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by jcl 13y ago
Tangentially, if anyone in the Rhode Island area is keen on RISD but don't think they can afford it, you might consider taking a certificate course there in the continuing education program. The one I took was like 18 months of night
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by jcl 13y ago
I must admit, I always interpreted the appendix to be a note from Orwell to the reader, not a document from a later date within the novel's world.
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by jcl 13y ago
On the other hand, there is research that suggests that sitting up straight or leaning forward is not as good for your back as leaning back: http://www.motleyhealth.com/news/slouching-back-is-good-for-...
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by jcl 13y ago
Very nice. I've been curious about the origin of Gough Street and was quite amused by the explanation: Charles H. Gough - A local milkman who served on the 1855 committee tasked with naming the streets of the Western Addition. He named Go
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by jcl 14y ago
A fictional anecdote, FWIW: http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
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by jcl 14y ago
It's possible that they used a Bloom filter to compactly represent the list of banned words. This would allow them to share the filter without explicitly sending the list of banned words, so you'd never see a "foul-mouthed" network packet.
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by jcl 14y ago
It's likely a lazy designer did a Google Image search, saw an illustration that looked like the original Alice in Wonderland illustrations by Tenniel, and assumed it was in the public domain.
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by jcl 14y ago
It's Alice in Wonderland, which was written in 1865, so it's in the public domain. The artist's illustration is inspired by the original Tenniel illustrations, so it's not a derivative of the 1951 Disney adaptation.
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by jcl 14y ago
Or you can install the ComputerCraft mod, which lets you build and program computers (and turtle robots!) within the game using Lua. http://computercraft.info/wiki/Main_Page
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by jcl 14y ago
FWIW, that's not a hard rule. There is at least one recent game (Call of Duty: Black Ops) that you have to buy separately if you want to play on both Mac and PC.
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by jcl 14y ago
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/FootSwitches :)
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by jcl 14y ago
As you get more experienced in vim, you learn more powerful ways to jump around horizontally on a line (t/T/f/F, word navigation, incremental search, etc.), so the most common granular cursor movements become down and up -- which convenient
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by jcl 14y ago
It occurs to me that that would be a slick way to get around spam filters... Just have a character in your e-mail that maps to the "Cialis" glyph, for instance. :)
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by jcl 14y ago
Note: The animation is pure CSS, but the component graphics are PNGs. Given the simplicity of the graphics, I was rather hoping the whole thing was styled divs.
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by jcl 14y ago
You might also want to check out SPOJ, an enormous collection of problems from programming contests, with an online solution evaluator: http://www.spoj.com/problems/classical/
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by jcl 14y ago
Thanks for the description... Some of us do not have iPads. ;)
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by jcl 14y ago
Looks cute, but it would be nice if there was more information on how the game worked -- or a gameplay video.
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by jcl 14y ago
As far as I can tell from their wiki, OpenDUNE was created by disassembling the original game and recoding the assembly in C. I wouldn't say the copyright issue is clear-cut, here.
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by jcl 14y ago
On Android, at least, it's free to download and play, with limited turns. You can buy unlimited turns in-app for a one-time payment of $3.99, which also unlocks more maps. Additionally, there are various enhancements and powerups you can
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by jcl 14y ago
ArtRage also has a paint layering/mixing model, although I'm guessing it's using neither Kubelka-Munk nor Paper's survey-based approach. http://www.artrage.com/artrage-studio-features.html
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by jcl 14y ago
The analogy is true, insofar as there are experiments that support it. https://www.google.com/search?q=willpower+muscle+research More interestingly, there is research that suggests that believing that willpower is like a muscle impairs
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by jcl 15y ago
FWIW, the source to the original SimCity was released under the GPL. http://www.donhopkins.com/home/micropolis/
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by jcl 16y ago
More specifically, this is a list of things that iStockPhoto could get in trouble for if they tried to sell photos of them. Many of these are fine for photographing for personal use, others are fine if you get permission. Some are only a
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by jcl 16y ago
These are in Jeff's chart. And really most of them shouldn't be: they aren't "rare" pronunciations -- they're non-existent pronunciations. Nobody uses them, except to point out how silly INTERCAL is. And rightly so, since INTERCAL was cr
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by jcl 16y ago
Yes, The New Hacker's Dictionary is a distillation of the Jargon File. Both are maintained by Eric S. Raymond.
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by jcl 16y ago
I'm surprised the IGDA didn't also call out Amazon's apparent requirement that a developer must allow Amazon to distribute all the software the developer is distributing through other channels. In other words, there's no way to try out Ama
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by jcl 16y ago
That probably won't be true long-term. Amazon is perfectly capable of cutting deals with manufacturers/carriers to get their apps pre-installed; their MP3 app comes with many Android phones.
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by jcl 16y ago
Note that, even without points displayed, you can gauge the relative points of comments by their order on the page. While very new comments can appear briefly at the top, the comments that stay there have high points.
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Fate and Torchlight borrow a bit from Nethack (e.g. pets).
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by jcl 16y ago
The reason that students are required to purchase graphing calculators is for tests, not learning; schools believe they have more control over what goes on during a test if all the students are using the same brand of (locked-down) graphing

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