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1. 571.▲
   by omaranto 11y ago

   I'm not sure of the details but surely the answer involves semi-colon insertion.
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   by omaranto 11y ago

   I didn't use Mailbox, but I think one of the key features is the snooze button, that makes an email disappear from your inbox and then reappear later. I think at the time Mailbox came out Google didn't offer that feature. The GMai
3. 573.▲
   by omaranto 11y ago

   Are there really 2500 blogs about Swift? Did you mean blog posts instead (I'd find that more believable)?
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   by omaranto 11y ago

   I thought "the standard LaTeX approach" is that you put all of the style information into a document class (or, if you have only minor modifications of a standard document class, into a package) and then all of the content in a se
5. 575.▲
   by omaranto 11y ago

   Well, rewriting a 80+ line comprehension as an 80+ line series of nested loops and conditionals wouldn't increase readability in my opinion. What would make it easier to read is to divide the computation into several smaller steps, whi
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   by omaranto 11y ago

   "If he claimed that having less features helps writeability I would have completely agreed though." I suspect most people disagree with you and think, for example, that the features in high level languages make it easier to progra
7. 577.▲
   by omaranto 11y ago

   Huh. You seem to think nobody could possibly find comprehensions as easy to read as loops. That surprises me because I think the reason they got implemented in many programming languages is precisely that many people find them easier to rea
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   by omaranto 11y ago

   I agree that separation of form from content makes life amazingly simple, that's one the main virtues of LaTeX. :) As I said before, preferring Markdown and YAML solely on account of syntax seems fair to me.
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   by omaranto 11y ago

   One thing I didn't really see in that post is why not just LaTeX directly. Is it just that you prefer Markdown syntax? (Which I guess is a valid reason.)
10. 580.▲
    by omaranto 11y ago

    Have you compared the MoarVM and JVM backends recently? Is one substantially faster than the other for your applications?
11. 581.▲
    by omaranto 11y ago

    "my" is shorter than "local" or "let" and fairly evocative. Maybe you should ask why other languages don't use "my", instead. :P
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    " Rakudo's had more testing since it's been around forever but MoarVM is where my hopes lie " is a little confusing to me. Rakudo and MoarVM are not the same type of thing. Rakudo is a Perl 6 compiler with multiple bac
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    I didn't know Free Pascal had generics!
14. 584.▲
    by omaranto 11y ago

    What do you mean by "terse and verbose"?
15. 585.▲
    by omaranto 11y ago

    With multiple cursors!
16. 586.▲
    by omaranto 11y ago

    Yes, it's easy: to test divisibility by n make a graph with n verities labeled 0 through n-1; put black arrows from each vertex k to (k+1) mod n; and put white arrows from each k to 10k mod n. (That's for testing divisibility by n
17. 587.▲
    by omaranto 11y ago

    That is only a test for divisibility by 7, not 'division by 7', which is typically understood to compute the quotient.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    In the sentence "But it's much nicer than Qt.", what does "it" refer to?
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    I think you're not supposed to take away the absolute numbers, but only the ratios: so 10 MVPs really means only make MVPs for 1/10 of all your ideas. So one MVP at a time follows the guidelines if you have around 10 ideas!
20. 590.▲
    by omaranto 11y ago

    I thought YouTube was pretty popular nowadays, and you can watch the CCC videos there.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    As usual, there's a nice Emacs mode for it: https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    So you're saying he's yet another example of a screenwriter who doesn't use plain text computer files for his screenplays?
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    There is no "French A" and no "English A", I believe both languages call their alphabet the Roman (or Latin) alphabet. So those really are the same letter.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    Well, people joke about Emacs being an OS. If you take them seriously, I think it's an example of an OS where you can run graphical applications but have a standardized way to run text-based commands from any app (using execute-extende
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    The one I use the most is MathOverflow. Second place is probably Mathematics Stack Exchange.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    (a-bx) is not zero, x is a variable. when x=pi, a-bx is zero, otherwise not. a-bx=0 is an equation whose solution is x=pi. The function f(x) is not identically zero, it is however zero when evaluated at x=pi: f(pi)=0.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    They look fine on both Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    Why not numberOfEnemiesOnSamePlatform() ?
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    Your plain text notes are actually in Markdown already. :)
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    I knew it was built on top of scribble, I was looking for a concise description of why it was built at all (instead of just using scribble directly).