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Totally Fungible Tokens – An Art Project(langintro.com)
1 points by jdeisenberg 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdeisenberg 5y ago
XML Schema, unfortunately, won out over RelaxNG ( https://relaxng.org/ ) which has a much more solid mathematical basis and (in my opinion) is much more direct and simple than XML Schema.
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by jdeisenberg 6y ago
XML with RelaxNG ( https://relaxng.org/ ) would have made life so much better than using XML Schema, but, as they say, that ship has long since sailed.
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by jdeisenberg 6y ago
Not specifically bad art, but the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne ( https://www.artbrut.ch/en_GB ) is quite amazing. The art is by people on the fringes of society “unfettered by cultural and/or social conditioning”
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by jdeisenberg 6y ago
In Europe, the surname of Niklaus Wirth (inventor of the Pascal programming language) is pronounced “veert”; in the United States, it’s pronounced “worth.“ Thus, in Europe, he’s called by name; in the US he’s called by value.
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by jdeisenberg 6y ago
There is JSONT ( https://goessner.net/articles/jsont/ ) and JSONPATH ( https://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/); also JUST ( https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1187172
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by jdeisenberg 6y ago
I saw what you did there: “Irregardless”
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by jdeisenberg 6y ago
It would be interesting to re-do this study on Mental Representations of Weekdays: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
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by jdeisenberg 6y ago
I absolutely adore the Hergé style art on the home page!
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by jdeisenberg 6y ago
On this page: http://headachecomix.com/about , the image headache1big.jpg is 1584 x 2153 and has a size of 3,594,579 bytes. This takes a long time to download on a slow connection. This is definitely bad UX, but I seriously
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by jdeisenberg 7y ago
Yes. At times I would like to be able to use italics in a code block to emphasize some portion of the code, and that seems very difficult, if not impossible, to do. I realize this would conflict with automatic syntax highlighting, which is
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by jdeisenberg 7y ago
If you want something more in-depth about OCaml itself, http://dev.realworldocaml.org/ is a good resource.
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by jdeisenberg 7y ago
It looks very nice indeed. Is this open source, and if so, is there a link to where I can see it?
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by jdeisenberg 7y ago
...and mine likes cucumber. Go figure.
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by jdeisenberg 7y ago
Yes. The Constitution is very careful in its use of "people" (or "person") and "citizens".
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by jdeisenberg 7y ago
Emphatic yes. I visited there back in the 1980s, and the crowds were overwhelming. It was such a noisy, claustrophobic experience that I had to get out of there. I pretty much fled through the rest of the Vatican museum without really seein
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by jdeisenberg 7y ago
This is one of the things I liked so much about XML; you could have a single document and use XSLT to generate a web page or (via XSL-FO) a nicely-formatted print document.
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Show HN: Color Inventory (Find proportions of colors in an image)(github.com)
1 points by jdeisenberg 7y ago|0 comments
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by jdeisenberg 7y ago
I have never liked the “make a sandwich” task. It sets people up for failure, because the teacher can always take things literally enough to make the student wrong. (For example, when given the instructions: "Take out two slices of bre
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by jdeisenberg 8y ago
One thing I have found useful but difficult to do in both markdown and AsciiDoc: I have a block of code, and I want to highlight, say, a variable name by making it italic or bold. Or, I have several lines that have changed from one example
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by jdeisenberg 8y ago
My favorite long sentence is from “The Silent Eyes of Time,” by Algis Budrys: “He was already, however, beginning to think of DC-3s, and then of tall white cruise ships, and of a narrow winding street of steps that led to the house where th
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by jdeisenberg 8y ago
Not a hate, but a minor gripe: the light gray text fails WCAG accessibility guidelines.
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by jdeisenberg 8y ago
There’s also this from California: http://cool4ed.org/findetextbooks.html
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by jdeisenberg 8y ago
The community college where I teach has English 001C: Critical Thinking/Composition -- “This course presents the elements of critical reasoning and logic. Students will learn to identify the basic structures of arguments and the ways p
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by jdeisenberg 8y ago
US community college instructor here. Students use the title professor as described here. I prefer either “Mr.” or my first name. I tell students, “Please don’t call me professor. Even my mom gave up on the idea of me ever getting a PhD.”
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by jdeisenberg 9y ago
You aren’t alone. My face recognition is spotty: I had two students in different classes; both same height, white hair, mustaches -- and it took me six weeks to tell them apart. I have a decent memory for student names. However, the face r
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by jdeisenberg 9y ago
I do not know if anything has changed since this discussion: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/this%... but it seems that classes may not always be the answer.
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by jdeisenberg 9y ago
Alas, the web site ( https://qbix.com/people ) appears not to work on Firefox Developer Edition 60.0: “Unable to init adapter. App config is not defined.”
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by jdeisenberg 9y ago
> When you step up to needing some actual functionality, I would say that, given that the hairdresser’s and doctor’s sites do what they were designed to do, they also have actual functionality. Perhaps “fairly complex” would be more de
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by jdeisenberg 9y ago
This is the very similar to the technique described in Fred Saberhagen's short story "Without a Thought."

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