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by jpd 16y ago
Shockingly, one time a few friends and I managed to play soccer in the park without any refs at all!! Crazy right? It was like a completely different game! /sarcasm The low-tech argument is not valid. People play football, baseball, basketb
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by jpd 16y ago
Are you suggesting that using a programming language to write a program is surprising? I feel like they may have been designed to do that...
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by jpd 17y ago
I agree, it's supposed to be a joke claiming that 'needless' is a needless word. I'm saying I do not understand the joke because I believe 'needless' is actually a necessary part of that sentence.
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by jpd 17y ago
I disagree, I find "omit all words" to make as little sense as "omit no words". Personally, I find it more likely to default to "omit some words". This, of course, does not describe the type of words we should be omitting, but rather that t
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by jpd 17y ago
I've never understood that quote as I believe it removes a necessary word. "Needless" describes the type of word to delete. Without it, isn't William Zinsser suggesting we should omit random words?
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by jpd 17y ago
True, but just because it starts as a personal project doesn't mean it has to stay that way. For example, z/OS's TERSE (a compression utility) was once someone's personal project, but is now shipped with the operating system. I'm sure there
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by jpd 17y ago
Thanks for the heads up about this, just 'installed' the bookmarklet. Seems to work well.
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by jpd 17y ago
Oddly, copy/pasting the link into the address bar and manually adding a plus to the end of the URL seems to take far more effort then just clicking on the link. If only there were a usability trick to actually see the link directly in the p
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by jpd 17y ago
I'd imagine if your food came with instructions on how to cook them you, as a poor cook, would at least know enough to read and follow the instructions. I can't cook worth a dime normally, but I can follow directions in order to make Mac &#
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by jpd 17y ago
Answer: You can't, and no, you shouldn't try. You have to assume your users actually have the ability to get to your website before you can worry about what they do when they get there. Sorry, but this whole thing is a whole new level of id
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by jpd 17y ago
Could someone plase chime in for me on this: Does Flash have a way of directly patching the current level of software like, say, Google Chrome does? Does Flash 10? It really should. Secondly, a high-impact pervasive problem which allows a p
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by jpd 17y ago
Personally, I'd start with assembly (not necessarily x86 though, probably MIPS or similar. The reasoning here should be obvious as it's almost as low-level as you can get, everything else in computer science is based on the axioms found at
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by jpd 17y ago
Not really, I suppose I'd describe it as a low-level language like C, combined with syntax which would be familiar to anyone who has used REXX. You can do things like splits in python to refer to a subset of an array, and it has a single lo
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by jpd 17y ago
As far as I know, the only place PL/X is still used is inside z/OS, though I could be wrong.
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by jpd 17y ago
Other: PL/X, System Z Assembly
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by jpd 17y ago
What makes this better than the previously released www.spreeder.com?
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by jpd 17y ago
Lotus Symphony is even slower than Lotus Notes on my machine (Lenovo T61) and neither of them startup in less than 10 seconds. That's a deal breaker right there. But at least it LOOKS (superficially) better than Lotus Word Pro which they pr
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by jpd 17y ago
I have read Eoin's Artemis Fowl trilogy and found it quite good -- but it's not anywhere near the same writing style used in Hitchhiker's Guide. If they wanted the same Hitchhiker feel they probably should have gone with Terry Pratchett (th
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by jpd 17y ago
Great, now all you need to do is integrate it in a service like fanstory.com or fanfiction.net. Users could then point out all the writing mistakes perspective authors make as they read, beautifully and elegantly. Beta-readers would love it
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by jpd 17y ago
No, the Pre has a landing pad which you put it on. (i.e. it's "specifically designed with a transmitter and receiver in mind"). This phone will not require a landing pad, and will recharge ANYWHERE you happen to be (as long as radio waves p
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by jpd 17y ago
Can someone explain how one might do something like this? I get that you can use some sort of disassembler to read the code, but how did he insert his check without upsetting the machine code's memory offsets?
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by jpd 17y ago
My apologies, when you said "write a followup when better data proves it wrong," I thought you were suggesting that it was now good data.
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by jpd 17y ago
Uhm... where better data is the exact same source as they used before?
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by jpd 17y ago
My sentence needs the period moved to the left a bit. Not if you're English.
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by jpd 17y ago
yeah, noone has ever made "release early, update often" work on the web...
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by jpd 17y ago
Yes, software is getting more bloated, but it's also getting more powerful. The VIC-20 couldn't do any number of graphics related things our current range of hardware does on a regular basis. Take all your best engineers, and try to make it
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by jpd 17y ago
I also heard said anecdote, along with the fact that it didn't actually effect Chevy Nova sales; it sold admirably.
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by jpd 17y ago
That's Jabberwocky, not Hunting of the Snark.
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by jpd 17y ago
Plastic Logic: Like Kindle, but Thin like Kindle 2.
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by jpd 17y ago
While UTF-8 is a good default encoding, it seems odd to tie standard functions into things which cannot be presumed. Without having the ability to specify encoding, you will have one function for UTF-8 and a different one (roll your own?)

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