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by mdemare 17y ago
True, I've been yelled at in Amsterdam for not jaywalking.
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by mdemare 17y ago
Bizarre, instead of simply hiring a couple of translators at $0.10 a word, they build a tool to let users translate the site. How many words of copy does twitter.com have anyway? I count less than 100 on the frontpage. And it's not just twi
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by mdemare 17y ago
Me too! Thanks, much more readable than in Safari.
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by mdemare 17y ago
There are hardly any pseudonyms in this thread that aren't gender-neutral. frossie? boggles? roundsquare? dandelany?
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by mdemare 17y ago
It may seem boring to them, but we know that it isn't - at all. To me, chemistry seems boring. It's a problem of perception. I can easily imagine a society where 90%+ of the programmers are women, where programming is thought of as a typica
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by mdemare 17y ago
Isn't detecting mosquitos much harder than killing them? How do they solve that? Echolocation? I'd love to win the war against malaria with robats!
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by mdemare 17y ago
I do that too, but it doesn't work perfectly. For instance, how do you select all your tracks with genre Game, without also getting "Love is a losing game", or creating a smart playlist.
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by mdemare 17y ago
I think that gadget makers are underestimating the intensity of the emotions involved when a gadget is stolen. We have a strong sense of justice that's disproportionate to the actual value of the gadget. I know that I feel better about my i
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by mdemare 17y ago
1. Turn off sound/visual notifications for email. 2. End long running compilations/tests scripts with 'say "compilation done"' as a cue to stop browsing the web.
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by mdemare 17y ago
I wonder what 10.7 will be called - we're running out of cats with acceptable names (Andean Mountain Cat won't do). What's left: Lynx, Cougar, Puma, and of course, Lion. Apparently, a panther is not a species, but refers to a cougar, a puma
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by mdemare 17y ago
Evolution is essentially an algorithm. That's why we can use logic to predict that genes that regulate behavior for "less successful individuals to slink away and accept starvation" are unlikely to arise, since not a single one of the ances
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by mdemare 17y ago
Pfff. Show password technology is here today: type password, select all, cut, type username, tab, paste, enter. But I want the option to mask the password. I prefer the OSX wifi password dialog, with a checkbox to show the password that's
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ESR: Is Danish Dying?(esr.ibiblio.org)
43 points by mdemare 17y ago|24 comments
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by mdemare 17y ago
It generates secure passwords. It syncs passwords for all browsers. It creates backups. Autofill for credit-card data. Multiple logins per site.
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by mdemare 18y ago
I love this article, although it also discourages me. How could I possibly create such a company? How could I ever find one? His point about the second type of company touched a nerve: that's me, to a tee. It's an article from 2006, so the
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by mdemare 18y ago
The author is a regular contributor the the Language Log (recommended). http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/
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by mdemare 18y ago
Calambrac's correct, nobody uses the first two forms, as google will tell you. But why not? This is actually a very interesting question. You'd say "Cyberdyne Customers" is an indirect object. I give Cyberdyne Customers a cookie. I give a c
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by mdemare 18y ago
I'm not so sure. GM's stockholders and employees are being cast as the losers. Are they really? GM employees have been getting a great salary, great job security (until now), with excellent health care and pension benefits (the latter guara
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by mdemare 18y ago
The problem with parsing Roman numerals is that, unlike the decimal system, there are many permutations of digits that are illegal. That is, you can't say, let's party like it's MIM, or even MICM, no, you have to say MCMXCIX. The problem wi
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by mdemare 18y ago
The bbc has an chinese language edition. Do the US news outlets?
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by mdemare 18y ago
They went for the terminal look, but some of us have dark on light terminals too! Finally a site where command-control-alt-8 comes in handy. Great tips though, although not all of them work on OSX, and it does't advertise this. Love the !!
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by mdemare 18y ago
Amsterdam
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by mdemare 18y ago
Not on a mac though, as far as I know. When I had a Powerbook, I couldn't find any way to make it region free. Has that changed?
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by mdemare 18y ago
Is it me or has the development of Rails accelerated drastically lately? It used to feel quite slow, and now it's very fast. Is it because they switched to git? Any core developers here?
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by mdemare 18y ago
Yes, this is a great innovation, and really according to the Rails Way. My favorite among the new features (and the other ones are good too.) Now combine this with GitHub (search for rails-templates) and you've got a evolutionary algorithm
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by mdemare 18y ago
But I've tried Haskell, and I do like it! "X has nothing on Y" means X is not superior to Y. Not "X couldn't tie Y's shoelaces."
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by mdemare 18y ago
I think my post was neither, and I'm confused at the reactions. You summarized it perfectly.
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by mdemare 18y ago
For the non-native speakers, "software" is a mass noun, not a count noun ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun ).
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by mdemare 18y ago
Clojure has great support for parallellism, and Clojure's community is very friendly. Haskell has nothing on Clojure in these specific regards.
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by mdemare 18y ago
I read the same thing in "Clean Code" (amazon: http://is.gd/mJ8g ) I have two objections: First, what is "one thing"? Render a Doom 3 frame? Or increment the "i" variable? The "Clean Code" author argued that a log statement or a try/catch

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