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by colomon 8y ago
Basically you're unleashing a horde of loaded words in an effort to explain why the first loaded word choice was appropriate. For a significant portion of those with autism, the way their brain works is different than the median huma
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by colomon 8y ago
+1 on subscribe from the beginning! I started listening to the British History podcast this year, and so far on PocketCasts I haven't found any decent way of managing listening to 5 year old episodes other than downloading them ten or
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by colomon 8y ago
If you mean the web interface, that synced perfectly with the Android app for me for years, but it seemed like it stopped syncing properly sometime last month? (Is there a proper desktop app? I'd prefer that to the using my browser.)
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by colomon 8y ago
What the heck, why did I think Pocket Casts wasn't available on iOS? I've used it in the browser and on my Android phone for years...
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by colomon 9y ago
Huh. On the one hand, that sounds like a nice laptop. On the other hand, that landing page ad copy reads like someone took a challenge to add twice again to the snake oil of your usual Apple PR...
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by colomon 9y ago
Indeed, my wife gets this problem all the time on gmail because her name is a fairly common one. The dots don't enter into it in the general case.
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by colomon 9y ago
Man, I just wish teenaged me had had access to a KK...
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by colomon 9y ago
What if the ability and dedication to work hard also the luck of the genetic shuffle? I started seriously thinking about this when reading up on autism a few years back. (I don't have any answers, just a nagging suspicion that pretty
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by colomon 9y ago
If I read the article correctly, they already had all the solutions. They used the new approach to prove that there were no other solutions.
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by colomon 9y ago
This has the feel of having been written by an impressionable 20-something. In 1988, predicting "One essential thing would be a screen on which you could display things, and another essential part would be a printing mechanism on which
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by colomon 9y ago
Does anyone have an idea why her albums aren't currently available?
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by colomon 9y ago
I think they are used to seeing empty boxes for mystery values.
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by colomon 9y ago
Ha! Was just thinking about Q-link this morning. (Though I had to do a Google search just to figure out the name.) I was on it a bit the first few years, uploaded some software I'd written there, and was thinking it would be fun to
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by colomon 9y ago
I've actually been trying to explain that exact concept (algebra variables) to some advanced third graders. It's been surprisingly hard to get them to grasp it.
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by colomon 9y ago
Perl 6 contains a bunch of really powerful tools, like the ability to create operators from any (non-whitespace) Unicode string, wrap subs and methods, or rewire the language's grammar on the fly. Unsurprisingly, this sort of power ca
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by colomon 9y ago
That's not even close to true, because increasing the minimum wage 1) only affects people who have jobs 2) will cause some of those people to lose their jobs. $1000/m basic income is a vastly better solution because everyone at t
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by colomon 9y ago
What strikes me as weird about this is the assumption that it's an either/or proposition. I am passionate about playing traditional dance music. And I have supported this by writing a program to generate high quality sheet music
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by colomon 9y ago
There's also the Royal St. John's Regatta [1], the oldest annual sporting event in North America. The day of the race is a holiday in St. John's (if weather permits boat races) so everyone in town knows about it. (There&#x27
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by colomon 9y ago
I use OS X (laptop), Windows (VM), Android (phone), and iOS (iPad). It's not at all unusual for me to have apps installed on at least three of those platforms, and I really appreciate it when the UI is the same across platforms.
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by colomon 9y ago
None I recognized the name of on their list, and you'd have to add a USB keyboard to type on it. (Also, speaking as someone who played lots of Infocom games on his C64, I don't think there's any advantage whatsoever to playi
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by colomon 9y ago
The box is 50% the size of a real C64. Even if a half-sized keyboard worked, I know my fingers would have extreme difficulty typing on it.
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by colomon 9y ago
Only a couple of those games did I recognize (I think). As far as I could tell from a quick look, not a single game I did play on the C64 made the cut. I wonder if the lack of a real keyboard severely limited the games they could include?
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by colomon 9y ago
Well, working with your assumption, $20,000 loan 10% interest over FIVE years is $424.94 a month. Somehow I doubt all the Cuba-defenders here are going to accept your assumption, though, as it makes the outrageousness of the whole thing muc
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by colomon 9y ago
I am willing to believe that, but I don't have any way to calculate what the number should be, so I took a generous estimate. (Average US post-medical school debt is $18x,000 according to a quick search I did.)
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by colomon 9y ago
Okay, just for fun I punched this into a loan calculator. Assume the cost of their medical education is $200,000. (Everything here is USD.) A ten-year loan at 10% interest would require paying $2,643.01 a month. According to the article
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by colomon 9y ago
I dunno, I've been on both sides of this. I agree it's really annoying when someone waltzes around without answering my question. But I've also seen people asking questions which sounded goofy to me, and when you finally ge
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by colomon 9y ago
It always startles me when people assume that one programming technique either works for every type of programming or doesn't work for every type. Working on Perl 6 compilers, an extensive set of tests was our best friend. It was (pro
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by colomon 9y ago
Back last month I got to thinking about this in terms of things my family didn't have in the 70s that we have right now. Cable TV, Internet, TiVo, cell phones, Netflix, routinely eating out ... I reckon I spend easily $600 a month on
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by colomon 9y ago
Haven't seen the movie, so it's hard to directly comment, but for what it's worth, Château d'Yquem is a very famous wine. Exactly the (rare) sort where the popular wine magazines will routinely every few years have an a
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by colomon 9y ago
And even then, the records are for number of incidents rather than severity. The two specific things they mention are tendinitis and carpal tunnel, which suck, but aren't the sort of injuries one associates with sawmills...

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