xlnt

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by xlnt 18y ago
I don't understand how Ars selling to Conde Nast would change whether you have the rights to the publishing system.
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by xlnt 18y ago
The content of Ockham's Razor is "don't make stuff up for no reason". If it's dull then you're doing it wrong.
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by xlnt 18y ago
Can you beat any of the other languages with Java?
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by xlnt 18y ago
I mean command line differences.
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by xlnt 18y ago
but didn't the article give an example or two where tables made your site more maintainable?
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by xlnt 18y ago
One advantage is for people who already use Leopard on their primary computer, and don't want to bother with a subtly different flavor of *nix.
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by xlnt 18y ago
I don't care what a table "should" be very much. How is that even determined? By what some committee says? I care what, in fact, it does. How browsers and others use it.
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by xlnt 18y ago
> In a modern web world it is extremely inappropriate to use tables for non-tabular data [even when convenient] Why?
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by xlnt 18y ago
Judging from the article not the title, it looks like he is reasoning not fighting.
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by xlnt 18y ago
I've replied by email. Hopefully you'll receive it.
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by xlnt 18y ago
This is a good example of failure of the threading model at YC. It's very hard to see, visually, what the parent is. It's just sort of this comment in the middle of nowhere.
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by xlnt 18y ago
I wrote: I'm sorry, I can't talk to you, my mail client says you're a spammer. Do you think this is an accurate statement about mirror neurons? http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_p2... Anytime you watch someone els
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by xlnt 18y ago
For example, I know a lot about epistemology, and I am already familiar with the common phenomenon where psychiatrists and neuroscientists accidentally stray into philosophical areas they know little about and make epistemic blunders. I ema
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by xlnt 18y ago
You don't know what my league is, or what my areas of expertise are. I do know that your arguments from authority are invalid.
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by xlnt 18y ago
Well I was just reading some of his writing, but so far I am not persuaded. Further, I have noticed some critical flaws in his writing caused by his lack of understanding of epistemology.
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by xlnt 18y ago
An appeal to authority? That's not very persuasive.
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by xlnt 18y ago
You should recognize that you need the help of a person who doesn't share your mind-blindness to make appropriate judgements about children and how to relate to them. You absolutely cannot figure out how to treat kids on your own if you ar
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by xlnt 18y ago
Alright I found this, which has various links to more. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran06/ramachandran0... Could you give one reason to suppose that mirror neurons are a hardware feature -- a type of neuron -- not a software f
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by xlnt 18y ago
Sometimes unpopular ideas turn out to be true.
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by xlnt 18y ago
Would I be correct to say that your comments/position are not specific to how to treat children ? Any sort of autistic/non-autistic communication gap would be the same if one or both persons was an adult. PS would you like to continue this
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by xlnt 18y ago
Link to the best web-available paper with evidence that they exist, and some text ruling out alternative explanations, and and I will read it.
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by xlnt 18y ago
As I understand it, "mirror neurons" are a silly idea. Researchers noticed that people, for example, running, and people observing running, have similar brain activity. Why might that be? Well, they say that certain neurons somehow mimic wh
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by xlnt 18y ago
The original poster did not say how this child is wired. I think that parental expectations of children to dislike criticism is a large factor in why they usually grow up to dislike it.
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by xlnt 18y ago
Why is autism called a mental illness if rational thinking is a textbook example? Anyhow, I agree that you should make personality-appropriate comments that the child will appreciate. (I upvoted all your comments in this thread now. Please
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by xlnt 18y ago
When I was 4 I liked chess. By the time I was 6 I reasonably often beat my parents at chess, and had improved quite a lot. Doesn't chess require reason and judgment?
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by xlnt 18y ago
I wasn't speaking to a child. I spoke about the content of the issue. What form to present it in, and which content the child would be interested to hear, is not my affair; it depends on the details of their situation and personalities. I
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by xlnt 18y ago
Yes. If I had an idea, and someone explained to my why it's no good, I'd be very pleased. I'd be glad they replied and told me something I didn't know. I'd consider it a reward; and a much more useful one than applause. I think that's the m
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by xlnt 18y ago
Telling children the truth helps them learn to have genuinely good ideas. Lying to them to avoid hurting their feelings implies there is some reason they should feel bad or discouraged about making a mistake like this. There isn't.
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by xlnt 18y ago
This statistic is misleading. All those xp developers could be making vista-compatible programs without specifically making vista the primary target OS.
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by xlnt 18y ago
Yeah, hard disk space is cheap. excluding stuff is dumb. if you want visitors to find high quality articles then make the search box work well. google doesn't exclude webpages for lack of notability. their bar is low and they make up for it

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