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by mdemare 17y ago
Please tell me more about bots of this kind.
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by mdemare 17y ago
There's more than one translation for words with synonyms (although people keep coming up with more synonyms). And I use a custom js-based keymap that works on all os'es, and teach students how to enter accents.
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by mdemare 17y ago
I have a similar site for European languages: http://inglua.com/en
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by mdemare 17y ago
Wow, there are a lot of us! Amsterdam or Utrecht preferred.
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by mdemare 17y ago
This quote is from "Yes Minister": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vidzkYnaf6Y
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by mdemare 17y ago
Some of the (controversial) meat of the article: "Good programmers know that a lack of superficial code quality and consistency is the best indicator of deeper systemic problems in a project. If you ever need a quick estimate of the quality
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Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty(corte.si)
1 points by mdemare 17y ago|1 comments
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by mdemare 17y ago
Wow, that was a disappointment. I've always thought of Gödel's incompleteness theorem as something so arcane that I'd never understood it. Now it turns out to be both trivial and really similar to the Halting problem. Good explanation thoug
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by mdemare 17y ago
When someone is being downmodded, and doesn't know why, I try to be a good netizen and offer an explanation. Otherwise, I stick to my own opinion :)
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by mdemare 17y ago
I'm merely trying to explain the line of thought of many people to the downmodded parent poster. No need to become rude.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Agreed, there are only 16 decades on record, so even if the average global temperature variation was random, there would be a 6.25% chance that the current decade is the warmest one.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Because Apple's rumored to launch a tablet themselves in the next 6 months, and with all the scandals surrounding this one, they'll have even less competition.
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by mdemare 17y ago
What you're seeing for English is the Collins Cobuild dictionary.
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by mdemare 17y ago
A lexicographer should be a native speaker. For a corpus-compiler, there's no reason for such a requirement.
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by mdemare 17y ago
I'm Dutch, and I use the electronic Van Dale Groot Woordenboek (€99). Google will give you wiktionary for the word "slim" ( http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim ) Van Dale gives you this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/381493/van_dale_slim.jpeg
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by mdemare 17y ago
I don't see how Google does that. I see Google collecting online all the online dictionaries they can find, and uniting them under a single interface, but I haven't found any dictionaries where they have contributed content. I think they s
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by mdemare 17y ago
Mostly good advice, but the 10,000-hours-until-you're-an-expert meme bothers me. First, not everything is equally difficult. Playing the violin is harder than knitting. Also, being an expert programmer suggests that you've levelled out, tha
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by mdemare 17y ago
Good dictionaries are hand-compiled by experienced lexicographers. Not Google's strength, to put it mildly. What Google would be extremely good at is creating corpora for all these languages. An example of an excellent Spanish corpus is the
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by mdemare 17y ago
The interface is uniform, but the quality is highly variable. There are some excellent electronics dictionaries on the market, but generally not for free on the web.
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by mdemare 17y ago
I had a lot of problems with beachballs on Safari. Ten seconds of unresponsiveness were by no means exceptional. I upgraded my laptop HD to a SSD and these problems vanished utterly.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis . They only died out 12000 years ago. I wonder when our most recent common ancestor lived - surprisingly, Homo floresiensis wasn't mentioned in The Ancestor's Tale.
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'Hobbits' are a new human species.(eurekalert.org)
2 points by mdemare 17y ago|1 comments
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by mdemare 17y ago
If loneliness is contagious, can we cure it by placing lonely people in quarantine?
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by mdemare 17y ago
Flagged for very misleading headline. He did use twitter, he refused to cooperate with the police and send a tweet.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Sid Meier is one of my programming heroes. I'd love to see a "Coders At Work" with only game programmers (instead of mostly language designers).
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by mdemare 17y ago
She says that the world is safer now for kids than it was when she grew up, but I wonder about that. Precisely because there are so few kids roaming the streets, the ones that still do may be more at risk because e.g. drivers don't expect t
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by mdemare 17y ago
If people listen to twenty tracks a day, this rate amounts to $1 per person per year. That seems lowish.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Linus deserves a Nobel Prize, but he likes flamewars way too much to get the Peace Prize. How about literature? Why should that be limited to writers of human languages?
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by mdemare 17y ago
I agree. Being in the extreme minority means that you'll draw a lot of attention. That's great if you are an attention-seeker, but developers are often the precise opposite.
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by mdemare 17y ago
But why use temperature to trigger them into action? Why not mix them with some kind of hormone for activation?

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