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by mdemare 19y ago
Strangely, even though I'm nearly fluent in English, I can tune out English lyrics effortlessly, but not Dutch ones (my native language).
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by mdemare 19y ago
Explain it to us!
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by mdemare 19y ago
Gmail definitely, but I would consider it bait and switch. Wikipedia absolutely. wordreference.com (online dictionaries for english/french/italian/spanish). Love to have better options though. The Economist (used to have a web subscription,
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by mdemare 19y ago
It's certainly fascinating to see how technology and traditions influence each other. Here in the Netherlands I've seen muslim girls receive text messages during the ramadan, signalling them when they're allowed to eat.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Writing about your problem domain may also help you to make better pitches and sell your product better. I'm passionate about what I'm building, yet find myself fumbling for words when explaining it to sceptical acquaintances. It takes prac
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by mdemare 19y ago
Speak for yourself. Yegge was never terse, yet he may count me a fan.
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by mdemare 19y ago
I'm now wondering whether it's worth spending a day a week writing, instead of coding. It's true that you can generate much more ideas by writing, and it allows you to cast your gaze a lot further than whatever particular method you're work
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by mdemare 19y ago
Probably the revised version is "better", but I enjoyed reading the deleted parts. By condensing an essay you can make it more syropy and thus increase the number of people who will consider it worth reading. But I think it's doubtful wheth
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by mdemare 19y ago
I liked the comparison of studying the classics in the middle ages to "Alien Studies". Very revealing metaphor!
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by mdemare 19y ago
In the daytime, you're supposed to work, whether you're in the flow or not. At night, if you're coding, it's because you're in the flow. So the phenomenom is explained by a biased sample. Order people to work at 2 am and see what remains of
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by mdemare 19y ago
Money quotes: "Essentially, it says that financial markets have built-in biases which have an impact not only on prices but also, in extreme times, the fundamentals themselves. In such moments, market events affect as well as reflect supply
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by mdemare 19y ago
Actually, I believe that 50 LOC/person/day is a lot higher than the U.S. average.
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by mdemare 19y ago
This article from the economist has more meat: http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...
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A wireless world - Our nomadic future(economist.com)
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by mdemare 19y ago
There's no friendly start-up culture in Russia, and it's hard to get visas for the US.
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by mdemare 19y ago
But people have no trouble paying for real life stuff. It's just software that people just will not buy if they can at all avoid it. And while that includes me, I cannot come up with a satisfactory explanation.
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by mdemare 19y ago
I don't mean a dictionary (also a good idea), I meant texts: articles, novels, blog posts, transcripts of conversations, etc. As for dictionaries, there's wiktionary, but it's broken because it's based on words, not meanings, so you'd need
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by mdemare 19y ago
Bret is spot on. Open data would unlock a vast amount of wealth. Other suggestions: A collection of various kinds of texts, translated into 20-30 different languages. 100 million words (per language) would be fine. 20 minutes of text, spok
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by mdemare 19y ago
It's hard to deny though that they've taken a cue from Campfire. Even its name calls up associations with campfires.
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by mdemare 19y ago
The syntax may be weird at first, but one gets used to it. More importantly, both inclusive ranges and exclusive ranges are useful. It's convenient to have both. It makes code more readable, compared to having to add a -1 offset.
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by mdemare 19y ago
There are many Ruby libraries that haven't been documented anywhere, online or offline. Random example: bitset.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Blocks are lambda's, they're just not objects (but they can be converted to objects.)
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by mdemare 19y ago
I noticed that as I became a faster reader, I lost my interest in novels. I used to think this was because my taste had changed, but now I think the speed itself is the problem. When I read novels in foreign languages, I enjoy them much mor
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by mdemare 19y ago
Another list (mine): 1-4: Books on computer organization, operating systems, networks and distributed systems (I like the ones by Tanenbaum, but there are many). 5: Another about compilers/languages (the dragon book is a classic, but there
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by mdemare 19y ago
There's nothing wrong with his sense of probability, although his graphic is atrocious. That doesn't mean that it's good advice.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Does anyone knows if it works with the latest Sogudi? (sogudi turns your location bar into a sort of command line). Alternatives to Sogudi are welcome too. Opera has had this feature for many years - I didn't switch to Safari until I discov
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by mdemare 19y ago
Profit!
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by mdemare 19y ago
Reading stock charts is a bunch of crackpot hooey. I'm nr. 2 on your site with my highly sophisticated "always buy" strategy. However, it might be an excellent tool to help technical analysts (gamblers) discover their own lack of skill. I l
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by mdemare 19y ago
But Twitter is public . Isn't that the main difference with IM?
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by mdemare 19y ago
As a web-developer you don't have to worry about IE5.5 now , in 2008, seven years after the release of IE 6.0. Seven years to make sure your site works in IE 6.0. Seven years time to upgrade to IE 6.0. If Microsoft goes through with what t

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