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by alisey 15y ago
"Picturing the Uncertain World" by Howard Wainer. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691137595 - World record improves linearly for over 50 years, for how long will the trend continue? - Is it OK not to rescore erroneously high SAT s
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by alisey 15y ago
This new research looks very much like Martin Seligman's theory of learned helplessness developed 25 years ago. His book 'Learned Optimism' is good.
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by alisey 15y ago
I like the copy on your homepage. Last year I built a prototype of a similar service and used it for a couple of months with friends, but it turned out that not having immediate feedback takes a lot of fun out of sharing. Posting a link to
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by alisey 15y ago
In dynamic languages you can do this: some_function = function() { if (...) return 1; if (...) return 2; }.log("It's important I log that I'm returning");
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Neural Network Follies(neil.fraser.name)
3 points by alisey 16y ago|0 comments
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by alisey 16y ago
Full justification doesn't work well on the web, especially for short lines, because the spacing between the words is not consistent and the gaps are too large. Flush left, ragged right looks better. (Also, minus sign isn't a replacement fo
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Doing It For a Living(modernerd.com)
4 points by alisey 16y ago|0 comments
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by alisey 16y ago
But you don't need to write the whole interpreter to understand how that small python program works.
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by alisey 16y ago
Web app has an important downside: it's not hanging on your wall. Out of sight, out of mind.
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by alisey 16y ago
I think I can explain. I want to breath, but I never wanted to stop breathing. I want to play games, but I really wish I didn't want to. Not that I want to become a vegetable with no desires. I want some replacement that feeds my emotions a
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by alisey 16y ago
Gravity always wins.
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by alisey 16y ago
Well, it's a quick hack for private use, please be gentle. http://pisets.org.ua/hn
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by alisey 16y ago
Jakob, you did a great job. A couple of suggestions. 1. Make it visible when the text cannot be saved. Nobody wants to lose his work because of Wi-Fi glitch. In my version of notepad I implemented this with a light yellow frame around the t