areas - like I am - to have a way in. Not that I've been upvoting much deep learning stuff, but I'm sure I've upvoted similar. I
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by JimmyM 12y ago
> It's the only game that minor spoiler has ever gotten Lovecraftian horror correct in a really convincing way. The tone is pretty much one hundred percent on target. I would recommend the game Darkest Dungeon, which convincingly na
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by JimmyM 12y ago
That tweet was extremely funny, but the argument that followed it was very much not. I am beyond impressed with that person's patience.
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by JimmyM 12y ago
> If you remove the cons you would probably also lose some of the pros. Especially true of Lisps, of course.
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by JimmyM 12y ago
What would someone who really thought about their technology run? Why would the most important things for an operating system not be cost and stability? e: Realise this comes off as confrontational. Genuine questions!
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by JimmyM 12y ago
I dunno it looks to me like they've just defined nil to be equal to null/empty, which is not exactly the same. In Common Lisp, unlike Scheme/Racket, nil is the null value AND the false value. In Scheme/Racket, 'nil
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by JimmyM 12y ago
Yeah, you could add 'nil' easily. inc and dec I assume mean increment or decrement (I have no experience with CL) - racket/base includes (add1 .) and (sub1 .) for the same effect. If they didn't exist they would be trivi
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by JimmyM 12y ago
I've enjoyed the following resources: SICP - http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ HTDP - http://htdp.org/ Dan Grossman's Programming Languages Coursera course - https://www.coursera.org
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by JimmyM 12y ago
> Oh he'll be okay, the system's on his side. I think Ronson strongly suggests that this is in fact the case. Ronson's a great journalist for acknowledging the complexity of a situation without attempting to offer answer
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by JimmyM 12y ago
There are different forms of schizophrenia, such as paranoid schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia and hebephrenic schizophrenia, in which some or most of the symptoms associated with schizophrenia are not present. Paranoid schizophrenia i
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by JimmyM 12y ago
I've encountered a high number of IBS sufferers who've been exceptional academically. I think that there may be something about the syndrome that encourages academic & similar study, although attempting to speculate what that
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by JimmyM 12y ago
I've been thinking about this. If I put my tinfoil hat on, I think they're telling the truth. > The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant; Again, with my tinfoil hat on, I believe this. I believe that eithe
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by JimmyM 12y ago
> We are getting off-topic here. If you have questions pertaining to the differences between adware, spyware, potentially unwanted applications, and viruses please post on the Security & Malware Forum. We'll be glad to clear up
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by JimmyM 12y ago
This is cool, but the Finnish system seems like it should be higher. Yksi, kaksi, ... kahdeksan, yhdeksan, kymmenen (diacritics etc. omitted because I'm lazy) It looks as though the symmetricality between yksi, kaksi/kahdeksan yhd
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by JimmyM 12y ago
Bojack Horseman in particular has a tone and style close enough to British satirical cartoon Monkey Dust that it's a fantastic counter-example to a significant America-Britain disconnect. It also fits the bill in terms of being actual
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by JimmyM 12y ago
Criticisms you could make include: * Frivolous about an error that's probably annoying to the audience. Not a major issue imo. * Website Feedback link is relatively difficult to spot (but there, grey and in footer). * Search option is
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by JimmyM 12y ago
"hash, a milder form of the drug" - I thought hash was the resin, which could be made from any plant variety, including Skunk and Skunk-like types? I was also under the impression that hash, in the form of cannabis resin, was stro
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by JimmyM 12y ago
I think it's a story because of Molyneux. Peter Molyneux has failed to deliver completely for a long time. With Godus, with Curiosity, it increasingly seems as though he failed to deliver even a finished game and in addition it seems a
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by JimmyM 12y ago
At first I thought they were supposed to be a parody. It was quite upsetting to realise that they were deadly serious.
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by JimmyM 12y ago
The pound in particular is very old, and the practice of using a crossbar on the ascender of a letter to mark an abbreviation dates back to medieval times ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribal_abbreviation#Suspension ).
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by JimmyM 12y ago
> Prices are dropping around the country. > London prices are forcing people away from living in London. Businesses are moving away. Wouldn't this force prices higher across the country? As someone living in Bristol, I have to sa
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by JimmyM 12y ago
That is interesting! I like the way you present the Chipotle/buffet as a set of choices too - it seems to make choice into almost a data structure issue. Like Chipotle are succeeding partly because they're presenting people with a
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by JimmyM 12y ago
This seems relevant to this post - http://stratechery.com/2013/obsoletive/ - that's often been posted on Hacker News about obsoletive vs. disruptive technology. I see this as Chipotle offering what is effecti
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by JimmyM 12y ago
I believe that many different groups including vegans, conservative Christians, extreme right-libertarian militia organisations and various anarchist/communist groups have carried out attacks that have been characterised as terrorist i
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by JimmyM 12y ago
"It fundamentally changes the relationship between people and state." is the most ironclad argument I've heard. Albeit a bit of a cliché these days. There's some advantage to the tin foil hat, too. It's probably fin
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by JimmyM 12y ago
Great post. I thought I'd comment just to say about the relative URL ../what-is-special-about-nim not working as intended from the homepage and the link to http://nim-lang/ which should presumably be http:/&
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by JimmyM 12y ago
> What's your point? My inference is the reference to deference

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