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by pertinhower 13y ago
It'll be neat when Wolfram uses their (his?) almighty genius to utterly change the world of computing. It'll also be neat when they implement basic undo/redo functionality in Mathematica.
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Whatever happened to the Sublime Text forums?(sublimetext.com)
2 points by pertinhower 13y ago|0 comments
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by pertinhower 13y ago
From what I understand of chaos theory, and from what I'm hearing of recent trends in scientific overreaching and poor peer reviewing, I am inclined to dismiss this paper as yet another overambitious claim to know what can't be kn
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Man that is one game-changing article. It has convinced me to downsize my use of business cliches, going forward. It plucks the low hanging fruit. It has totally shifted my paradigm, acted as the tipping point for my disdain of faddish phra
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Coupled with the many recent articles highlighting the unreliability of studies like this, I'd say this research is worth exactly squat. Example questions for practicing skeptics: The actor either (a) asked for a phone or (b) apologize
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Polls like these are amusing but they're not particularly helpful. They broadcast subjective feelings about the "coolness" of languages at the expense of objective evaluation of languages. How many of you upvoted "Go&quo
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Well, I suppose this is a decent start ... ;-)
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Another astounding way to visit this ancient past is to talk to one of the billions of people who are over 30 and who perfectly remember that no one was this plugged in even a few short years ago, and many still aren't. Might want to t
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by pertinhower 13y ago
...which also handsomely shows the real complexity of modeling systems where the human mind is involved, and the folly of over-simplified "1 car per 2 seconds" systems that look good in a computer model but fail to capture the rea
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by pertinhower 13y ago
As a matter of general policy, if you're going to declaim another article as wrong, you really should bring clearly stronger evidence—generally in the form of citations—to the table. Otherwise it's just "he said she said&quot
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Ask HN: Upvote the comment thread rather than the article?
12 points by pertinhower 13y ago|0 comments
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Well we learned a lot about Tommy Refenes. The insights into the controller were more vague.
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by pertinhower 13y ago
A hate to trivialize a thoughtful article with a typographical point, but boy do I like my paragraph breaks when I can get them.
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Nobody reads much faster than 400 words per minute [2000](slate.com)
1 points by pertinhower 13y ago|0 comments
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Evolution be praised.
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Flash can actually export to HTML5/JS for you, so you might try Flash itself.
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What Programming a Game in 48 Hours Taught Me About Programming Games(jeffwofford.com)
146 points by pertinhower 13y ago|71 comments
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The Ludum Dare Experience: The Exhilirating End(jeffwofford.com)
1 points by pertinhower 13y ago|0 comments
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The Ludum Dare Experience: The Melancholy Middle(jeffwofford.com)
2 points by pertinhower 13y ago|0 comments
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Creating a time-scrubbing game in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 27(jeffwofford.com)
1 points by pertinhower 13y ago|0 comments
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God, Consciousness, and Game Programming(jeffwofford.com)
2 points by pertinhower 13y ago|0 comments
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Thank you. I was a bit confused by that myself. Why say you're not eating when you've just changed what you're eating? Shock value maybe? Helping to make the whole expedition feel more important?
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Neat. Not vastly different from gitk. Crashes for me after I try the fetch button.
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by pertinhower 13y ago
What I read: "Blah blah blah...Twitter developed a novel authentication system...blah blah blah." Anyone else think that trusting Twitter (or any other company without vast mathematical and security chops) to securely deploy an ex
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Not even reading the article. Just upvoting for the title alone.
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Religion hackers: "In doubt of whether to say Tachnun or not"(judaism.stackexchange.com)
2 points by pertinhower 13y ago|0 comments
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Why are people upvoting this post? It's attention-baiting and deceptive.
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Google Search is Already Open Source(mathbabe.org)
1 points by pertinhower 13y ago|0 comments
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Am I alone in thinking that the 2005–09 logo is clearly the strongest image? I'd like to see the results of a poll. Designers can talk their way into all sorts of things; a bit of objective measurement of opinion would be interesting.
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A Conversation between America and Her Government(jeffwofford.com)
3 points by pertinhower 13y ago|0 comments

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