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by lgessler 8y ago
That's a minimum recommendation. Pretty sure most people out there don't plan to run this on Pentium II's
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by lgessler 8y ago
What I was hoping to signal by using sarcastic expressions like "indisputably the best C# coding style" and "inarguably egregious" is that the notion of an objectively best style is unsupportable. Coding style is to some
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by lgessler 8y ago
So, let's say that you work at an enterprise software company. Everyone writes in C#, and your team has a consistent style they stick to that is indisputably the best C# coding style. Suddenly an SVP pulls you aside and tells you you n
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by lgessler 8y ago
I have trouble imagining a sentence where a speaker would truly have difficulty disambiguating the two senses. People rarely have trouble disambiguating even incredibly homophonous words like set, run, or bank.
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Think of it this way: spec gives you an easy way to ensure that your data conforms to arbitrary predicate functions. Suppose you have an XML format, <library> that has books and authors[1]. The elements look something like this: <b
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by lgessler 8y ago
Really cool, I just tried live-py the other day (on emacs, but I think it works in other editors) and I loved how it printed the values of variables at every stage of a loop. This looks like that but more general and much, much prettier.
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by lgessler 8y ago
FWIW online etymologies seem to suggest this description isn't totally off, but I agree the bit about it not having a history is transparently wrong. Etymonline[1]: > kind of sauce or relish much used in Indian cookery, from the lea
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by lgessler 8y ago
The ghazal is a poetic form, not science. Not saying I agree with GP, but this isn't a rebuttal.
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by lgessler 8y ago
This article was hailed by Language Log as being mostly right in its scientific treatment of language[1], which is unfortunately pretty rare in journalism. [1]: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=40379
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by lgessler 8y ago
It's kind of ridiculous that a library needs to exist to guard against this browser behavior, although I empathize with the browser vendors' argument, which is that browser storage should essentially be used for caching and that b
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See also The Golden Ass[1], the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Ass
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by lgessler 8y ago
> in regulated/safety-critical industries such as automotive, aerospace & defense, medical, etc. where people's lives are at stake, 99% of end-user facing products are fantastic and you generally get what you pay for, with
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by lgessler 8y ago
Software engineering seems safe, if that is what you are primarily thinking of in your question. Developing software at the same level of a skilled engineer is a problem we'd only be able to solve with general AI. Even if program synth
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by lgessler 8y ago
I think your observation can coexist with Graeber's take. If you implemented a UBI, it seems reasonable to expect that most people would take the opportunity to take on some kind of "work" or self-development that is not tied
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by lgessler 8y ago
Well, even if we assume you're right, the Japanese certainly don't have a monopoly on ethically questionable relationships with animals (i.e., which they ought to recognize as such, given what they know scientifically). Consider h
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by lgessler 8y ago
Yeah, I really don't get it. As for this part: > when you get into a situation where one of the buttons needs to have slightly more margin-top than the others, then it's easy to fix You can have this with semantic classnames. I
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by lgessler 8y ago
"merit" as measured by something like an SAT score has pretty obvious ties to factors that are controlled by or at least correlated with family wealth, such as informal and formal extracurricular instruction, how much your parents
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by lgessler 8y ago
But if you understood what GP meant well enough to correct him, is there a sense in which GP hadn't misspelled?
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by lgessler 8y ago
As a person, Luther Tychonievich is one of the most interesting professors I ever had. This was one of my first impressions: he explained to us on the first day of class that (despite (because of?) his having a PhD in computer science) he d
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by lgessler 8y ago
The way I see it is that although in most relationships people expect reciprocation, they differ in how strictly the people involved are keeping tabs on the difference between how much each is contributing. In relationships like the ones de
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by lgessler 8y ago
It's a distant relative: Urdu is Indo-Aryan, which is the language family Sanskrit belonged to, and Indo-Aryan is in the Indo-European language family, to which English and Romance languages also belong. GP's point is still a good
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by lgessler 8y ago
Org-mode. Since it's a plaintext format it's easily searchable, and it's the most feature complete and ergonomic piece of software I've ever used for task tracking and knowledge management (including MediaWiki, TiddlyWik
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by lgessler 8y ago
I'm a PhD student in computational linguistics. My advisor is the principal for a repository of digitized Coptic texts[1], and while I wasn't required to learn the language as a part of my role as a research assistant on this proj
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by lgessler 8y ago
Looks like the APKG format is a SQL dump[0], so perhaps, depending on how determined you are. My cards wouldn't be too useful as they are because many cards contain English prompts ("Which verb forms must have their direct objects
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by lgessler 8y ago
A single system? Absolutely not. Even with a lifetime of study it might not be possible for an individual to really understand everything that goes into a modern web browser. A single module with well-defined interfaces that abstract aw
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by lgessler 8y ago
This is an Anki deck that was made from the book I used: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1657789477 I made my own Anki deck because this deck didn't have tags by chapter, and I wanted to study only the words
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I couldn't imagine learning a language without Anki. I had to learn Coptic in a month, which required memorizing the most common ~1000 words in the language. Anki made this as easy as it can be. I don't think I would have been abl
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by lgessler 8y ago
Looks like this poster was in STEM. The situation's even more bleak in the humanities--see for instance this Reddit thread[1]: > The humanities PhD is still a vocational degree to prepare students for a career teaching in academia,
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If you're so sure, could you explain which linguistic features of French make it "sound fancy"? Even if you could isolate them and somehow attempt to make the case that it is their intrinsic qualities that give them their &qu
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The cure for the confused talk of accents being "dull", "grating", "neutral", "jarring", "ugly", "guttural", etc. is to observe that dialects have these associations merely because

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