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by imd 17y ago
I read a similar article a number of years ago, but at the time there were no negative comments (to my memory). Funny how attitudes have changed.
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by imd 17y ago
If he doesn't want more stuff, he's not being noble to say so, he's just telling people what not to get him. If someone gave you a pillow every year, why should it be rude to say, "please don't get me a pillow this year. I have enough pillo
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by imd 17y ago
GConf files aren't binary; they're XML. It may not be the greatest format, but it's editable and rgrep-able, and gconf-editor documents many of the keys. Sometimes it's good to declare One True way of doing things just so you know what to
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by imd 17y ago
No, because the article says similar work was already known back to 1965, just not 1941. It was already known Google didn't invent the concept.
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by imd 17y ago
Due to a bug report of mine, Calibre's[0] ebook reader uses hyphenator[1] to hyphenate ebooks, but it's a useless feature for now because the WebKit it uses doesn't insert hyphens at the ends of lines, just breaks the word in half. Funny,
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by imd 17y ago
Looks like he explains his objection at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0360... and says it's not a "formal complaint" at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0365...
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by imd 17y ago
Did you actually try this? "facebook login" in the address bar takes me to the Google results. It only takes you to the first search result if it calculates you had a high probability of wanting to go there, like typing "yahoo". Occasion
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by imd 17y ago
According to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Value_noise (which cites this), this page actually describes value noise, not Perlin. I emailed the author, who told me he no longer has access to the site, so unfortunately, peo
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by imd 17y ago
Watch the video in 720p and pause when "Windows 7" pops up. The taskbar isn't black, and there's an "Examples" folder on the desktop, which makes me suspect it's Kubuntu or something.
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by imd 17y ago
To paraphrase jwz, social networking is not magic pixie dust.
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by imd 17y ago
I think Dijkstra said, but I can't find it, that computing science is the most fashion-obsessed science. Oh, and I assert that the quote can't be found.
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by imd 17y ago
I agree; Sass looks more like a macro language. That's not a bad thing; I've wanted variables and calculated values before. Now I know I can have them.
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by imd 17y ago
This sounds good. A similar tool is It's All Text! for Firefox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 ). It lets me edit textareas with Emacs. It's only Firefox, but it's cross-platform.
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by imd 17y ago
It's interesting that both the Newton and Cube--which the article correctly points out as unsuccessful financially--still have cult followings. From what I've read, the Newton--which is, I believe, the first PDA--did many things better than
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by imd 17y ago
Sounds like a contrived reason not to read an article. View->Page Style->No Style. To each their own, but I think anyone who makes a living by their hands ought to do the utmost to protect them from harm. Proper typing posture stave
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by imd 17y ago
I don't know much about optimization, but...it looks like he's timing the Clojure version with Clojure already loaded, but timing the SBCL version with SBCL not loaded. Would that change the measurements much?
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by imd 17y ago
"So it is also a type of refined sugar, but nutrients have actually been added instead of taken away." From my understanding (not a nutritionist), sugar has been taken away; nutrients have not been added, just concentrated by the extraction
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by imd 17y ago
"Unrefined sources of sugar are not very good nutritional resources either." What about blackstrap molasses? https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Blackstrap_mo...
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by imd 17y ago
Defining an artform is supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite? That's the only definition of populist (as adj.) I can find; do you mean that?
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by imd 17y ago
When he asks Frommer what language it will displace, he leaves out one movie conlang I know of--The Divine Language from The Fifth Element[0]. What other movie conlangs do you guys know of? [0]: http://www.divinelanguage.com/
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by imd 17y ago
FWIW, pandoc is a Markdown-based tool that does all this very nicely: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
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by imd 17y ago
From memory, yes. Also, GNUS uses hardlinks, and it worked for me under Windows XP.
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by imd 17y ago
It doesn't seem odd to me; just because you find something to be true doesn't mean it doesn't need a citation.
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by imd 17y ago
I wonder if anyone will use this set of words for constrained writing.
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by imd 17y ago
OK; I've done that too. Userscripts are definitely better for hackers, but the article claims they're also better because they don't leak memory and extensions do. Is that true?
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by imd 17y ago
Do Greasemonkey scripts actually leak less memory than extensions? I use both, but extensions are much better for when you want to customize behavior. Most userscript writers don't know how to use Greasemonkey's customization features, and
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by imd 17y ago
I'm glad people are being so critical. Back when I started using The GIMP (v1.x), when people (including me) said Photoshop (v4) had a superior interface, people rushed to The GIMP's defense. The GIMP has gotten more Photoshop-like since th
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by imd 17y ago
I see it more as: people who have problems while working with Bash will go to the Bash wiki, even if the mistake they're making could be made in other shells.
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by imd 17y ago
Does this mean that simple accessors (or at least getters) effectively have no method call overhead? Also, the linked article's linked article mentions (in 2005) that Java 6 would have had this. What happened?
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by imd 17y ago
According to http://www.bhsi.org/guide.htm : "Most bike helmets are made of EPS foam with a thin plastic shell. The shell helps the helmet skid easily on rough pavement to avoid jerking your neck.... Beware of gimmicks. You want a smoothl

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