stepvhen

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by stepvhen 8y ago
i want to invite others to try to visit Yelp on mobile with JS turned off. first off, you canr access anything. then the website provides nonsense reasons for why a user should have js turned on, and tries to guilt the user into doing do. i
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by stepvhen 8y ago
the idea comes from ancient philosophy, when philosophers could make claims like "everything is made of fire" or "everything is made of water" or "everything is made of triangles" and argue it reasonably. the p
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by stepvhen 8y ago
often, you can buy the works placed in a gallery, while museums you cannot. also, usyally, galleries have rotating stock depending on events etc, whereas museums have storage they rotate out of. additionally, galleries are not, most of the
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by stepvhen 8y ago
because the article spends the first half taking a cynical stance of "but can we reeealy believe what people say about their experiences" and spends the latter half first talking about the authors experiences and then more or less
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by stepvhen 8y ago
>This afternoon I sat down to write a mini text editor. i understand reinventing wheels is both fun and educational and grants a deeper understanding of wheels in general, but the way that statement reads is... over confident. the idea t
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by stepvhen 8y ago
J (i and i assume APL/K to an extent) is called an arry language because arrays are, essentially, a primitive data type. There is no special syntax for arrays, either for creation or handling. The verbs in J just work with arrays, and
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by stepvhen 8y ago
i rewatch this one now and then just to hear Joe Armstrong speak of another author's complex compiler code and the singular comment " and now for the tricky bit"
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by stepvhen 9y ago
read: it is not an image generated by google's recaptcha service, but an art piece designed to convey and draw attention to the possibilities, and probabilities, of the recaptcha service.
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by stepvhen 9y ago
i deleted my facebook last year and i tell everyone i can at every opportunity to do so as well. statistically invisible isnt actually invisible. whats frustrating is blogs and comments that carry an air that facebook can change in the us
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by stepvhen 9y ago
by your own words, since SEO is tied to appearing relevant, penalizing SEO peanlizes apparent relevancy. and since SEO is abused for pageviews i.e. apparent relevancy, this penalizes SEO abuse.
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by stepvhen 9y ago
reading from a selected list, which implied the list is not selected by the reader who uses it, wont allow for real individual exploration, finding ones own unique combination of tastes. thats without considering that most lists generated b
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by stepvhen 9y ago
i write passable poems using ed; it doesn't get more distraction free than that. i understand the drive to flatten out the learning curve of software for non-software-people. most of these options could be covered quickly with an autho
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by stepvhen 9y ago
Club soda with anything, syrups, bitters, citrus, is the secret for a happier sober life. not to mention is usually free in bars. (bitters are technically alcoholic, so that is a personal choice)
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by stepvhen 9y ago
You sound like you need a hobby. Have you tried baking? Like, get a breadmaking book from a ised book sttore, read it carefully, and make bread. Its super rewarding, not that difficult, you end up with a finished product (that you can eat!)
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by stepvhen 9y ago
Parallelization automatically, special constructs for sparse matrixes, complex manipulation of multidimensional arrays without need for making sure they are constructed correctly. Not to mention never having to worry about an indexing error
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by stepvhen 9y ago
J syntax is very strictly enforced; the rules for verbs are unambiguous and fairly easy to parse as a human. The difficulty arises in learning and committing these rules to memory. For example, every verb is infix, but the right side is eva
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I loved reading through Walden, and some of his other essays, namely "Walking". My probably-misplaced opinion on Thoreau is that is a very talented writer but a bit of a nut-job. His views are often rather polarized and/or ex
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by stepvhen 10y ago
i assume all the time you save reading summaries and notes allows for more introspection on the more serious, though-provoking, and fleshed out non-fiction books you read, regardless of their length (article, essay, essay collection, what h
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I got my undergrad in CS and am now pursuing pure math in grad school. Not exactly what you asked, but the time i did spend in the industry was enough to make me want to do something other than programming for money.
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by stepvhen 10y ago
dont get me.wrong i think it is a wonderful project, and i would def try it out, but i dont forsee much benefit for any programmers, unless youre writing pure sql or cobol, i guess
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by stepvhen 10y ago
The website says it would be good for coders, but I'm skeptical; there are far too many particular characters that wouldnt translate as easily to steno as natural language, not to mention the need for keyboard shortcuts to compile run
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by stepvhen 10y ago
Well, there is always J (jsoftware.com), which is the standard open source APL-like language. It also has a columnar database. And a wealth of resources available on its website/wiki (more than I have seen for any other language's
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by stepvhen 10y ago
But Finnegans Wake isnt difficult like Pynchon or Gaddis, who have tons of characters and complex plot devices and rich narrative. It is syntactically erratic and full of "puns" and "wordplay" whose existence the reader
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I am reading DFW's nonfiction right now, before i jump into infinite jest. I am almost through Consider the Lobster, and ive managed to piece together the duality of DFW's cynicism and desire to not be so. and then all his literar
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by stepvhen 10y ago
If you would like an author who can do such a thing, read Borges. His fiction is rarely over 50 pages, is absolutely riveting and beautiful, and his nonfiction mirrors this.
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by stepvhen 10y ago
The very idea that somebody takes half and hour each to exclusively cook and eat three meals a day is absurd for a number of reasons, e.g. leftovers, the act of eating and reading at once, sandwiches, meal planning, skipping lunch, very-ame
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by stepvhen 10y ago
But thats why there are tools like awk.
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by stepvhen 10y ago
How does that work, you run your fingers across the keys lightly or something?
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by stepvhen 10y ago
Last time I used retropie it wouldn't correctly render vibrato effects in the music, so all of FFVI's wonderful score came out flat and awful. That was over a year agohowever, maybe its been updated.
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I understand your argument, but I don't think anybody is playing SNES games competitively, on a non-negligable scale. Moreover if such a game exists, it would probably fall into the pathological cases he mentioned.

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