conanite

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by conanite 17y ago
paris. conan,conandalton dot net
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by conanite 17y ago
Either of my children is more likely to behave well when the other is behaving badly. It looks like we humans don't grow up. In the case of children though, it's probably motivated by competition for parental attention. I'm not sure what th
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by conanite 17y ago
I would bet that any popular open-source project became popular before it had any decent documentation (assuming it has any now). The biggest block, for me, when writing documentation, is that I'm writing for a mystery audience, I don't k
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by conanite 17y ago
It's the Pirate Bay for food.
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by conanite 17y ago
Not at all, on the contrary, thank you. Sometimes my wife comments on my "original" colour combinations when getting the kids dressed in the morning. I retort that she should tag their clothes with proper CSS labels. But for an icon editor,
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by conanite 17y ago
done. enjoy!
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by conanite 17y ago
Thanks for the link, soundsop. Iconfu is a pixel-oriented icon editor written almost entirely in javascript - ie no flash or flex. It uses <canvas> heavily so no Internet Explorer either, sorry microsoft (and google's ex-canvas does
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by conanite 17y ago
hello pg, iconfu is my site. I work on it when I'm not busy with rainbow ... what's your username? I'd be happy to upgrade your account for you so you can enjoy full 48x48 pixel bliss.
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by conanite 18y ago
I bet the pleasure in finding a new way of looking at a problem or a solution, applying an old solution in a novel way to a new problem, or learning to understand new concepts - recursion, tail-call-optimization, metaprogramming, (or whatev
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by conanite 18y ago
"fitness" in a Darwinian context has the sense of what a hand does to a glove, rather than physical prowess. Those organisms that survive "fit" their environment better.
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by conanite 18y ago
Evolution often occurs when due to changes in the environment (climate change, new diseases, new predators) vast numbers of the species die off. The marvels of modern medicine are a less traumatic alternative. For example, if evolution were
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by conanite 18y ago
The head-banging gets less and less over time. Or else I've developed a thick skull, not sure which. Experience makes a huge difference - simply because you've seen this problem before, or at least seen this kind of problem before, or maybe
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by conanite 18y ago
I hope they didn't accidentally take pictures of the police!
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by conanite 18y ago
you might like to take a peek at http://iconfu.com - it's pixel-oriented, only for smallish icons, not the great big vector icons you get with Illustrator. Some icon design resources are listed at http://iconfu.com/resources/list/icon_de
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by conanite 18y ago
It's different if your business is advertising - google, radio, and TV. The thing that bothers me with the idea of ad-based businesses is that the people buying your ad space are the ones making the real money. I would rather be them. And,
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by conanite 18y ago
Firstly, congratulations on your children. Secondly, congratulations on caring enough to read about how to parent well. Anything by Faber and Mazlish is well worth reading - and it resonates well with Alfie Kohn. Their work covers eliciting
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by conanite 18y ago
rainbow converts arc lists and hashes to and from java List and Map equivalents. rainbow also uses 'defcall from anarki so you don't ever have to call java-invoke: you can put your java-object in functional position, followed by the method