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by andolanra 16y ago
Yes; I've got a working knowledge of the full IPA, diacritics and all. Of course, I have an undergrad degree in linguistics, but still. I think the IPA should be taught more widely than it is—perhaps not to a level of fluency, but at least
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by andolanra 16y ago
One thing which mystifies me about this whole situation is that Facebook arguably benefits from Lamebook's presence. Lamebook isn't a substitute for Facebook, it's a complement to Facebook. Someone who enjoys Lamebook for its humor will pr
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by andolanra 16y ago
I like Inform, but it boils down to a kind of Prolog augmented with procedure-like sections, and I'm not sure that I'd prefer it to something more terse. I started to write a non-trivial game in it, and it was actually a lot of fun, but I h
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by andolanra 16y ago
Well, by the same token, you can take Python's x = Foo() ... del x as manual memory management, after a fashion (which it is). The kind of manual memory management I'm concerned about is less about having precise control ov
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by andolanra 16y ago
I'm not sure about Go specifically (as I have yet to write a non-trivial project in Go) but D at least allows you to do manual memory management, if you so desire--down to using std.c.stdlib.malloc, which is exactly what it sounds like--alt
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by andolanra 16y ago
If I recall correctly—I could be mistaken—some of the parts of the article that were supposedly "...in need of editing..." were the verbatim historical recipes, which used the archaic spellings found in the original documents (e.g. "To make
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by andolanra 16y ago
Poe's law in action. Given the level of response the TSA has to ridiculous scenarios, I'm almost entirely sure that a TSA agent would read this and immediately begin planning a program to defend against the very real, entirely probably thre
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by andolanra 16y ago
How is any language going to fix the problem of bad programmers programming badly? And, more relevantly—how does the fact that a language can't fix those errors make preventing other errors a useless endeavor? It's true that there's no such
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by andolanra 16y ago
The research this seems to be discussing is at least partly described in "Language status and hemispheric involvement in reading: Evidence from trilingual Arabic speakers tested in Arabic, Hebrew, and English" by Raphiq Ibrahim and Zohar Ev
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by andolanra 16y ago
"In England between 1500 and 1700 the median age of first marriage for women was twenty-six." -Marriage: A History, Stephanie Coontz via Snopes. I haven't done independent fact-checking of this statement, but assuming it is true, and taking
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by andolanra 16y ago
Myers isn't trying to argue that the million lines of code aren't there or aren't important. He's trying to argue that those million lines of code have to run on hardware which is poorly understood at best, and that trying to reverse-engine
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by andolanra 16y ago
Only to the extent that Firefox is a JavaScript library. I think the major idea is that there is some application whose operation is very broadly directed by the embedded language, in a sandbox-like environment designed for the embedded lan
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by andolanra 16y ago
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "using references for normally primitive variables." Nonlocal doesn't change whether variables are references or not, only the semantics of assignment. By default, all assignments take place in the loc
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by andolanra 16y ago
Python 3 already has the nonlocal keyword which does exactly what it sounds like. It's explained in mind-numbing detail by PEP 3104 at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3104/ but it's really what you'd expect. def make_counter():
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by andolanra 16y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with the overall gist of your comment, but I am curious as to what the US did to restrict information about the BP spill, and how it would have undermined US authority if the information got out that a London-b
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by andolanra 16y ago
Speaking now as a linguist, I am somewhat bothered by articles of this type—not because they're inaccurate, because they're entirely accurate, but because they walk a narrow line between fascination with and fetishization of language. Resea
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If I recall correctly, D allows you to disable garbage collection and do your own memory management, and it does give the programmer a lot of power over how memory is managed, up to and including literally using C's malloc and free. I think
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by andolanra 16y ago
The passive gets a bad rap a lot of the time, but getting rid of passives isn't always the best way to go about things. An approach which forbids all passive verbs often results in less readable or less appropriate prose, because there are