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by pygy_ 11y ago
> Isn't the whole promise of testing is easier maintenance in the long run? It depends on the kind of maintenance. It makes it easier to add or refactor code without changing the semantics of what exists, but it makes it harder to
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by pygy_ 11y ago
The article is full of gross approximations and falsehoods. The author later states things like That link lies in the fact that mitochondria are not just cellular batteries. Billions of years ago they were actually independent organisms. T
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by pygy_ 11y ago
Case in point, Salah Abdelslam, the Paris terror 'suspect' who was arrested last week in Brussels, was shot in the leg as he was charging the police, then arrested.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
The Teensy boards[0] are the work of a single, dedicated engineer. While their design is proprietary, they are compatible with the Arduino IDE, to which Paul Stoffregen (PJ from PJRC) contributes substantially[1]. Unlike both Arduino entiti
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by pygy_ 11y ago
There are extensions with that kind of functionality, but by now I have that sequence hardwired in my fingers.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
This can often be solved by prepending https://web.archive.org/web/*/ to the now broken URL.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
No, they use a custom engine (Ron Gilbert's pre-existing engine with the Squirrel language for scripting, augmented with custom sugar around coroutines to more or less emulate the way SCUMM did threading). Well, their lead tester is Ro
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by pygy_ 11y ago
http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/piet_pi_big.png > Richard Mitton supplies this amazing program which calculates an approximation of pi... literally by dividing a circular area by the radius twice. Ric
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by pygy_ 11y ago
Even if Azer had relicensed the code, NPM had a copy of the code released under the original one, which can't be revoked.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
Trademark fields are broad AFAIK. "Digital stuff" is a single category, and both kik the messenger and azer's kik fall there.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
The dev blog is a treasure trove. https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/
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by pygy_ 11y ago
The cell phone network is currently suffering DDOS from everyone trying to reach everyone else at the same time, to ensure they are fine. It is a good feature.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
The edit window is open for one or two hours.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
That would come in handy for cross-platform npm 'run' scripts.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
typo, I guess: http://petithacks.com/
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by pygy_ 11y ago
There's also this SASS mixin: http://www.adrenalinmedia.com.au/the-agency/insights/this-ch... The linear equation solver is there, but it assumes px, and there's no license...
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by pygy_ 11y ago
@jacobolus is correct IMO, according to these data, empathy can't be described as predictor of math ability. See http://www.nature.com/articles/srep23011/figures/1 An outlier group of mathy kids turn out
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by pygy_ 11y ago
I was on mobile and had little time. This doesn't address biodisponibility and toxicity in humans. Both are critical. This may be a breakthrough, but we'll have to wait the results of phase III trials before claiming victory.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
... in mice.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
You can practice mindfulness in the mean time, and your brain still isn't polluted with crappy ideas. That's still a win in my book. I used to visit a site that mandated turning off the ad blocker and paused the ad if you left the
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by pygy_ 11y ago
If there is such a strong counter argument, someone will make it (see XKCD 386) and it will be possible to upvote the dissenting opinion.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
I'd love/dread to see this this kind of work (neural nets run in reverse mode) applied to voices and accents. You could credibly put any words in the mouth of anyone.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
Here's Jan-Christoph Zoels' reply to that message: http://arduinohistory.github.io/images/full/JCEmailThread2.j...
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by pygy_ 11y ago
Copy/paste the URL in a new tab, it blocks connections with the referer [sic] header set to HN.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
It's "sham stimulation" (that's the technical term used in research) and, in the case of direct current stimulation, it means what you described. The current used for tDCS is too low to be perceived, so no current is an
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by pygy_ 11y ago
Crikey... What a world we're living in!
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by pygy_ 11y ago
Waiting for the NERD stack. Node, Express, React, $DataBase.
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by pygy_ 11y ago
Thanks :-)
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by pygy_ 11y ago
14 upvotes as I'm typing, so I guess it is relevant, but I can't see how. Could someone shine more light on this?
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by pygy_ 11y ago
It reached my webdev-oriented Reddit home page. Likely the submission you saw.

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