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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
I sincerely thank you for hitting [reply].
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
(disclosure: black guy here) I applaud the author for voicing a perspective that rarely sees the light of day. Here are a couple thoughts I had while reading this article: 1. The term "self-hatred" always begs elaboration w.r.t.
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
"For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases now allows you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free." There is a verb agreement error lurking in there. s/allows
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
I am as taken by the form as I am by the content. What beautiful writing. While there's something to be said for concision, an essay like this shows that medium-to-large sentences can be deployed to great effect. It almost feels lik
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
How about snapping fingers? Something like: http://mobiusband.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/finger... But less detailed and with something that indicates noise emanating from the fingers. Sorr
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
No, I have never installed their mobile app.
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
The "People You May Know" feature of LinkedIn is downright disturbing. Everyone in my third-party email's Address Book shows up as a person I may know. This includes people without LinkedIn accounts, people who've been
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
Jürgen Habermas comes to mind.
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
Several random points (from a dev with a background in philosophy and linguistics). First, from the standpoint of intellectual history, it's probably most useful to cast conversations like this in terms of the split between analytic an
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
Wow. I was sure this was inspired by George Boolos' great "Godel's Second Incompleteness Theorem Explained in Words of One Syllable". http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Math/Milnikel/boolos-godel.pdf I wonder if Hofstadter was inspired by Boolo
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
I couldn't agree more, which is why I simply don't show them on my profile anymore. Hiding endorsements is straightforward: http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/34994
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
Indeed. It's a very clunky word, not least because it's unclear which syllable to stress. I've variously heard people say both i-dem-PO-tent and i-DEM-po-tent. (In the latter, the "o" in "po" gets reduced to a schwa.)
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Blackstart (bird)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by daviddaviddavid 13y ago|0 comments
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
I appreciate your saying that. I am definitely one of these people. For me, the word "hospice" only brings to mind the most difficult time of my life - taking care of my mom as she was dying from cancer. I realize that there is a sense of
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
Regarding "object oriented" vs "object orientated", the former is the standard variation while the latter is what linguists call a backformation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation Basically, someone interprets "orientation" as h
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
Also worth reading on the same topic and written by the philosopher/logician John Perry: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
The concept reminds me of the "synthe-axe drumitar" played by Future Man from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. http://flecktones.com/page/Futuremans-Synthaxe-Drumitar
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The Trouble With Online College(nytimes.com)
60 points by daviddaviddavid 14y ago|63 comments
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja#Outerwear "Clothing used was similar to that of the samurai, but loose garments (such as leggings) were tucked into trousers or secured with belts."
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
I found it rather bizarre that this fact was not mentioned.
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A Case Against Being Too Clean(nytimes.com)
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
For a while I tried to use the Trackpoint exclusively. I love the position of it and I love the idea of having a very keyboard-centric setup. Ultimately, I stopped using it because I could never control the slight drift that happens when
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
Lots of endorsers of Linux+Thinkpad. See my comment link below for my not-so-great experience running Ubuntu on an X220. I'll admit that I'm someone who just wants things to work (a mindset I probably owe to Apple). tl;dr Fan spun constan
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
> Are you running ubuntu with all the graphical niceties ? Yes. > And is the laptop heating up more when you are running a vm ? Not really but I honestly haven't hammered on the VM yet. I gave the VM 1024mb > Are fans louder wh
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
I have a Thinkpad X220. First thing I did when I got the machine was load Ubuntu onto it. There were a number of annoyances: the machine got really hot, the fan stayed on constantly, the battery drained way quicker than in Windows. But th
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
The word "idiom" has two different senses. First, there's the sense that the author is discussing. In this sense idioms are expressions whose meanings aren't derivable from the meanings of their parts (linguists call this "non-composition
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
For anyone interested in how humans conceptualize time and what effects this has on language, I highly recommend "Metaphors We Live By" by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Truly one of the most interesting books I've ever read. For a brief
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
Once every six months something inspires me to put a book on the Kindle that I received as a Christmas present two years ago. Then the frustrations begin. In this case, after finding the table of contents I try to use the up-down-joystick
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
This looks really great. One criticism is that this style of graphical programming is overwhelmingly of a mathematical bent. Granted it's quite basic arithmetic but still, you open a code sample and you're confronted with a bunch of numbe
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by daviddaviddavid 14y ago
"too many better alternatives already exist" This is utterly false. In academia you will find numerous peer-reviewed journals which have high percentages of non-native English speaking authors. You'd probably find many articles in such jo

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