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by mherdeg 14y ago
The Simple English Wikipedia has a preference (not a rule) that words be chosen from the Basic English lexicon where possible. See http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_English_Wi... . It may come as a surprise that the word "r
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Yes, it's great to be able to attract a lot of consumer attention by telling a good story -- the "United Breaks Guitars" guy certainly proved that! There is an even better option that I would be fascinated to hear whether this blogger used:
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by mherdeg 14y ago
There were some great insights in the prior discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360626 . Something I was hoping to hear more discussion about: is there any evidence that anyone in the e-book community knowingly filed an inco
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Yes, I understand your point -- colloquially, one might say that the "child was lost". Your mileage may vary, but when someone who works for a company has done something horribly wrong and I'm trying to clean it up, I often find it helpful
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by mherdeg 14y ago
I don't think this blog post's headline is quite right. "Losing a child" is putting a child on BOS-EWR instead of BOS-CLE and not noticing the problem until the child's family in Cleveland calls the parents and the parents call Newark, htt
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Does anyone have a PDF of the source code? (Edit: well, good luck, folks: http://web.mit.edu/~mherdeg/www/paperbak.pdf )
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by mherdeg 14y ago
A bit sad that a reporter talked to the Insert Coin(s) guy, who's sort of a newcomer to the space but very successful, and didn't get a chance to chat with someone who's an expert in a similar space in the same city: visitors seemed to be c
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Paternosters scare me because of http://i.imgur.com/MgRFK.jpg
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Oh man, oh man, oh man, I miss putting little blue ribbons on all my Web pages' footers!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ribbon_Online_Free_Speech_...
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by mherdeg 15y ago
Oh hey, also via http://twitter.com/#!/semenko/status/109047299207987200
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Google Drive coming soon?(codereview.chromium.org)
18 points by mherdeg 15y ago|5 comments
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by mherdeg 15y ago
It was "Edsger Dijkstra", not Edgar. (Probably no one else cares about this.)
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by mherdeg 15y ago
Just to quickly follow up: the answer that the system accepts as correct is roughly the answer I get when I compute the answer to the question "if I pick an item at random from the list of 250 items, what is the probability that that item a
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by mherdeg 15y ago
#2 has me puzzled. The problem statement (paragraphed): Chef Claudio loves to have food specials but likes knowing what each day's specials are to be a challenge. So, he assigns a random 3-digit alphanumeric code to each of the 250 items he
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by mherdeg 15y ago
Let's try "Webkit has 3D CSS transforms". Which, jeez! See also (from the comments on the blog post): http://esquevin.com/starwars.html
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Webkit has 3D CSS transforms(webkit.org)
5 points by mherdeg 15y ago|2 comments
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"Let's price Lady Gaga's new album at $0.99" = "Let's melt Cloud Drive's face"(amazon.com)
2 points by mherdeg 15y ago|0 comments