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by kibibu 11y ago
What's the matter? (Tastefully) nude harpistry not your thing?
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by kibibu 11y ago
Do private schools have similar incentives to keep children from passing to extract more fees? If they are paid per graduating student, are they incentivized to pass (or ignore plagiarism, etc) for under-performing students? If they are pai
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by kibibu 11y ago
> So, if you are looking for good design in a language — PHP is still a disaster, I assure you. PHP is like an unholy blend of Python and JavaScript with Perl syntax rules. If there's some feature you like in one of these languages,
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by kibibu 11y ago
Because there is nothing in it?
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by kibibu 11y ago
PHP does few things right, but it provides an `empty` function for documenting this use case - it will return true for empty strings, null, empty arrays, and unset variables, among others.
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by kibibu 11y ago
"Don't you know who I am?! I was on The Simpsons!"
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by kibibu 11y ago
> The heavy downvoting of the GP, which was a well-written, thoughtful comment, demonstrates a close-mindedness and refusal to engage with (or even consider) ideas which one disagrees with You could also have a well-written, thoughtful c
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by kibibu 11y ago
> Sure, you could say people made up these Bible stories if you want Occam's razor would suggest this is the best approach
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by kibibu 11y ago
Removing the function keys wouldn't necessitate a brand-new layout, and I suspect the num keys get used more than function keys.
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by kibibu 11y ago
Some of those headers are generated by the Heroku infrastructure https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-routing > X-Forwarded-For > X-Forwarded-Proto > X-Forwarded-Port > X-Request-Sta
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by kibibu 11y ago
Here are some other keys that are a massive waste for 99% of users: * Home * End * Backtick/tilde ` ~ * Backslash/pipe \ | * PrtScn * Break/Pause * Any F key that is not F1 or F5 When's the last time most users typed a b
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by kibibu 11y ago
I'm starting to suspect he faked it and went to work for Microsoft
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by kibibu 11y ago
You think the above site is acceptable because it works well if you disable JavaScript ?
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by kibibu 11y ago
> Gamers? Please stop. I've never used the numpad in a game in my life (except maybe some flight sim from 1998). I had to use one of those dinky Apple keyboards without it for a while, and I dearly missed it using Blender, Excel and
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by kibibu 11y ago
I thought that claim was because Safari is not keeping up with web standards in the way the FF, Chrome and even IE/Edge are. Supporting Safari is not quite at the same hell level as supporting IE6 became though (unless you're supp
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by kibibu 11y ago
What made me giggle was: > that doesn't force you to click a link to see the rest (includes a link you click to see the rest)
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by kibibu 11y ago
From the article: > They found that people from the US tended to describe the voices as intrusive unreal thoughts they hated. In contrast, people from South India were more likely to describe them as providing useful guidance, and people
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by kibibu 11y ago
It's not so cut and dried https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling I'm Australian and I prefer using the Z, otherwise what's the point of having the bloody letter in the first place?
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by kibibu 11y ago
And clean up other people's shit (figuratively, usually)
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by kibibu 11y ago
On the flip side, that's 10 full installations of Doom, which is my standard measure of software size.
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by kibibu 11y ago
A peer review can identify a very large class of problems with research without actually replicating the experiment. For example, problems with methodology and sampling, overlooked prior research, bad analysis of results, straight-up non-
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by kibibu 11y ago
It's not open source in the sense most people would mean though - you're not free to redistribute the code, for example.
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by kibibu 11y ago
If you have a few hours, have a look at Jon Blow's new language, Jai. Most of the content is in video form so not easy to grok, but there is essentially a way to switch from Array of Structs to Struct of Arrays with a single keyword. T
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by kibibu 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS edit: apologies, you meant on the controller presumably
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by kibibu 11y ago
The "Long Way to the Top" video was filmed on the back of a flat-bed ute driving through Melbourne, and it's awesome.
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by kibibu 11y ago
Same - I did Programming 1 and Programming 2 in VisualAge for Smalltalk in 1997
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by kibibu 11y ago
If you can trace a vote to a person, through force or otherwise, then you can coerce said person to vote however you like. "Vote for this guy or you're fired" type stuff
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by kibibu 11y ago
I'm guessing these: http://www.amazon.com/Krinos-Olives-Italian-Style-Cured/dp/B...
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by kibibu 11y ago
I'm curious how one would handle accessibility with a WebGL UI. Is generating a parallel vanilla-HTML version the only option? I suppose you could progressively enhance your HTML version to override certain DOM elements with WebGL UI,
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by kibibu 11y ago
Also not a bug, but putting strlen() inside the loop condition makes my eyes twitch

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