curiousdannii

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by curiousdannii 13y ago
Why do all the American states have different taxes? Here in Australia we have 10% GST (Goods and services tax). So wherever you're from in the country you can expect both goods and services to be priced the same. So much simpler for t
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
If you haven't played Spider and Web, you need to! One of the undisputed classics: http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=2xyccw3pe0uovfad
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
I'm always amazed by Hakim's stuff!
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
If the internet was Evangelion, there wouldn't be many humans left to page.
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
My favourite part of Prolog is that if you ask it if something is in a list it will decide to add it to the list so that it can return true!
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
Yay, something that's not about the NSA!
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
:/ Why does it scroll sideways?
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
It's not impossible at all, you just need page styles. Could it come with more document templates? Probably. But it's not impossible in the slightest.
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
Seeing the signs in context is much better than the designs by themselves.
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
But that obligation doesn't mean anything about what you read. Add them and ignore them if you want.
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
But if a popular package's author is malicious they can add bad code, push a patch release, and most packages depending on it will install it. Pull requests are easy to check. Automatically installed patch releases aren't.
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
So the OP is friends with people who bore them, and that's Facebook's fault?
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
https://www.projectwonderful.com/ !
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
https://code.google.com/p/pybotwar/ Pybotwar is fun!
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Duplicating house keys using a 3D Printer(flux-labs.com)
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
I was given the option to go back to the old version..?
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
I think we all wish Gmail was just more like Gmail. The arguably redesigned email client UX. Compare it to itself!
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
"So eBay installed a tiny “gif” file on its homepage. A gif is simply an image file. This one was so tiny no one could see it. It sat there invisibly."
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
Linguists get descriptivism drilled into them from day one! If anyone who goes on about what is "right" I would highly doubt they were trained as a linguist. You could perhaps instead mean "standard" instead of "right" - that they're descri
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
It was interesting to see Inform 7 source for its own sake, rather than for what it compiles to (which in this case would be filled with non sequiturs.)
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by curiousdannii 13y ago
If you can find a case where 1.9 and 2.0 have different APIs, file it as a bug!
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by curiousdannii 14y ago
Playing guess-the-country on random is fun!
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by curiousdannii 14y ago
They're outside my house right now!
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by curiousdannii 14y ago
It doesn't seem to handle comments correctly. I need to delete all mine to make it work.
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by curiousdannii 14y ago
Type safety basically. JITs can produce good code which performs very well, but it still must check that the data it has is of the type it expects. A good JIT may only check occasionally, but it still must check. asm.js can guarantee that i
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by curiousdannii 14y ago
PhD by Publication isn't uncommon. I know a number of people who have worked as researchers in NGOs. After a decade of that it can take just a few months to tidy up the work you have already done, submit it to a university, and be awarded t
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by curiousdannii 14y ago
Touch typing is a great skill to have of course, as is using keyboard shortcuts. But I can get by with standardised shortcuts, and I'd prefer not learning a new set of shortcuts used by a single program, especially when that program has a m
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by curiousdannii 14y ago
Surely if you need to pack reformating, moving, copying and deleting code into as short a time as possible you're doing it wrong even more than if you had to insert a lot of text! This leaves navigating as the main reason for vi's UI. And m
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by curiousdannii 14y ago
I've never understood the appeal of vi(m). Programming is a thoughtful, creative, deliberate process. I'm never in a situation where I've got so much to type that my productivity would drop if my fingers stopped touching the keys. Rather th
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by curiousdannii 14y ago
Of course, it's an assumption which isn't universal, and probably not even valid for a majority of religious people.

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