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by celoyd 15y ago
Oh, I certainly don’t begrudge them running the experiment. I just wanted to put a check on the excessively anti-Perl interpretations that I thought were suggested by the title. A more interesting test to me would be something like seeing h
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by celoyd 15y ago
I’ll point out what a dozen others are probably typing right now: what works for beginners is not necessarily what’s best for experts. An analogy: I don’t know how to read sheet music with any proficiency. It would be easier for me if note
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by celoyd 15y ago
As an occasional semi-pro photographer and graphic designer, I agree. And this view can be extended to other things like religious and political beliefs. I know plenty of people who hold ethical views I strongly disagree with, but who act i
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by celoyd 15y ago
Very interesting. I trained at a student reactor (TRIGA) but that was a while ago we didn’t learn that much about real-world considerations. I remember being told that CANDU happened to be near price parity with LWR in general, but that thi
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by celoyd 15y ago
it was probably the worst built nuclear power plant in the most dangerous location I was going to dispute this based on things I’ve heard about Russian reactor operations, but apparently they’re generally placed well away from natural haz
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by celoyd 15y ago
Yeah, real-world n -body is very hard. But astronomers can do it with said amazing integration methods. The thing is that they tend to do it for known start states. With Snoopy, our major masses are Sol, Terra, and Luna. Their dynamics are
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by celoyd 15y ago
Isn’t identifying an unknown body as debris going to be way easier, generally, than going the other way? Especially when the body is in solar orbit, and therefore somewhere in a bigger volume and presumably dimmer? I don’t know much about o
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by celoyd 15y ago
You’re asking excellent questions. Basically, your doubts are well founded: you don’t have very much reliable control over typography on the web.[0] Things like kerning.js are probably best regarded as admirable proofs of concept for future
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by celoyd 15y ago
I thought I remembered something like that but I couldn’t find it. Since you mentioned it I looked a little further and found http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1311136 . This links to a page which has rotted away; here’s a Wayback Machi
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by celoyd 15y ago
I’m not sure what you’re asking. The Times Atlas design process is mostly digital now, but as far as I know, the flagship products are only available on paper. You can get a basic look at their workflow starting at page 10 here: http://f
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by celoyd 15y ago
The kind of information packing that you see in a good map (like the Times Atlas ) is nontrivial. Deciding which features to show, how to label them, and how to arrange the labels is a knapsack problem. Plus, it often involves hard-to-quan
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by celoyd 15y ago
That’s true; I was exaggerating. I’m on G+ using a highly conventional nickname for my given name, on the order of Meg for Megan. The problem here is that many people have legitimate reasons to, for example, go by more than one name. Always
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by celoyd 15y ago
But we’re not talking about anonymity on the web, we’re talking about choice of names in a certain social network. I’m less likely to use G+ when I can’t use it to talk to people who aren’t using the form of their name that’s on their birth
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by celoyd 15y ago
Heh, yeah. I was amused by VesselTracker’s strategy. Go to at http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Mv.-Deira-9149768.html (for example) and look at the “blurred” pay-only data. Rot13 spoiler: it all says “Ab qngn sbe lbh!”
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by celoyd 15y ago
It’s a shame that they obscured incriminating details in the screenshots with simple image operations like low-radius 1- and 2-dimensional blurring. Using a guessable point-spread function on an image region with so many known characteristi
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by celoyd 15y ago
I don’t think it does. If it did, then the LHS and RHS would be functionally identical, or nearly so. But they aren’t, because you can’t rewrite “New use of existing technology” to “man revived after 96 minutes w/out a pulse” in many contex
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by celoyd 15y ago
I’m on Lion and vanilla Chrome works for me. Safari also works if I turn on the Develop menu (in the Advanced tab of the preferences) and use it to turn on WebGL.
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by celoyd 15y ago
Close but not exactly. In farming contexts, piglets and chicks are often distinguished from pigs and chickens precisely because they’re too young to eat. So “young pig” really does mean something different from “piglet” in this case, in the
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by celoyd 15y ago
mutton (but rarely if ever eaten) Mutton has been a normal food in many times and places. It happens to be out of fashion in most of the English-speaking world right now. I grew up around sheep and often ate mutton as a child. To me, call
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by celoyd 15y ago
“The best man for the job” is an idiom. Even then, I don’t see any plausible advantage it has in most contexts over “the best person for the job”. This isn’t meant as prudery. Would you develop that argument? I’m curious why I’m being downv
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by celoyd 15y ago
The concern here is not that the poster comes off looking like a bad person, because clearly he* doesn’t, but that unintentionally sexist language persists. If I had corrected the poster’s lack of a final slash in his s/// syntax, I would
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by celoyd 15y ago
Definitely. Just wanted to point it out.
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by celoyd 15y ago
This is extremely well done. But incidentally: see if you're talking to the same man comes across a bit odd, seeing as lately a few women and children have been reported using IP addresses.
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by celoyd 15y ago
Plenty of really good products come from companies that go out of business, and Nautilus was one of them. It drove the Linux desktop experience forward by about a decade – from Apple c. 1993 to Apple c. 2003, as flippant as that sounds. I s
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by celoyd 15y ago
Even though C is used for those large successful projects, even if it isn’t wrong for them, and even if the projects grew using C through a series of justified decisions, C can still be suboptimal for them.
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by celoyd 15y ago
How much of the clergy / priests opposed printing presses because they allowed the common masses to access information on a scale unprecedented at that time? Movable type was one of the causes and main tools of the Reformation and thus h
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by celoyd 15y ago
You really nail it. I just want to add that all of this applies to DST too, although it’s a little different because it’s artificial and well-known.
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by celoyd 16y ago
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It depends on the structural corruption of the regulatory system – i.e., whether permits and such are fairly priced. For example, we could make a kind of slippery slope argument going the other way as well: “Can
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by celoyd 16y ago
I did not downvote it. However, I imagine that some people think that this app does hurt people, albeit indirectly, and that this is so obvious that someone overlooking it is either a troll or oblivious. (I am not taking that position, or a
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by celoyd 16y ago
Apple has never treated third-party developers well in that sense. (There are exceptions, but they are exceptions.) Apple’s strategy has always been to first bring in customers who are willing to pay for high quality, and then let developer

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