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by mullr 18y ago
This American Life, while excellent, has very little to do with news. Perhaps you could compare it to a typical human interest story. But its goal is clearly not to provide information on current events.
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by mullr 18y ago
Indeed. This is downright inflammatory.
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by mullr 18y ago
I've done both, and I regret the mini-parsers I wrote. It was for stupid stuff, like config files. The main problem is that nobody else could do anything with the code. XML is at least a common denominator. Not the lowest, but pretty lo
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by mullr 18y ago
To be clear: Unicode v.s. specific encoding terminology is my gripe. The 'UTF-8 is ascii at the bottom' is quite cool.
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by mullr 18y ago
The fact that this is so often gotten wrong by very smart people (in my experience) that I think we should consider it a design defect.
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by mullr 18y ago
Putting an NDA as a click-wrap? That seems really sleazy to me. Especially since nobody reads them and (IANAL) they are of dubious enforceability. But it is interesting that the form something takes can change its perceived cost.
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by mullr 18y ago
I looked into this awhile back and quickly came to the conclusion, based on the several books I read, that it's silly to try to beat the market long term. "The Intelligent Investor" is the one that laid it out clearly to me. The main poin
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by mullr 18y ago
I don't understand why they would want to do this. What does it buy them? More seats of developer tools? The same question can be asked of Sun and Java.
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by mullr 19y ago
Second reply: another interesting use of spaced repetition, in a somewhat different context, is the AJATT method: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com . It uses complete sentences as the cues, thus ensuring valid context all the time.
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by mullr 19y ago
I have found the same thing. The Heisig method seems to serve mostly to bridge the gap between learning a character and learning a word that uses the character. While I can learn character meanings with the memorization technique, the rea
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by mullr 19y ago
Spaced repetition is killer. It seems to take the work out of remembering things, leaving nothing but determination. I've been using http://kanji.koohii.com for awhile, which is an excellent implementation of the technique for rememberi
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by mullr 19y ago
It does both. It hurts in that the tests add inertia to your codebase. Radical changes may require you to cut out portions of tests, for better or worse. It helps in that, by writing tests first, your code is more testable. And thus less
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by mullr 19y ago
TechCrunch actually bothers me more. I don't recall ever being pissed off that a ValleyWag story wasted my time.
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by mullr 19y ago
Also: when you click to show the answer, it shouldn't fade in. It should show up instantly. Fading out is okay. And the animation at the top that starts to play every time I open the page? My GOD, it needs to go away. It probably won't
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by mullr 19y ago
1. Not too useful for lower-level Japanese (many many people, myself included) without providing optional readings for the kanji. (The workaround is a browser extension like RikaiChan.) 2. Front page is cluttered 3. Didn't want to registe
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by mullr 19y ago
I don't quite understand how hyperthreading saves power. Is it better than doing OOO execution because there's less hardware required? I could imagine that instructions targeted at two virtual CPUs could be interleaved more simply and fle
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by mullr 19y ago
Truer words were never spoken. This is from one who once frequented perlmonks.org and thought himself great for doing so. I'm thankfully past that stage in my life. I encourage others to skip over it entirely.
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by mullr 19y ago
To the weak of mind, perhaps. I believe that patterns are useful and beneficial in moderation. This requires a degree of understanding that some do not have, leading to pattern hell. The analogies to alcohol are disturbing.
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by mullr 19y ago
Doesn't appear to, at first glance. I think it has much more in common with scons. A major selling point of waf is that you can put the whole build system as one file in your source tree, rather than requiring installation.
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by mullr 19y ago
Unfortunately, yes. Binary InstallShield files continue to be a plague on this green earth, and they need to go away. Major chucks of business logic written in an excel spreadsheet or embedded in somebody's access database... I'm sure it
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by mullr 19y ago
Thanks for the link, that is an interesting language. It seems like it's mostly a lot of C# features / programming style with python syntax and optional dynamic typing. Generally a good idea, though the code samples didn't feel right to m
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by mullr 19y ago
1) Dataflow engine for a new kind of spreadsheet 2) Business idea brainstorming 3) Ignoring all the April 1st internet BS.
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by mullr 19y ago
I use in-IDE (VS2k5 in my case) refactorings for simple things, mostly in the small. For local symbol renames and for method extraction, it's invaluable. Really it's a wrist saver in those cases. I occasionally do larger level renames u
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by mullr 19y ago
Really? Stranger in a Strange Land. Lots of Heinlein is harmless, but that one really made me hate the guy.
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by mullr 19y ago
Depends on the mood I'm in: 1) Go. Emergent gameplay, endless depth. Studying this game will teach you how to think strategically in the real world. 2) Magic Realm, a '70s Avalon Hill fantasy game. It's a fantastically complicated hack &
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by mullr 19y ago
VS 2k5/2k8 while at work for The Man, emacs on OSX/linux while hacking at home.
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by mullr 19y ago
This is an interesting point. Adobe effectively owns a large (likely growing) portion of the web. And as such, can control any non-standard device that wants to offer a real web experience.
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by mullr 19y ago
Hm. This may make flash suddenly relevant to me and many others. Actionscript itself is weird, so I've avoided it. But python or ruby, that's workable. I wonder if they're going to do it at the bytecode level for java? That would open
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by mullr 19y ago
I concur, having faced similary problems. Scala's association with java has, so far, been more of a curse than a blessing. But it is an interesting language. To me, scala feels like a language with headroom, to use audio parlance. It's e
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by mullr 19y ago
I attended a presentation by Dr. Hipp about the internals of SQLite a few years ago. I came away very impressed by his work and understanding quite a bit more about databases.

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