philsnow

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2311.
by philsnow 14y ago
Come on, let's not get swept away in the hyperbole and be reasonable for a minute: MADD will never go away.
2312.
by philsnow 14y ago
Where do you get the 10x salary number ? The linked article says 50% of salary for 10 years -> 5x yearly salary total. I wouldn't say that on average my co-workers are "younger" (than whom?). Healthier, maybe.
2313.
by philsnow 14y ago
There are around 14 ethnic groups in modern china (depending on how you count), and there were lots more before the Hans took over...
2314.
by philsnow 14y ago
Skritter seems pretty sweet, but has no love for Cantonese; it supports traditional characters (so they're most of the way there), but the tone selection is mandarin-only and they only display pinyin and not some cantonese phoneticization l
2315.
by philsnow 14y ago
first edit: take it or leave it I have a "zero tolerance approach" should be: I have a "zero tolerance" approach. your third edit, which I also don't agree with, isn't quite right, it should be: people who mix up "its" and "it's". fourth
2316.
by philsnow 14y ago
Python dicts will grow and grow as you add more keys to them, but one of the constraints mentioned in the article (and implicitly included, because he's talking about a variation on a bloom filter) is that the data structure should not grow
2317.
by philsnow 14y ago
thanks for the reply, I don't know anything about MoPub, but do they let you do anything at all about styling the interstitials? I assumed that this was some kind of beast-trading sub-game or something bolted on (or whatever it was, I thou
2318.
by philsnow 14y ago
_what_ is this: http://imgur.com/SZtC9 and why did it show up while playing ?
2319.
by philsnow 14y ago
Came here to suggest tig; one nice feature about it is that if you're annotating a file in the "blob" view (IIRC), the annotation information streams in as tig walks the commit tree backwards. This can be nice in a repository with thousan
2320.
by philsnow 14y ago
anthropomorphism
2321.
by philsnow 14y ago
Do not do an image search for "meconium". If you do, however, you might get new insight into the term "tar baby" and why it has that definition.
2322.
by philsnow 14y ago
Some parts of it are being rewritten from the ground up, and I know of at least one sizeable portion that's being rewritten in python. edit: depending on who you meant by 'they', I bet go would be a contender for (parts of) a total rewrite
2323.
by philsnow 14y ago
python's loose typing can cause some problems when new people start contributing to a sizeable project, that can be caught earlier in languages with stronger/earlier type checking.
2324.
by philsnow 14y ago
They've never heard a girl called a "butterface", I guess. e.g. "She looks good (from the neck down / from behind), but her face ..."
2325.
by philsnow 15y ago
Dr Ladefoged passed away a few years ago; just thought I'd mention it to you because you said that he "has [sic] a fantastic website".
2326.
by philsnow 15y ago
I don't know if the behavior you describe is commonplace on other cpus, but it seems quite reasonable, if only because it greatly reduces the complexity of the emulator because not every instruction has to touch every status register. What
2327.
by philsnow 15y ago
it's just a bunch of (virtual) CPU state changes, really easy to read if you've ever simulated a CPU before. Take the INY instruction for example. it does: increment Y register, set the Z(ero) flag/bit to whether Y is now equal to zero,
2328.
by philsnow 15y ago
"then reboot. It's extreme, but it has the best chance of getting your processes shut down cleanly as opposed to a kill" so... how do reboots work on OS X ? on every *nix flavor I know, there's one command that just halts the damn machine
2329.
by philsnow 15y ago
if you're hopping out of insert mode to do a single navigation command, why not use the insert mode's ^O mapping? (in insert mode) ^O t x (still in insert mode, and the cursor has navigated to right before the next 'x' character)