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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
I'll admit that I've had very few opportunities to travel abroad thus far, but, for what it's worth, my experience has been the same. In fact, most people seem to be a bit gladdened to find that a foreigner (perhaps especial
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
I think GP means that she felt like engineer and doctor were the only options she could choose from, and therefore she was effectively dragooned into a STEM career. That is, if she'd been dealt a different hand, she would've pref
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
1. Tables in Lua have keys. Any value other than `nil` may be used as a key, including `0` if you so desire. 2. Lua's usage of `begin`/`end` was borrowed from "Modula" according to the HOPL paper[1]. Probably Modula-
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
Really? I remember it being rather easy circa 2003. On Windows, you could download an installer for Dev-C++ or the Borland compiler, install it like any other program, and you were done. On virtually every other platform, you didn't
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
I have a feeling TeMPOraL knows this, since their post is rife with Lovecraftian cosmicism :)
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
There's no way this is true. I cut my teeth on Microsoft QuickBasic, and I promise you that QuickBasic has been far from my mind for many years. At this point, I've written programs in about 50 different languages (not all of th
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
Kinkos is called "FedEx Office" these days (last I checked), but indeed they can do this. So can Staples, Office Depot, OfficeMax, etc.
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
Usage of <y> (and <th> for that matter) in place of <þ> predates Caxton's press. An example of a scribe substituting <y> for <þ> in manuscript can be seen at [1], a legal document in an English chancery h
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
> What has become quite obvious to me within the past few years is that the whole "move the Web forward" thing seems to be really about coming up with and implementing as many complex features as possible (and advocating for t
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
There is a bit of a difference, though: if your shell has line-editing facilities (readline, libedit, and the like), they're available within the heredoc, but almost certainly not available on cat's stdin. I suppose it's pos
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
As did various offerings from Apple, IBM, and several others, once upon a time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
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Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr(theguardian.com)
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
Here's some handwriting sample for you: https://i.imgur.com/0Pdq8Ci.jpg Sorry for the poor photo quality, but it's the best I could manage to do at the moment. On the left is some writing that I did just now, just
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
I had a buddy who would always "sign" receipts by drawing little doodles on the line. A different doodle each time, ranging from simple to elaborate, from decent to obscene, but always comical.
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
I definitely agree that printing was the main cause of the usage of <y> becoming commonplace, and it's likely because printing substantially lowered the cost of written material—both producing and purchasing. It enabled widespre
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
I've been studying paleography for about a year now, and I really don't find this to be true. This seems to be a common story, one that I've heard before and one which makes plenty of sense, but also one which seems to be fa
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
cscope may be irrelevant, but ctags/etags has support for JS (and other languages that would be relevant for web developers, like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, ...).
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
Electron lowers the knowledge barrier for people who are already knowledgeable in web development. For others, learning Electron can be far more complicated than learning, say, Vala or PyQt or Tk or even one of the plethora of Java toolkit
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
The real travesty here is that anyone would consider it acceptable to give trick-or-treaters an apple . :)
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
> The media of today is often created by the very people who were dissatisfied with what was available to us back in the 80's. It'll be interesting to see what people dissatisfied with the media of today come up with in anothe
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
> Fran Allen is the opinion that the adoption of C delayed the field of compiler optimizations research back to pre-history (Coders at Work). Yes! The entire book is wonderful, but as a compiler writer myself, Fran's interview real
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
Perhaps it's due to my own personal shortcomings, but I found FAE really difficult to wrap my head around until I'd read through Fate Core. I do like its brevity and simplicity, especially now that I have a good understanding o
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
> Oh, really? That's too bad, accelerated seems to be a way to get up to speed with Fate in a very short time without knowing anything about the game, shame that that's not so much the case. You might be able to get by with jus
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
In my experience, the contents of the Accelerated Edition are nigh incomprehensible without a prior understanding of Core. I'd recommend that if you choose to play Accelerated, the GM be familiar with Core. It'll also be a lot e
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
I figured that's what you meant :) I apologize if I came off as dismissive or disdainful; I was in a sort-of playful mood when I wrote that, but moods don't usually survive internet transmission! It's a neat project. I mys
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
No dependencies? Then what's all this? [dependencies] clap = "2" chrono = "0.4" toml = "0.4" term-painter = "0.2" # Used in init to ensure the url given as base_url is
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While PEGs necessarily impose a notion of "precedence" due to their construction, LL parsers don't necessarily impose any such notion. Any precedence that an LL parser might have is a consequence of its implementation. It
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
I would also pull in: Dark Tranquility - The Gallery At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul Edge of Sanity - Crimson
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That's likely because most C compilers (in my experience) use top-down parsers (LL) rather than bottom-up ones (LR). In contrast to LR parsers, LL parsers are quite easy to write and maintain by hand (recursive descent, parser combinat
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
You may find this paper helpful [1]. As noted there, syntax-rules consists really of two different parts: (1) the hygiene-preserving macro expander and (2) the pattern-matching facility. Once you wrap your head around the two pieces, it&

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