wlievens

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901.
by wlievens 16y ago
The whole "episodic content" and/or DLC model wasn't very prevalent in 1999.
902.
by wlievens 16y ago
I am European, and I do speak 3 languages, but I still think it's arrogant.
903.
by wlievens 16y ago
That's arrogant and elitist of you. What's next? Bragging about how many programming languages you know? My coding-dick is longer than yours?
904.
by wlievens 16y ago
Sure it's possible, but only if you use both frequently. Most of what I type is in English, so I'm fluent, but my daily life happens in Dutch.
905.
by wlievens 16y ago
Dutch (Flemish) native, English fluent, French from high school but not very fluent. Planning to learn Spanish in the near future.
906.
by wlievens 16y ago
Small remark: your map of Europe appears to be strechted out along the Y-axis. Is that possible? Or is it just using an unfamiliar projection?
907.
by wlievens 16y ago
An entire article (both this one and the linked WSJ article) on language influencing thought and vice versa, and not a single mention of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, that's sad.
908.
by wlievens 16y ago
I'm pretty sure there must be video analysis software out there that's capable of figuring out whether people look angry.
909.
by wlievens 16y ago
In this case, the и intensely reminds me of a swastika so the effect is doubled!
910.
by wlievens 16y ago
The Right Thing To Do would have been to created a redirect page on WP.
911.
by wlievens 16y ago
Do the latter first, and then the former a few dozen times :-)
912.
by wlievens 16y ago
Before you'd reach that problem, you have tens of thousands of laws to remove, so you can scrap the +1-2 rule in due time.
913.
by wlievens 16y ago
And conversely, translating a library function into simple opcodes (rather than a real call) should be any decent compiler's responsibility, using intrinsics.
914.
by wlievens 16y ago
From what I've heard, the politics are an order of magnitude worse than in the average corporate environment.
915.
by wlievens 16y ago
"thinking about money" isn't necessarily the same as "worrying about money"
916.
by wlievens 16y ago
What boosted you back up? Maybe you just needed a time-out?
917.
by wlievens 16y ago
I wonder, could the following be true: any startup that faces the problem of unscalable implementation will by then have the necessary resources to resolve the scaling problem? Because, by the time you run into scalability problems, you'll
918.
by wlievens 16y ago
There have been plenty of (non-aweful) movies with more unprobably plots than that, that weren't in a dream of any kind. I think that stating that the entire plot is a dream just because the main plot is not realistic is akin to denying the
919.
by wlievens 16y ago
> Except it's not "just another job" at all--it's an impossible job, they have to assemble the best team, they make an elaborate plan that goes all wrong and they have to clean it up Exepct that's the plot of every single "just another
920.
by wlievens 16y ago
If you've got anything to do with hardware, probably Cambridge (UK).
921.
by wlievens 16y ago
Reminds me of the bengali (I think) newspaper that took the article on Armstrong becoming a moon hoax believer seriously.
922.
by wlievens 16y ago
Could you elaborate on the "funding out of nowhere" story? Sounds like an interesting anecdote at first sight :-)
923.
by wlievens 16y ago
That is impressive. Congratulations.
924.
by wlievens 16y ago
I'll sum it up in a much simpler way: The feeling you get when you read about something computer-science or software-engineering related in mass media ("oh my god those idiot journalists can't get anything right") is probably very similar t
925.
by wlievens 16y ago
Unfortunately many (most?) 'non-standard' theories are absolute crap, and it's hard for non-experts to separate signal from noise. For proof, see the perpetual energy source products that pop up every few months. (not talking about this art
926.
by wlievens 16y ago
Weather is most certainly one of the primary domains of interest of GIS.
927.
by wlievens 16y ago
It's one hypothesis. A weird one, and probably unscientific because I can't imagine how you'd prove or falsify it. Well, I guess you could falsify it by proving how wave function collapse does work .
928.
by wlievens 16y ago
> ...it appears that as consumerism and perhaps, indulgence, rise, children become more and more scarce... Correlation doesn't imply causation. The typical explanations for the lower birth rates are (A) we have pensions, so we don't nee
929.
by wlievens 16y ago
My bank (all of them where I live) uses a challenge code that I have to enter on a separate hardware card reader. So only human login permitted :-(
930.
by wlievens 16y ago
I would hope that minifiers use a JS parser!

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