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by tabtab 6y ago
I cheated by letting it sit around a long time, and termites ended up doing all the work.
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by tabtab 6y ago
I once floated the idea of a "simplest Turing Machine" contest that limited materials to wood, nails, screws, and string. The one with the least number of parts wins. Each Nail and screw would be considered half a part, but total
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by tabtab 6y ago
Before making Yet Another Language, I'd like to see a good analysis of the options and trade-offs they offer: what does each design choice make easier and harder. There is probably no free lunch, but maybe we can find a better lunch by
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by tabtab 6y ago
I thought of that movie also. Although half fiction, it's a wonderful flick; I highly recommend it for anybody frustrated with their position in life. Re: "The movie portrayed Salieri as a man who could barely play. When that was
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by tabtab 6y ago
"We are the Borg. Do you want fries with that?..."
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: China aims to be..."Disneyland with the death penalty", rather than a totalitarian state. So the death-chamber is well-decorated. A step up.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Some have observed that the average family income of dictatorships tends to plateau at about half that of mature democracies, regardless of the economic system used. Things inside may start to get edgy when they hit that ceiling after every
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by tabtab 6y ago
Emacs 4939284.2
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by tabtab 6y ago
I agree, at least as far as direct brain-to-device communication, blue-tooth-like. You won't need a screen, you just "think" to the UI. I suspect this trend will start in some poorly regulated country and when they show promi
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by tabtab 6y ago
Where does one typically hit limits with this such that it's time to switch to something like Tkinter?
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by tabtab 6y ago
I generally tend to agree. The browser is becoming a terribly fat client, and the complexity and version/brand variations create a testing nightmare and moving targets that make the DLL Hell of the 90's almost look good in compari
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by tabtab 6y ago
Coordinate-based HTML/CSS implementation is too inconsistent across implementations and versions to be relied upon, especially with regard to fonts. What are some good WYSIWYG vector standards, including the font department? It could b
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by tabtab 6y ago
I have to say a lot of technology "change" is fads. The New Thing takes over before anybody seriously vets the new idea. Once something looks like "legacy-ware", everyone gets scared of being obsolete and abandons it for
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: "[Comments are a] bad for a data interchange format though, because people inevitably start putting important data in them" Any feature or tool can be abused and misused. Comments are useful for configuration files, period.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: "This is terrifying. A handful of mainstream publications and a bunch of basically unknown facebook folks are now the censors." It's not much different than when the TV news was controlled by 3 networks.
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by tabtab 6y ago
No wonder my Turk stock took such a hit.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: "scientific progress could be bound by Moore's law and increase so much." Moore's law appears to be slumping lately. Re: "This coincides with our previous experience in physics, says Cranmer: "The language
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by tabtab 6y ago
If the vectors also relatively smoothly morph in time, then monitor-side interpolation (including motion smoothing) wouldn't be needed and directors would have more control over how interpolation is done. They've complained about
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: "You just store samples" Not necessarily. One can "summarize" the samples, as shown, to get approximations using much less data. And various sub-sets can be switched on and off as needed (or weights turned down). Re:
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by tabtab 6y ago
Kind of reminds me of Factor Tables: https://github.com/RowColz/AI
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by tabtab 6y ago
I really miss optional named parameters. I hope PHP adds that feature.
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by tabtab 6y ago
It's sometimes said that in software, there hasn't been anything truly new under the sun since the 1970's, just incremental refinements or repacking under a different name. And Lisp has been around since about 1960. So if any
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by tabtab 6y ago
What about some kind of interactive simulation, kind of like playing with a graphing calculator? People tend to relate to things better by tinkering and playing with parameters to observe the impact on results. Analog experimentation is how
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by tabtab 7y ago
It's the Latin equivalent of human languages: it can't go out of style and (significantly) change because it's never been in style (at least not since the fall of Rome). That's why it's used for scientific naming.
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by tabtab 7y ago
I've always had difficulty debugging functional and formula based logic, and others have said similar. Imperative is just easier to "fractal-ly dissect" to me. Debugging seems to be a reoccurring theme of many "high abst
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by tabtab 7y ago
Yes there is: Pray for a friggen miracle. Atheists, it's worth a try in case there is a %0.00001 chance you are wrong.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Not really. Most productivity software still runs on desktops. We sacrifice too much to the Resize Gods without actually using them. It's like costly shrubbery insurance. (YAGNI.) Desktop GUI's were both easier to specify and were
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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: Personally, I would be looking for an exit Agreed. If you have options, leave. You can't fix jerks. Then again, every job will have some, but if it's your supervisor, then polish up your resume. The stress is not worth your
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by tabtab 7y ago
Surgeons usually recommend more surgery and pharmacists more pills. It may not be conscious bias, but human nature tilts each to favor solutions toward their own skill sets. My manager want's "pretty URL's" even though i
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by tabtab 7y ago
Each such VB-influenced tool all had their weak points. But overall they seemed moving in the right direction as each vendor learned from each other's mistakes. Power-Builder's difficulty in code share-ability was a specific desig

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