bchallenor

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by bchallenor 12y ago
I don't know about SwiftKey, but the Google English, French and Japanese keyboards all bring up the input method dialog when you long-press space. So these three at least are consistent.
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by bchallenor 12y ago
Paris (55,000/sq mi) is twice as dense as New York City (27,778.7/sq mi) (numbers from Wikipedia). It's one of the densest cities in the Western world. Edit: though I suppose if you consider Manhattan to be "New York&quo
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by bchallenor 13y ago
Yes this is close to what I was thinking of. Basically I want a tool for manipulating ad-hoc collections (lists/sets) of data. Something that is as powerful as SQL (but easy to set up for throwaway pipelines), as accessible as Excel (b
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by bchallenor 13y ago
That Subtext screencast is fascinating - thanks for posting the link. Reminds me of the Bret Victor talks. I agree with your other points - this is something I'd love to build (or see built). But do you think it could displace Excel?
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by bchallenor 13y ago
Both the [Leopold Tenkeyless]( http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=leopold,tenkeyles... ) and the [Filco Majestouch-2 Tenkeyless]( http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/usa-filco-ninja-majestouc... ) a
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by bchallenor 13y ago
Others make the point about calling costs, but if you want data only (say for a tablet/laptop/mifi) an any-network roaming SIM would be very attractive. For example my current network is great in London, but has no signal at all i
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by bchallenor 13y ago
Various countries have dividend imputation for that: > it reduces or eliminates the tax disadvantages of distributing dividends to shareholders by only requiring them to pay the difference between the corporate rate and their marginal ra
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by bchallenor 14y ago
Returning my Nexus 4 was a traumatic experience. It took over a month, with far too many emails and phone calls. Sadly, the customer support staff are probably trying their best, but the information and systems they have are completely inad
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by bchallenor 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that the 88 people [1] who want to go from "MEL to Perth UK" actually want to go the other Perth. Interestingly only 3 have signed up for "MEL to Perth AU" - perhaps you could add some heuristics to your autocomplete? Simila
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by bchallenor 14y ago
To support schema evolution. Of course it's up to you to write code that can actually handle missing fields, but once you have a required field in a message, you can never remove it. From the docs: "You should be very careful about marking
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by bchallenor 14y ago
There wouldn't be much point in doing that. Encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data, so it is incompressible. The chances of finding anything significant to deduplicate are so low that it's not worth trying.
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by bchallenor 14y ago
Have you considered carrying an EPIRB too?
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by bchallenor 14y ago
True, though the factory's owners (its shareholders) assume that the factory will beat the return of the market as a whole, and the rate of any loans they have. Otherwise they'd just invest in the market, e.g. via an index tracker. So for t
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by bchallenor 14y ago
I have also done RtK (book one). It took about 4-6 months over the course of two years (I lost my way a bit in the middle). Anki says I have done 34,000 reviews over 174 hours. I agree that eventually the stories should be forgotten, but in
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by bchallenor 14y ago
Read http://www.mrmoneymustache.com . An inspiring blog by a couple of ex-engineers.
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by bchallenor 15y ago
What a nice surprise! I started using Backbone this week, and this fixes six real issues I had with it: - collection.fetch() now correctly calls model.parse() (I patched Backbone.Collection.prototype.parse(), but their fix is nicer) - 'add'
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by bchallenor 15y ago
That's what (N)Hibernate calls the hilo algorithm. Compared with GUIDs, it has the advantage that IDs are somewhat sequential. (Random keys are terrible for index fragmentation.) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282099/whats-the-hi-lo-al
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by bchallenor 15y ago
I raised an issue on GitHub. https://github.com/rstacruz/js2coffee/issues/81
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by bchallenor 15y ago
It appears that it doesn't like CRLF. Maybe the author didn't test it on Windows. ;)
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by bchallenor 15y ago
The Rust language (by Mozilla) is putting statically verifiable state machines in the type system: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4009 It's based on Typestate, a really good 1986 paper: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/papers/classic/