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by thedirt0115 7y ago
I think the comment was a little tongue-in-cheek -- like FizzBuzz is a problem without much inherent complexity, but you can certainly you make an overly complex solution: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/Fiz
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
"They first appeared as tape transport symbols on reel-to-reel tape decks during the mid-1960s." See https://gizmodo.com/the-secret-histories-of-those-ing-comput... , which is linked to from this article which you
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
If you're still interested in writing your own browser from scratch, this series of posts (in Rust instead of C#, sorry!) is a good introduction: https://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2014/08/08/toy-layout-eng
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Probably because they think that most of the hard work that goes into building a browser -- like parsing sloppy html, handling CSS correctly, a JS engine, etc -- were not done by the author. To me this feels like like getting a free cheeseb
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Excellent collection of resources! I'd like to add one: https://forvo.com/ Forvo is a free site where you can look up words and hear them spoken by native speakers.
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Well, those little boogers sure don't make it seem like hard work :) As for a book with audio, I'd recommend "French Short Stories For Beginners" by Frederic Bibard (www.talkinfrench.com). It also includes audio downlo
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
I don't doubt that a bit, children are amazing language learners! I'm curious as to whether adults could learn the same way.
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
I agree about lack of initiative, I just don't want people thinking if they just listen to enough music/TV/whatever they'll magically be able to speak and understand. That only seems to work in children (at least to see
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
What of the folks who have watched countless hours of anime, but still can't speak Japanese? Input alone is not enough, at least not for adults wanting to become fluent from what I've seen.
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
I imagine that you could run a tab with your local grocer and settle up for full pennies later.
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
The parent comment that a coin of lead and balsa wouldn't be biased, but to clarify, the linked research paper states it can't be biased unless allowed to bounce/spin. Maybe your weighted cylinder flipping is not biased if y
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
I'm not trying to convince anyone, I myself don't know! Yes all around to your questions though, pretty much. Cheaper, faster, easier, etc. What do you think the effect of spellcheck technology will be on the rate of change of
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
You could try OpenOffice/LibreOffice Impress.
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Do you think that this will still be the case now that we have the internet? I wonder if the English of 3000 AD will be as different from 2000 AD as 2000 AD is from 1000 AD. I feel like the big players in tech have the capability to direc
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Are these posts archived anywhere?
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
One great option would be to open up a college savings plan (529 Plan) for your children and ask them to contribute some small amount to that. It's less awkward than just saying "please stop buying us junk", but it can have
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
You should write a book, "The Cyborg of Theseus" :)
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
"users will leverage that even if it's not specified" -- reminds me of the classic xkcd, "Workflow": https://xkcd.com/1172
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Convert a deck of cards ([]Card?) to a map (map[Card]bool?) and back just to shuffle? That's unlikely to be faster or more idiomatic than a straightforward implementation of the Fisher-Yates shuffle[1]. Try writing the code to do it
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
How do you feel about Go? It's almost twice as old as Swift, but hasn't seen the same rise in complexity, imo. Tooling and ecosystem seem pretty solid as well.
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
"Can we explain the differences in identifier length preferences between language communities by pointing to the availability of reliable auto-complete in one and lack thereof in another?" I'd have to say "no" to th
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Ooh, this seems like something we can test! Brain scan while doing spatial navigation tasks vs tasks that require reasoning about the structure of code -- hypothesis would be that it should light up some of the same areas?
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
How might one quantify "size and complexity" for different domains? Physical architecture seems to me like maybe it's somewhat similar to programming, but even that seems hard to me to compare. Fiction author also seems lik
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
0.003% of robocall fines collected so far: https://gizmodo.com/fcc-reportedly-collected-only-0-003-of-r...
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Wow, I had never heard of them, and I did not like this quote from the landing page (if they got their data from mobile carriers like this): "Gain deeper insights from location data to answer questions like who visits certain places,
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Is anything going to happen to the companies who bought the data? Is that also illegal?
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Hey, no fair, the "A" in "AI" stands for "artificial"!
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
What do you think about the language of thought hypothesis? Some people would say internal monologue is how they think.
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Some background on Python's choice for 0-based indexing: http://python-history.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-python-uses-0... See Guido's comment on calendar :)
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
I was just wondering which was more ergonomic! Do you have a link to the study?

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