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by blue1 14y ago
Once again see Erik Naggum's "Enamel"
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by blue1 14y ago
is BCD really a bad idea? it's 2012 and generally we still have to live with binary-only floats and without a decently fast decimal arithmetic.
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by blue1 15y ago
(declaim (safety 3) (ftype (function ({argument types}) {return types}) {function name})) It checks both at compile time and at run time. I find it great for bug squashing. See http://www.sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Declarations-as-Assert..
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by blue1 15y ago
don't you get a similar benefit in common lisp by generously adding declarations? (esp. in sbcl with high levels of SAFETY)
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by blue1 15y ago
there is a deep tug-of-war in this. The EU position is that European Law is higher level than any law of member states, including their constitutions. States, generally, say that EU law takes its very legitimation from the souce of national
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by blue1 15y ago
I've found that black on white works better (for me) in daylight, and white on black in a dark room.
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by blue1 15y ago
By drastically reducing volume it would also reduce liquidity and increase spreads. Sweden tested this in the eighties and abandoned after seeing the market substantially dry up (and the resulting taxes as well).
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by blue1 15y ago
"finale", a music term, is an italian word (not french) and has no accent.
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by blue1 15y ago
"One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor." -- Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
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by blue1 15y ago
> read about it somewhere, called them Morning Pages, or something like that AFAIK, it comes from Julia Cameron's book, "The Artist's Way".
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by blue1 15y ago
now, if only someone could finally reveal to me what "hullabaloo mode" did in Fast Lightning, a disk copy program for the Amiga...
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by blue1 15y ago
actually greece has a pretty big and modern army for its size
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by blue1 15y ago
Italians have always been euro-enthusiastic and I don't think they would object to transfer more powers to the EU.
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by blue1 15y ago
> If you buy coffee, it's hot enough to hurt you (or it's crap. There's a range of temperatures that are decent, and personal factors determine what is deemed too hot as well). McDonald's keeps coffee at >82°C, which is much hotter
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by blue1 15y ago
in Italy the judge decides who has to pay the costs. Loser pays everything only if he loses badly, so to say.
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by blue1 15y ago
I suspect that this kind of "risky" technology will be deployed first in more adventurous countries, like China.
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by blue1 15y ago
contrarily to what I'm reading here, I think that it is a good idea that the trial goes on. The point is not that a best estimate was wrong, but rather that the conclusions could have been steered by political pressures, which is actually n
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by blue1 15y ago
Mostly it's a matter of habit (it's the same for typefaces, btw). After some time, I found syntax-colored Common Lisp (in SLIME) to be very readable, and I started to find confusing other languages.
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by blue1 15y ago
nice. But I fear we will still be doing float-based layouts in a long, long time.
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by blue1 15y ago
Mondo rescue and LTO3 tapes
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by blue1 15y ago
I think that with large screens becoming more available, it is not a bad idea to provide a way to create text layouts that go beyond the single column of text (making text lines longer hurts legibility). We already have CSS3 text columns, b
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by blue1 16y ago
Websites can still go online with the wrong content. While it's less dramatic, it's still better to avoid it.
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by blue1 16y ago
Part of the Lorem Ipsum from Adobe is a pseudo-latin translation of a pseudo Rudy VanderLaans text on typography, concerning the legibility of typefaces. It's a rather convoluted insider joke.
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by blue1 16y ago
The reason why "lorem ipsum" is latin is that since the language is almost extinct, it looks like real copy but it's very difficult that someone can send it to the printer by mistake, thinking it's the final text. (by the way, perhaps to ty
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by blue1 16y ago
I second the pomodoro technique, but advise against lengthening the time block. I find the original 25-minutes block to be non-threatening, which is very useful in fighting procrastination. After all you can dive into a problem for 25 min
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by blue1 16y ago
I long resisted using the pomodoro technique because, frankly, on the surface it looks a bit stupid. But then one day I tried and found that it is surprisingly effective. I am not sure why, perhaps it provides a sort of marching rhythm to t
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by blue1 16y ago
In other words, it's a magnificent example of Black Swan. Nassim Taleb will be happy.
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by blue1 16y ago
"frotz" on the ipad is a nice IF collection.
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by blue1 16y ago
Not that I am too interested in PG either, but I was referring to a certain view of things. Personally, I would never subscribe to facebook for any reason, no matter what shining things are being created inside it. I wish you good luck anyw
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by blue1 16y ago
For some reason, I can't imagine PG opening a facebook group.

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