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by whimsy 16y ago
/symbol Oh, it's a metacharacter? /\meta \ escapes metacharacters
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by whimsy 16y ago
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-looks-and-online-dati... is the relevant post, I think. It looks like I was wrong about it varying by age. (Maybe that was another post, though.) http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/online-dating-advi
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by whimsy 16y ago
I'm a little amused that the release of a Diaspora alpha demo rocketed up on HN in a matter of minutes, while Appleseed, which has been cast as one of many superior alternatives to Diaspora, is languishing after nine hours.
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by whimsy 16y ago
>the information was available before and yes there are malicious uses for it, but making it easier to access isn't the issue. FireSheep inside Facebook?
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by whimsy 16y ago
It isn't according to OkCupid's exposed stats. Average reply rate to messages sent by males is between 1/3 and 1/4 (varying by age). If you hunt through the OkCupid blog archive, you can find the relevant stats. (I think they were released
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by whimsy 16y ago
Are your "successes" here "responses" or "dates?"
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by whimsy 16y ago
Free tip: http://www.reddit.com/r/webgames I don't know how many of these are going to be embeddable, but I drop by there every once in a while when I feel like procrastinating and sort by "top" for this month or whatever. This is great f
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by whimsy 16y ago
Are there any specific libraries or features that would be particularly salient to this endeavor?
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by whimsy 16y ago
Today I learned... Thanks. It looks like ftplugin is a native vim extension - is that correct?
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by whimsy 16y ago
I've had this idea for a logarithmic calendar/timeline for event aggregation purposes... but I don't know where to start. I have some experience programming in C, Python, and Java, and a wee bit of HTML/CSS experience, but no JS or JS-relat
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by whimsy 16y ago
I don't think anyone's going to honestly yell at you for disclaimers if you feel you need them, but I think it's safe to assume that the folks here know how to use Google and Wikipedia and are fairly smart. So long as you're not talking abo
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by whimsy 16y ago
No computer science in your default subjects on the right? >=p For shame! Anyway, here's a review from the perspective of someone who currently uses Anki off and on as his study aid du jour. Your samples ("Browse by Subject") look like
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by whimsy 16y ago
I guess I thought you were trying to generalize - I certainly was. I think you're right: in this case, there's not much gain to be had.
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by whimsy 16y ago
I think it's a fair assertion. It's not especially necessary for the HN crowd since we're largely technical folks, but not everyone here does software, right? It does assume a little familiarity with some abstract software knowledge.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Credibility, for one... Personally, I find it hard to take someone seriously if they have problems with basic spelling or grammar. This is definitely a cognitive bias I possess. However, it has served as a very good heuristic, so I haven't
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by whimsy 16y ago
I'm a senior CS undergrad at UCSC. C is used often here in upper divisions for Algorithms, Compilers, and Operating Systems at the very least. I suspect it's used anywhere that theory is deemed very important, because it forces you to under
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by whimsy 16y ago
Personally, I agree with some other folks here - your market is students and people learning languages. Add really good pronunciation help - something you can hear. Make sure you integrate SRS - see Piotr Wozniak's work on the forgetting cu
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by whimsy 16y ago
Ah, I was merely commenting on the format of the story. It wasn't HARD to get this list, but it was non-trivial.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Full list of links to the story. 1: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/what-do-rea... 2: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/what-do-rea... 3: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/what-do-rea...
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by whimsy 16y ago
fyi: peak -> pique
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by whimsy 16y ago
Most of the talks were great. Some of them felt like a waste of time to me, but maybe that's just because they felt like so much rehashing of stuff I've read on HN time and time again. If that's the case, then maybe it was really useful for
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by whimsy 16y ago
Evony is maybe a clone of Tribal Wars, which is maybe a clone of something else... Evony also ripped a lot of art out of the first half of the Age of Empires series. I don't know how they haven't been sued.
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by whimsy 16y ago
No definitive answer? Surely there are plenty of boxing champions and football players for data on this.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Offline adblocker! Alright!
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by whimsy 16y ago
... not that you have to be very smart to graduate in the USA. (OkC's membership is predominantly, though by no means exclusively, located in the USA.)
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by whimsy 16y ago
No Erlang?!
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by whimsy 16y ago
...assuming they're not just leeching.
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by whimsy 16y ago
I don't know why this got downvoted - Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon seems highly relevant to me.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Time constraints: we weren't making significant process on the core idea, and we're both very busy students, so the side project fell by the wayside.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Perhaps this is one of those "secret recruitment processes."

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