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by adavies42 14y ago
reminds me of the whole "shuttle" vs. "orbiter" thing
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by adavies42 14y ago
i assume this is much like the js-driven crap that's been around for over a decade now where the mouseover text looks real but the actual href is "javascript:void(0)" or something?
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by adavies42 14y ago
next up: SUN stands for "Stanford University Networks" (which also explains why their original ticker symbol was SUNW) solaris is still internally called sunos (and the versioning is the same as the stupid java one, solaris 11 is really sun
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by adavies42 14y ago
the books all had this odd habit of being very specific about brands--Lisbeth's favorite microwave pizza, her computers, i think even the names of the ikea furniture. idk if that's normal in swedish writing or if it was just larsson....
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by adavies42 14y ago
audiobook narrators are really hit-or-miss on technical material, at least the kind that's sparsely distributed through some types of novels--i've heard them really butcher computer and military jargon quite frequently. (can't remember anyt
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by adavies42 14y ago
the hacking in the beginning of _Tron: Legacy_ looked pretty realistic to me (apart from the server's apparently being simultaneously sparc and x86). best of all was the end of _Veronica Mars_ (yes, not a movie) which is the only even vague
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by adavies42 14y ago
> I thought (s)he meant what would happen if a motion of no confidence were ignored yes, that's what i meant. thanks for the info!
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by adavies42 14y ago
yes, that was the design goal. intercal is supposed to be unlike any other language, brainfuck is supposed to be minimalistic, malbolge is supposed to be impossible to use.
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by adavies42 14y ago
is that in theory where the queen steps in?
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by adavies42 14y ago
i saw a suggestion a few years ago for a mode that would just let you set depth of field directly, picking an aperture and shutter (and possibly iso and comp too) appropriately given the lighting. after all, what most people want most of th
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by adavies42 14y ago
same here. in fact i'd call it a power law--90% `ls`, 9% `ls -l`, .9% `ls -ltr`, .09% `ls -lhSr`, .009% `ls -d` .0009% `ls -i`, etc. which suggests the default behavior, and arrangement of the flags, is very well designed. (if i could chang
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by adavies42 14y ago
can you fetch arbitrary byte ranges over http? i don't know the details of the GIF chunk format, but often there's a header or something that you could use to calculate what other part of the file you want. (yes, this is almost certainly a
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by adavies42 14y ago
you know, now that i think about it, the first question really ought to be, why the hell does the man who brought us the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Terminal bloomberg terminal need to "learn to code"? is he just talking about
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by adavies42 14y ago
> There is very little automation required in writing, though. > > Writing is for people, not compilers, and people don't like reading the same thing over and over yourself. isn't romance half the US fiction market or something
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by adavies42 14y ago
programming languages are often less "designed" than you might think. consider the history of C: the path leading up to the first formal spec, ANSI C 89, was twenty years long and involved endless mutations and competing versions--commonly
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by adavies42 14y ago
nicely written. > You can't similarly transform intransitive verbs because they require a preposition. In German, you would say a for-ask or an of-ask, but we don't accept that in English. i think i'll have a bit of a lie-down now....
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by adavies42 14y ago
i wonder if you could do it with separate frames of a GIF? there's no reason they have to be played as an animation. (they don't even have to be the same size as each other or the logical screen, afaict.)
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by adavies42 14y ago
editing: "Take examples on these states and seek stability, no matter what your regime type is." -- "take examples on" is not standard english (at least not in america). you want something like "Follow the example of these states".
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by adavies42 14y ago
fun features: the nile, the trans-siberian railway, the island of south korea
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by adavies42 14y ago
thank you! i love asking that question of math results.
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by adavies42 14y ago
owww, my head....
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by adavies42 14y ago
i had a great experience with OO design in an internship in grad school. i was sole coder on a java project, a networked whiteboard app, and i had the time and flexibility to scrap the whole thing halfway through and rewrite it from scratch
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by adavies42 14y ago
Damn, what is it about pancreatic cancer and tech giants?
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by adavies42 14y ago
i like that they give a precise time and date, given that the Gregorian calendar is basically meaningless on such scales. (also neither the earth nor the sun will still be around in any recognizable form....)
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by adavies42 14y ago
the really big international flights sometimes board 1st (and higher, if we're talking about lines like singapore or virgin that have luxury classes) through separate doors from us proles. of course, that only helps them ....
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by adavies42 14y ago
"If money can't buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it!"
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by adavies42 14y ago
one of the few things slashdot is still occasionally good at. (pity so few of the stories are interesting enough to actually bring out the interesting people anymore.)
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by adavies42 14y ago
it's fully customizable too. e.g. if you work in a LISP REPL and use rlwrap to provide readline functionality, you could put this in your ~/.inputrc: $if lisp set comment-begin ; M-;: insert-comment $endif
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by adavies42 14y ago
isn't the real problem that you can't guarantee correct rendering of ideograph text without specifying fonts? there are japanese kanji that are drawn differently from the chinese hanzi they're descended from, but they're the same from a uni
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by adavies42 14y ago
this is hotkeyed to Meta-# by default (one of the readline features i rediscover every three months or so and promptly forget)

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