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by tokipin 18y ago
Small Basic is pretty cool http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950524.aspx it has a few graphics things and handles a lot of stuff for you. for example, if you want to use the Turtle object, you write one line of code: Turtle.M
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by tokipin 18y ago
my camera isn't good with backlight or in a dark room. i would think that's a common issue. have you guys considered some kind of thingie that will correct the lighting?
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by tokipin 18y ago
i don't think there's much magic to it. i think it's simply that reflexivity for some people grants them more energy than interacting with the environment does, for whatever reason. it may be a chemical thing Jungian psychology (such as M
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by tokipin 18y ago
Borlaug was mentioned on Penn & Teller's show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvNopv9Pa8
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by tokipin 18y ago
it sounds like yet another reinvention of the J vs. P (corresponding to left-brain vs right-brain) spectrum of Jungian psychology
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by tokipin 18y ago
do you think people see airplanes as metal tubes full of highly flammable liquid? not to mention that balloon vs metal is already very unbalanced
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by tokipin 18y ago
the hindenberg was a huge flying balloon filled with highly flammable gas
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by tokipin 18y ago
http://www.physicsforums.com
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by tokipin 18y ago
you mean like array[mod(i, length) + 1]
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by tokipin 18y ago
World of Warcraft is addicting for sure, but i think it's easy to miss the fact that the core of the game -- the combat -- is very well-designed. if it weren't, i don't think the game would be any where near as popular as it is whenever i
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by tokipin 18y ago
if i read correctly, that's talking about the mathematical notations, not arrays or the indexing of such, of that programming language and while we're considering sources of "clumsiness and mistakes," 0-indexing is an exceptional candidate,
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by tokipin 18y ago
that's really weird. was it written at a time when most programming was for scientific purposes? i don't know my comp history if i parsed it correctly, he is saying that things should be 0-indexed because a particular mathematical notatio
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by tokipin 18y ago
personally i think 0-indexing is weird. it makes sense as a pointer offset in lower-level languages. but in higher-level languages we have the opportunity to index the first element by the number 1, the second by the number 2, and so on
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by tokipin 18y ago
the [[ and ]] are used for literal/multiline strings, so they make sense in block quotes. and you don't have to end the block with --]]. ]] is fine, which is the only thing i've ever used since it would never have occurred to me, especial
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by tokipin 18y ago
what good is karma if you dont use it thats what i always say
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by tokipin 18y ago
it's likely for usage in higher-order functions. i haven't used clojure but i assume you can do something like this: (map :foo hashofhashes) which would get the element :foo of every hash in hashofhashes
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by tokipin 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
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by tokipin 18y ago
funnily, this approach is the complete opposite of the way of the samurai, which stresses swiftness and decisiveness cf. kamikaze
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by tokipin 18y ago
i don't think he meant it as "do nothing." rather, he meant something more like accepting the world as it is given to you, accepting the truth instead of rationalizing, etc acceptance is a big part of moving on this isn't just an idealist
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by tokipin 18y ago
regarding immitation: mirror system hypothesis http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/arbib06mirrorSys...
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by tokipin 18y ago
i'm very nearsighted, and use glasses. however the kind of detail i see when i'm very drunk is on a different level, regardless of whether i'm wearing glasses or not (like looking at things up close.) it might seem strange that you can se
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by tokipin 18y ago
i think it's a matter of perspective. people's perspectives can be very different. it didn't hit me until i got really smashed one night and my vision became many times more detailed. the world looked beautiful . no doubt there are p
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by tokipin 18y ago
i remember another student complaining to the teacher, "so you're not giving me credit because i'm missing a for loop?" i wish i was the teacher. i would have explained that "missing a for loop" isn't something like, say, having an injured
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by tokipin 18y ago
i think gravity 'waves' travel at the speed of light
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by tokipin 18y ago
i think part of the problem is that people simply aren't knowledgeable about the theory. what Jung described is not at all as trivial as the Myers-Briggs implementation makes it seem. this combined with the natural difficulty of figuring
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by tokipin 18y ago
Haskell uses \, which isn't too far from λ. it also reads better than -> imo
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by tokipin 18y ago
for me the #1 benefit is first-class functions. once you have that, you have the best that functional programming has to offer more generally, the composability of functions allows for more tacit programming. for example: array = [ 1,
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by tokipin 18y ago
for me it's fast loading lean webpages (like google results pages,) but on most pages i can't tell the difference between it and FF3 on a Blogger operation (hitting the preview button with a lot of HTML in the editbox, which performs some p
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by tokipin 18y ago
this is the case in XP, but is one of the things i noticed was changed in Vista
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National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (Lectures)(youtube.com)
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