wreel

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by wreel 14y ago
I found that I've moved on to reStructuredText. It doesn't seem to be marketed as much as Markdown (the only reason I know about it is because of Sphinx) but I feel that it's a bit more capable. Simple tables are exceptionally easy and it
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by wreel 16y ago
Every time I see iPhone/Android articles like these I think of this: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/06/science/06tier.html?_r=1&#...
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by wreel 16y ago
I think you're side stepping the point of the article which wasn't that he was arguing for complexity in design but that the general public has a tendency to "worship false images" as Don would put it. That is the impulse when comparing tw
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by wreel 17y ago
> But "bugs" in a 2,717 ft tower are unacceptable. People have a tendency to overlook "bugs" in architecture because of the immutability of the medium. But once you start noticing that the HVAC is uneven on your floor, the hot water ta
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by wreel 17y ago
That's a gross mischaracterization. Charles Johnson wasn't really a Liberman style anti-jihadist democrat. He really was part of the strong defense/small gonvernment style conservative base. His problem has been (for a very long time) th
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by wreel 17y ago
http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2009/10/14/3 > Tom Karl, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., noted that the conclusions of the IPCC reports are bas
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by wreel 17y ago
I think that both remarkably miss the point that the true measure of software is actualized value to the end user. Who cares about platform or depth of technical knowledge? If some PHP hobbyist who knows nothing about mmap(3) delivers a si
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Alexander Stepanov: STL and Its Design Principles [video](video.google.com)
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by wreel 17y ago
Read step #2. The author is pitching the use of canvas as a rapid prototyping tool for common graphics requirements that come up in web design. There are a lot of interesting things you could do without having to do a lot of manual manipu
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by wreel 17y ago
MTASC or haXe from Motion Twin are also good alternate .swf development compilers that you can integrate with your favorite development environment. I've played around with haXe with MinGW build tools on Win32 and was pleased with the resu