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by a_lieb 8y ago
That is exceedingly cool. Is there anything available about this online? Sound clips, source code, etc.?
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by a_lieb 8y ago
I think recommendation systems actually are pretty good at recommending stuff you already like . I think a lot of us tend to buzz right past those as "well, obviously I've seen that already" and don't take note that it
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by a_lieb 8y ago
I feel like that's not all that rare—you just do it as a series of blog posts these days. You could make a strong case that a set of independent pages that freely interlink is a better format, but still, the impulse is there, so people
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by a_lieb 8y ago
Common Lisp doesn't have first-class maps (although lispm is right that you can think of lists as a thin abstraction around all kinds of data structures). But Clojure does have first class maps complete with their own syntax: {:ke
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by a_lieb 8y ago
I've heard that in recent years there's an increasing understanding that while achieving lucid dreams is very doable, full dream control is rare even with years of practice. (I'm pretty sure there's at least one journal
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by a_lieb 8y ago
This is right. It's "innately async" in the same way as Node: there is a built in event loop, and just about anything that could block (file I/O, GUI input, etc.) can be accessed through async functions instead.
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by a_lieb 8y ago
I'm sure there are loads of confounding factors here, but for what it's worth, a study of tech salaries by Hired.com found that Paris had the lowest cost-of-living adjusted salary of all cities reviewed, at about $56,000 in San Fr
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by a_lieb 8y ago
Very neat. Seems quite accurate for my area. The least accurate example I found was a spot that takes 25 minutes listed as taking 35 (confirmed on Google Maps). Topographic barriers and traffic seem to be the big problems for other posters,
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by a_lieb 8y ago
> (“A” brings up “abc” but typing “ab” makes “abc” go away!?) To be fair, this one happens to me with Spotlight all the time.
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by a_lieb 8y ago
I teach programming, and I find people rarely have any special trouble in switching to a different style or paradigm. If I was teaching in the 80's and wanted to transition someone from old school BASIC to something like C or Pascal wi
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by a_lieb 8y ago
It's good that they want to maintain and nourish the culture that has grown up around IRC, but in the long run, shouldn't the focus be on keeping the culture but moving it toward newer federated systems like Matrix? IRC is late 80
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by a_lieb 8y ago
I feel like there must be more to this story. Maybe they immediately saw security problems, or legal issues. Not saying it's going to exonerate Twitter (maybe the truth is even worse than it sounds), but this is such an obvious PR me
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by a_lieb 8y ago
That, in turn, shows how far the web has come. I remember a time when we didn't even have console.log()!
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by a_lieb 8y ago
Obviously this more stable, slow-and-steady approach to the package ecosystem has its pros and cons, but the best fruit of it was SQLite, possibly the best library ever made. D. Richard Hipp describes it as "a Tcl extension that escape
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by a_lieb 9y ago
This has happened to me too many times. When I was a teenager in the early 2000's, I got pseudoquasi.com, and even back then people were surprised it was available. Now I have sound.fm, which is way better and more relevant to my inter
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by a_lieb 9y ago
I talked to a Facebook employee about how he handles all of the crap on FB as a user, and he said most people there make heavy use of the filtering tools, so they're only seeing the stuff that they care about. That always sounded like
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by a_lieb 9y ago
I think this is the take-away point: "Beyond stopping and starting a given piece, it is the job of a conductor to decide how it will be interpreted. How loud should the middle section of the first movement be—and ought the violins to b
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by a_lieb 9y ago
Maybe command line tools should have a --no-fun flag to disable all easter eggs. I'm only half kidding. It could be undocumented, but at least it gives you a way to ensure consistent output for tests if you stumble into a problem like
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by a_lieb 9y ago
I'm glad to hear that. I've definitely seen it mentioned by a bunch of experts/academics as if it were accepted fact (Jordan Peterson is the only one that comes right to mind). I think the idea might partly come from the drea
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by a_lieb 9y ago
There seems to be an accepted idea that ancient people had a totally different way of thinking: that up to around 300 BC, humans navigated through the world with a dream-like, pre-scientific logic, and didn't view the world as comprehe
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by a_lieb 9y ago
One important thing the article doesn't cover: we now have good reason to suspect that chronic sleep deprivation can cause brain damage. Not just a long term decrease in function, but actual cellular damage. In a major triumph of medic
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by a_lieb 9y ago
I do programming tutoring at LightHouse Holyoke[1], a learning center for homeschooled and unschooled kids here in Western Massachusetts. Legally the students are homeschooled, but the center has a full schedule of classes and also connects
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by a_lieb 9y ago
Is there anything you can recall doing that would encourage or discourage chess stuff from popping into your head like that? Do you think it came out of intentionally replaying games on your head and then became more automatic? Or did it ju
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by a_lieb 9y ago
Assuming it takes an average of 1 minute for someone to look up the answer and quit Vim, the readers of this question alone spent a total of 2 years looking up how to quit Vim. Whether or not it was a good design choice, it goes to show h
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by a_lieb 9y ago
I agree that intonation matters a lot; I guess I'm thinking about how you'd make a notation that better conveys the information already there in the current scores, which is 100% equal tempered. I actually like the idea of modifie
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by a_lieb 9y ago
I'm a programmer/musician and I can read on guitar and piano. I'm somewhere on the middle on this debate. I really dislike conventional notation but I also agree that the alternatives have some big downsides as well. My bigge
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by a_lieb 11y ago
The editing on Audible books is amazing, so thank you! If you don't mind my asking, when people want to do their own reading and are willing to get training, how are they trained? I ask because (like every geek) I sometimes think about