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by trop 15y ago
Semi-related tangent, this is Bertrand Russell on Wittgenstein from the epigraph of Markson's book Wittgenstein's Mistress: "When I was still doubtful as to his ability, I asked G.E. Moore for his opinion. Moore replied, 'I think very well
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by trop 15y ago
He truly his an engineer's mind. Engineering joy is, of course, a bit difficult.
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by trop 16y ago
Not only is there some utility in skeuomorphs (to borrow another poster's reference), but they also excite the imagination. I've heard the opposite critique of iOS widgets, that their flaw is mimicking machine-panels rather than something e
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by trop 16y ago
Though it's no reason to move to Pennsylvania, PPL Electric there adopted a stunningly usable online billing system a few years ago. No idea how that happened, and as I don't live in NE Penn. I can't provide a screenshot. Ironically (for th
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by trop 16y ago
You lucky 64-bit people: * cat /etc/debian_version 6.0 * file /bin/bash /bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped * file /lib/libc-
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by trop 16y ago
NWS -- according to rumor -- deliberately keeps their pages nerdy and undesigned due to pressure from commercial providers (AccuWeather, etc.), which don't want a government-supported a "rival". ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weath
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by trop 16y ago
The student who knew grew up in a household full of 'em. Videophiles find advantages in LaserDiscs over DVD: http://www.starlaser.com/dvd-lasr.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc#Comparison_with_DVD . Jacket art and possible i
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by trop 16y ago
I recently had to explain to a class of college students what a LaserDisc was. It turned out, luckily, that one of the students also knew...
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by trop 16y ago
OK, point taken! I like what you say about an anti-CMS. I feel like the old Google Pages (and maybe new Google Sites?) were aimed this way, along with the what other posters mention (Let's Eat, Squarespace). The step of getting one's own do
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by trop 16y ago
> Because restaurant owners are barely figuring out what email is. That seems a bit condescending to restaurant owners? Rather, perhaps, they are so much in the real world, dealing with suppliers, cooks, kitchen equipment, waiters, deco
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by trop 16y ago
Richard Benson (master printer, MacArthur genius grant winner, former dean of Yale School of Art) has a saying (approx.), "Smart people are a dime a dozen. Show me someone who can make something and I'll be impressed." Wise people are also,
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by trop 16y ago
Not mass-produced, but an "open source" kit for making multi-touch: http://labs.nortd.com/touchkit/ .
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by trop 16y ago
Reminds me of when I had to write a front-end for a web search feed. It was easy to test the standard case (millions of results, of which the first 1000 can be paged). But what about the case when there is only one page of results? The solu
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by trop 16y ago
Or at least told the U.S. that privately. Which is different, as this could just be what he thinks the U.S. wants to hear, while he can say something different to his people in public.
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by trop 16y ago
While I wouldn't claim this is a reliable source, you could check out Dave Emory on Assange ( http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-724-wiki-of-the-d... and http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-725-leak-this-wik... ). Emory tri
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by trop 16y ago
One could also argue that once you have Emacs set up, you have enough to learn Lisp. Use ielm mode as a REPL, or lisp-mode for longer code bits. Sure you don't get lexical scope standard, but more than enough to muck around... The elisp inf
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by trop 16y ago
Flights from TLV are minimum hundreds of dollars to Europe, over a thousand to virtually anywhere else. So $76 (or $38) per passenger isn't a huge factor, compared to domestic-heavy bargain-biased U.S. airports. (Source: http://www.kayak.c
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by trop 16y ago
Why is the Richard Brautigan of 2009.
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by trop 16y ago
Anecdotally (from a government scientist), when hiring individuals for gov't work, if you know a good candidate, you write the job description for the candidate. This is because all hires (to avoid nepotism) go through a central office, whi
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by trop 16y ago
Yes, it seems double-edged trouble: On on hand, this commodifies a situation that before lent itself to serendipity and erudition. On the other hand, this also sets up a feedback loop, where the scanners only find books that have already be
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by trop 16y ago
This gives me the bad feeling of when SIGGRAPH used to have papers on "artistic" filters (instant impressionism! instant woodcut!) by people without a feel for the expressiveness of the medium which they are simulating. Such work sometimes
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by trop 16y ago
It's a lovely chapter! Thanks for pointing it out. Programming as an intellectual activity is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art. ... . The world needs more weird people who know how things work and who love to ﬁgu
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by trop 16y ago
The number of hops on a SW flight to a non-major destination has gotten me down, as well as (at least a few years ago) the lack of transparency on the website/tickets about how many hops you might end up on.
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by trop 16y ago
I think brc nailed it... (Sorry to be slow on catching up on thread.)
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by trop 16y ago
From talking with a "bar designer": Every bar should have a choke point, that is a place where customers have to squeeze past many other customers. This isn't an annoyance, but an essential part of the experience.
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by trop 16y ago
Think of PHP as a really amazing shell scripting language. Just as shell scripts can be glue for all the powerful UNIX utilities, PHP gives you APIs for just about any useful library you might need for web work. You won't be able to use you
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by trop 16y ago
Can't get over how young the programmer team looks. Compared say, to Lars Bak who is 45-ish and working on V8... Whatever happened to the grizzled JIT writers?
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by trop 16y ago
Yes... Motion pictures, for example, are 24hz-30hz, which is just enough to get rid of noticeable flicker, but still risks strobing during fast camera movements.
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by trop 16y ago
"Marx, at about the same time, puts the point a little differently in his Eighteenth Brumaire, suggesting that it is only if you think like a newspaper that you will take the events of 1848 (or 1830) as front-page history; they belong on th
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by trop 16y ago
From the patent ("Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiments"): "The electrical pulses as shown in FIG. 3 have varied pulse widths because of the operation of PWM, and their actual pulse widths depend on the associated sinusoidal dut

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