jay-anderson

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by jay-anderson 8y ago
While it may not have been a serious question, vim key bindings (or emacs or whatever) are important to many people. You spend so much of your time in your editor/ide and become expert in it. Learning to work in another one is painful
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
Definitely. I've had a hard time convincing people to do the required repetitions. They end early and say that they can't juggle. The few people that have, successfully juggle in a relatively short amount of time. Their form isn&#
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
They're pushing skype for business in my workplace as well (larger corporation). We've been using zoom and the IT department keeps telling us to stop, but skype for business just doesn't work well: high memory usage (seen on
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
I still have mine, but I haven't pulled it out in quite a while. It was quite slow, but I remember it using it fondly and really liked the sugar UI ( https://sugarlabs.org/ ). My kids were very young and we had fun messi
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
Old software often had requirements or made design decisions based on assumptions that aren't true anymore. These can make it more difficult to deal with or extend. I agree that in general we should just use the old software that works
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
> several Google employees familiar with the letter would speak of it only on the condition of anonymity, saying they were concerned about retaliation This is too bad that the fear of retaliation exists for a letter like this. Is this ac
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
> things don't move if you don't tell them to This is something I've struggled a bit with when playing with Rust. I've had a hard time understanding whether I'm telling the compiler to move or copy. In other word
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
Many of of the great composers of yore wrote for operas, ballets, theater, and such which is the equivalent to movies today so I think that's an apt comparison. That said much of the experimentation in classical music has been worked o
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
> This said, the article feels quite arrogant. Agreed. Its tone is very off-putting. From the article: > Not just wrong as in not perfect, but wrong as in wasting half, or more, of your performance. I wish articles would move away fro
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
There are probably a couple ways to interpret the metaphor depending on your context. There's more competition, yes, but there are also more opportunities to grow. A similar analogy is it's better to be the worst player in the bes
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
I'd rather put it as everybody has the opportunity to develop their talents and skills.
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
There's an owl living above an abandoned silo on a relative's property. It's always fun to see how interested kids are in looking through the bones at the bottom. Though in this case there are too may different types of bones
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
My first thought was that most of my computer science classes in college were in classrooms without computers. I think that was a very good thing. It's interesting that this is instead teaching an understand of basic UI concepts and sp
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
Sardinian for yes is 'eja' which I've read is derived differently from the two methods suggested here though I haven't seen any suggestions on what that derivation might be.
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
We're a mostly java shop at work and I'm one of the last few hold outs still on eclipse. I'm used to it and it mostly does what I need. I use the excellent vrapper ( http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ ),
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
There was a similar bug about a year ago as well. I'm surprised more fuzzing, static analysis, and general testing hasn't gone into this area since there have been issues found there already. Maybe they have done this extra work a
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
I think it's okay in a text like this to say frequency = pitch. Frequency is the primary factor in how we perceive pitch.
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
This looks good and feels like the larger screen e ink devices are getting better. Unfortunately I haven't found one which ticks the boxes I want (mostly to use for sheet music): - Hands free page turning (a bluetooth foot pedal would
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
To get around this you can disable the inclusion of the referrer. In firefox set `Network.http.sendRefererHeader` to `0` in about:config. Of course this only lets you avoid it. But, yeah, I agree. That's pretty rotten behavior and wort
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
> it would be interesting if engineers could earn medals (similar to the ones in the military) for each company they worked for We get t-shirts instead. Can't wear multiple at the same time though.
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
One thing we did to get past the most picky review comments was institute some static analysis with some agreed upon rules which are run automatically during build checks of pull requests (sonar and checkstyle). If someone brings up an issu
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/ - "That time Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle" - Looks like other database vendors do the thing. That doesn't excuse the
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
Feels like we need to get away from geographic based representation at the state level. In a hypothetical state where voters of parties are evenly distributed geographically we would end up with the majority party always winning anyway no m
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
Makes me think of the littering ads from the 70s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_America_Beautiful ). It focused on how littering was bad, but was led by many of the companies producing the stuff that was the litter
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
What does the vertical axis mean?
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservices/resourcesconservation/... - Phoenix has pretty good water management. That said more water conservation measures in general would be good for the southwest.
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
While all of that may be absolutely true, the title of the group of that source doesn't instill confidence as unbiased historians. It makes me wonder if they're promoting team edison. Can anyone recommend a better source?
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
This depends on the instrument. For many instruments reading ledger lines below the staff is more common. For instance french horn players are used to reading well below the treble clef staff and tuba players well below the bass clef staff.
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by jay-anderson 9y ago
As others have said there are bigger issues than this. Becoming fluent in two clefs is unfortunate, but doesn't take too much time. Adding most lines I could see becoming more confusing and it takes up more vertical real estate. The ov

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