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by sago 9y ago
You're brave using custom fonts in Word. Fine for personal use, a nightmare if the document is ever shared. And what terminals allow you to change font from the program writing to stdout?
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by sago 9y ago
Oops, the site was hackernewsified and is intermittently down for me. Neat idea, and I do like the OTF hacking, but why not use simple SVG? <svg viewBox='0 -20 85 40' style="height: 1.5em"> <!-- data
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by sago 9y ago
We moved on from witchery and heresy by establishing objective criteria for determining witches and heretics? (I know you didn't claim we did, just pointing out that your examples don't seem to support your argument.)
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by sago 9y ago
100% agreed. Just fwiw, apparently (i.e., I discovered in the last 10 mins) pygmentize detects file extensions, so $ pygmentize -o test.png test.py is equivalent.
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by sago 9y ago
Apparently so! I don't generate images myself, so i didn't know. $ pygmentize -o out.png src.py Neat.
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by sago 9y ago
My workflow: One time setup $ python -m venv ve $ source ve/bin/activate $ pip install pygments WeasyPrint Then $ pygmentize -f html src.py | weasyprint - out.pdf Both pygmentize and weasyprint have many
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by sago 9y ago
Yes, Good point. Highly reduced vocabulary and a reduced domain push in the other direction.
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by sago 9y ago
> That is an extraordinarily European viewpoint It is not at all, you misunderstand the point. It is the technique that codebreakers used to check whether something is linguistic or not. And it is rather consistent across all languages.
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by sago 9y ago
As I understand it, Voynich has a too low information content to be an alphabetic (or -- a fortiori -- logographic or syllabic) representation of a human language. If true then it is almost certainly not 'real writing'. The videos
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by sago 9y ago
This seems to be the current 'ad-positive' argument de jour. But I don't buy it. There is plenty and always has been plenty of free content on the web. It is very cheap to publish. But advertising has led to the collapse of t
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by sago 9y ago
> Possible? Yes. The legal code is so byzantine that most citizens (and most visitors) are permanently in breach somehow, somewhere: an error in some form you filed, a permit you didn't know you needed, a clause that's very rar
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by sago 9y ago
As in all such things, you must count the negatives (failures) as well as the positives. It is a common problem to look at what successes do, and ignore what failures don't. See the Watson selection task[0] [0]: https://en.w
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by sago 9y ago
It's _really_ not. It is important to enjoy and be passionate about your game. But writing your ideal game is a recipe for making crap, in my humble experience, unless you happen to be intuitively skilled in game design.
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by sago 9y ago
... in 1977. You're a legend Walter, but there are millions of games available to play now. The days when a title circulated around university PDP-10s are gone. The dynamics of virality are very different.
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by sago 9y ago
> it encourages competition, just like in nature Where the vast vast majority of creatures are either predated or die of hunger. Arguments that depends on replicating evolution, socially, are either naive or highly morally dubious. Eugen
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by sago 9y ago
I did edit, sorry for the original wording. I also get myself into trouble using 'you', which I mostly meant 'one' rather than you specifically. You're right to call me out on it. Sorry again. So, do you feel like a
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by sago 9y ago
The problem, from my perspective, is you think this is something that needs to be 'known', rather than a basic skill. I think it is basic. I don't want somebody who 'knows' how to invert a tree, any more than I want
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by sago 9y ago
Even better: spend some time becoming comfortable with the most basic data structures, so you don't need to 'learn' anything. Because if someone struggles to combine swapping two values with basic tree recursion, they're
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by sago 9y ago
Really? Reversing a linked list? It really doesn't take a PhD to do that in O(N) time and O(1) space. I don't remember 'reading' an algorithm, isn't it just obvious that you walk through the list flipping the direct
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by sago 9y ago
Ah, I see, then I don't think you read the GP post, or I wasn't clear enough, since that is exactly a point I made. Also, if you're only giving real-world work tasks, do you screen at all for basic competence first? I ask bec
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by sago 9y ago
Thank you :D it always comes down to a pissing contest. It's okay, we're very unlikely to work together. Feel free to keep doing it your way, and I'm not going to worry about a random HNer impugning my coding ability based on
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by sago 9y ago
> These "solved problems" are the result of countless hours of research by computer science experts with masters and Ph.D degrees. We're talking about reversing a linked list, right? This is the second time I've had t
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by sago 9y ago
Time and (therefore, because interview time is limited) thoroughness. A simple task on a linked list takes two minutes to explain and five minutes to solve. The kind of task someone might do for me day-to-day have a whole bunch of context,
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by sago 9y ago
> When's the last time you ever did anything as low level as reversing a linked list? It's a solved problem, and something an employee would NEVER do in your company I think that misses the point. A linked list is a simple data
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by sago 9y ago
An observation, not a disagreement: While P.A.s are stereotypically female in culture (e.g. Most often in films, novels, TV shows). 'High-value' assistants in several cultural contexts are usually portrayed as male: maitre d'
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by sago 9y ago
While we're at the video recommendations, it would be remiss to omit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99bMtg4zRk As fun as it is, Tim Blais works hard to make hardcore science engaging.
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by sago 10y ago
> agglutinative ?! Do you really mean that? All languages have compound lexemes. And all languages can use description to disambiguate. The balance in toki pona is at a dramatically different point to English, which has a relatively larg
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by sago 10y ago
It depends what you were trying to communicate. toki pona has a reduced vocabulary. It builds more complex concepts that other languages have lexemes for as compounds, and these are somewhat standard, though more flexible than in other lang
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by sago 10y ago
The thing I found most surprisingl about this article, is that Harvard won't admit it. I had always assumed you could go there if you paid enough. As with all Ivy League colleges. Do they really try to pretend otherwise? Who are they f
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by sago 10y ago
It looks cool, Nice little app. As a Reason user, I particularly like that it does everything through midi rather than VST. I agree with the point about notes: it would be quite neat to see this overlaid on a note lane. Still, adding new fe

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