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by fferen 15y ago
Very interesting, looking forward to analysis of the results.
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by fferen 15y ago
Is it the "forced" part that yields results, or the simple fact that it was more exercise? The article said they were forced to go at a speed faster than what they were comfortable with, yet the rodent study had them forced to go slower tha
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by fferen 15y ago
Haha, this happens to me a lot when learning new libraries or frameworks. My current solution is to just search StackOverflow with what I'm trying to do. Often, the Right Way is posted as a snippet, but even if there are no directly pertine
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How not to do a captcha(solardecathlon.gov)
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by fferen 15y ago
Yes, this is what I was thinking. Could we teach people mental techniques to "delude" themselves into getting better? Kinda reminds me of doublethink from 1984.
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by fferen 15y ago
And, of course, the submission title uses the entire word AND the asterisk, which is perhaps an attempt to poke fun? Or just a funny mistake.
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by fferen 15y ago
Yes, it comes before a conjunction separating independent clauses. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm
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Talk with the App Engine team in person(plus.google.com)
1 points by fferen 15y ago|0 comments
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by fferen 15y ago
For a steady decline, I got Christian music, flash, and Japanese dictionary stuff. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:NUbDKLt6K...
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by fferen 15y ago
This is what I've been suspecting after reading dozens of tutorials and examples on all manner of game-related APIs and libraries. It seems like game programmers as a whole care less about code organization, style, and all the other values
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by fferen 15y ago
I tried it on Ubuntu a while ago, and it was the most inhumanly difficult program I've ever used. It always seemed none of the tools looked anything like what I wanted to do. It probably exceeds Paint.NET in its capabilities but would take
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by fferen 15y ago
I'm happy to see him using Paint.NET to edit the graphics. I've yet to see a free image editor that remotely compares in usability and power; I just wish it were available for Mac and/or Linux. Not affiliated with it or anything.
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by fferen 15y ago
From Wikipedia: "There is some contention about the all-caps spelling "PERL", which the documentation declares incorrect[28] and which some core community members consider a sign of outsiders.[29] The name is occasionally backronymed as Pra
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by fferen 15y ago
But isn't the idea of homeopathy to consume miniscule amounts of things that are toxic in large quantities, like arsenic? In that case, cleaned sewer water should be good for you.
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by fferen 15y ago
Yeah, because no one watches movies in theaters or reads books on paper these days. We're not quite that far in the future yet.
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by fferen 15y ago
Good article. I've had very similar experiences looking over my old code from several months ago. Even basic concepts like procedural abstraction I've only learned about and put into practice recently; in the past I may have used it but was
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by fferen 15y ago
Same here. On Chrome 13.0.782.112 it ran smoothly, so probably just a Firefox problem.
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by fferen 15y ago
I created a small Javascript bookmarklet that lets you type Dvorak in any textbox on the web, for when you can't change the computer's layout for whatever reason. It's helped me a ton when I'm on public computers: http://fferen.wordpress.c
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by fferen 15y ago
A while ago I compiled a list of unicode characters that looked like letters, to get past curse filters. Not comprehensive, because I just manually skimmed through a unicode table, but here it is if anyone cares: Wide letters: ＡＢＣＤＥ
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by fferen 15y ago
I was thinking of giving 5 or so sentences and having checkboxes for whether they're grammatically correct or not. I feel that even people that don't exactly know the correct usage can still get the OP's test right because one "looks" bette
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by fferen 15y ago
On a side note, it's ironic that mobile versions of sites are usually far less readable than regular versions, at least on my Droid X. On a regular page, I can set the zoomed-in text size to large in the settings. Mobile sites tend to make
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by fferen 15y ago
That is awesome; thanks for the link! I always expected that we used a more complex algorithm, but this extremely simple one probably works just as well.
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by fferen 15y ago
MIT uses Python now, but I agree with you. Reading through just the first 1.5 chapters of SICP was enlightening and completely changed how I write and think about code in my main language, Python.
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(More) tips for writing well(thinkingandmaking.com)
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by fferen 15y ago
YMMV. I own a Droid X and recently got the opportunity to use an iPhone 4 briefly, and I think I'll stick with Android, for a few reasons: - The web browser doesn't seem to zoom into and magnify text areas as well on iPhone. - No swype. It
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by fferen 15y ago
Note that "penisland.net" (what you probably meant, since "penisland.com" redirects to something else) is a joke site making fun of the ambiguity in the name. And I personally don't find them harder to read, and they're easier to explain by
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by fferen 15y ago
Yeah, I thought it was some amazing new scientific discovery of materials that could act like other elements, or something.
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by fferen 15y ago
I'd have to say that Day9's "Funday Monday" casts are among the most entertaining videos I've ever seen. The guy is absolutely hilarious and remarkably nerdy even for Starcraft casters, qualities which don't show as much in his more analyti
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by fferen 15y ago
That's amazing, I wish any of my math books had that; we would probably see a lot more young programmers these days. I can seriously say that the only reason I even got into programming was discovering TI-Basic in 7th grade (although the ha
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by fferen 15y ago
Certainly better than the reverse, isn't it?

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