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by dri_ft 7y ago
Not quite the same thing, but languages (like German) that build up words for complex concepts by forming big words out of little ones are called agglutinative[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_languag
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by dri_ft 8y ago
And it's only January!
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by dri_ft 8y ago
The trouble comes when the others working on your code are crazy enough that that strange code often is useless, so you have to spend the time trying to work out whether it's tear-out-worthy.
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by dri_ft 8y ago
> Writng without Teacher Feel like you might have taken the "don't fret over spelling" part of the method a bit too literally here.
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by dri_ft 8y ago
How do you think Ruby's worse?
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by dri_ft 8y ago
Great writeup. I admire your dedication.
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by dri_ft 8y ago
The Kinesis Freestyle Edge has a tiny 4MB memory drive built into it. It's intended for storing the keyboard's editable config files, but you could easily keep your dotfiles there, too.
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by dri_ft 8y ago
> This to me looks like the "all lives matter" equvialent. It's basically an idea that no one can object to on face value, because there is obviously nothing objectionable about it, but when being presented as an alternati
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by dri_ft 8y ago
> Like this story I remember reading on HN of the hacker who managed to write a task switching application for some Apple computer of the time and managed to sell it to Steve Jobs (I don't remember all the details and I can't f
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by dri_ft 8y ago
Bingo.
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by dri_ft 8y ago
"From the earliest days of information theory it has been appreciated that information per se is not a good measure of message value. For example, a typical sequence of coin tosses has high information content but little value; an ephe
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by dri_ft 8y ago
It's heartbreaking.
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by dri_ft 8y ago
My pet comparisons for everything being too big nowadays are Mario 64 (8mb!), Super Mario World (512kb!), and Super Mario (32kb!!).
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by dri_ft 8y ago
Down right now, but here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20180704140141/https://www.thein...
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by dri_ft 8y ago
Thanks for the tip-offs! I too have been stranded without a decent vimperator replacement for a while. Currently using Saka-Keys but not in love with it, so I'll experiment with these.
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by dri_ft 8y ago
I'm not sure, but my hunch is either is OK. Compare: > There are a hundred organizations that want Tesla to die. > There is a hundred organizations that want Tesla to die.
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by dri_ft 8y ago
Only just saw this! Feel free to email me at the email address mentioned on the webpage that my profile links to and I'll get back to you. (I don't really check the email address mentioned on my profile itself.)
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by dri_ft 8y ago
I got into it relatively recently, way after high school. I think I got my start mostly with Victorians like Christina Rosetti, maybe some of the Romantics. Far away enough in time to be interestingly different, but close enough that the la
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by dri_ft 8y ago
Poetry's always nice for familiarity and rereadability. Perhaps Shakespeare's Sonnets .
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by dri_ft 8y ago
> This is something that needs to be solved with an online questionnaire that spits out an appointment time and location at the end. My brother just got some (charitable) funding to develop an app to do exactly this! Very early stages of
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by dri_ft 8y ago
Good thing this is hacker news, or I might have missed out on a barely-relevant pile-on of commenters letting me know how terrible Electron is!
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by dri_ft 8y ago
Maybe 'native' is the wrong word, but I meant non-web-app.
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by dri_ft 8y ago
God bless you for working in a space—native email clients—which seems utterly neglected nowadays.
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by dri_ft 8y ago
> It can be difficult to remember. To google, too.
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by dri_ft 9y ago
It's not the same as ctrl-R/ctrl-S, but you can use ctrl-P/ctrl-N to scroll history like with the arrows without leaving the home row.
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by dri_ft 9y ago
You're in luck! Here's a looong in-depth consideration of exactly that: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-conside...
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by dri_ft 9y ago
It's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.
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by dri_ft 9y ago
Your comment isn't very clear, as it's not clear what "socially conservative" assumptions you're alluding to. (As others have pointed out, casual sex, which as I understand is Tinder's main use case, isn't
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by dri_ft 9y ago
Vimperator would be nice (actually, I preferred pentadactyl, but whatever), but I'd settle for VimFX working on the new Firefox. VimFX is (just barely) good enough but Vimium seems a little worse (I think because of the APIs it has acc
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by dri_ft 9y ago
These sorts of things also end up being really hard to Google when you need to look something up about them.

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