colomon

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541.
by colomon 15y ago
How do you code looking at two files at one time? What's the point? I've been programming for nearly thirty years now. For the bulk of that time, I had an editor which allowed me to do split screens, and I used it maybe once a year. I sw
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by colomon 15y ago
I'm kind of worried that the images you are generating are just artifacts of your approach rather than getting at the fundamental nature of what is going on. The first thing that worries me is that your fractals don't look properly Mandelb
543.
by colomon 15y ago
Don't some of the common cases of searching require the ability to quickly skip forward N characters for high efficiency? That's simple pointer arithmetic in the ASCII case, but requires reading each byte skipped in UTF-8, right? (I'm part
544.
by colomon 15y ago
Well, and is Apple seriously claiming a patent on the idea of being uncluttered? I'm pretty sure there's prior art... ;)
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by colomon 15y ago
Sure, but that was a world where a new computer cost $1000. Right now that price is more like $100, and if Raspberry Pi works soon it will be $25. Any interested kid could easily earn that much in a month mowing lawns...
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by colomon 15y ago
I believe my wife budgets both restaurants and fast food. I suppose that means at a fundamental level, the problem is shifting budgeting from one line item to another is a PITA. I don't think it's anything to do with marketing. I just gra
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by colomon 15y ago
I find I do this all the time. For instance, if I'm out of town for the day, I'd think nothing of spending $10 at Wendy's for lunch. But somehow spending $8 for an MP3 album I've wanted badly for months is an extravagance. For me, part of
548.
by colomon 15y ago
And is already ported: "What Linux distros will be supported at launch? Debian, Fedora and ArchLinux will be supported from the start." (Raspberry Pi FAQ)
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by colomon 15y ago
The problem with this is it assumes you can reasonably get to their concerts. One of my favorite artists is playing a gig on his home ground next Wednesday. It's 1,500 miles away from me. To the best of my knowledge, it's been years si
550.
by colomon 15y ago
Thank you for reminding me to continue my quest to find a source for this. My uncle brought a bottle home from a fishing trip to Labrador once, and it was fantastic.
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by colomon 15y ago
Perhaps you don't listen to CDs, but lots of people still do. My experience is that for performers on Dan's level, at least a third of their income from concerts comes from CD sales. Of course, I've no idea how Spotify would affect that on
552.
by colomon 15y ago
BTW, we've been enjoying the free webcasts from Passim (lots of Matt & Shannon!), and my wife went crazy and started talking about subscribing when she read the Concert Window upcoming schedule. It's a great service for those of us far
553.
by colomon 15y ago
I was thinking it was on north campus at the first glance, but actually it's at the new North Quad on central campus. (And another building on nearby Washington St.)
554.
by colomon 15y ago
I don't know. I've asked my wife about why she got her degree in English, and she claims no one ever explained to her that wasn't a degree that was likely to lead to a lucrative job. Whereas I was well familiar with the "fries with that" j
555.
by colomon 15y ago
Well summarized. Some surprising-to-me data points I researched last night while working on a longer response to bad_user I decided not to post: 1) Apparently (based on a couple of surveys) at least 25% of American Christians don't believe
556.
by colomon 15y ago
"But have you ever asked a Christian if you'll go to hell for being an atheist? The answer is pretty predictable." I'm guessing you haven't asked a very wide variety of Christians that question? Because in my experience you'd get a pretty
557.
by colomon 15y ago
Or to be more precise, the article claims that "experts" (meaning undergrads, ie above average but by no means expert tasters) can be deceived, and then acts as if that also means "Wine is a complicated elixir, full of subtle flavors only a
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by colomon 15y ago
Woah, I never expected you would be able to get that kind of performance out of an iPad (2?) with only 30 minutes' work. Nice sound effects, too. :)
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by colomon 15y ago
Every time all winter my wife asks me to get out of bed to go downstairs to change the thermostat that's awkward to use and hard to see in the available light, you can bet I'm going to be thinking about how I could have a Nest and just adju
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by colomon 15y ago
My 3 year old thought it was cute every time I crashed, so it was also a resounding success at amusing him.
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by colomon 15y ago
Yes, more design effort seems to have gone into that site than into the game itself! (Nethack is very cool, mind you, it's just strange to have such beauty advertising it.)
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by colomon 15y ago
For what it's worth (and obviously it's just a single informal anecdote), there was a song my wife and I sang quite a bit while she was 6-9 months pregnant. It was pure magic after he was born -- singing it could reliably make him instantl
563.
by colomon 15y ago
Maybe I read this too quickly, but it seems like they're extrapolating from a fairly obvious "Don't let your one year old watch TV ten hours a day" to "Don't let your one year old watch any media at all", without any actual research evidenc
564.
by colomon 15y ago
I do write recursive code. However, I certainly do my best not to write bad recursive code...
565.
by colomon 15y ago
Okay, I don't get this. I thought the original node.js article was using a terrible implementation of Fibonacci precisely because it was stupidly slow. Why are people writing articles looking at how fast different languages / implementatio
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by colomon 15y ago
Speaking solely for my perception after watching the ad linked above: It seems like the features they are highlighting for this phone are either baseline improvements that happen with every single new release (faster processor, better camer
567.
by colomon 15y ago
Umm, your XML binding stuff is great, but I would need a refactoring tool to go into Perl code, figure out what bits of it are actually C++ that are going to be output later, and change that. I would be really, really surprised if you have
568.
by colomon 15y ago
Well, here's the thing. I don't have an easy way to do those things, so I rarely if ever do them. And guess what? I don't miss that at all. And I'm guessing your fancy refactoring tools probably don't correctly handle the case where part
569.
by colomon 15y ago
You have heard of debuggers, right? Just because every IDE includes one doesn't mean they don't exist outside of IDEs. (For that matter, when I used to develop on Windows, I pulled up Microsoft IDE for debugging only.) Honestly, though, p
570.
by colomon 15y ago
So, does this mean that adding tests actually adds bugs to your overall program (main code + tests)? One might hope that well-designed tests at least push the bugs from the main code to the test... wonder if any research has been done on t

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