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by celoyd 16y ago
His consistency seems really important to me, but it isn’t as remarked upon as, for example, his perfectionism. When you look at Apple’s product timeline, you can see he’s always thinking several years ahead. Plenty of good products were ju
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by celoyd 16y ago
I understand the need for localization and all, but 46 THOUSAND characters? Jeez. There are that many Han characters alone, so I’m not sure what the surprise is. It’s not like you have to hard-code them in your grammar. If anything, I’d
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by celoyd 16y ago
If it were 15 , I would have to put the kind of thought into picking friends that I put into picking words on Twitter. 50 seems merely inconvenient. I doubt more than 50 people care about my personal photos anyway. It doesn’t sound limitin
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by celoyd 16y ago
I believe that cocaine is bad and that its users shouldn’t be treated arbitrarily harshly. There’s no contradiction there.
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by celoyd 16y ago
I think he addresses this a little at the bottom with “I do have a problem with people who claim to have done SCIENCE and then when you dig in, turn out to have done no such thing.” Calling something science is pretty much the way of givi
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by celoyd 16y ago
I’m saying he didn’t blur it enough. Someone could take a standard image deconvolution package, give it a good estimate of the point spread function, and probably recover at least the first and last digits of each line. It’s probably not ve
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by celoyd 16y ago
Offtopic-ly, avoid using motion blur to deface private details: in many cases it can be undone. Moderate pixelation is also fairly recoverable when the font is known. It’s usually best to blank it completely (with a bar of solid color) or t
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by celoyd 16y ago
One thing I like about go is that even a beginner like me can follow an expert game. Although I’m many orders of magnitude from being able to generate it, I can appreciate (“verify”) the quality of play in http://senseis.xmp.net/?FamousGoG
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by celoyd 16y ago
I’d try to follow the rule that a sentence should always work without the parenthesis (counting the preceding space as part of the parenthesis). So I would do “an”. A similar problem comes up with capitalization in sentences beginning with
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by celoyd 16y ago
Strict smoking bans make a big difference for smokers, but not such a big deal for second-hand smoke. On the contrary, the benefits for non-smokers are substantial. For example, “Using 11 reports from 10 study locations, AMI risk decrease
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by celoyd 16y ago
Sure. I wasn’t really thinking about technical writing. It’s good to remember that people like Einstein and Feynman could happily explain their work in very simple terms.
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by celoyd 16y ago
I think that’s good as a rule, but I’m not sure it holds for cases like Joyce. If you want to write a book that has to do with how experience is translated into language and vice-versa, transparent language might not be best. Sometimes conf
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by celoyd 16y ago
Clean air, clean water, especially at the most local level, matters a lot more to me than global and theoretical things like CO2, definitely. Over what time scale? The worst-case scenarios for excess CO2 are situations where the food supp
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by celoyd 16y ago
I know nothing about music notation, but I was very interested in LilyPond’s explanation of how and why it does some of the stuff it does: http://lilypond.org/about/automated-engraving/big-page I wonder how much of this sort of work will
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by celoyd 16y ago
If you can come up with an idea of “student progress” that everyone can agree on and measure, you’ve just solved education.
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by celoyd 16y ago
This is why it annoyed me that so many people were outraged (or mock-outraged) that the Library of Congress would archive Twitter. It’s exactly the fact that Twitter tends to be topical, ephemeral, trivial, and faddish that make it worth a
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by celoyd 16y ago
Are those hyphenation algorithms really that hard to implement? Yes: see (for example) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hz-program . A really good H&J algorithm is doing a significant amount of work. It has to think about things like su
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by celoyd 16y ago
The article’s heart is in the right place, but it overstates the case. For example, “Sharpness has very little to do with image quality, and resolution has little to do with sharpness” goes too far if you have a pretty good lens and you’re
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by celoyd 16y ago
I think the assumption these days is that in any battle between states (somewhere like Kashmir, Korea, the South China Sea – not guerrilla wars) both sides will be able to do a fairly good job of jamming the other’s navigational satellite s
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by celoyd 16y ago
Your analogy is actually a pretty charitable reading. HN often discusses how the best coders are sometimes the ones who produce less code. Some principled fiscal conservatives don’t hate government , they have waste , and electing them to
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by celoyd 16y ago
It’s from an essay of Mark Twain’s* where he talks about how people’s opinions depend on their social situations – where they get their money from, who they talk to, etc. (Corn-pone was a staple food.) It’s a little like the famous Upton Si
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by celoyd 16y ago
stack oriented languages and functional languages are a lot closer to each other conceptually than you'd normally think they are Yes. In fact, here’s something to think about. Imagine a dialect of lisp where every function takes a known n
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by celoyd 16y ago
This is a tremendous resource. From a technical point of view, one of many interesting things there is the discussion of how the separately-made color frames were stitched into RGB images (he made separate R, G, and B exposures with a few s
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by celoyd 16y ago
From Svalbard you can see pretty much every polar orbit once per orbit, plus Norway is politically stable and very liberal with research licenses there, plus it’s warm for the latitude. So there’s demand from the kind of people who have pol
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by celoyd 16y ago
Book Antiqua is a knockoff of Palatino, which in turn is the titling variant of Aldus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus_(typeface) . It should read a little more smoothly.
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by celoyd 16y ago
I’m not saying GNU should brand itself differently. But if it’s going to change the logo to look less homely (in either sense), I think it could go a lot further than that version.
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by celoyd 16y ago
Whimsical line art of the ugly, hairy wildebeest. Dot dot dot. If GNU wants to brand itself to anyone other than hardcore hackers, it’s probably going to need the kind of logo that hardcore hackers will complain is generic and corporate-l
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by celoyd 16y ago
You guessed pretty much right: ∀ is usually read as for all . It and others he uses (like ⊢ for is derived from ) are defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols . Hope that helps; as a beginner in Haskell and strong t
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by celoyd 16y ago
“Scripts are stored in a language-independent internal representation. A dialect defines a presentation for the internal language. Dialects contain lexing and parsing tables, and printing routines. A script can be presented using any dialec
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by celoyd 16y ago
the difficult part was comparing two values computed in completely different ways I think this is a lot of the fun. But if you wanted to make a similar contest that resolved more easily, what would you do? Off the top of my head, maybe a

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