jdeisenberg

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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
An old, but good article: http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
The cranking and possible mechanical problems with that seem to be the disadvantage. I have found the Varidesk ( http://varidesk.com/ ) to be quite satisfactory. It sits on top of your normal desk and is adjustable in seconds
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
From what I understand, giving Disney an exception would be a violation of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
Slightly O/T, but has anyone experienced similar problems with downloads from PortableApps.com? They use SourceForge as well, and I am now hesitant to recommend PortableApps to friends and co-workers.
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
Definitely agree with you on the bad error reporting. As to the other part, at some point you have to make a mental adjustment to the "Lisp way" of doing things, and that may not be easy. Out of curiosity, which materials (online,
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
I parted company with the article at this line: "The primary objective of the Church and the Christian faith is your confession, not your self-actualization." That's at odds with education, which should have a goal of assisti
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
You haven't been in one of our department faculty meetings.
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
My attempt to describe it for psych research methods students - in visual novel form: http://evc-cit.info/psych018/hyptest/index.html
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
This. I wrote some software that relieved admin assistants at a school from having to slog through spreadsheets to find room assignment conflicts. There was no shortage of far less mind-numbing tasks to fill up the time the program saved.
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
In the language tutorials I wrote, I decided to write a whole section for people who didn't want to learn grammar. ( http://langintro.com/kintro/grammar/hategram.htm ) My example was Russian adjectives, where a
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
The fact that you can redefine a function gives me a terribly unsettled feeling, probably because I remember the assembly language days when we were told not to write self-modifying code, as it's not re-entrant. (If JS were ever in a c
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
The first example could also be written as: (reduce + (map #(+ % 2) (range 10))) which looks more like the Scala example, or, perhaps more readable, in the long form: (reduce + (map (fn [x] (+ x 2)) (range 10)))
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
"NeXT had services, in which applications could publish menu items that became available in other applications where the two were using the same data." -- am I mistaken, or doesn't Android have a similar concept in "inte
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
This seems a case where the "infographic" is almost worse than useless. The image has no meaningful alt attribute, thus making it inaccessible. The graphic is followed by links to the information. Why not make the links have the t
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
I'm not dyslexic, but I still have a hellish time with left and right. I finally had to "logic out" that when I look in the rear-view mirror, left is left and right is right (when seeing the turn signals of the person behind
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
This: http://opencontainers.org/ seems to be somewhat related, and also a good thing.
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
Excellent work condensing the alphabet into a single fun-to-read comic. Shameless self-promotion: http://langintro.com/kintro ; much slower paced, with exercises and other stuff.
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
If it were truly a simple concept, it might not need so many tutorials and explanations.
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
Historical reasons, possibly? FORTRAN was started by an IBM committee (US corporation). COBOL committee was mostly US companies and US Dept. of Defense (CODASYL). Lisp came from MIT. ALGOL is the exception, with both European (ETH Zurich) a
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
This is exacerbated by language choice. Clojure, OCaml, Haskell, Erlang, Racket...? I'm not sure about materials for teaching FP in the abstract, but Racket appears to have a very good ecosystem for beginners; see the "Learning&qu
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
There is, of course, Lisp Flavoured Erlang: http://lfe.io/
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
Although Lisp itself may not have succeeded on a relative scale, Clojure (a Lisp dialect for the JVM) seems to have a fairly good foothold.
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
The "Anti Coloring Book" series ( http://www.susanstriker.com/anticoloring.html ) is also a clever idea.
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
Random thoughts: As far as I understand it, CSS is declarative. JavaScript, not so much. The declarative aspect of CSS is nice; you just specify what you want and CSS handles everything else for you. I am also idly wondering how this would
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
1) Replace keycaps 2) Replace software key map 3) Profit!!!
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
Thanks. Seems improved.
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
Done. It's a combination of the color and the small font; the black tends to "swallow up" the edges of the white characters, and the teal and red are difficult to distinguish. Also, probably my eyes are significantly older th
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
Interesting concept, but the examples are extremely difficult to read because the color contrast on the black background is too low.
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
I had a similar experience with both Erlang and XSLT -- they don't look anything like a typical imperative language, so I wasn't tempted to think in imperative terms. I just had to do things "the Erlang way" and "th
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by jdeisenberg 11y ago
Although it's not clearly stated, I think the reader has to make their decision (by putting a card face down) before the discussion starts. Otherwise, they could just look at the other players' answers and "make up their mi

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