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by delish 11y ago
> No point in posting you did [thing] that is illegal in some states. You sound like a dork :). And because I'm not under oath, the authorities can't charge me. And I doubt internet comments are commonly cited in court proceedi
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Indeed X11. what I meant by my X11 server/client waffling is I think you /run/ an X11 client and servers connect to it--this is backwards to every other usage of client/server.
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I gasped when I saw my acquaintance's name on HN. By coincidence, I'm wearing an expii t-shirt right now. He's really nice, and excited about improving math and science education. Expii could be called an "explorable exp
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Many comments are saying, "This ad exposed people to danger." Zooming out, lots of ads expose people many kinds of danger. It's easier to criticize this ad because the danger-connection is obvious. It's harder to run ro
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An early Microsoft Bob sans Bob's attempts to help? I'm not surprised that I like the art Folon drew. It reminds me of the Macintosh "Picasso" posters (link at bottom). Fun article. I've read most of Folklore, but I
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"SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing." - Philip Greenspun From http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html I adore languages with
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by delish 11y ago
Can we get e-ink keys separately? It'd be great to solder-my-own for an ergodox. I'm also interested in keyboards that can change shape . I like the shape of a TI-83, and I don't really like typing equations into Mathematica
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Looking for a feel for Shen? A Strange Loop talk by @deech (40minutes): Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcRBdSdO_U An essay: http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays&#x2
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Yes! You're doing it!
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The Little Schemer
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At least two times in the video, someone said, "Businesses think in rows and columns; but they need to think creatively." Then, the video showed Paper's rows, columns, boxes, tables--not creative stuff! If they were critiquin
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I am amazed--positively--by this email exchange. Scroll to the bottom, and read Bill Gates giving a Steve Jobs-ian second-by-second critique of user experience. I remember software sucking in 2003 just as Gates describes. I have new respect
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Just a little comment: Kay's mentioning various meta-things reminds me that I have The Art of the Metaobject Protocol (which Kay called "the best OOP book in ten years," and I should read it. And another little comment as reg
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Add a (2012).
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[the interviewer asks why didn't he take the plea deal] > [Because] I didn't think I broke the law, and if I wasn't willing to stand up and say that, how could I look my children in the eye and tell them with a straight f
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> Since then water pollution has seriously curtailed the growth of that industry. Interesting. I'd like to know more. Do you have a source for that?
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> A proposal to add a menu bar that’s always visible should be vetoed reflexively, because the handheld screen is too small. Practical wisdom from 12 years ago. I have been annoyed by every website that uses a horizontal bar. It takes up
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I do notice this. Thank you!
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I do this with a trackball; I learned to wiggle the mouse with my left hand because it fits with my desk better, and, like the product above points out, it's a little more ergonomic to avoid flying over the numpad. In my experience, tr
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I installed it. I'm enjoying it. Curious about how it fetches images. On my machine it loads a blurry jpeg which sharpens over about two seconds. I'd be happy to have a couple hundred batch-loaded at a time so I can immediately se
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by delish 12y ago
I watch this Reggie Watts talk when I need a pick-me-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc
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Alan Kay has an apropos quote[0]: > This [The fact that science is a human-driven, human-invented process] is hard to explain to K-8 science teachers, who think that science is a new religion with new truths to be learned. They think it
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I agree with the reasons the parent provided, especially that teachers teach the content without providing a "why?" What I suspect generally that I cannot prove (yet): When teachers teach things that are easy to teach but not d
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You don't have to be a superhuman listener to hear what's being said when a student looks you in the eye with tears and says, "I don't wanna go home." But you do have to be a superhuman listener when you have a th
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by delish 12y ago
I work in a US urban charter school that's in danger of losing its charter because it fails financially and academically. 75% of its students are growing up without regular contact with their fathers, 25% without their mothers, and mor
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I'm glad that device convergence and device divergence are happening at the same time. I've said this here before, but I cannot recommend highly enough Alphasmart's Neo. 700 hour battery life, sunlight readable display (!), m
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> i think you are taking it too literally. If you're making a spectrum between "taking something literally" and "accepting something as a throwaway comment", and saying I went too far in taking something seriousl
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> Retro-computing is a weird hobby of mine. I hate to criticize the very first sentence, but I want retro-computing to be mainstream, and calling it "weird" seems to cover for the author's lack of confidence in his hobby.
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My anecdotal experience: In games with "choice" and "morals" (Fable, Black and White, The Sims) I often chose evil. Evil choices attracted me more. From this study, I'm thinking they might be more creative. I call m
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by delish 12y ago
Check out Alphasmarts. They're ~$40 on ebay. I have three models: Dana, Neo, and 3000. They have: - sunlight readable display - no internet temptation - full keyboard designed by former Mac engineers, so it looks and feels good - no mo

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