midgetjones

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   by midgetjones 13y ago

   Hemingway's most important rule is difficult to parse for a web app: "I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket." http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012&#
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   by midgetjones 13y ago

   Looks really cool. I'm not sure if introducing inversions in the more advanced mode works for me: without a piano keyboard in front of you the concept wouldn't make much sense to a beginner. So the basic mode sounds kind of jarrin
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   by midgetjones 13y ago

   I agree with your second paragraph, although this is following Hemingway's specific rules, so it's good to be strong with them. And of course, you have to know the rules before you can break them. Aside from Hemingway, it's f
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   by midgetjones 13y ago

   scroll scroll scroll scroll zoom out map zoom out map zoom out map give up
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   by midgetjones 13y ago

   You still can, just not as obviously: https://www.google.com/?tbm=dsc
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   by midgetjones 13y ago

   Looking forward to see this in Gruber's 'claim chowder' in six months...
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   by midgetjones 13y ago

   Hi!
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   by midgetjones 13y ago

   I've been working on live coding of audio during my commute. It's a good way to keep the brain active and learn a new language, with the added benefit of being hypnotically relaxing. Also doesn't have to require internet.
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   by midgetjones 13y ago

   The irony is, I had to click on a link with the url ` https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7030258` to find out what OP's reason was.
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    That's a pretty good score, considering how unfixable the laptops have become.
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    A: They say "December sixteenth", rather than "the sixteenth of December", so they write it that way. It's still about as wrong as you can get though.
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    Seriously?
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    Amazing what a difference capitalising two words can make..
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    Apologies. Looks like the mods got there before me.
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    The Evolution of Cooperation(www-ee.stanford.edu)

    1 points by midgetjones 13y ago|2 comments
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    I wondered if it was a day when companies were supposed to release research papers. I guess it's just the NH hivemind instead.
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    I would have been more interested in learning Python if there wasn't such a great divide. I read the first chapter of several books that said "Python 3 is out, but we're going to stick with 2.7 because too much shit is broken
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    Don't joke, horse fires are a very real problem.
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    I think you could replace 'math' with pretty much any endeavour and the article would still ring true. As a musician, I've heard so many people say "I'd love to be able to play [instrument], but I just don't ha
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    I think that it's most likely they want everyone on the latest OSX for the same reasons that it's good to have everyone on the latest iOS. Whatever they're planning, getting everyone on board is obviously an important part of
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    Ethiopian Binary Math(uh.edu)

    192 points by midgetjones 13y ago|66 comments
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    This is cool. It would be nice to have a grid option, though.
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    You know what it's going to be, right? http://www.badhaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/south-par...
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    by midgetjones 13y ago

    They still have http://gu.com set up to redirect :)