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by gabebw 15y ago
This looks pretty easy to use, and powerful too (3D?!). I'm going to try this out right now.
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by gabebw 15y ago
Ah, that's why dictionary.com didn't know what "splarge" meant. Apparently "sparge" is a sprinkling - why would home brewers know this? Genuinely curious here.
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by gabebw 15y ago
Some of these don't look like real words (e.g. splarge, which is definitely something that you could make up). I assume they're real, though. Anyway, my score: http://testyourvocab.com/?r=36192
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by gabebw 15y ago
This is actually pretty helpful, in that my approach to programming in a new language is "Try to do X with the new language, and if I can't, read the docs until I can." That is, I try to actually DO something, and gather incidental knowledg
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by gabebw 15y ago
He actually switched back to Rails again. From the foreword to the Rails Tutorial [1]: > My former company (CD Baby) was one of the first to loudly switch to Ruby on Rails, and then even more loudly switch back to PHP (Google me to read
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by gabebw 15y ago
Oh, absolutely. I do the whole "pause and do something else" thing too, which the OP calls Nerd ADD [1]. Netflix + tabbed browsing is especially conducive to it. My point is that flipping through channels every 5 seconds makes us sound like
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by gabebw 15y ago
This idealizes some not-very-nerdy habits. Yes, sometimes nerds are messy - my desk is just messy. The package of gum on my desk doesn't mean I have an efficient system, it means I made room for my laptop. And who watches 3 TV shows at one
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by gabebw 16y ago
This reminds me of what Steve Martin did in his early career. He played the same comedy clubs over and over again, keeping the routines that worked and ruthlessly dropping the ones that didn't, until he became the most famous comedian in th
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by gabebw 16y ago
It's be great if the dashboard showed which one of the people was me more clearly (possibly you could show that box in a different color?). Just having "^ You" is not very easy to find. Other than that, it looks pretty neat. Not sure I'd us