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by breadbox 14y ago
I discovered Ellen Fullman by chance back in the 90s. Unfortunately she hasn't writing any nonfiction since that I know of -- her last two books are both novels. "The Bug" is a fun read, particularly if you've ever had to do any low-level G
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by breadbox 14y ago
The only thing that could make this better would be if you were doing this as an independent contract for 16 credits.
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by breadbox 14y ago
The game was made by one person, yes. But it's a little misleading to emphasize that this was "one person" when they were representative of the massive amounts of anti-feminist sentiment that was sent her way. If you look through the random
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by breadbox 14y ago
Which, ironically, is almost as bad, when you suddenly realize that you basically let Chrome change the UI, and there's no way to return to the UI you once knew.
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by breadbox 14y ago
The takeaway quote: "After years of aspiring to improve software usability, I've come to the extremely humbling realization that the single best thing most companies could do to improve usability is to stop changing the UI so often!" I wish
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by breadbox 14y ago
Even the toned-down link text given here is somewhat unfair to the article, which is really about how we deal with an introduced plant (in this case the eucalyptus tree in California) that has both good and bad effects on the local biota. T
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by breadbox 14y ago
The assumption that "natural language grammars" and "logic" are even on speaking terms will only bring you frustration, as you rail against perfectly correct constructions while the world rightly ignores you.
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by breadbox 14y ago
Not at all. It's a rhetorical quotation; I'm not responding to any one person. (I suppose that's part of the issue: it's rarely any one person that's behaving badly; it's the cumulative effect.)
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by breadbox 14y ago
"StackOverflow is a meritocracy, therefore women should feel just as welcome as men." Some women tell you that it's not. Is your first reaction: [a] we should honestly try to listen to their feedback , or [b] publicly hypothesize that they'
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by breadbox 14y ago
Thanks for the article; I really enjoyed getting the view from the other side.
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by breadbox 14y ago
Why is it when people say things like "lack of respect for [insert language here]", it's always to defend their own lack of respectful behavior towards, you know, actual human beings?
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by breadbox 14y ago
If someone started a fistfight in the conference's bar after hours, would you be surprised if the conference chose to not invite that person back again, ever? Would you come to his defense by saying "It's not the conference organizers' resp
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by breadbox 14y ago
Speaking as someone who has spent WAY too much time playing minesweeper -- Early on I came to a similar conclusion (though without doing the actual math) and started clicking on corners initially. I soon discovered, as most people do, that
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by breadbox 14y ago
Uh, not really. I think you'll find that quite a lot of people are willing to consider engaging in infidelity, but would not be okay with torturing their own offspring on a daily basis in order to keep that fact hidden.
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by breadbox 14y ago
Compiling to a virtual machine is only one step up from byte-compiling, which hardly counts. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
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by breadbox 14y ago
Indeed. There's been so much focus on interpreted langauges these days, compiled languages seem to be all but forgotten. C++ is the last new compiled language that's caught on. (There are others, like D, which are hanging in there, but don'
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How Things Work on Programming Forums (GLSL Programming and Bad Docs)(shamusyoung.com)
2 points by breadbox 14y ago|0 comments
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A paleontologist discusses the problem of dinosaur poaching(skepticblog.org)
2 points by breadbox 14y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 14y ago
Question for someone who's already signed up: What's the process to unsubscribe?
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by breadbox 15y ago
I think this nicely illustrates why syntax highlighting is so much less popular with the older crowd. If you grew up without it, it looks bloody stupid. (On the other hand, if we had grown up learning to write colorized English from childho
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by breadbox 15y ago
I'd love to know what dictionary this uses to look up pronunciations. Is it the CMU wordlist, or is there a better one that's freely available?
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by breadbox 15y ago
Damn you; I already consider the absence of these words to be a design flaw.
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by breadbox 15y ago
My experience is that it depends a great deal on the types of the goals and how they're presented. The article mentions vaguely-defined, general self-improvement goals, like taking up a new hobby. I can see a public commitment being counter
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by breadbox 15y ago
An odd post for HN, it seems to me. Kind of like a post arguing that science fiction is worth reading: you are preaching to the choir here. Myself, I've had this aesthetic since childhood. Not only does function-over-form clothing save time
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Maximally inoffensive atheist bus ad rejected as being too controversial(justinvacula.com)
2 points by breadbox 15y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 15y ago
I'm not; I'd be surprised by any research that upheld any of those claims. They sound 100% rectally extruded.
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by breadbox 15y ago
Indeed; I highly recommend everyone read those posts. The original link is an interesting idea; the two follow-on posts are a surprisingly effective practical demonstration.
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by breadbox 15y ago
More like the rather obvious fact that we will almost certainly be extinct long before anything non-human ever finds it. Assuming that anything ever does, which is unlikely in the extreme. Really, by far the most likely case of it ever gett
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by breadbox 15y ago
Initial underscore followed by a capital letter is a reserved "namespace" since 1990, as a previous commenter noted. (And for the record, identifiers that begin with two underscores are reserved for use by the implementation, and identifier
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by breadbox 15y ago
Indeed. As a general rule, if you think the ISO committee has done something pointlessly moronic, there's a pretty good chance that there's more going on than you know about.

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