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by mdemare 15y ago
That has never happened to me - I only use MacVim when I need the power features. I'd love to have vim-style modal editing, but my eyes overrule my hands. MacVim is simply too ugly.
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by mdemare 15y ago
So why did you need permission to post on my wall? As soon as I saw that, I closed the window.
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by mdemare 15y ago
Nonsense. A cheap currency promotes exports and reduces imports, and will strongly stimulate job grows, which is exactly what the U.S. needs now. Job growth is also the reason why China is keeping its currency cheap: mass unemployment means
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by mdemare 16y ago
There are two warts - having to declare methods, and the obscure error message. A smart error handler could have seen that frobnicate had been defined further down, and told you exactly how to fix it. And it would be ok when that error hand
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by mdemare 16y ago
An easier way is to use n-grams. You can download 3 and 4 word n-grams from google here: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets There are roughly 32 billion of google 4-grams.
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by mdemare 16y ago
No puns, please, we're Serious People.
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by mdemare 16y ago
The problem is that this rule would have locked out you too.
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by mdemare 16y ago
Thank you for your feedback. I try to add as many synonyms as possible (5 for Dutch in the case of "near the sea"), but some always slip through. Also, any words that are context dependent should have an example that clarifies the meaning
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by mdemare 16y ago
If you can't wait for Duolingo, you can start learning French, Spanish, German, Italian or Dutch vocabulary at http://inglua.com/en (a YC reject from before it became fashionable).
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by mdemare 16y ago
Norway, Denmark and Sweden are all richer (per capita) than the U.S. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin... ).
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by mdemare 16y ago
I think you're too facile in comparing health care with economic goods such as crude oil, for which the laws of scarcity ordinarily apply. Compare this statement: "Chemotherapy is expensive, limited, and must be rationed. Not everyone can h
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by mdemare 16y ago
>Education debt WILL be made dischargeable in bankruptcy again, there is simply too much pressure. I'm not sure if that's possible - isn't essentially every graduate bankrupt? Couldn't every student get rid of their debts then?
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by mdemare 16y ago
Good catch, I hadn't read the original.
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by mdemare 16y ago
You cannot explain obese babies by saying they don't get enough exercise. Also, you're recommending solutions before you understand the problem. Did Americans suddenly lose all self-control in 1980? And if they did, why? Getting more exerci
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by mdemare 16y ago
The trouble with this subject is that everybody, including commenters in this thread, thinks they already know what the solution is, even before they have a good grasp of the problem. I recommend reading Gary Taubes ("Good Calories, Bad Cal
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by mdemare 16y ago
That is a cliche, and an incorrect one. Take autocorrect for instance - hardly a perfect product. ( http://damnyouautocorrect.com/ )
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by mdemare 16y ago
Great to see this initiative! American companies are usually much too tardy with internationalization. And amazing to see that the Swedes are so active on StackOverflow. And I applaud the Stack Exchange team for being so sensible in choosin
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StackOverflow Around the World(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by mdemare 16y ago
He says he doesn't like bytecode for expressing programs, but he never mentioned what else would work better. I'm intrigued, does anyone know more?
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by mdemare 16y ago
It's not in the article, but the case is being heard by the First Circuit.
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by mdemare 16y ago
Please correct the title. Tanenbaum is the renowned ast of Minix fame; Tenenbaum is the hapless guy being sued by the RIAA.
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by mdemare 16y ago
Please fix typo in title (poweres).
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by mdemare 16y ago
Normal people are people you don't know very well.
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by mdemare 16y ago
Very cool! And if there's one company I admire, and would like to work for, it's GitHub. This may also work for web-apps, btw. Let your users modify something about your web-app, or create something new, that is not just for them, and I'll
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by mdemare 16y ago
You cannot take life expectancy at birth as a model for how healthy adults are. That statistic is massively distorted by infant mortality (which is an astounding 13.3% for Afghanistan).
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by mdemare 16y ago
Actually, it's: rvm get latest ; rvm reload ; rvm install jruby
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by mdemare 16y ago
Yes, the changes look exciting, but I'm holding out for a better screen too, primarily because of how black-and-white text looks. Isn't that a problem on the Kindle, which has an even lower resolution? (I've never seen one in the wild here
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by mdemare 16y ago
Fascinating stuff! Programmers (good ones) also have a different mindset - always trying to think of all paths, not just the happy paths. But we don't expect malice, just Murphy's law.
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by mdemare 16y ago
Thank god, an app server with an imperative configuration file! Bliss! Declarative languages are not meant for programmers.
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by mdemare 16y ago
Good question, but this is more a stack exchange question - I don't know which stack exchange though...

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