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by boken 10y ago
What is "uniquely American" about the word apple? Both the word and fruit come from elsewhere and still abound in those places: the word came into use in English over a thousand years ago, and the first apple tree to grow in the
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by boken 11y ago
This doesn't quite hit the mark. The example given in Klisp will work with an arbitrary number of arguments. What looks to be the second of two named arguments, e, is actually the dynamic environment from which $and? is called.
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by boken 11y ago
There are plenty of English compounds that don't fit that description: forthright, downright, forthcoming; wisecrack (but "wise woman"); blackboard, greenback, greengrocer, yellowbelly; drive-by, drive-in; tapout, all out, ba
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by boken 11y ago
Apathy and disagreement are different things. So are extrapolation and confirmation. No one is in a position to "confirm" this statement or prove it irrecusably wrong. More or less tenable arguments may be made, more or less well.
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by boken 11y ago
Phonetic alphabets have strong precedents - and have had strong backers - in English as well. See the Shavian alphabet[1] for a relatively recent example. Others were drawn up by such as Benjamin Franklin and Sir Isaac Pitman, famed for his
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by boken 11y ago
Which is why I wrote 'apparently.' This is an interview with NPR, not an academic paper. You may as well question whether the correlation exists at all as hone in on this one point.
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by boken 11y ago
This is addressed at length - and quite early on - in the article. The correlation stands, apparently.
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by boken 11y ago
What use do you want us to make of that comment? Be upfront if you actually have something to say. Do you mean that Austria has only just changed its official position, relative to whatever scale matters to you personally, and should not
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by boken 11y ago
I'm not sure how this would pose a problem. I'm not the parent commenter, but I don't typically go to Google to search for sites I frequent. It would be such an odd thing to do—granted that I know the URL—that I would be forc
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by boken 11y ago
"E.E. Cummings" is fine. It's what he used.[0] On the top of Cummings, I have occasionally felt like I was faced with an incomplete set of instructions when reading certain of his poems. Of course, there's no particular
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by boken 11y ago
J is in fact a much more recent invention than many of us would suppose[0]. It is worth adding, however, that it would not have saved G, except in English; our pronunciation of J, while close to the French and a couple others (with an added
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by boken 11y ago
It is a true if disingenuously narrow-sighted description of the origins of vi as a visual interface to ex , a regex-based line-editor and descendant of ed. Even the ascetic ed, however, cannot be reduced to a "regular expressio
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by boken 11y ago
Hard wrapping may be an elegant solution on the runtime configuration side, but it is frequently to blame for inelegance when editing. Hard-wrapped text must be manually reformatted for display when (1) changing terminal or window size, (2)
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by boken 11y ago
Zaner-Bloser, to my knowledge, is not so far off from Palmer except in its prescribed teaching style, as carried out over multiple years in a child's schooling. The final product, that is, looks quite similar, and the techniques are no
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by boken 11y ago
Please don't assume my ignorance on other hands, or that I would argue in favor of teaching students the Palmer method. Teaching children outmoded systems ill suited to the instruments they are likely to have at hand is grossly unneces
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by boken 11y ago
It is most telling, to me, to hear people (none of them made from straw) admit that writer's cramp is part and parcel of a single session of taking notes or writing an hour-long exam. Professional copyists and secretaries in the early
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by boken 11y ago
This is the 1999 I remember as well, with the addition of visual clutter (see present-day excite.com for a reminder), JavaScript everywhere (DHTML, not AJAX), and pop-up and pop-under ads making the Flash ads of today look tame and gentle--
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by boken 11y ago
I agree with you. My experience with remote work has been touch-and-go, but it always helps when team members are mutually willing to communicate over the phone. Effective back-and-forth over email seems to be a rare skill. No matter how mu
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by boken 11y ago
If I ever listened to horror stories like these, there wouldn't be an airline left I would fly with. This is textbook; replace United with Delta, Southwest, Air Canada, etc., at will. The only company I've used that I haven't
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by boken 11y ago
It does feature satirical articles and columns, including the Borowitz Report, of which that Scalia article is one installment. (One of its most famous regulars was James Thurber, creator of Walter Mitty and a rare kind of humorist, still w
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by boken 11y ago
Me, too. Until then, under chrome/userContent.css in my Firefox profile folder, I will keep: @-moz-document domain(netflix.com) { .slider .agMovieSetSlider { position: relative !important; wid
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by boken 11y ago
"What are the major programming languages, and what are they used for?" is a different question than "Can you tell me what code is?" The second can include the first. But if your and Paul Ford's answers were swapped
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by boken 11y ago
As someone else said, there's not enough room here. I'm not particularly fond of Hemingway, but not because I take his carefully fashioned pith as evidence that he has no "literary talent." And I don't think it&#x27
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by boken 12y ago
This is no proof. You're assuming that the products and services marketed have little to no intrinsic or social value, and that the consumers do not engage with the marketing critically--on any level. Certainly we all know some people
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by boken 12y ago
People take on the ideas to which they're exposed. Do they? Where did the ideas come from in the first place, then, and how have they ever been rejected? I don't know enough about you personally to make any inferences in this ca
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by boken 12y ago
I understand the objection, but a word is defined by its usage, not its origin. We're vastly outnumbered in a general audience, and this battle was won a couple decades ago. The NY Times is not going to print "crackers" becau
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by boken 12y ago
There isn't a "fixed amount of negative feedback"; most people, men and women, will do their utmost to minimize that feedback, particularly when it comes from people who are otherwise decent to us or play a large part in de
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by boken 12y ago
Feedback from peers within your (current or desired) field is not the only feedback of importance in most people's lives. Disbelief and discouragement are at least as likely to come from social acquaintances, friends, neighbors, and fa
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by boken 12y ago
I think the clearest answer is: "It's not for you, then." I've written and edited plenty of runtime configuration files, but there is this to say for GUI preference panes: you don't need to bother with learning a ne
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by boken 12y ago
If you think that Steve Jobs is admired across the board and not commonly disparaged for actions in his personal life, you've spent too much time in the tech world. As for your remarks upthread about broken families: I'm sorry you

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