aaronem

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by aaronem 12y ago
What's wrong with setting your browser homepage to about:blank? It's worked fine for me for over a decade.
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The clearance sales will be fun.
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How do you know it was?
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Not for very long, though, if by "war" you mean war , rather than the sort of half-hearted low-intensity brushfire nonsense of which we've seen so much out of US policymakers for the last couple of decades.
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It gets better from there. Keep reading.
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Only when you can't tell the difference between killing and murder.
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Being murdered for what you say seems like, if not precisely losing, then being at least removed from the board.
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By force of arms. What else is there?
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by aaronem 12y ago
Vital context: The Underground History of American Education , free online: http://mhkeehn.tripod.com/ughoae.pdf
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by aaronem 12y ago
Re the documentary: Interactions between human health and the human microbiome, especially the intestinal microbiome, are one of the hottest areas in the field of genomics right now, with recent publications suggesting a real and highly sig
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by aaronem 12y ago
Oh! Sorry, no, that's because ECMAScript (Javascript)'s historical baggage and lax attitude toward arity produce a combinatorial explosion of stupidity. See, you can't just ['1', '2', '3'].ma
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It specifies how many arguments the returned function should take; in my implementation, it defaults to 1 (so you can use it like "but"), but accepts other values (so you can use it like "butt"). The reason why it's
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by aaronem 12y ago
function butter(fun, count) { count = count || 1; if (count < 1) { throw new Error('Can't butter no toast'); } return function() { return fun.apply(this, Array.prototype.slice.call(argument
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by aaronem 12y ago
Convenience, I suppose; I had a few headaches when I first transitioned to Javascript and discovered the odd signatures its collection functions' callbacks are expected to have.
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Why complicate things? If it means so much to you, you can just var butt = require('butt'); var but = function(fun) { return butt(fun, 1); }; or even var but = function(fun) { return function(arg) { re
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by aaronem 12y ago
I'll briefly exercise my pedant muscles to provide some technical terms for general interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uses_of_English_verb_forms#Prog... The first bullet is an example of past perfect progress
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by aaronem 12y ago
#WORKSFORME #WONTFIX
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I think by "self-assessment" is meant something more like "self-regard", the whole being taken to mean that PHP programmers have a relatively high opinion of themselves, which is not justified by the code they generate.
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Selenium could do that for you, and there's an IDE available as a Firefox plugin; branching might be tricky and you'd need to build some tooling around it in general, but it might give you a place to start.
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by aaronem 12y ago
iSSH includes an X11 display server, and I've had reasonable success using it with clients on an assortment of architectures, including a Tru64 VM running Open Genera. I wouldn't expect it to work well with something like video pl
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by aaronem 12y ago
Did you expect not to need to be smart?
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> Perhaps a souped-up SWAT van clad with ablative plating and 12 inch thick laminated windshields Well, the whole point of the GAU-8 is that it shoots through tanks, so...
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Elsewhere in that thread: > The idea sounds nice in theory, but in practice multiple name spaces do not fit into Lisp very well. Common Lisp packages are an unclean kludge; this was clear to me when I implemented them in the 1980s in th
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Substance.
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...which is then treated, in the remainder of the text, as though it were an accurate model of what happens in the real world.
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> it's about deciding what we want the world to look like, and settling for no less Perhaps it's about accepting people for who and what they are, even when they fail to satisfy your own biases, and building an understanding
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by aaronem 12y ago
I see your point, but WHOIS contact information requirements are hardly a new thing.
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Well, for a lot of them, execution was crap too.
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Thanks for the article, and I'd certainly be interested in seeing "When Postgres Search is Not Enough" -- it'd make an excellent companion piece to the one you've already written.
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> I'd love to be wrong here I've found Shapecatcher (shapecatcher.com) useful here; you draw an arbitrary symbol (e.g. ∑), and it shows you the closest matches from a database of ca. 11000 Unicode glyphs, with each match's

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