RobertKerans

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by RobertKerans 12y ago
Wow. I don't think this is a particularly hard concept, but that's an excellent way of visualising it and will definitely help when I'm debugging.
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
This is what I do, spurts of alternating heavy technical reading and heavy work, but it absolutely wipes me out (at the minute, I'd say 7-10 days a month I feel zombie-like), and i know it really pisses off my SO. It works; i absorb la
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
That Foster Wallace essay is great: when he was good, he was really very good, and that's one of his better pieces. Milan Kundera's Testaments Betrayed is pretty excellent as well; the last chapter (and title) cover Brod not burni
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
Why Lua? I was just reading through the Red Blob Games articles, and on the subject of scripting languages, he says something to the effect of 'if you have to use a general purpose scripting language, just go for Lua', written as
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
Ah, apologies, point taken. Note that most of that style of templating language include markdown filters as well - so you drop :markdown in, then just write a block of text, works really well.
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
Slim/Jade/HAML etc are templating languages, they're not designed for writing text at all - they're almost the opposite of markdown et all.
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
Yeah, I was sent a link to a similar site yesterday (timed mental arithmetic/algebra), and was thinking exactly the same thing: divided by types, half the problems I could do instantly with almost no thought, but the other half, regard
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
If I was paying someone $100k, I'd expect them to have just ever so slightly more than a tiny amount of experience in a single language.
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
This is really useful, and very nicely presented (having a secondary service is a faff, but unless GH integrates something similar, this looks the best solution I've seen). Just a few things I found as I tried to make a dent on my star
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
If you're going to go to the effort of making something that is useful, I don't think going the extra mile to make it beautiful is wasted effort. I don't think anyone could really argue that going in the other direction is a
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
Coming soon, JavaScript lambdas! What a novelty!
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
...and there's Peter Watkins' The War Game (BBC again), still an incredibly powerful and disturbing piece of filmmaking. Wiki: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game Clip here (first airburst over Kent):
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
That's not strictly speaking politicians, though, that's directly due to pressure (often exerted transparently) from interest groups, and much of it is completely reasonable (for example, calling someone a nigger in the street wil
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
Freedom of speech surely isn't as simple as being able to say whatever you want to say, given that certain things (implied threats, say) will infringe upon the freedom of others.
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
Yeah, re Atlas Shrugged, that was exactly my first thought as I scrolled down. If you want a [nuts] libertarian fantasy, then Weapon Shops of Isher is slightly better written and at least entertainingly camp. And Animal Farm definitely does
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
"...in English..." maybe you'd get away with; neither all the authors in this list, nor the authors and books listed throughout his site are all Anglo-American, it just happens that there are more books printed in English by
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
Nice article; I got deeply into science fiction through collections of stories culled from the magazine. I love earlier stuff - Wells etc, but the pulpy golden age stuff is just fantastically easy to read. If anyone is interested, there&#x2
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by RobertKerans 12y ago
The first entry in the 'wierd' section explains the wording, I think.