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by olavk 9y ago
Even before CSS 1... Initially CSS tried to emulate what was available in "presentational HTML" available at the time. The absolute and relative font sizes were introduced by the FONT-element and BASEFONT-element, and the BIG and
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by olavk 9y ago
Use display:table in CSS, it is exactly the same display model as tables, just disconnected from specific HTML elements.
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by olavk 9y ago
Or we disagree on the meaning of "content". If we talk about typical literature, sure we can agree the text is the content and typography and layout is presentation. But what about a game? Or visual art? What is the "icing&qu
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by olavk 9y ago
You can express any kind of information with HTML/XML tags and attributes but that doesn't mean you should. CSS is a much nicer and more readable syntax for its purpose.
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by olavk 9y ago
Well, if you randomly delete parentheses in Lisp or curly braces in C you will also get problems. So...don't delete information at random.
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by olavk 9y ago
> More readable code almost always means less efficient code. Incorrect. Most practices like meaningful variable names, logically separated functions and classes, comments where appropriate, etc have absolutely no impact on performance.
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by olavk 9y ago
A good programmer always looks at the bigger picture. They understand when SOLID is appropriate and when "worse is better". A good programmer is familiar with the best practices and guidelines and principles, but always question t
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by olavk 9y ago
Nevertheless, Norway have entrepreneurs and people getting rich, and overall it is a very wealthy country. I believe the social mobility is better then in the US. So I guess some of you assumptions must be wrong.
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by olavk 9y ago
This is exactly the fallacy he is addressing. Math = rigor, so clearly the discipline which uses the most math is the most rigorous, right? But actually math is only useful when it is based on a useful model of reality. If the underlying as
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by olavk 9y ago
I find the linked quora answer pretty confusing. It claims Germans are "taxed to death", but argues from the amount of poverty as defined relative to the median income. This doesn't say anything about overall wealth, but says
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by olavk 9y ago
Because cancer does not care.
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by olavk 9y ago
If executing a murderer would somehow bring the victims back to life, then your value comparison might make sense. But it doesn't, so being opposed to the death penalty does not mean you don't care about the victims.
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by olavk 9y ago
> Bards pre-literate-times in Greece purportedly could recite Homer's Odyssey themselves after one hearing That sounds highly unlikely. Do you have a legitimate sources to back this up? Certainly bards had great memory and were able
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by olavk 9y ago
Yes, Tash is presented as the evil religion compared to good and just Aslan. What exactly are you arguing?
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No, my argument is that the books deliberately show the "middle eastern" culture and religion in a negative light in order to present Christianity as the best and only true religion.
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by olavk 9y ago
You use words like "plot" and "cabal" to make it sound like its a bizarre conspiracy theory. But Lewis himself have written openly and at length about his use of Christian theology in the stories, and its pretty blatant,
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by olavk 9y ago
Just read the books, it should be proof enough for you. While great fantasy, they are also totally blatant in their theological agenda.
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by olavk 9y ago
That quote may make sense in context, but dressing informally will certainly not prevent stupidity.
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by olavk 9y ago
It seems he have been writing code so clever and compact that he didn't dare to change it when it came to refactoring time: > I’d take any opportunity to write terse code. It feels good to be clever > I noticed that when I wrote
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by olavk 9y ago
Since you are talking to a novice, you should probably expand those acronyms!
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by olavk 9y ago
The movie is called Romeo+Juliet :) And agree it is a great version. I'm pretty sure it is supposed to take place in a fictionalized LA - "Verona Beach" is a clever play on "Venice beach" since it allows the charact
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by olavk 9y ago
It is not clickbaity, it is a clever play on words.
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by olavk 9y ago
Watch a Shakespeare movie. The plays are written to be performed by actors, not to be read. My favorite is Henry V in the Branagh version, and it is a good place to start. Take a scene like this: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by olavk 9y ago
I think classifications are necessary even though nature is fuzzy and gradual.
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by olavk 9y ago
On the other hand, I find it interesting that everytime somebody is complaining about censorship on Facebook, they are almost always following up with complaints of some other objectionable content not being censored. The think about the
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by olavk 9y ago
In short: Before the Ptolemaic system, it was assumed the planets moved in circular orbits around the earth. The problem is, this did not explain the phenomenon of "retrograde motion", which is when a planet apparently slows down
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by olavk 9y ago
That would be a valid criticism if epicycles were added to the model post-hoc to explain previous observations, and adding those epicycles to the model did not improve future predictions . Is that really how you think epicycles were used?
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by olavk 9y ago
OK how is it you think epicycles differ in this respect from say the keplerian model of the solar system? I struggle to understand what you think is "special" about epicycles. No model of the solar system will allow you to predi
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by olavk 9y ago
The predictions by the system is the movements of the planets in the sky. The Ptolemaic system with epicycles actually did this pretty well, considering the available data. It is just that as better observations and better calculations beca
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by olavk 9y ago
Epicycles were added to make the model better fit the observations. There is nothing wrong or unscientific about this. It is just like new planets are added to the model of the solar system when new planets are observed.

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