kenbellows

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by kenbellows 10y ago
Not sure the process, but it's possible on YouTube to allow community members to add captions for your videos (after approval by the channel owner); who knows, maybe a few generous folks with some spare time would do the work for you
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by kenbellows 10y ago
Past the point where we thought that ideas should be or even can be segmented into those interesting to women vs those interesting to men, which is a rather silly idea rooted in gender unfounded stereotypes and possibly a bit of sexism.
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by kenbellows 10y ago
It represents a person (presumably a woman) wearing a dress/skirt. o>-<|= o head > arms raised - torso <| skirt = legs
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by kenbellows 10y ago
Minor comment regarding CSS: Flexbox alone was never supposed to fix layout; the real magic is supposed to be Flexbox + CSS Grid. As I understand it, Flexbox is truly designed for use in one dimension to govern local dynamic behavior withi
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by kenbellows 10y ago
I mean... evolution explains the complexity of things, and evolution certainly has a foundation in the chemistry of DNA. Or are you asking why we have the particular configuration of biological entities we have instead of a different one?
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by kenbellows 10y ago
Using bad grammar and obviously fake UIs is a pretty well-known technique that's been used by Internet scammers and phishers for years to filter out the savvier potential victims. It seems the motivation is not that smarter users will
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by kenbellows 10y ago
I don't think people are arguing against ideograms; in fact, I think the argument is very much in favor of ideograms, but simultaneously that icons like the floppy disk save icon are not very good ones. From what I've seen, there
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by kenbellows 10y ago
The idea is that if you choose a good enough icon, you won't confuse people who know the old one. Users are at this point used to encountering unfamiliar icons and trying to quickly guess what they mean, so if a sufficiently communic
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by kenbellows 10y ago
That's all fine and good, but this response is entirely different from the blog's original argument that I was responding to. The original argument was "Icons should be based on real world objects because they give the user a
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by kenbellows 10y ago
I'd argue that the quill pen was a special case. As you point out, it was an intentional anachronism to communicate a certain point. This was not the case with, e.g., the floppy disk, the notepad, the contacts book, etc. Everyone knew
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by kenbellows 10y ago
As long as we're being pedantic, it's definitely 'fewer'. 'Less' is only used in cases where you couldn't conceptually talk about a single instance of the thing being described. 'Less distance',
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by kenbellows 10y ago
How do copyright laws differ between podcasts and broadcast radio? Wouldn't the rights need to be acquired anyway to put it over the airwaves, or is there some fundamental difference between how things are handled on radio vs. the inte
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by kenbellows 10y ago
An important reason that table based layouts became obsolete in HTML is because the way table cells are rendered is not the same as how `div`s are rendered. It's shockingly difficult to get a table cell to keep a consistent size. This
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by kenbellows 11y ago
There's certainly more than just scaling involved, but there's definitely scaling in there.
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by kenbellows 11y ago
Somebody tweet it!
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by kenbellows 11y ago
Though in fairness, Netflix hasn't historically bee based on native web tech; it used to be Microsoft Silverlight for web browsers (I think they've gone/are going HTML5 now), and even now it's native apps for mobile devi
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by kenbellows 11y ago
Are you implying that this kind of corruption happens in every single investigation? No one should be prosecuted in cases where it is present, that's for sure. But I don't see how that leads to the conclusion that "no one sho
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by kenbellows 11y ago
Prosecution presents first because they have the burden of proof. They are the ones making a claim. The defense has no claim to make, they are simply responding to a claim by the prosecution, so of course the prosecution must present first.
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by kenbellows 11y ago
Like @pistle, I'm a little confused about the intent of this notebook. This doesn't seem super beginner friendly; if I was a complete beginner, especially someone with a strictly humanities background and no CS experience, I imagi
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by kenbellows 11y ago
If this is intended for people new to Python, I expect they will also have no idea what IPython or Jupyter is; there should probably be a blurb at the top about how to use this notebook with a link to the appropriate "Here's how t
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by kenbellows 11y ago
Looks up to me, 08:55 UTC-5. If it's still not working for you try the archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160105091436/http://www.10zenm...
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by kenbellows 11y ago
your link works fine, the one above had a bad double quote at the end
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by kenbellows 11y ago
I also haven't read the book, but at first glance, I strongly dispute the statement that consciousness "does nothing else". The "part" of consciousness, so to speak, that most troubles modern philosophers and neurol
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by kenbellows 11y ago
If you already have all the songs you'd listen to, you won't be using Spotify. My use of Spotify has historically been about listening to music I love without having to purchase/download it myself. That's plenty incentiv
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by kenbellows 11y ago
I think the point was just that the more we investigate any given area of science, the more we refine and overturn previously held ideas. I think the GP's wording was a little hostile toward scientists in tone, but I also think that ma
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by kenbellows 11y ago
I'm hopeful, but: > The Google research paper hasn't been peer reviewed, so scientists have yet weigh in on the latest results. So I'll maintain skepticism for a little while. Another note: > it comes with some caveats
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by kenbellows 11y ago
This brings to mind the concept of punctuated equilibrium. I only recently came to really understand it when I read Bill Nye's Undeniable (great read, btw). It makes so much sense and lends a much more intuitive feel to articles li
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by kenbellows 11y ago
He doesn't have to open source it/give it away if he doesn't want to, of course, but if he doesn't, his language and tools will probably eventually be surpassed in use by other, more open tools and languages. That's
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by kenbellows 11y ago
TL;DR: The device in question, Gene Radar, is a "tricorder" only in the sense that it's a mobile health diagnostic tool, not in the Star Trek sense of a handheld external scanner that will will give you information about a pe
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by kenbellows 11y ago
But that's the thing: Sesame Street wasn't created for two-year-olds. Or rather, not just two-year-olds. It was created for kids as young as two, maybe younger, and as old as six or seven, maybe older. But the increasing focus

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