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by tokipin 18y ago
they shoulda shown fun recolorings. like making people's faces orange
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by tokipin 18y ago
how do programs in, say, japanese look? do they use japanese symbols as variables etc?
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by tokipin 18y ago
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/09/you-suck.html
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by tokipin 18y ago
that's actually my opinion. i like the punctuation of closing symbols. my brain doesn't have to think about anything, it just sees "end" and that's that
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by tokipin 18y ago
after being familiar with Jungian psychometrics, a lot of these things seem off. for example, there are personality types that are easily distracted (eg ENFJ), and there are types that are impossible to distract (eg INTJ) that's beside the
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by tokipin 18y ago
here's something related: http://okasaki.blogspot.com/2008/02/in-praise-of-mandatory-i... (re: indentation-sensitive languages for teaching)
487.
by tokipin 18y ago
what about a tool that you enter 'instances' in (say, a few examples of valid email addresses) and it gives you the most specific regex that matches all of them
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by tokipin 18y ago
i was annoyed at first too, but i think they are right about these things. and if they are able to disseminate them to the point where a few more companies take heed, they will have done something good the thing to watch out for is being se
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by tokipin 18y ago
when i was in high school and college i wanted to get into game development. but stories about multi-month 'crunch times' eventually turned me away. in fact the games industry was renown for them. it was likely through a combination of p
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by tokipin 18y ago
there actually are people who need work in a psychological sense. but abstraction and creativity aren't their fortes (they are detail-oriented are rule-ish) so most of them stay away from technology development
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by tokipin 18y ago
pwnt
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by tokipin 18y ago
truthfully, i have no idea. it's certainly unfortunate that these languages/environments are not widely usable. i don't know of a more powerful scratchpad than Mathematica have you looked at R? it's an open source matlab. though i don't
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by tokipin 18y ago
give J (an APL descendant) a try, it has some good tutorial thingies that appear right in the console thingie: http://www.jsoftware.com/stable.htm and here's a post about it: http://www.squidoo.com/jprogramming
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by tokipin 18y ago
it's an algol language with array manipulation. APL languages start with array manipulation as a primitive in the design of the language, so they are much better at these sorts of things Matlab is for engineers, Mathematica is for scientis
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by tokipin 18y ago
so when can we start editing submissions with this
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by tokipin 18y ago
as someone else wrote here, einstein's general relativity would have been discovered much, much later if he hadn't; and many people believe we might not even have GR at all today if it weren't for him. it's certainly the greatest leap th
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by tokipin 18y ago
is it true most AI was based on logic stuff? no wonder it failed. it's like making a building out of iron legos and wondering why it isn't flexible
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by tokipin 18y ago
yea, people that do that annoy me
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by tokipin 19y ago
google image search, yo
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by tokipin 19y ago
http://rajshekhar.net/blog/archives/85-Rasmus-30-second-AJAX...
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by tokipin 19y ago
i don't like the name. something like "The Murderer" would help it sell better -- an exaggeration, but i think the eggheaded name is lame and will be off-putting to people
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by tokipin 19y ago
i couldn't live without http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productde... split is like 500x more comfortable than joined
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by tokipin 19y ago
clearly we need some sort of voice versions of vim and emacs
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by tokipin 19y ago
i love snail mail spam, especially the ones with paid envelopes that you can fill with funny things and send back
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by tokipin 19y ago
it was a rhetorical question, it didn't occur to me that it would pertain directly to who i was responding to my point is not everyone wants to accomplish the same things in life, but everyone needs money to be able to accomplish them (at m
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by tokipin 19y ago
not exactly related, but i always thought legos were really expensive
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by tokipin 19y ago
and if they did replicate it, everyone would call them assholes. maybe they're trying not to paint a bad image of themselves
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by tokipin 19y ago
right, but those are your interests. mine, for example, are completely opposite -- i want to stay home and play with theories i agree that if you have nothing better to do, and you want to be one of those famous CEO's, then selling out e
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by tokipin 19y ago
why waste time fiddling with a company when you have all the money you will ever need? and not everyone's passion can make them money
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by tokipin 19y ago
progeria is one of the things that makes me believe it may be possible to 'cure' old age http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria i have always wondered what the psychological effects of living hundreds of years might be

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