colomon

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   by colomon 12y ago

   And for 99% of the kids, the choice isn't between Percy Jackson and D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths. It's (at best) between Percy Jackson and something else like Percy Jackson, only probably not as good.
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   by colomon 12y ago

   I'm currently reading the tenth Percy Jackson book. IMO these are extremely enjoyable books, right about on the Harry Potter level. Maybe not quite reaching the heights of the best of HP, but more generally consistent. I've not
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   by colomon 12y ago

   Autism gender ratio is 5:1, actually. Presumably (given current definitions) that includes Asperger's as well.
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   by colomon 12y ago

   I think the graph here -- http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor... -- provides an interesting contrast. Seems like what has happened is the percentage of women in CS was tracking along
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   by colomon 12y ago

   So your hypothesis is that, despite massive changes in writers (and in the case of SNL, cast) over the decades, the level of quality of the two shows is completely constant?
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   by colomon 12y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
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   by colomon 12y ago

   I don't think of him as particularly early; he doesn't really show up on the scene until a decade after Asimov and Heinlein, if I recall correctly. Really worth mentioning Bester's short stories, too. "The Men Who Murde
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   by colomon 12y ago

   Was going to ask "Which Mysterious Stranger?" but then I noticed you'd linked straight to text. :) Ooo, checking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Stranger there was apparently one version I d
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   by colomon 12y ago

   I can't believe I forgot Elizabeth Bear's _Dust_. (I had been thinking I prefered her fantasy to her SF, but _Dust_ was top-notch.)
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    by colomon 12y ago

    But (for those of you who haven't read it) that summary really doesn't even hint at the novel's greatness. It just spills out cool ideas, hardly ever pausing to take a breath. Bester's The Demolished Man is also well wo
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Recommendation seconded, the Boucher anthology is full of great old stuff. There's a fuller description of it at http://www.philsp.com/articles/anthopology_101_07.html
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Currently reading: Where The Golden Apples Grow, Kage Baker Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, Ellen Notbohm Atypical: Life With Asperger's in 20 1/2 Chapters, Jesse A. Saperstein Unframed: The Art of Improvisatio
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Just so it's clear, I meant specifically the '.bashrc runs "screen -DR"' part, ie automatically going back into the screen rather than needing to explicitly run screen -DR like I used to. (I don't seem to be ab
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Huh. I certainly don't remember step 4 from my time of using screen. Is it a new feature or an option I didn't know about or something? And what happens if I want to have two terminal tabs on my end logged into the same remote m
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    by colomon 12y ago

    No, that's quite intentional. If you don't need contiguous memory, you can consider using std::deque. http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/deque/deque/
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    by colomon 12y ago

    I'm still using TextMate 1 for pretty much this reason. :) The only features I'd really love to add to TextMate are the rmate remote launching feature (which didn't work for me when I tried TextMate 2 a couple of months ago)
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    by colomon 12y ago

    My son has been diagnosed with Asperger's, and after learning more about it, it is painfully clear that both I and my wife and several other close family members have many of the same traits, just not extreme enough to be a "probl
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    by colomon 12y ago

    I'm curious your experience with TDD and other hip programming approaches? Because I've been long wondering if "web programmers are generally more vocal" has a lot to do with their popularity. (Disclaimer: I love automa
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Around here we use "you guys" for the second person plural, with the exact same amount of inherent gender reference as "y'all" has. (My wife's all-female college friends routinely refer to themselves as a grou
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Or in the case of "you guys", the mistake is perfectly clear, but it's 1) in no way intended to be sexist and 2) deeply ingrained in the culture I grew up in. I can understand why someone might object, but the fact is it is
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Okay, actually the reason I was confused is the web interface seems to be very buggy. W, for instance, seems to shuffle you back and forth between two units as often as it cycles through all of them. And lots of activities, like R or I, j
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Actually figured out an answer on my own -- the handy thing I was looking for was W (wait, I think) to skip to the next available unit.
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Played a lot of Freeciv back in the day, this is my first time ever trying it in the browser. Everything looks beautiful, but the UI with the units seems very awkward. Is there a way I'm not seeing to rapidly cycle through all the av
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Err... let me see if I can piece this together. Friday's attempt was webcast and was scrubbed. Saturday's attempt was not webcast and was scrubbed. Today's attempt is scheduled for 5:16 PM Eastern and will be webcast? ht
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    by colomon 12y ago

    I don't speak Python (guessing that's what this is) but the problem I have with the short version is that it still seems oddly verbose. Why not something like this? images = map(retry(DOWNLOAD_TRIES, HttpError,download_imag
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Are you implying that the only reason we appear to be more wealthy than, say, 18th century folks is because there are more people now?!?
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Out of curiosity, how large is the Stack Overflow docset?
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    by colomon 12y ago

    And (in the category of don't do what I did) if you don't fullscreen the video of jnthn, you can watch the slides there next to the video.
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    by colomon 12y ago

    You're absolutely right that social skills can be learned. But note that they can be massively harder for some people to learn than others. Social skills that come almost automatically to your average person can be a lot of a work fo
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    by colomon 12y ago

    Tea really is the perfect counterexample, isn't it? If you try to serve me water for tea at a "safe" 160F, I'm never going to buy tea from you again.