XaspR8d

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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Well there isn't a nice and easy test, but in linguistics it tends to come down to some measure of mutual intelligibility. How much meaning can a speaker of Variety A garner from a speaker of Variety B? And vice versa. For tricky disti
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
> I often struggle with picking names, but another post here shows that "foo" can just be reused as the function name. I'd be very careful about giving them the same name if you're working with IE at all. IE8 and belo
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
At about 88 secs in the second video[1] they show the inside of some sort of "trap" for the fish where water flows rapidly over a grate (and claim "volitional entry"). But I agree it's still an open question whether
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Judging by the tools provided, it looks to be a clone of SimCity Classic. I'll remember those 3x3 zone tiles forever. EDIT: Strictly speaking, SimCity Classic let you remove the edge tiles of residential plots as long as you didn'
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
I appreciate the way you worded it, and I agree 100% for myself. I'm hardly a strong extrovert, but something about the assurance of being able to go and find activity at any time really makes me less stressed and more effective at wor
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Something something emergent interactional value?
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
3D Shape: Its Unique Place in Visual Perception by Zygmunt Pizlo. (I studied human gesture briefly in college so it caught my eye at a used book store. Pretty good cognitive science survey so far. Haven't gotten to the CS part yet, b
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
I'd love to make a DIY spherical globe display, even if it were quite limited compared to the official SOS model. I imagine setting up the projection is the most difficult aspect... anyone have resources on the matter?
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Well the "town" is a township [1], not really a town as people outside the Midwest US (edit: and parts of New England) would think of it. Just a level of municipality lower than a county, a last vestige of the Northwest Ordinance
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
I don't see it either, but I do see all the fi's becoming fi ligatures. The CSS is specifically enabling it with the line: font-feature-settings:"liga", "dlig", "onum"; (and its vendor varian
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
The YouTube series by captnduck is noted for being particularly helpful and comprehensive. But I think seeing several people's playstyles is good once you figure out how to not starve.
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
I didn't even know I could scroll down because holding the down button did nothing. That said, I do agree the video is really nice, and it's been a while since I saw a promising approach to collaborative video editing.
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Wrong thread? Or do you know something we don't about Frame.io's choice of interaction framework? :)
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
> "I am advised that publication of the software could leave the voting system open to hacking or manipulation". Certainly reminds me of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/463/ It sounds like security...
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
My family used to have a hilarious issue where callers hanging up in the moment between the last ring and the answering machine would get called back by the answering machine. Thus every so often we would get messages that were the sound
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Yeah I've been avoiding for-in loops in Javascript since getting burned by a colleague that was attaching objects to arrays. :/
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function cheat(str, name) { if (!name) {name = me.id} var arr = str.split(); for (var i=0; i<arr.length; i++) { socket.emit('l', {id: name, l: arr[i]}); } } cheat("hello world!",
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
> switch statements with more than 128 cases are not optimised in V8 I recently saw this in Petka Antonov's "Optimization Killers"[1], though I've definitely seen it somewhere else as well, because I recall hearing th
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Not a biologist, but isn't he omitting the key fact that those 4 letters can't construct completely new meanings? As in the 4 base letters can only make 20 "words" (the fundamental amino acids), which each have some pre
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Yeah, I'd love to help in some way, but the number of results is huge and without bots I'm discouraged from doing anything manually. Maybe we can create a resource of common typos in numerical constants that would auto-detect by e
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Dang it. Every time I see something like this, I really get excited for this summer when I have time blocked off for learning Haskell.
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Every time I see linguistics on HN, I break out in a sweat too. Thanks for jumping in quickly with some good sources!
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
I appreciate that they didn't just copy the style of Heartbleed, they duplicated the exact drips from the original.
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Total nostalgia anecdote here, but Sim City 2000 had that as a disaster. I believe it was a constant risk whenever you built orbital-solar-to-microwave plants.
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by XaspR8d 13y ago
It's rare that I like something both as a joke and as a real feature request.
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by XaspR8d 13y ago
I think the tweet they linked is real: https://twitter.com/MaximeVerhagen/status/454342628822495233
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by XaspR8d 13y ago
Shucks. I successfully used my Pebble barcode at Starbucks the other day and was only met with confusion and mild surprise.
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by XaspR8d 13y ago
I really appreciated that the sound + music began to echo after several zooms... the vast, hopeless chamber effect really hammered home the futility.
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by XaspR8d 13y ago
This is a countdown? I haven't seen the number change at all; I was under the impression it was just your fixed user number. Then again mine is lower (758xx) and I only just signed up... I could've really used some hints here. EDI
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by XaspR8d 13y ago
You're defining a robot's properties, so you might want to define its properties. That'll open the door to higher-level navigation logic. (Being obtuse is difficult...)

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