gamegoblin

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by gamegoblin 14y ago
I think it's just demonstrating how its possible to redefine even Python keywords.
1202.
by gamegoblin 14y ago
Great post! For those who know Python, this may be common knowledge, but for the uninitiated, this is a great showcase of some simple ways that Python makes coding more intuitive and enjoyable. You might also consider mentioning both dictio
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
I think that the definition of the word redneck varies from region to region. The original meaning of redneck referred to poor, uneducated farmers (not limited to the south). It depends on the speaker and the context if they mean southern,
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
I don't see why you are implying it to be a one way connection (and I certainly was not). It is a back-and-forth relationship. Often some rap song becomes wildly popular, and it makes use of a novel word combination, or even invents a new w
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
Oh, really? I haven't ventured that far north, but I've found that most of the redneck accents between Florida and South Dakota to be rather similar. I would imagine it might be a bit different near the Canadian border. Good to know! I thin
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
You are precisely pointing out the idea of the article. African American Vernacular English (often referred to as Ebonics) is just another dialect of English that is studied by linguists just as any other. Much of it is influenced by slang
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. I don't often travel around the US nor do I talk about southern accents to many other non-southern Americans (as I do not have a southern accent, I speak with a more accentless midwestern style), so I am unaware of
1208.
by gamegoblin 14y ago
I mainly meant sounding "redneck" as in "rural/uneducated" rather than a standard southern accent. I am from a large city in the South, so there is a heavy distinction between "southern" accents and "redneck" accents. Even here in the city,
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
Sounding southern though is (at least for me, living in Arkansas) very different from sounding "redneck". There are many southerners who speak with a rather sophisticated gentility, then there are those who speak with a quaint but kind coun
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
I have long suspected this to be the case. I have found the most successful black people in my sphere are those who can easily code-switch (this is the linguistics term for switching between language varieties). I would conjecture that ther
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
When I started coding at age 12, it was on TI calculators. The code was in Zilog Z80 ASM, and TI's flavor of BASIC (TI-BASIC). I suspect many of the hackers on this site of used TI-BASIC, and possibly Z80 ASM. This was all of the experience
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
From the phrase "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." The author is saying that when he is "in Rome" he finds himself not doing what the Romans do, but rather doing what the Parisians do or what the Berliners do, since he has spent so much t
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
My fear isn't that the movie won't be entertaining (I'm sure it will be). I'm only worried that the movie won't have the same feel as the previous, that it will feel like a different universe that just happens to have lightsabers and blaste
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
My algorithms final was entirely problems that we had never seen before that required that we create new algorithms or heavily modify existing ones. The average score was a 55% (this is a professor who makes extremely hard tests and then cu
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
While the Woz might not approve of adding dramatic scenes to historically based films (and I don't blame him at all), it has a pretty big precedent in the movie industry. Apollo 13 comes to mind, when one of the crew yells at the other abou
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by gamegoblin 14y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. It could be great good if done correctly, but there is also a lot of room for error. On a related note of "credit based on knowledge", I am always fond of college professors who have the policy "If you make