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by colomon 12y ago
When our little boy was 20 months old, we moved 2 hours' drive north to be in the same town as my wife's parents. This is probably the single smartest thing we have done in our marriage.
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by colomon 12y ago
I dunno. Either there's something subtle going on here that I'm not getting, in which you're probably safe unless you're actually using their code; or there is loads of prior art on this idea. I worked on HyperMesh [1]
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by colomon 12y ago
Huh? The Bloomberg site is the one I read most often that gets it completely wrong, at least on my browser (Chrome OS X). If I page up or down, it doesn't factor in the size of the fixed banner properly and I always lose visibility o
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by colomon 12y ago
Today? Only for the hack value. In 1978 when Dann McCreary did it? Computers were expensive back then. A crappy TRS-80 Model I with 4K memory would set you back more than $2000 in 2015 dollars. I don't remember knowing anyone who h
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by colomon 12y ago
Hmmm, I usually just use "Send to Kindle" (by Klip.me) for web pages. Though I do use Calibre->Kindle email to handle books not in the Kindle ecosystem.
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by colomon 12y ago
Ah, that would explain why it happened twice to me! To be fair, the replaced logic board lasted about a year. This is doubly good news for me, because it makes it sound like my early 2011 MBP is likely to be covered, and I can reasonably h
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by colomon 12y ago
Brill, it's still quite fast on my work repo, and much more useful to me. :)
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by colomon 12y ago
Hmm, just installed git-cal and it certainly is adequately fast on my main work repo. But it seems to just be for the current branch? (That seems sensible enough, but also makes it somewhat less useful.)
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by colomon 12y ago
I'm only half-awake, so maybe I'm missing something obvious. Why is the README talking about a git commit hook? Why not just take the data from the log?
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by colomon 12y ago
There are (at least) two trapdoors. The first is that an operation on Rats which would produce a denominator which does not fit in a 64-bit unsigned integer will produce a Num instead. (If you're okay with your denominators growing i
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by colomon 12y ago
Check out #moarvm on irc.freenode.net.
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by colomon 12y ago
Personally I think an iPad is unbeatable for many kinds of content consumption. I do 90% of my comics reading on mine, it's vastly better than the computer or phone for reading PDFs, it's great for playing casual games, it's
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by colomon 12y ago
The point of this parable is that neither company has any clue what the actual value of the work done was. Alan looked like he was working hard and was rewarded for looking like he was working hard. Charles looked like he was goofing off
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by colomon 12y ago
It's explicitly labeled a parable: "a simple story used to illustrate a lesson." It's not meant to be literally true. The second programmer's inexperience is just another reason why his boss judges his work to obv
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by colomon 12y ago
The summer band I used to play in would auction off conducting a march during each performance to raise funds for the band. We actually rehearsed playing the march with someone who didn't know how to conduct leading the band, to pract
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by colomon 12y ago
A/B plots were common in musical comedies at least as far back as the 1940s...
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by colomon 12y ago
Haven't read the article, but I do know a bit about these curves. Bézier curves do indeed use the "binomial polynomial" for both x and y. That polynomial defines how the control points are used (with t) to calculate the poi
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by colomon 12y ago
Our son was in a cooperative preschool for a while, so I got to see it in action a number of times. They weren't teaching literacy either. The main focus of the classes were developing the skills you need to be able to function in ki
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by colomon 12y ago
58 seconds of every _preschool_ day. The stat has nothing to do with elementary school teachers.
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by colomon 12y ago
For my taste, brand loyalty is drastically less harmful and unsavory than the equally troublesome loyalty to political parties. (At least in the US, can't say about elsewhere.)
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by colomon 12y ago
Agreed, but note that C++ doesn't require you to ever declare a class or an object. That's a Java thing you're complaining about.
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by colomon 12y ago
Hmmm, can you add the --audio-format mp3 to ~/.config/youtube-dl.conf without breaking normal video downloads? (Edit) Answering my own question, apparently yes!
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by colomon 12y ago
And the Maps navigate functionality has gone from being so nice it single-handedly justified the cost of a smart phone to just barely working. I tried to use it on a 90 minute trip a few weeks back, and it did brilliant things like try to
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by colomon 12y ago
Oh, I didn't know Dave had put Genworks on Github. Interesting.
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by colomon 12y ago
Looking at the broader issues here, I know I've had the same sort of problems with the ISO 10303 (STEP) standard [1]. Overall, it consists of dozens of $100+ books, most of which amount to little more than a long list of descriptions
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by colomon 12y ago
Larry is very involved in Perl 6[1]. I'm not sure what grondilu was thinking there. While as far as I know Larry sprang that on the rest of us, the general reaction I've seen has been that the gauntlet has been thrown down, and
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by colomon 12y ago
I demonstrated it to my son this morning by filling up one of two boots with coins and demonstrating both boots still fell at the same speed despite the weight difference.
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by colomon 12y ago
Eh, the Rakudo Perl 6 implementation has been doing monthly releases since before 2010, and I don't get the impression that's done much to convince doubters. (Despite amazing progress since 2010.) Those of us working on developi
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by colomon 12y ago
And even more so with people's names, at least for me. For every name I know solidly there are probably two that I vaguely sort of know. For instance, I probably know more about Irish traditional music than 99.9% of the American popul
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by colomon 12y ago
The Percy Jackson books I'm reading now are radically better than the Hardy Boys books I read back in the 70s.

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