Tiomaidh

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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
Nice to see someone else using Mnemosyne. I was going to make an Android client for it as part of the Google Summer of Code, but Google rejected Mnemosyne's application. I guess it doesn't have the same weight as OpenOffice or Chrome or wha
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
>And this comes to the other problem: how do you judge people above you? You can't, really. Relevant Wikipedia article: The Dunning-Kruger Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
For a second I thought you meant that all variable names were a varying number of X's, and I almost crapped myself.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
And please give some information to the kind folks at Rockbox.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
I feel like anyone on HN has a basic idea of how to go about learning a programming language. If you sub in appropriate $books and $IDEs, there's nothing language-specific in the post. And to be honest, nothing all that new or all that nota
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
I feel really foolish for asking this, but...where the heck is the RSS feed?
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
Writing a 2D platformer this year was one of my more enlightening programming experiences. It absolutely made me draw the line between "Things that are theoretically correct (and impossible to implement)" and "Things that can be implemented
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
From what I've seen, the intersection between "Material taught as part of a CS degree" and "Material needed to be a competent coder" is alarmingly small. The people who turn out to be good programmers are the ones who are working on their o
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
I agree, but I am disappointed that the keyboard on my IBM Thinkpad T40 is significantly better than the one on my Lenovo T60. The T60's just seems flimsier, somehow.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
I'm 18, and have worn a wristwatch since I proved to my parents that I could tell time with an analog clock at the age of 4. I will admit that about 2% of my school wears one though.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
Eight years later, it's easy to read an article and empathize with him. But if someone sent me an email that said, "I kinda stole your multi-million dollar source code, but really do like you and want to be friends." I would not be very tru
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
>in a row
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
No, Wikipedia admin Nihiltres intentionally created the "torsoraphy" page (at 3:03 today, no less) and made it redirect to "Tarsorrhaphy". It's not the search algorithm being clever. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Torsoraphy&#38
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
The relevant analogy to phones would be if the Windows Phone team took all of Android's source code--and somehow decompiled the proprietary bits--changed the branding, and distributed it as their product. There's a huge difference between d
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
Chrome didn't ask me anything, but I will say that the font is hideous (on my computer, at least) for headings and when highlighted.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
For [nstoolbar bottom bar], searched from my logged-in window, a permalink to this comment is the top result. Um...
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
...And that's why I ran away to HN and MeFi.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
Multiple Inboxes > Priority Inbox for me.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
I believe that Facebook locks down under-18 profiles by default.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
I'd nominate reddit as a fifth, more recently-made one. I actually don't think it's ugly--but I'd argue that it's as spartan as Google (considering its different functions), which did make the list.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
I never thought I'd hear myself say that Java looked a little bit elegant.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
Our first attempt won't work. ... public static def main(argv:Rail[String]) { This line is just the same as in the Hello, World example. (In fact, the Hello, World example had a latent version of the same bug. It compiled because we never t
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
Starting at 0 makes people feel leet since they can pretend they're programming--since arrays/lists start at 0.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
I would put it towards buying a ZipIt[1], which I would then use for web browsing (elinks), coding (vim) and maybe even DOS gaming (DosBOX). I like that it's hackable, and I like that it's affordable--unlike an iPod Touch or Android device
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
I've been leading much of my life with, "Practicality beats Purity" and "Beautiful is better than Ugly".
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
Just use a public library. Most have free wifi, almost complete quiet, large tables with quality chairs, and--best of all--nobody cares if you're there for 8 hours without giving up a penny.
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
Here you go: http://www.reddit.com/r/UniversityofReddit/comments/cma7t/cl...
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
I see where you M/D/Y people are coming from, but can you at least agree that "June 28, 2010" -> "[Month 6] 28, 2010" -> "6/28/2010" is at least founded in some kind of logic?
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by Tiomaidh 16y ago
And that electrical engineers tell you that current goes from + to -, while physicists say it goes from - to +. And the north magnetic pole is at the geographic south / vice versa. And horsepower != 1000 Watts. And Farads are bigger than I'