laconian

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by laconian 15y ago
The legal system suffers from sclerosis from all these laws being piled on top of each other. Lawmakers aren't interested in refactoring. :P
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by laconian 15y ago
$10? It might be a fun trick to show off to friends, but I am sure as hell not doing any serious work in that. iTerm2 'till I die!
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by laconian 15y ago
They're demonstrating that it's practically impossible for an average person to NOT run afoul of copyright law during natural everyday activities.
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by laconian 15y ago
Thank you very much for pointing me to this. The demoscene is/was amazing. One downside of everything going through browsers is that people have lost the ability to talk directly to the metal - it's what separated the men from the boys. Som
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by laconian 15y ago
Neat. After playing Out of this World a long time ago, I was wondering if it was viable to compress video data using polygons annotated image block overlays in the high-frequency/high-error areas. Looks like I might've been onto something,
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by laconian 15y ago
You: "So, what are you guys working on?" Interviewer: "You didn't sign the NDA; I can't tell you." Yay!
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by laconian 15y ago
Sounds like you stopped midway through Season 1!
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by laconian 15y ago
There was one or two like that in TNG, but those were very conspicuous in their intent to depict a day in the life of the crew.
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by laconian 15y ago
My experience is that Flash executes fine, but it's awful for touchscreens - dragging, zooming, and clicking get all muddied up within the context of a Flash plugin rectangle.
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by laconian 15y ago
You write software, right? Sometimes the user doesn't know they want something until they see it in front of them.
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by laconian 15y ago
I feel that way about Slate and many of Gawker's properties. Buffer bloat isn't the bane of the Internet, insipid Top-10 lists are!
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by laconian 15y ago
How about having her learn Lua? It's a nice interpreted language with just a handful of bad quirks, and she can get some practical experience by writing simple mods for games when she gets good enough. Maybe you could help her get the envir
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by laconian 15y ago
Sure you can, you can encode information as gestures/taunts. So for four taunts, you have a base-4 encoding. It's great!
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by laconian 15y ago
Seems like a shortsighted move, given the perception in developed Western countries that Twitter is a tool for fomenting freedom.
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by laconian 15y ago
Nice workaround, but what to do about the browser's rendering? When the user goes back to the browser, what would he see?
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by laconian 15y ago
Awesome for switching between languages, but not so good for absolute beginners. I forwarded this to a PhD biologist friend who wants to learn the basics of programming (to possibly apply to the bioinformatics field), and she said "...what?
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by laconian 15y ago
Yes. Pre-Internet, I was happy reinventing the wheel because I didn't know the wheel even existed yet. Now, whenever I have a bright idea for a fun side projects, I do a few searches and see that it's already been done to death. Then I feel
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by laconian 15y ago
This'll actually be pretty sweet with SPYW, assuming my coworkers and programming buddies are diligent plus-one'ing the choice SO threads.
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by laconian 15y ago
Re: point #2, IIRC on iOS devices this isn't possible. I believe that Apple allows third parties to register pseudo-protocols ("myapp://<content-id>"), but doesn't allow apps to receive links for certain patterns of HTTP URLs.
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by laconian 15y ago
The September that never ended.
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by laconian 15y ago
But, bagels!
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by laconian 15y ago
Just 714 article views for OMG! in the last 24h? Hmm, either it's really unpopular, or they forgot to include "thousands" or "millions".
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by laconian 15y ago
There are more atoms in the universe than there are iPhones.
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by laconian 15y ago
You are talking about Facebook and Twitter, right?
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by laconian 15y ago
This trope is getting super-tired. We even heard from someone saying that Google reducing the stock of bagels in the snack bars is EVIL!
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by laconian 15y ago
HyperCard was wonderful. It whet my appetite for programming when I was in third grade. The verbose syntax gave me the ability to open other people's stacks and learn the fundamentals of imperative programming by example. Now I have a CS de
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by laconian 15y ago
Tech blog echo chamber?
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by laconian 15y ago
Coffeescript is just a tacit admission that Javascript is capital-N Nasty.
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by laconian 15y ago
I wouldn't mind an entry about the metastasis of Javascript beyond the confines of the browser. The awfulness of JS refuses to go away!
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by laconian 15y ago
Sayonara, muscle memory!

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