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by breadbox 11y ago
Wow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_H._Mair
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Names of the chemical elements in Chinese(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
39 points by breadbox 11y ago|50 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
That's true, but still, it's advice that's a lot easier and more helpful for us the privileged.
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Wolf-whistling and over-reactions(freethoughtblogs.com)
1 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
The circular areas are presumably meant to suggest the number of artists at each level. The innermost circle contains only 1/7th of the total number of names, etcetera. (Though this would have been more appropriate if each ring had inc
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by breadbox 11y ago
I wonder if also equipping containers with dummy latches would help -- some mechanism with moving parts that messing with gives the sensation of making progress, but ultimately opens nothing. A honeypot handle, if you will.
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Japanese cocktail list(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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A taxing algorithm(bit-player.org)
53 points by breadbox 11y ago|11 comments
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by breadbox 12y ago
Similarly, appliance stores will sell you a refrigerator at half price if some of the paint got scraped off on one side in transit.
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How Block Bot Could Save the Internet(thedailybeast.com)
1 points by breadbox 12y ago|0 comments
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Calling bullshit on the safe spaces panic(freethoughtblogs.com)
6 points by breadbox 12y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 12y ago
Imagine if the letter Q had been left out of Unicode's Latin alphabet. The argument against it is that it can be written with a capital O combined with a comma. (That's going to play hell with naive sorting algorithms, of course,
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by breadbox 12y ago
Say the word and I'll postmates a bottle of Bombay Sapphire to your office.
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by breadbox 12y ago
I have terrible sidewalk rage, but it has nothing to do with slowpokes -- I can't stand people who walk straight down the middle and don't make room. "Oh, I'm so sorry your highness, I didn't realize this was your
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by breadbox 12y ago
I'm sorry, C is Voldemort ? Buddy, you don't know from evil.
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by breadbox 12y ago
When the two choices given you are to exist in a hugbox or get abused and insulted every day for a few years, I think I know what sane people are going to do. Including you, despite your bluster. There are other ways to counteract being in
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by breadbox 12y ago
I'd guess he bought the domain name with the assumption that he'd eventually find something to use it for.
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by breadbox 12y ago
Although if the company isn't already plugged into the Deaf culture, I doubt that they will be able to exercise much control over what their own sign winds up being. It's easy to imagine a company creating a sign for themselves th
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Male suicide and the cynical, mendacious trickery of Conservative Woman(freethoughtblogs.com)
2 points by breadbox 12y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 12y ago
Surely 1% of the population is enough that we should e.g. have a way to legally recognize them, instead of forcing everyone to fit themselves into one of the two options.
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by breadbox 12y ago
That's like saying I can't copyright an image I made entirely within GIMP because it has no human artist. Cope's program may be more generative than a general-purpose graphics program, but the fact remains that Cope is still
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by breadbox 12y ago
Oh joy, another programmer trying to convince others that the rules of English grammar can be solved logically. Ideas like "setup" and "teardown" have grown to describe important verbs in their own right. Why argue that
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by breadbox 12y ago
I have always assumed that, like most geeks, disinterest in sports was not so much "cultivated" as it was a kneejerk reaction to the fact that the football players were the people making my life miserable every fucking day in publ
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by breadbox 12y ago
But this is exactly the point of the article: There is an entire world in between "only interested in finding holes to poke" and "a pat on the back". It's a wonderful place, full of bridges and people working togeth
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by breadbox 12y ago
> Brainfuck is actually rather complicated. As mentioned above, it has 8 instructions [...] > but there are several languages which only require one instruction. True enough, but I would say the crucial difference is that Brainfuck&#x
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by breadbox 12y ago
Were you aware that the original 1972 INTERCAL compiler was written in SPITBOL?
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by breadbox 12y ago
Speaking as the original author of both of those documents (and a significant fraction of all INTERCAL code), I can affirm that I have INTERCAL on my resume. It's only come up once in an interview, sadly. Someday someone will ask me to
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by breadbox 12y ago
Certainly there is advantage in having a simple hello-world program. The original purpose of hello-world, naturally, is just to have something to verify that your environment and tools are properly installed and configured before you go off
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by breadbox 12y ago
Exactly! With the current maker movement you'd think they would be primed to reinvent themselves. After reading that article, however, I'm inclined to think that their problems are not so much from a market that changed out from u
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by breadbox 12y ago
It's awful to read that and compare it with what Radio Shack was for us geeklings in the 1980s. For those of us living far from big cities, Radio Shack was the source of electric parts, IC chips, LEDs, not to mention hands-on access to

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