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by sole 14y ago
They are included because they were the reason people gave when asked why "The Silmarillion" was so unreadable. (I'm the author)
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by sole 14y ago
Yes--maybe I am thinking out 'too loudly' sometimes, but I think it's interesting since that explains how one can come to a conclusion, and maybe if it is wrong, it can be corrected as you know how the conclusion was reached. It's like you
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by sole 14y ago
Author here. I got them in txt files, online. I own the original books too. I would have typed them in if I had all the time of the world, of course.
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by sole 14y ago
You can find the text for pretty much any popular work if you look in the proper places :-)
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by sole 14y ago
Hi, author here. First, it's she, not he. Second, because I hadn't heard about that obvious test at all back then. I never pretended to do a superserious scientific analysis but rather answer to the questions that came to my mind, by using
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On "Learnable programming" by Bret Victor(soledadpenades.com)
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by sole 16y ago
I think you're just talking about the applications in a stock Nexus One, not the operating system itself (i.e. the UI, the services it provides, etc). If the apps are lousy it's one thing, but the system behaves quite predictably more oft
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by sole 16y ago
The only idea that comes to mind is auditing advertising companies, but it doesn't seem too likely/feasible to me.
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by sole 16y ago
As far as I know, this won't work if the user came from https:// - the referrer will be empty, won't it?
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by sole 16y ago
We were taught basic programming with Emacs, connecting to an HP-UX machine. So we really didn't know much Emacs anyway :-)