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by jballanc 11y ago
Yes, this! Just to get close to fitting, we have to get our son pants for a 6yo, shirts for a 4yo, and socks for a 3yo, and even then we end up rolling the sleeves on his shirts because he needs the length in the chest but not as much the a
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You need kids! Well, at least kids sizes. I understand the desire for adults to have a shirt that fits, but I think that falls squarely in the bucket of "nice to have". As a parent of a child that doesn't fit any of the siz
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It wasn't until I had children of my own that I realized just how UTTERLY EGREGIOUS sexism is in the toy industry. When people talk about needing to tackle inequality at every point along the pipeline, this is where that pipeline sta
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by jballanc 11y ago
Based on Soros' past, it's probably a combination of both. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday . In the 90s he saw that the UK's commitment to prop up the Pound Sterling was ill ad
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Be sure to follow the link to the full changelog ( https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/changes.md ). In particular, a huge feature that wasn't discussed in detail in this blog post is the
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Math is possible with core.logic (in a sense) using the finite-domain constraints and functions. Check out the clojure.core.logic.fd namespace for more: https://github.com/clojure/core.logic/blob/master/s
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by jballanc 11y ago
> Before 2007, the way to participate in Open Source was fragmented. Um...ever hear of Source Forge ? Yeah, before 2007 there was another OSS hegemony. It failed to meet its users needs. It was replaced. So it goes.
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It's 2016, and GitHub is stagnant. GitHub used to bill itself as "Social Coding", but the "Network" graph has not seen ANY updates since its original introduction in April of 2008 . Issues has seen very few upd
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"The only bug free code is the code you don't write."
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For my money, Ruby comes closest to realizing the "promise" of dynamic languages. That is, it's fast to build with when prototyping, flexible when refactoring, reasonably fast enough and not so memory hungry that it can'
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Brings to mind the classic: > "Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs." - Bill Gates
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Should say that NAO currently runs a heavily patched version of 3.4.3. Specifically, the menucolors and pickup_thrown patches that are mentioned as being part of 3.6 are already in 3.4.3_NAO.
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The Turkish language has no "to be" verb at all. In addition, Turkish has an extra verb tense not present in other languages which distinguishes between things that the speaker has observed directly from those they are only relayi
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I'd suspect it's at least partly survivor bias (in reverse?). IT is new enough that "All the great IT guys" are young. The ones that are unfortunate enough to have died will necessarily have died young, with a few nota
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Prove if your luggage was mishandled by the airlines(kickstarter.com)
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In CSS they're referred to as "Vendor Prefixes": https://wiki.csswg.org/spec/vendor-prefixes Regardless of usage in normal English, in the context of web browsers "Vendor" seem to be the correc
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Agreed completely! Similarly, most states' math curricula is stuck in an era when it was expected that the primary reason to learn math in high school was to be prepared for a science/engineering discipline in college. A curriculu
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by jballanc 11y ago
I've not been to Lebanon, but what you're describing sounds an awful lot like çiğ köfte: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çiğ_köfte . You should give it a try if you can find it!
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Very interesting result, and it feels like this could be more important than it might seem at first glance. If this result could be further generalized for sampling any continuously integrable function, it could have interesting implication
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Absolutely love Papers. I think anyone doing serious work with research papers/citations will need the tools from the desktop app, but for reading/organizing papers the iOS app is great on is own.
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You have it exactly backwards. In a competitive market, hiring managers have every incentive to negotiate workers to take lower salaries. As it turns out, for various reasons, when forced to negotiate for salary women end up taking less t
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Also had one of these in high school, but connected to an uplink for a distance learning setup. There were about 20 of us in the actual classroom, and then 3 or 4 other classrooms would get the same whiteboard feed live.
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When AOL first entered the market, you could only send E-Mail to other AOL users. Eventually, faced with the potential of users leaving their platform for more interoperable (if less full-featured) alternatives, AOL relented and made their
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by jballanc 11y ago
Until very recently I lived in Bodrum, Turkey. One of the things it's famous for is the castle in its bay. "Castle" in Turkish is "Kale" (pronounced as cah-lay, close to rhyming with "valley"), so I used t
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by jballanc 11y ago
There was a paper a couple years ago out of Microsoft research (if I recall correctly), that looked at a number of vulnerabilities in OAuth as used by Facebook, Twitter, and a few others. The ah-hah moment for me, though, was that they iden
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The difference is that no one (or nearly no one) dies taking the stairs. If you're going to replace one perfectly safe means of travel with another, the new one should also be perfectly safe. But cars are anything but perfectly safe. I
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Food is the key. People forget this so easily, but for most of our evolution we did not have access to "3-squares a day". Hunger is a remarkable tool for manipulating alertness and wakefulness. The most common recommendation I&#x2
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Agreed. One interesting direction the project could go in is building as a framework to be embeddable into OS X apps. Cocoa already makes it trivial to expose Objective-C objects to JSC. This would just extend that to being able to script
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Planck is a ClojureScript REPL and script execution environment(blog.fikesfarm.com)
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This has nothing to do with type discipline and everything to do with early vs late binding.

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