numeromancer

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by numeromancer 5y ago
Like most of the entries in the article's silly list, this is not a "fallacy", formal nor informal; one does not invalidate a particular argument just by "thinking too much".
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by numeromancer 6y ago
In particular, this was an analogy used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck vs United States. The act which he compared to "shouting fire in a crowded theatre" was passing out leaflets opposing the draft, ie the government's
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by numeromancer 6y ago
Maybe they should have called it "Protest".
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by numeromancer 7y ago
> which end of a hammer to grip to drive a screw I must confess that I don't know which end of a hammer to grip to drive a screw.
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by numeromancer 7y ago
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the secret sits in the middle, and knows.
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by numeromancer 7y ago
I though he was being clever; "egregiously" means "in a manner consistent with being out of the herd". Bad or offensive for the goat-herd maybe, but perhaps not for the goat.
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by numeromancer 8y ago
This definition is better than the others, given the origin of this use of the word "talent".
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by numeromancer 8y ago
IBM: OS/2?
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by numeromancer 8y ago
Pari: http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/pari.git I prefer the early versions, before it was softened up for the vulgo.
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by numeromancer 8y ago
> Another interesting idea to come out of the computing world around that time was the saying “worse is better“. Although this idea wasn’t a direct relative of the Unix philosophy, it’s certainly similar. The idea references the fact tha
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by numeromancer 8y ago
Don't worry, those'll be cleared up in the next rewrite.
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by numeromancer 9y ago
Mencken on Veblen: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53538/53538-h/53538-h.htm#Pag...
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by numeromancer 9y ago
- Download and extract neovim win64 package - Start nvim-qt.exe - Get message box saying "The Neovim process has crashed" - Go back to Vim
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by numeromancer 10y ago
https://encyclopediadramatica.se is a wild ride.
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by numeromancer 10y ago
Vim is not built for quickness of learning, but for the learning of quickness.
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by numeromancer 11y ago
That probably is more a result of various standards than an intent to limit the use of their product.
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by numeromancer 11y ago
Along with his many other abuses of liberty, Lincoln monitored telegraph lines during the war, and jailed without trial many who criticized the war effort or argued in favor of the right of secession.
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by numeromancer 11y ago
Such tracking was famously used in the Alger Hiss case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss#Fake_typewriter_hyp...
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by numeromancer 11y ago
I like The Little Book of Semaphores: http://greenteapress.com/semaphores/
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by numeromancer 11y ago
We need to stop writing articles telling us what “we” “need” to do. This is almost as bad as the myriad of hacks declaring how “our brains” work, usually to explain in some facile way what's wrong with the way some other people think
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by numeromancer 11y ago
Better stay on the backroads when you drive. And don't try crossing the street without help from a grown-up.
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by numeromancer 11y ago
Ok, quick: see me as an individual. You have 5 seconds. Note: Don't draw any conclusions about me that are based only on what little you know about me. You cannot, eg, draw conclusions upon that fact that I have an account on Hacker
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by numeromancer 11y ago
Nuh-uh. Vide: http://www.economist.com/node/196071 http://www.mythbusters.com/some-myths-about-the-qwerty-keybo... http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/221/was-the-q
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by numeromancer 11y ago
> As he showed, a null pointer cannot point to any object From my reading, he didn't even show that: >> If a null pointer constant is converted to a pointer type, the resulting pointer, called a null pointer, is guaranteed to
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by numeromancer 12y ago
The author would have done much better if, rather than poking sticks at those who wish to forbid gotos, and posting vague and generic quotes about memes and cargo-cults, they had provided several examples of code wherein the use of gotos wa
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by numeromancer 12y ago
My alternative would be bspwm, the binary space partitioning wm. I like bspwm's approach to keyboard shortcuts: don't do them. Have an external socket through which external applications have complete control over window
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by numeromancer 12y ago
Gayle Conigliaro's preschool students are jumping as they count, to get the feeling of the numbers into their bodies — a concept called "embodied cognition." My 4 year-old learned all about circles by spin
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by numeromancer 12y ago
Why did Beethoven get rid of his chickens? All they talked about is Bach, Bach, Bach, Bach! He just couldn't Handel it.
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by numeromancer 13y ago
It's not often that I come to laugh out loud while reading (the usually somewhat stuffy) comments on HN. +1 coffee sputter.
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by numeromancer 13y ago
No, I'm pretty sure that `va_end(cpy)` is correct. `ap` is the `va_list` passed into the function. `cpy` is the local copy.

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