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by celoyd 16y ago
It says “The API will generate the necessary CSS specific to the user's browser so you can use the font on your page.” If you change your user-agent, you’ll see it change.
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by celoyd 16y ago
I love that article; I just re-read it, and maybe it’s what made me put my point in terms of hours. And I as I said, those particular hours were probably not hiding a miracle, just more of whatever people would have done anyway. But it’s st
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by celoyd 16y ago
This is why my first premise is important. I’m asking you to accept that Windows could have been better without serious harm to its success. I’m blaming Gates more for things like security and usability than for an approach to hardware plat
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by celoyd 16y ago
This is why my second premise is important. The person who sold it to you and unfairly prevented others from selling you a better one does, arguably, owe you something. I’m not saying Gates owes us all a perfect operating system. But by d
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by celoyd 16y ago
I dislike Facebook for many reasons, but I think there can be a lot of value in idle socialization. It may be encouraging people to express themselves, to respond civilly to other opinions, to keep in touch with acquaintances, and so on – a
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by celoyd 16y ago
I have great respect for how Gates is spending his money now. But, in all seriousness, Windows (including Office etc.) is morally questionable. Grant me two points: First, it could be better without serious harm to its success. Over the las
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by celoyd 16y ago
As you suggest, this is going to be a matter of personal taste. But to me, naming software after an oppressed people is prima facie gross. That kind of homage is patronizing by default. We don’t have a Jew filesystem or a Tutsi browser, h
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by celoyd 16y ago
They’re en dashes, which should have a space on either side when used that way, so he’s still doing it wrong.
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by celoyd 16y ago
Judging by Apache and Gimp, for example, tasteless names don’t seem to matter that much.
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by celoyd 16y ago
betting all your money on one company is almost always less attractive than spreading your risk over a dozen different ones. As a minority shareholder, perhaps, but not necessarily as an owner.
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by celoyd 16y ago
It was an implementation of Trivium, an extremely simple stream cipher. I was also thinking of doing Salsa20, but I got distracted. The code: http://basecase.org/trivium/trivium.js Demo: http://basecase.org/trivium/ Honestly, I lost int
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by celoyd 16y ago
Just to be clear, when you say they are done like that, those operators are in the spec and that’s how they act; it’s not just a standard hack. So there is (for example) a ToInt32 function in the spec but not in the language. This surprised
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by celoyd 16y ago
There’s a lot of fuzziness about what “liberal arts” actually means. To me it means something like a general education including both sciences and the humanities. In this sense there’s nothing the least surprising about getting a liberal ar
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by celoyd 16y ago
Hahah, of course not. I’m saying that large things that are net good can still do a lot of harm in absolute terms. The Google-to-person comparison is kind of iffy because the normal harm that a good person does is mostly below the threshold
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by celoyd 16y ago
I do horrible things to bacteria. I don’t consider myself evil. If Google does horrible things to entities 1/100,000th its size, it’s considered to be doing evil.
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by celoyd 16y ago
It’s really not that far from “be perfect in everyone’s eyes”. It reminds me of “what would Jesus do?” – it’s not a formula at all, just a reminder to put things in moral terms. It doesn’t say much about what the speaker’s terms actually ar
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by celoyd 16y ago
You could find much better test images, that’s for sure. Lenna looks like what it is: old-style film printed fairly well and then scanned fairly well. It has a strong color cast and no full black. It’s only used everywhere because it’s alre
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by celoyd 16y ago
Whoa there. Contrails do bounce a lot of radiation back in the short term, but you haven’t showed that they balance the greenhousing effect of the exhaust gasses over the long term.
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by celoyd 17y ago
Apple’s photo software already has face recognition and its video software already has good image stabilization. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were spin-offs of work towards precisely this.
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by celoyd 17y ago
> An argument is an argument is an argument. If it holds water, let it carry the water. The thing is, until now, most of the arguments I trusted most about China were anecdotal. Not because I distrust numbers, but because numbers about
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by celoyd 17y ago
Just read Mamet’s unqualified (in the sense of phrased-as-universally-applicable) statements as being about his particular corner of the acting world. He likes to overstate his case, but there’s room in the world for more than one kind of g
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by celoyd 17y ago
By my math, 8.8 µm * 1e9 = 8.8 km. Wikipedia says the Enterprise is about 650 m long (thank god I had to check), so I assume they meant to say a 1:1e8 model.
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by celoyd 17y ago
I was just thinking about Google v. China and PayPal v. India. This kind of stuff is not necessarily new: think of the banana republics, the royal charter companies, Hearst and the Spanish-American War, and so on. Heck, the Boston Tea Party
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by celoyd 17y ago
The shaking is unnecessary, at least if the pot is thick enough to spread heat well. The popping mixes the kernels more than enough to avoid burning.
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by celoyd 17y ago
Especially considering that, in practice, oars move quite a lot through water. It’s fluid, after all; rowing is not like ski-poling yourself along.
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by celoyd 17y ago
At least two critics I respect, Merlin Mann and Paul Graham, have talked about this. My theory is much simpler: list posts tend to have good titles. When you’re browsing a feed reader, you’re more likely to read an article called “10 Ways T
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by celoyd 17y ago
I think they’re mainly dismissing their big-picture usefulness, not whether they describe you well. You could also group people according to eye color, and tell people with blue eyes that they probably have light-colored hair, but it wouldn
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by celoyd 17y ago
Forth and lisp are very closely related — conceptually, not historically. If you wrote a lisp where evaluation went left-to-right instead of right-to-left and where the operators took fixed numbers of arguments (so you could drop the parent
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by celoyd 17y ago
Sure, I guess “accident” is a vague way of putting it. I mean monospace sucks, but it sucked in a way that people could take advantage of until they relied on it. Now that we have ncurses, it’s hard to call it an accident. I could complain
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by celoyd 17y ago
I’m a nerd who’s done some typography, and I hate monospace. The distinctive thing here is that nerds are about language, and the good linguistic interfaces to the machine are mainly monospaced just by historical accident. It’s not like we’

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