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by coldpie 11y ago
If you like this kind of stuff, http://medievalbooks.nl/ is a great blog about old books. The current first post is kind of dry, but some recent highlights include: http://medievalbooks.nl/2015/04/
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by coldpie 11y ago
This court case is, with no exaggeration, the most important software industry case in decades, perhaps ever. As the article says, if you're familiar with Android, Google, Chrome, Firefox, Edge (nee Internet Explorer), OS X, Linux, and
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by coldpie 11y ago
Nah, it's not that bad. Pop some snow tires on there and it's fine. The vast majority of vehicles on the road are FWD. I would've preferred AWD, but there were none for sale with my requirements (stick shift, physical HVAC&#x
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by coldpie 11y ago
I don't care how fancy your software is, I require PHYSICAL KNOBS AND BUTTONS. No exceptions.
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by coldpie 11y ago
It was out of production at that point and there were no used manuals in the neighboring-state-area.
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by coldpie 11y ago
Last winter I walked into a Subaru dealership, ready to plunk down for a brand new Impreza. I live in Minnesota. I wanted AWD and I know how hard it is to find used Subarus, especially when you insist on a stick shift. So I figured I'd
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by coldpie 11y ago
I'll never own an iPhone, so unless they plan to extend Apple Pay to other platforms, no, it won't be replacing my wallet or keys ever.
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by coldpie 11y ago
We've been having gun control discussions for decades. The issue has been decided. Gun enthusiasts having access to their hobby has been determined to be worth about ten thousand deaths per year. The cost is understood and accepted.
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by coldpie 11y ago
It's clearly a balancing-act thing. My scales tip to the hater side.
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by coldpie 11y ago
I didn't mean to imply that it is never useful, just that it's not worth the baggage in my experience. Genuinely asking: Why does this function need to be generic over Numbers? Couldn't you implement it once or twice for w
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by coldpie 11y ago
It's easy in a little two-line snippet discovered in the context of a discussion about operator overloading. It's much less easy to understand when grepping for a config file name (which is where I found it) where you don't e
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by coldpie 11y ago
Eh, there's already no language symbols for exponentiation (unless you're really going to overload XOR in which case you're already part of the problem).
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by coldpie 11y ago
> Now, implement a function 'average' that can work on any of these three types. I'm not convinced this is such a large problem that its solution is worth the myriad downsides that operator overloading is chained to. There
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by coldpie 11y ago
This is a well-written objection and I completely agree. Operator overloading is consistently one of the worst ideas I see in programming languages, C++ being the prime offender. Programmers think they're being clever when they write c
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by coldpie 11y ago
It's refreshing seeing some higher-level discussion about this issue. I feel like a lot of the discussion about copyright is among small-time bit players, on message boards and in "open letter" formats from mostly small and o
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by coldpie 11y ago
You're setting up a false dichotomy. Like advertising, your suggestion is one potential business model, but there are others. Thinking up another business model is a difficult problem, yes. But you can't stop ad blocking. Just lik
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by coldpie 11y ago
> On most webpages, if you click a link, the browser automatically handles loading a new page. On Medium, we speed this up a bit with JavaScript. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHH You really don't need to reimplement the <a&g
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by coldpie 11y ago
Cool rape metaphor, bro! Goodbye.
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by coldpie 11y ago
I'm saying your original example was specifically crafted to make people think teachers are well-paid ("average salaries over $75k... school admins routinely take home $125k") by cherry-picking a specific outlier. When I call
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by coldpie 11y ago
So bizarre that you used a specific outlier case of $75-125k, more than twice what the actual average is. And given that your outlier exists, I wonder what that says about teacher salaries on the lower end of the bell curve given the averag
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by coldpie 11y ago
When it stops being true, I imagine. http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary
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by coldpie 11y ago
The thing is, these iPads aren't meant to teach about computing. They're tools for teaching other subjects, like math or geography or English or whatever. Just like a geography textbook is a bad way to learn about papermaking, so
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by coldpie 11y ago
THANK YOU for putting "Type 2" in the title. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are unrelated diseases. They were given the same name because they have the same symptoms. It is critically important to specify which disease you are talking
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by coldpie 11y ago
Huh, I didn't know that, thanks. But still, the DF that most people recognize as DF is not an ASCII/text game, even though it looks kinda like it.
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by coldpie 11y ago
Nitpick: It's not ASCII. It's simple 2D bitmaps. You can't play DF in a character console.
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by coldpie 11y ago
Lol
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by coldpie 11y ago
And under the same amendment, my associates and I are free to shun you for your speech. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the US constitution applies to private citizens. It does not. It specifies what the US government is a
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by coldpie 11y ago
Good point, I've been phrasing that poorly. Maybe something like I don't think people should be required to walk around with a shell of emotional armor to participate in modern society.
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by coldpie 11y ago
Go on. How does the first amendment protect you from me and my associates shunning you for your offensive speech?
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by coldpie 11y ago
Outside of those that are controlled by right-wing Christian extremists, I'm not aware of any government in the US passing laws to restrict first amendment rights. Care to elaborate?

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