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by carlob 12y ago
This was written by an issuu engineer. Does anyone know if issuu uses OCaml?
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by carlob 12y ago
Was it this game? https://imgur.com/a/Moicv Maybe she wasn't ranked at the time, but a quick search revealed she played chess at an international level in her youth.
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by carlob 12y ago
No, that's exactly the opposite of your point. The history of thought would not be the same with or without Ulysses, we would not be more or less the same with enough Danielle Steel. And books are not special, many other forms of human
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by carlob 12y ago
Even from a hardcore free market perspective, you can't really say books are a commodity, insofar as they they have limited substitutability. There is no way to make up for quality with volume. You can't just take a masterpiece of
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by carlob 12y ago
This should be further up. I personally found myself skimming through the written version while her delivery left me glued to the screen and quite moved.
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by carlob 12y ago
I think you're generally right about the fact that pop music pop ularizes more grown-up genres. But I think you could have picked something different than delta blues as an example. Delta blues was extremely simple when it started out
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by carlob 12y ago
Funnily enough I just saw a movie that had a square format for 99% of the duration. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3612616/
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by carlob 12y ago
Parent poster wrote 5 km/h which is really the speed of most walkers not 5 mph. I'm sure that if you get hit by a car that's going fast enough it won't really matter if you have a bike, a skateboard, or just the soles of
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by carlob 12y ago
That would be an argument for wearing protection when walking as well, you know?
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by carlob 12y ago
I'm not sure riding defensively is always the best thing to do. For example, say you are in a narrow road, and a car behind you has barely enough space to overtake you. A defensive rider would move as far to the right as possible to be
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by carlob 12y ago
I had this feeling of going back with Lion, when they removed the scroll bars. It might look great, and I agree it's pretty slick and much more à la page if you will, but it's much less usable. Windows 8 looks so much better than
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by carlob 12y ago
The UI does look terrible and, as the link I provided shows, many things people complain about are not a matter of personal taste, but actual reductions of usability.
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by carlob 12y ago
I wish I hadn't upgraded in the first place, the UI looks terrible, even with transparency dialed down it's definitely a step back from mavericks. http://uxcritique.tumblr.com Low transparency mode has this weird bug w
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by carlob 12y ago
C'mon it's only 1€ more than the two combined and you get the convenience to only have to lug around one ;)
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by carlob 12y ago
Why can't I use esc to dismiss the dialog? Why do arrows in menus also scroll the page? Is this because this is not pure CSS? Would this be a problem for accessibility?
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by carlob 12y ago
If you have the space buy a projector: - They are generally not smart - They cost less than TVs (especially by the inch) - They don't work well during the day (no daytime TV, only movies at night)
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by carlob 12y ago
> the last 20 years He won the Prix Goncourt 36 years ago. He's not that recent.
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by carlob 12y ago
> My point here is, if you're in the military now, you're volunteering for war. If you're an injured soldier, I'm sorry you got hurt. You didn't deserve it, because nobody deserves war and mayhem. But you volunte
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by carlob 12y ago
The manual shows about 80 characters per line. It should be around 66 for optimal readability. One of the things I like about LaTeX is that you don't have to know about this stuff, and since it's not entirely trivial to change the
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by carlob 12y ago
> Only an idiot does unit conversions in their head. Or every elementary school kid outside the few countries that still don't use the metric system as it's a pretty common exercise. I probably shouldn't have answered as I
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by carlob 12y ago
Saying that most quantum physics courses are taught from the historical point of view rather than starting with the math seems like a bit of a straw man. My experience (Rome University) was that first we were taught the basic mathematics (H
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by carlob 12y ago
No it's not quite the same, the fact that all the conversion factors between ft and in and lb and oz are weird numbers rather than power of tens means that if someone gives me a weird compound unit (for example forces and distances in
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by carlob 12y ago
Insightful comment, bot those units really make me cringe. How do you do physics with those? Did you know that 1 lb in is 16 oz ft?
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by carlob 12y ago
This is really really interesting. I was curious as to why I hadn't seen any execution of this pretty obvious idea, now I know.
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by carlob 12y ago
Now it would be great to integrate this data into OSM to get navigation for bikes that takes slopes into account: this is the shortest route, this is the fastest considering slope, this is the sportiest…
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by carlob 12y ago
> School uniforms don't really deal with this dynamic because they're only relevant for interactions internal to the school rather than interactions between the school and the outside world. Well they also have an effect on the
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by carlob 12y ago
Yeah I think that using just UNESCO sites as a metric is a bit flawed. I mean on a scale from 1 to 5 (from good to bad) Rome gets 1, Paris 3 and New York City 4. I live in Rome and I love it, but I wouldn't say that even if we have a b
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by carlob 12y ago
I don't know about that, but more and more things can be done in CloudCDF, which is standard open web technology.
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by carlob 12y ago
This is exactly the contrary of what Berlusconi once proposed: "let's brand all Fiat cars as Ferrari and their sales will soar".
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by carlob 12y ago
> e. Introduce a bicycle tax, so motorists can't lord around the idea cyclists are freeloading roads - Maybe This seems like a particularly bad idea, especially given how low taxes are on gas in the US. In some states it's even

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