jholman

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by jholman 12y ago
I'd never heard of CH a week ago, and Bolling's interpretation of CH's cartooning may be more accurate than Secco's, and it was an interesting perspective. But I think that Bolling's conclusions are wrong, except pe
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by jholman 12y ago
Hmn, I agree (about "best I've read so far"). Thank you for the link. In a related but distinct vein, two thoughts: Primus. I do not doubt that these murders are a crime and we should grieve and be angry. But why are these
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by jholman 12y ago
I am lazy and suck at scrolling smoothly, so I middle-click to get the scroll tool set-point, then move my pointer a little below the set-point to indicate that I wish to scroll down slowly. Works in FF and Chrome. Isn't this how ever
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by jholman 12y ago
That was good, yes. And link-browsing from there led me to this feller's site, which so far is also relevant and interesting. http://federicopistono.org/
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by jholman 12y ago
I'm not saraid216, nor American, but I believe that I find it very difficult to find (sampling from primarily Canadians and Americans) people who get emotionally heated about other people being tortured, and relatively easy to find peo
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by jholman 12y ago
In the case of the shelters, the problem is not how to allocate the funding; the problem is what dorm to put them in. I agree that it is clear that the socially-desirable action is to give shelter independent of gender; it's also clear
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by jholman 12y ago
What facts can I find? Let's see. Wikipedia says that the World Almanac says that the US Census Bureau says that, across all money-earning Americans of age 15 or over, the median for males is around $30k and for females is around $17
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by jholman 12y ago
Well, there may be people that actually think that way (that it's okay to profit from useless things, but not okay to profit from useful things), but I think there's a less-incomprehensible version, that has to do with entitlement
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by jholman 12y ago
Thank you so much for Eloquent JavaScript, Marijn! It's a really great book, and it has given me a lot of value.
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by jholman 12y ago
Even better, these two quotes from the judge: "You don't have a nondisclosure agreement with the court" and "I mean, this is simple. You can't just stop someone and not give me a reason."
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by jholman 12y ago
I'm actually really unclear on what alleged value Scribd might bring to users. Why do people even use it and/or link to it? As others said, I already have a PDF reader, and unsurprisingly, it works better than Scribd.
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by jholman 12y ago
If you are making changes when you notice the need (and thank you for that work!), then you ARE an editor of Wikipedia. That's what that word means.
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by jholman 12y ago
If I'm on the fence about whether a webapp/product is right for me, and I look for a demo button, and I find a demo button, and it says "Start Verbing" (for appropriate value of "Verb"), and I click that button
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by jholman 12y ago
Like you, in the "caption"y thing at the top, I see gain above 1 THz (1012 GHz) However, in the first paragraph, I see one terahertz (10^12 GHz) Of course, one terahertz should be 10^12 Hz. So perhaps the author of the phys.o
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by jholman 12y ago
That doesn't sound like a reason to avoid experimenting. If you're tempted to experiment, jump in! Be bold!
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by jholman 12y ago
"Working programmers" and "published academic type theorists" are examples of meaningful-to-me hopefully-non-partisan classes of speakers. I can't manage to parse what I wrote any other way, I don't know what
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by jholman 12y ago
Yeah. And all three of us are outside of my "most programmers", which is unsurprising, because we are reading comments on a post about type systems, which is a weird thing to do. I encourage you to go ask some random C++ programm
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by jholman 12y ago
> Most people work with a two-axes "strong" vs "weak" and "dynamic" vs "static" system. I dispute this. First of all, I think that most programmers use a one-axis system of strong/weak, wh
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by jholman 12y ago
Ah, then you want Readable. http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
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by jholman 12y ago
I agree with your accounting rules. The parent can be assumed to be following them, with plenty of room to spare.
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by jholman 12y ago
> An accessible readable website ... is a legal requirement in Canada. Could you help me out with a pointer in the right direction to find/understand this legal requirement? I did a little googling, and could only find evidence o
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by jholman 12y ago
The concern about drawing conclusions from correlation is legitimate, but it's more than "an" (i.e. one) observational study. http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/AlcoholAndHealth.html That page cites 188 art
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by jholman 12y ago
> In the game I work on, Path of Exile, we have specifically made respec something that has a cost. My gaming group gave PoE a very serious try, and all eventually got bored, and I think this "feature" you boast of is part of
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by jholman 12y ago
I assume from "these days" that you mean Gates, not Rockefeller. Microsoft wrote some software that was, I would argue, overall an improvement on the software against which it competed. So Microsoft did some good. However, in th
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by jholman 12y ago
Sometimes it's better to be weird than boring, sometimes vice versa. Certainly if you are "desperately lonely", that sounds like a situation where you might want to take (at least) a few (modest) risks to make a few more pers
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by jholman 12y ago
I totally buy the argument that discriminatory "fast lanes" are a potential danger to internet startups. I mean, at least, at a hand-wavy level. But I also buy the argument that regulation can disincentivize competition. At the
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by jholman 12y ago
Can't speak for GP, but I would [feel better with that name]. (Although I agree with you that statically-typed-language-tuples don't seem to make sense in Python.) But hey... Python's weird choice of how to name the Immutable
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by jholman 12y ago
YES! (though I'd quibble with s/sometimes/usually/) To reply to my siblings: HTTP is in practice a great transport protocol, because of the world we live in. That's an affront to ivory tower engineering (my favori
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by jholman 12y ago
I agree absolutely; if you're using HTTP, you must take into account HTTP semantics. Exactly as you said. But HTTP is not REST (note that SOAP usually layers over HTTP, although the SOAP-vs-REST is an unhelpful dichotomy). As some oth
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by jholman 12y ago
Right. REST is about Transfering the State's REpresentation. In this case, we want to transfer an event ("honk!"). You could argue that we want to transfer a state transition ("begin honking"), and let some o

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