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by epe 17y ago
There's no idea that a single class might have two versions and that some bits of the program depend on the old version and some on the new. Why not? Why isn't live, running code versioned and transactioned so that we can release a patch o
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The "Soft Maximum" function(johndcook.com)
105 points by epe 17y ago|36 comments
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by epe 17y ago
The second half reminds me of one of my all-time favorite pieces of writing advice, Orwell's Politics and the English Language : http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
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by epe 17y ago
> Consider the exorbitant cost of the LHC, which is one of the single greatest achievements of human engineering and physics. And also two orders of magnitude less expensive than proposed global warming solutions: http://www.popsci.c
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by epe 17y ago
http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm
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by epe 17y ago
Can you elaborate? Pool.com appears to some sort of domain name broker at the moment. While it may not be the most reputable business ever, it seems like it's a cut or two above scamming people into subscribing to some $10/month horoscope
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by epe 17y ago
Why "cls" instead of "className"?
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by epe 17y ago
A lot of them do "just work", and the rest can be made to. See http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/Cocoa%20Text%20System.... for the full story, or create a ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file that contains something like
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by epe 17y ago
$$$
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by epe 17y ago
Awesome! Huge improvement over using the web client. One feature request, and I don't know if this is in line with your vision for the app, but it would be awesome if you could edit plain text files from within the app itself.
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by epe 17y ago
I used to have the exact same problem and used something along these lines for years and liked it: http://www.meijer.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=131845&#...
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by epe 17y ago
Please do, I'm curious to take a look at it.
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by epe 17y ago
"...34 percent of workers under 35 live with their parents for financial reasons" I'd like to see "workers under 35" defined a bit more precisely. Is it literally "anyone under the age of 35 who holds a job", which would include teenagers
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by epe 17y ago
Am I missing something about the database section? It seems like if I add, e.g. a right child to node B in the diagram, I will have to update the "right" values on nodes A & B, as well as both the "left" and "right" values on C & E
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by epe 17y ago
Voted up in hopes that tptacek sees this so I can watch him rip it apart. ;)
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by epe 17y ago
Agreed for arbitrary HTML, but there a lot of webapps (including one I've written) where it's useful to be able to produce PDF output. When you control the HTML and can test that it converts to PDF the way you want, this can be much faster
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Interesting JSONP memory leak(neil.fraser.name)
1 points by epe 17y ago|0 comments
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by epe 17y ago
I know that one example does not a complete refutation make, but: http://adium.im/
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by epe 17y ago
If you do any web development that involves web metrics (Google Analyitics, Omniture, etc.), Omnibug is quite useful: http://www.rosssimpson.com/dev/omnibug.html
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by epe 17y ago
While there are valid reasons to fear both the "Orwell dystopia" and the "Huxley dystopia", the former tends to send more of a chill down my spine. I think this is because it seems much more possible, on a personal level, to resist or opt
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by epe 17y ago
"Inverted commas"? Really?
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Stirling numbers and why they matter(reddit.com)
1 points by epe 17y ago|0 comments
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by epe 17y ago
Exactly. GE may have the resources to safeguard data on its own servers better than Google could, but the average small/medium business almost certainly does not.
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by epe 17y ago
I would guess that the supply of high-quality submissions is fairly inelastic compared to the supply of high-quality comments; i.e., there are enough people submitting articles that the good ones will likely get submitted either way, while
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by epe 17y ago
But we need to move away from the "guild" mentality that has kept boundaries narrow and created regulatory, licensing and reimbursement obstacles to new models of health care delivery. Fair enough, and some of his ideas seem good, but the
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by epe 17y ago
What a fantastic summary of OLPC's failure. Thank you for the link.
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by epe 17y ago
Even though I sometimes enjoy his articles, I can never read Malcolm Gladwell without thinking of this: http://candid.livejournal.com/770034.html
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by epe 17y ago
An explanation similar to this was what made Bayes' theorem really click for me when I took probability. Thanks Prof. Terpstra! http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/normann/statistics/faculty/te...
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by epe 18y ago
It's quite simple to rebind home/end to work like you expect in all Cocoa text controls (i.e., almost anywhere you edit text -- Firefox is the one frustrating exception I'm aware of). If you haven't taken a look at the Cocoa keybinding sys
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by epe 18y ago
There's one in Denver that I've heard good things about: http://hivecoop.pbwiki.com/ Despite having an 8-5 job already, at $100/mo. I would be tempted to sign up just for a place to work on side projects.

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