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by maw 10y ago
When are semicolons to be avoided in JS? I assume daft styleguides pushed by people desperate to show how smart they are don't count. I agree with your broader point, of course; certainly making them optional hasn't helped matter
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by maw 10y ago
What I most enjoy about learning languages are the insights that make me say "Whoa! I had no idea that you could do that!" One particular example was when I came to really understand the distinction between the preterite and imp
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by maw 10y ago
No, but their environmental record hasn't been great, either. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea for one particularly spectacular example.
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by maw 10y ago
You make it sound as though sleep quality were something everyone has control over, which is not at all the case.
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by maw 10y ago
You mean like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty ? Good luck.
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by maw 10y ago
I don't really think that Bluetooth is an industry-wide practical prank that's gotten totally out of control (you weren't let in on the joke, and I wasn't either), but I do think that it's nearly indistinguishable f
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Zomia(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by maw 10y ago|0 comments
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by maw 10y ago
Indeed. And it goes both ways, of course. There are, for instance, many (delicious) traditional Mexican dishes that would have been impossible prior to contact from Europeans.
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by maw 10y ago
Having spent very little time in the Roman Empire I can't vouch for its authenticity, but http://www.passthegarum.co.uk/ looks like an interesting source of recipes.
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by maw 10y ago
It would be like the owner of a coal mine campaigning for a carbon emissions tax Not necessarily so strange. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists for instance.
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by maw 10y ago
It's much like rebasing, with a similar set of benefits and drawbacks. Once other people can be expected to have done work based on your amended or rebased work, you can expect some annoyances (or worse). If you haven't pushed yet
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by maw 10y ago
There are many browser extensions for managing resource usage per tab. Any clues on what to google for? I've tried the Great Suspender and wasn't very impressed.
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by maw 10y ago
If you stick with Spanish and really learn its grammar inside and out you'll have a much easier time with French later on. Their vocabularies are very similar and the differences in grammar are minimal for the most part.
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by maw 10y ago
Yes! Rereading a (good) book you've already read is an excellent learning technique. (Mine was Dune.) Your foreknowledge provides plenty of context, something which is often lacking in more artificial exercises.
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by maw 10y ago
At the time 128MB was a lot or RAM for a Linux box too, although its GUIs weren't very capable.
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How Bill James Used Rafael Palmeiro's Gold Glove to Predict Donald Trump(sportsworld.nbcsports.com)
1 points by maw 10y ago|0 comments
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by maw 10y ago
You've just posted an example of the recency illusion.
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by maw 10y ago
People with lots of money and little taste are, sadly, to be found all over the world.
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by maw 10y ago
My thought too. Maybe it'll be an impetus to make their issue tracking software a bit more powerful, a bit more serious. Might be optimistic, but I'd really like to see it, especially as Github's clones copy the feature.
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by maw 10y ago
Is "Is Google Making Us Stupid" making us stupid?
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by maw 11y ago
The Linguistics Journalism Award is a real thing. (Most recent winner announced here: http://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2015/10/22/arika-okren... ) Kristen Hare is unlikely to win this year's pr
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by maw 11y ago
Is there a lisp variant that switches from prefix notation to infix when you indent blocks by multiples of 4 instead of 2? Did its maintainers not see fit to document it? Do they pooh-pooh you when you report the issue? If so, I'm sure
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by maw 11y ago
Asana was the first program I ever used that made me feel old. But not in the actually rather good sense of it making me say "wow, they can do this now?" Rather, it made me feel like an old fart using a computer for the first tim
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by maw 11y ago
My first thought as well. Thanks to clort for the link, even if I don't like what it says.
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by maw 11y ago
Does it need to be enabled globally in order to be useful? Or is this just so that all users get its effects?
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by maw 11y ago
http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/ is one of my favorite sites on the internet.
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by maw 11y ago
Probably not, unfortunately. This type of problem isn't really due to a lack of resources and so more resources are unlikely to help much.
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by maw 11y ago
Yeah, fine, but that's no reason to not act irrational and panicky!
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by maw 11y ago
I think pklausler means that, out of the box, emacs is decent but, over time, you slowly mold it into something that is more truly yours. That's been my nearly twenty year experience with emacs.
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by maw 11y ago
But what languages are derived from Greek, as opposed to having a lot of vocabulary derived from it?

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