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by chris_st 10y ago
I own a few of his puzzle books, and even have solved some of their puzzles. Some are so amazingly difficult that it's hard to understand how someone could be that smart. Couple that with what everyone I've ever heard say about hi
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by chris_st 10y ago
Another "natural paint" painting program is ArtRage [1]. They have, bar none, the friendliest, most supportive discussion forums I've ever seen on the internet. Oh yeah, the painting program's pretty good too :-) [1] h
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by chris_st 10y ago
There's a pretty good iOS (and maybe Android?) game called PsyCard [1] that's a card-based variant of Minesweeper. It's from Ludosity, so the art is insane and the difficulty is substantial. I'll be interested to see if
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by chris_st 10y ago
Possibly an opportunity to create a website just for the "nomadic TV club"?
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by chris_st 10y ago
I use the "PREFIX z" command to "maximize" the current pane, that is, it hides all the other panes and makes the current one the only visible pane, filling the whole terminal. Then I copy, and "PREFIX z" again
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by chris_st 10y ago
From Glowforge's website, for their base model: > It needs ventilation via the provided 4″ diameter (10.2cm) hose. We recommend putting the hose out a window.
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by chris_st 10y ago
How do you deal with the corruption issue of NeDB? From their page: > corruptAlertThreshold (optional): between 0 and 1, defaults to 10%. NeDB will refuse to start if more than this percentage of the datafile is corrupt. 0 means you don
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by chris_st 10y ago
Slightly related is the video game "TIS-100"[1] which has you programming (incredibly) constrained processors that are arranged in a grid, with communication between them. The programming puzzles are not very difficult (so far!
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by chris_st 10y ago
True. However, the article here is talking about bulk encryption of thousands of passwords, and how "ordinary" word sets are easy to break. I think the "usual" case is that hackers want to get as many passwords as possi
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by chris_st 10y ago
I really like Password Chart[1] as my "password encryption" scheme, since it gives me nice long wacky phrases out of something memorable, per-site. [1] http://passwordchart.com
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Given the size and expansion rate of the Periodic Table, this makes sense. Programs, on the other hand...
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by chris_st 10y ago
Wow, you gave me a flashback to the 1970's (the good kind :-) when they were (first?) trendy.
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by chris_st 10y ago
Well, that's kind of pretty... but perhaps there's a better way to show individual good flows? I see a rainbow between the USA and Mexico, for example, but I can't really make out which colors are going where. Perhaps if eac
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No ad hominem, no ad Hitlerum: How to convince someone when facts fail(salon.com)
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by chris_st 10y ago
Well, in a way, that's what books are, both fiction and non-fiction (especially memoirs). Think of Homer's Iliad -- it's a story of the ten-year siege of Troy... think of it as the bronze-age version of the WWI/WWII stor
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by chris_st 10y ago
My son-in-law was over for Christmas, and he didn't know that I had an Echo dot, so to show it off I said, "Alexa, tell me a joke". It told us a lame joke. My SIL had to whip out his android phone and say, "Hey Google,
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by chris_st 10y ago
Possibly the coolest thing about the Echo is developing your own skill. If you're comfortable with JavaScript (or, I believe, python or Java) you can really quickly put together a skill, which in development mode only you can use. Th
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by chris_st 10y ago
As I understand it, the problem was that the anode and cathode wound up touching, causing a short, causing heat, boom. This was, in turn, caused by the manufacture of the case : they didn't leave enough (or any?) expansion room for th
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by chris_st 10y ago
Well put. Except: > And, of course, the infamous "programming by poking" metaphor from Sussman: "You grab this piece of library and you poke at it. You write programs that poke it and see what it does. And you say, '
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by chris_st 10y ago
The "slug lines" of the Washington, D.C. area (places where people can congregate to join other commuters, to use the high-occupancy lanes) give us a useful view into this. Yes, if you're driving alone, you have to use a sing
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by chris_st 10y ago
Well, you've got to get some benefit out of older siblings...
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by chris_st 10y ago
Wow, that's beautiful.
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by chris_st 10y ago
If you have an iPad (or know someone who does), download the app "Paper" by 53 and play with it for a while. I think you'll get the idea.
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by chris_st 10y ago
My own personal opinion is embodied in the phrase, "You don't stop playing games because you get old, you get old because you stop playing games." I'm fairly close to retirement, and have friends who are getting there (o
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by chris_st 10y ago
Thinking Machines' demise is pretty well documented in the "Inc Magazine" article about them: http://www.inc.com/magazine/19950915/2622.html
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I think the line: > It's a JavaScript Worker, so it can't access the DOM directly. Instead, a service worker can communicate with the pages it controls by responding to messages sent via the postMessage interface, and those pag
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by chris_st 10y ago
Good points, but in some sense, the article writer is even worse off... it's like he's saying he's the crummy developer, and this 'other me that's not me' is the really good one! That's really sad.
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by chris_st 10y ago
Me too also. I used BlueprintCSS for quite a while, it was pretty good.
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I think you nailed it, but I'd add that it was also about how 'literary criticism', at least the kind taught in the school(s) she went to, seems to try to avoid all that 'emotional' stuff for a purely intellectual a
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by chris_st 10y ago
I think this shows, to me, why I like Michael Dirda's book reviews for the Washington Post so much. He understands the criticism ("mind" part, I guess) of literature, and can help me understand that side of things. But he lo

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