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by holygoat 17y ago
I read a little while ago that pink used to be for boys, and blue for girls — the idea being that pink was more fiery, with pastel blue being calmer and more feminine. This changed sometime in the early 20th century. The source was some par
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by holygoat 17y ago
Clojure catches all exceptions from Java methods, rethrowing them as runtime exceptions. In other words, it gets rid of checked exceptions. (It has to, if you think about it.) No type system support... but no catch block, either.
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by holygoat 17y ago
It's also somewhat tongue in cheek.
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by holygoat 17y ago
Tetrachromacy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06256/721190-114.stm
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by holygoat 17y ago
Webapps are not the only thing to program. Heck, they aren't even the only subject of a startup
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by holygoat 17y ago
Here are three: * Sample data for test suites. I have single files of such larger than 21MB in my current project's git repo, and I've seen much bigger. * Audio resources. * Large PDF documentation items.
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by holygoat 17y ago
The opposite of Ikea furniture, which sacrifices functionality (and robustness!) for aesthetics (and price).
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by holygoat 17y ago
I use Vimperator. I can search (including site-specific search keywords) or open a URL or file by hitting 'o' and starting to type. No modifiers, no nonsense. I love Vimperator.
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by holygoat 17y ago
I prefer to think of the distinction as fluid . What one application considers metadata is another application's data. From the apparently trivial (file sizes, line numbers) to the domain specific (date of joining social network; file serv
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by holygoat 17y ago
Multiple concurrent threads of execution are fine as a concurrency substrate , so long as you minimize synchronization between threads. They can run on independent cores with no problem. Threads are crap as a programming model. Something l
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by holygoat 17y ago
I've known three types of sales person. The first is perhaps the most obvious: Mercedes, slicked back hair, always on the phone. They work by having a kind of primal desire to win: they never stop, they keep calling, they play hard, they gi
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by holygoat 17y ago
Sales as a profession is slightly depressing.
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by holygoat 17y ago
On-device speech recognition is harder, works less well, is more expensive, and is generally not the usual approach. If you need network connectivity for your app, it's usually simpler and better to send off the audio.
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by holygoat 17y ago
I have a similar anecdote — getting muddled between French and German when learning them back-to-back at school — but bringing sign into the mix blows mine away!
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by holygoat 17y ago
"You were made as well as we could make you". "But not to last."
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by holygoat 17y ago
You should always consider the cost implications. The money has to come from somewhere — it's just that on the NHS, other taxpayers are the ones responsible for your health problems. (I'm a Brit who's had a little too much social liberalism
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by holygoat 17y ago
A bunch of APIs I've used, and many I've designed, use content negotiation with the Accept header. E.g., http://rdf.freebase.com/
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by holygoat 17y ago
Slight digression… I think this conversation is pretty much the rational, reasonable version of most of programming.reddit: * "this is how I work" * "fool! You should be doing TDD/AOP/Agile/XP/NIH/WTF/BBQ!" * "actually, that's not possible
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by holygoat 17y ago
I totally read "Cylons". The sentence was consequently awesome.
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by holygoat 17y ago
HTML 4 is not an XML language: it uses tags, but the concept of a document being structurally invalid is not the same as XHTML. Every browser that handles HTML 4 supports a kind of "tag soup". You must take explicit action to shift them int
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by holygoat 17y ago
… and that's probably one great reason why monophasic sleep 'won' in an evolutionary sense. Robustness usually wins out over efficiency, and not being able to stay awake for a few hours to finish a hunt/avoid a predator/avoid freezing to de
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by holygoat 17y ago
It's possible to renew a domain registration that you do not own. Barring hosting providers disappearing, then, you can do this right now... just spend the money.
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by holygoat 17y ago
When I had my serious RSI episode, about 7 years ago, I observed that simply sitting at my desk or looking at my computer from across the room would induce pain in my mousing hand. There was a majority physical component -- actually us
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by holygoat 17y ago
I actually abandoned a PhD (after 2+ years) in favor of industry. The modern academic world -- at least in CS -- seems largely to consist of producing as many papers as you can, putting forth unimportant results, so as to get more 'points'
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by holygoat 17y ago
I think you're missing the point a little.
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by holygoat 17y ago
I like to think of them as a reference book collection. Reading them cover to cover is probably not a good investment of time.
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by holygoat 17y ago
According to their git changelog: http://repo.or.cz/w/MacVim.git?a=tags and their Google Code updates list: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/updates/list MacVim has seen a huge number of changes in the 2+ years that TextMate has been und
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by holygoat 17y ago
Do you have a citation or two for your Fusion point? I'd be very interested to read more.
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by holygoat 17y ago
That's something I hadn't considered, but if it's good at it, it could swing me into spending the money... seconded!
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by holygoat 17y ago
There's a half-way point: where I remember broadly how to do something, but I need to use my outboard brain to find the details. That's frustrating to introduce in an interview, though: "oh yes, I remember that... I'm sure I could find it a

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