Jebdm

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Google DNS and OpenDNS Users Are Getting a Web Speed Boost(lifehacker.com)
1 points by Jebdm 15y ago|0 comments
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It's Like That Because It Has Always Been Like That(prog21.dadgum.com)
3 points by Jebdm 15y ago|0 comments
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by Jebdm 15y ago
For Python, check out http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unum/4.1.0
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by Jebdm 15y ago
It's frustrating that you see me as complaining, because my original goals were to (constructively!) get people to 1) remember to check the evidence for a claim before accepting it and 2) remember to either present evidence for your claims
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by Jebdm 15y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2886575
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by Jebdm 15y ago
At the risk of repeating myself: the "opinion" he is expressing is actually a theory of procrastination. When you make broad statements like "the reason why human-beings procrastinate is to feel in control of their life", you are declaring
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by Jebdm 15y ago
I don't take claims without evidence as a rule, and he didn't present any evidence. His case is especially problematic because he is making strong claims about a fairly well-studied field in which there is not a clearly dominant theory. If
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by Jebdm 15y ago
[citation needed]
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by Jebdm 15y ago
Can you be more specific about why he wants to learn programming? What is he hoping to do with it? If he's smart and dedicated, I recommend SICP, but it's fairly difficult (and assumes things like exposure to calculus): http://mitpress.mi
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by Jebdm 15y ago
Also, I frequently find the information I'm looking for in the blurb from the website and so don't bother to click through. (Or I view the cached version.)
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by Jebdm 15y ago
Don't worry about the name--I think it's a sufficiently general pattern that it makes sense to use it in multiple contexts, and I don't think it trademarked or anything (like "For Dummies" is).
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Thismanslife: New Start - A playful experiment in parallax scrolling(thismanslife.co.uk)
1 points by Jebdm 15y ago|0 comments
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by Jebdm 15y ago
A little bit of explanation about formalisms and the communication problems you mention from a computer scientist/linguist who gets that same look of satisfaction: In natural languages, the relationships between utterances and what they con
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by Jebdm 15y ago
Even better, provide a way to use it without a paid Instapaper account.
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by Jebdm 15y ago
Even better would be weighting that by testing comprehension. And even better than that would be finding the relation between reading speed and comprehension, letting the user set either and automatically estimating the other.
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by Jebdm 15y ago
I'm from Tyler. There's not really a "city center". There is a downtown area, which is where Google drops you, but the surrounding area is mixed; some of it is fairly nice, and some of it is a bit run down (as you say). The downtown area
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by Jebdm 15y ago
It's called "entropy".
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by Jebdm 15y ago
My soon-to-be alma mater has very small class sizes (student-teacher ratio is less than 10 to 1, most upper level classes are 4-8 people), so class here really is often a "conversation of peers". Discussions are an excellent way to learn,
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by Jebdm 15y ago
I mostly prefer text-based conversation. You have more time to respond, there's usually less filler, text creates an extremely convenient/useful record automatically, it is easier to return to past topics, it is easier to communicate bigge
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by Jebdm 15y ago
I agree. I can even corroborate the hypothesis anecdotally, since CTAs on the right side "feel" right to me, but without data it's still just a hypothesis.
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by Jebdm 15y ago
As a frequent early adopter, I'd say the most important thing you can do after providing a useful product in order to retain early users is to actively provide excellent support. I'll tolerate buggy software longer if it is easy to repor
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by Jebdm 15y ago
I was too; that's why I said "I think". I've heard that too, but it nearly always seems like the "good bits" get put in the slides while a lot of the other things that the speakers say I could have done without. Of course, the rest of the
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by Jebdm 15y ago
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=ampersand&sea...
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by Jebdm 15y ago
Did you realize that the term "blugging" has apparently mostly been used to mean "low quality blogging"?
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by Jebdm 15y ago
The balloon could possibly be a good way to get people to scroll down, but it'd be better if it moved even before you scrolled to attract attention to it. I'd measure carefully to see if it was worthwhile to put the sign up form at the bot
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by Jebdm 15y ago
I wish that science education, especially at the middle school level, focused on stuff like this. As it is, science education isn't for the most part about learning to do science, as it is about learning about a bunch of theories that were
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by Jebdm 15y ago
To be fair, she doesn't link it from the blog post.
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by Jebdm 15y ago
I think you've got it backwards, at least when it comes to good talks. It's always seemed to me that at least 80% of the important content is usually discernible from the slides (especially since you can probably infer the other things tha
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by Jebdm 15y ago
A better way to do this experiment would be to have half of threads show comment scores, and half not.
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by Jebdm 15y ago
Here's a good example of a place where it would be extremely helpful to be able to see comment scores. #meta

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