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it doesn't unless you use a different font for strings. But it seems that would be fine in your example
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I don't even think they add much to readability. If i could choose, the only ligatures i 'd like would be >= and !=
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I admit that the >= and <= looked quite more readable, but i don't see how = and == wouldnt get more easily confused. Also i do spend a lot more than 1/10th of time in different environments. I don't understand why ppl
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I would be very hesitant to use this. It's not "more intuitive" as the author would like to think. In fact , our visual system has been trained to instantly recognize a!=b in code, and I read code a lot more often than Math f
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Plus an fMRI machine is not easy to fit on your desk or carry with you.
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Are fruit even healthy, given sugar and all? (trying to justify my lack of affection to them)
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9y ago
I was referring to programming work only
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9y ago
The spanish girl is amazing. Here is their paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.03809.pdf
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> People have to do tons of repetitive, boring stuff. A good programmer will automate this stuff and will not bother with it again. Maybe aderall is incentivizing the wrong behavior here.
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What makes you think that you are not improving? Programming is a craft where you can make pretty things with old tools as well as new. Do you feel your code works less well, or achieves less than the ones you 're comparing to? Or are
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> Taking narcissism, insecurity, and invasion of privacy to the next level. more like, being realistic about them.
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I would expect the next batch of iphones or androids to replicate this.
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> this is a device that's designed to take photos and videos of you while you get dressed, and will be both connected to the internet and constantly communicating those images over the network. So, like a smartphone?
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If it isnt it won't be used. No technology is adopted if it doesnt improve on current state of the art.
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Why would apple repatriate their foreign assets (other than paying dividends)? They can borrow anything they need already.
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What if it's provably beneficial/better?
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Can we keep talking about natural selection when may soon be able to edit our DNA, however?
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So what do you do when you have a ton of money? You can of course spend it on charity or investing in companies, but that requires work, and is not in everyone's interests. There are also only so many expensive things that they can buy
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9y ago
also, not true
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The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940
(science.sciencemag.org)
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maybe big corporations can afford to reduce their taxes, but small companies can't.
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Who used this?
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> it doesn't know its value to users
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I see that all the time too. It's extremely frustrating , but i think the solution is that browsers should implement some sort of visual indication of where the bottom of the screen moves.
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Someone needs to make Trump sing. Someone else should prepare the playlist.
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There are human impersonators already. I suppose it's not that easy to fake a visible, high-ranking person for long.
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We need a new markup language for intonation and emotion.
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The paper is not about computational neuroscience, but about the brain in general. For those interested, there is a great book actually titled "Principles of computational neuroscience"[1]. Also, the free "Book of Genesis&qu
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I m not being dismissive, just realistic. If you want an example of this crowd spilling into the "broader web" , look no further than youtube comments. People who have nothing interesting to add to the web had better stay inside
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> For too many people, Facebook is the web and this is really sad and wrong. Those people don't have a need for the web, and, more importantly, the web has no use for them.
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