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by blahedo 15y ago
Yes, it seems better as a technique to introduce bias to flow than to restrict it altogether---valve-like, but not exactly a valve. Sufficient for a lot of valve applications, though, and the lack of moving parts is reeeeeally nice.
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by blahedo 15y ago
I believe this; I have plenty of clothes that I've been wearing since the mid-90s (and a few clothes I inherited that are even older), and none of it is luxury brand; but I do take care of them. It's also worth noting that some kinds of cl
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by blahedo 15y ago
> So I'll repeat that I think what's truly unhelpful is guys like you claiming that everything is hunky dory. "Hunky dory"? Not to overly pick on your own logic and reading comprehension skills, but I made no such claim. We have a l
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by blahedo 15y ago
This problem not only isn't unique to iOS dev work, it's not even unique to programming. Any custom work, from carpentry to bespoke tailoring to artwork, is more expensive than most people expect, even when they account for custom work b
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by blahedo 15y ago
I've been on Duolingo for about a month now, and they must be getting a bit sick of me because I submit a lot of beta feedback---but they're very responsive and usually pretty good about fixing things, sometimes by the next day, including
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by blahedo 15y ago
This isn't even approximately true. Almost everything we know about optimal techniques for learning is being applied in real educational institutions. But, not every teacher is as effective at applying them, and furthermore, it takes time
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by blahedo 15y ago
...and more difficult to compare them.
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by blahedo 15y ago
It's down at the bottom of the article, but this: > Penney will use whole figures when pricing items. In other words, you won't see jeans with a price tag of $19.99, but rather $19 or $20. is actually my favourite part of the whole th
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by blahedo 15y ago
> thats pretty much the best way to learn. But still the exam is harder than it would have been without books, so you are off worse. So... they're the best way to learn, but you're worse off for getting them? Think about this argumen
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by blahedo 15y ago
I think you've been taking the wrong history classes. The interesting stuff is the "why" and making connections between different events; and if you're tested on that sort of thing, a notecard with names-and-dates is about as helpful as a
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Why not make the problems harder and let students use every possible tool or resource to solve them? Some of us do exactly that. Many of the exams I sat in grad school (Brown) were that way, and nearly all of the exams I have set a
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by blahedo 15y ago
> You'd portray him as a Muslim. Or a Muslim sympathizer . Better, and yet worse.
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by blahedo 15y ago
> They're big enough that I don't think Hollywood could shut them out, Most of us on this board are probably too young to remember the blackballing of (accused) communists in the 50s and 60s, but that put a permanent end to the career
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by blahedo 15y ago
The decision 9-0 but with two separate opinions, and boy is the split weird: Scalia-Roberts-Kennedy-Thomas-Sotomayor on the broader interpretation; and Alito-Ginsburg-Breyer-Kagan on the narrower interpretation. Good news on either interp
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Ideally there would be some magical way to have all these posts direct to a canonical discussion, but in practice it seems this requires human intervention. Some, but just to flag the duplication; how to process the dup is a matte
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by blahedo 15y ago
This is pretty great. Its first-order effects would be good enough: a successful class that turns people from mere users into content creators. Great! But the second-order effects may be more important. Nearly anyone, when first introduc
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by blahedo 15y ago
Yes, I also read that very paragraph and highlighted it to copy in to a post over here for further discussion (and with much the same conclusion as you). Here were two others from later in the article: : "The Chinese government had agreed
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by blahedo 15y ago
I think it's mostly just because they've always done it that way. It does give a chance for the movies to circulate to the lesser theatres that didn't get it in the first weeks of the run, without them having to compete with the rental and
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by blahedo 15y ago
A lot of webcomics coordinated with each other and are posting a red-background "CONTENT BLOCKED BY SOPA/PIPA" with a more or less personalised message about how it affects them. E.g. http://www.shortpacked.com/ http://www.somethingposi
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by blahedo 15y ago
And yet, both can be legitimately called (a form of) "minimalism". Just depends what you're minimising.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Oh, please don't! I like native controls. They actually work well . Every site I have ever seen that has reimplemented popups and scrollboxes and whatnot, has missed many of the little UI tweaks that help our experience and took three
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by blahedo 15y ago
Hard to tell. The "series of tubes" moment was a very strange one to mock, because he was right ---the context of that quote is that he was saying it was more like a series of tubes than like a fleet of trucks, which for the purposes of h
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by blahedo 15y ago
Sure, but "the Internet sent me" was a brilliantly concise way to give context to the question (and be funny, and memorable). These Q&A sessions are fast-moving and questions with long rambling introductions are not good ones. "There'
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by blahedo 15y ago
Furthermore, the 15 days is itself a bit low---notice in the video that by the time the clock starts, the foundations are already done and some parts of the first floor are in; the work continues after the 360:00:00 clock stops; and the las
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by blahedo 15y ago
This is brilliant: "For example, Free.fr used the set-top box for automatically sharing a portion of one’s broadband connection via Wi-Fi with other Free.fr customers."
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by blahedo 15y ago
Discover? I've been a happy customer of theirs since the 90s, and their coverage has gotten near total within the US. Sparser in other countries, though.
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by blahedo 15y ago
tl;dr: At small scales, efficiency is dominated by loop overhead. At larger scales, issues of cache size and bus bandwidth come to dominate. (In particular, if the memory accessed in the single loop doesn't all fit in the cache at once, t
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by blahedo 15y ago
I think this is generally true, but there are counterexamples---I'm sure many of us here remember some of our own teachers that bucked this trend. Speaking for myself, I do try my best to foster the creative ones; they can be kind of a pai
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by blahedo 15y ago
For several months now I've set myself the rule that I only access FB from home; I've broken this rule only rarely and it's been remarkably successful at toning down the constant-checking behaviour--- even when I'm at home . Because I've b
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by blahedo 15y ago
It's a photo frame, and their tablet resembles that photo frame (a legacy Samsung product that predates the iPad) at least as much as it resembles the iPad. The claim is that Apple's suit is spurious.

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