dazmax

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by dazmax 17y ago
Ah phi, the most irrational number.
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by dazmax 17y ago
The trick is to try to recognize the patterns in the errors he is making. It is remarkable how every one of the problems he raises has made a company or organization that solved it very successful.
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by dazmax 17y ago
The article could be replaced by the sentence: "Make sure you know about filters before using haml for content." Filters aren't a "workaround," they are the part of the language for handling content. http://haml-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.H
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by dazmax 17y ago
The readme also says: You don't have to sudo It's up to you
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by dazmax 17y ago
The article says not to hash shared secrets, it does not argue against hashing passwords (with salts).
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by dazmax 17y ago
http://umbrellatoday.com/ is similar and you can get text messages in the morning when rain is forcasted.
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by dazmax 17y ago
Wow, I hadn't noticed Menlo, thanks. I've been using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono for a while but I don't like how faint the hyphen is with anti-aliasing when I'm coding in haml – a problem that Menlo fixes.
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by dazmax 17y ago
Or you could do 21 - 2 -> 34 - 3
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by dazmax 17y ago
It would be better to say it is done in one expression.
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by dazmax 17y ago
I've trying Google QSB; it is super fast, looks great, and works more like QS than LaunchBar. It is supposedly extensible, so hopefully people develop for it.
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by dazmax 17y ago
What? Python has way too many parentheses. Why should I have to write foo() to call foo? That's what I want to do with it 99% of the time. Ruby has it right.
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by dazmax 17y ago
His talk on this subject, for those who haven't seen it: http://vodpod.com/watch/2078103-art-code-symposium-hackety-h...
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by dazmax 17y ago
It would be nice if it were treated more as an art, but don't you think whoever is paying for the grants would rather the effort be put into digging deeper into specific research topics that may eventually be of use to science rather than f
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by dazmax 17y ago
It should be saved as its value at the point of greet's definition, but Python appears to not have real closures, so the change in the value of string afterwards changes it in greet too.
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by dazmax 17y ago
Just the rules of Magic cards involve a lot of mental computation. The full rulebook actually includes a description of stack-based execution of triggered events to avoid race conditions and ambiguities, and it is possible to build decks th
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by dazmax 17y ago
How long has this feature been around? This should definitely be in use for all dmgs with only one file.
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by dazmax 17y ago
Here's hoping TextMate 2 will be this good.
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by dazmax 17y ago
That is amazing, make sure to scroll down to the zoomed in "ipsum dolor."
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by dazmax 17y ago
That doesn't help give kids a sense of responsibility and independence, though.
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by dazmax 17y ago
In cognitive linguistics this is called conceptual metaphor. If you're interested in it, read "Metaphors We Live By" by Lakoff and Johnson. My favorite conceptual metaphor experiment (I think by Lera Boroditsky) was based on a question like
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by dazmax 17y ago
It's great because Apple pretty much has to license it, given how much pride they take in their power cord design.
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by dazmax 17y ago
The best I could find is http://www.chelsea.dyson.co.uk/ Click on "Water Fountain"
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by dazmax 17y ago
Someone outed him here: http://whoiswhytheluckystiff.wordpress.com/
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by dazmax 17y ago
The article describes how to slow it down, too.
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by dazmax 17y ago
It should be noted that this method only maximizes your chance of getting the best one, it doesn't take into account that the second best is much better than the worst. 37% of the time you use this method, you're just stuck with the last on
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by dazmax 17y ago
I interpreted it first to mean functional programming, then remembered what functional means to most people, then remembered that this was HackerNews, so I had to check.
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by dazmax 17y ago
If you really want the APL experience, try J ( http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm )
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by dazmax 17y ago
I've heard that apps are more popular in America, and webapps are more popular in Europe.