codyrobbins

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by codyrobbins 9y ago
This is a great idea and I’m going to order one for my parent’s rental house. Really nice job! As constructive feedback I really wish the favorite places list showed the address of each location rather than the location type. I think the ad
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by codyrobbins 13y ago
Unfortunately, no—by the statute the company’s name must include the string ‘Limited Liability Company’ or ‘LLC’ [1]. Practically speaking it would be impossible for anyone dealing with the entity to be unaware it has limited liability when
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by codyrobbins 14y ago
Using or not using a regex to validate email addresses misses the point. You should simply be delegating this task to the library that you’re using to send mail in the first place. If the mail library can’t deal with a particular address, t
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by codyrobbins 14y ago
Japanese has a relatively small phoneme inventory, and luckily for English speakers it’s mostly a subset of the English inventory, but there are a few allophonic variations that we don’t have in English. Pronunciation is not necessarily so
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by codyrobbins 14y ago
Japanese and Korean are actually not phylogenically related. In fact they’re both generally considered to be language isolates, which means they don’t seem to be related to any other languages. This may not be strictly true and there are pr
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by codyrobbins 14y ago
Actually, that’s more or less how the phonology of languages change internally over long periods of time [1]: sets of phonemes merge, split, appear, and disappear. The particular forces driving these changes are varied and complicated, but
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by codyrobbins 14y ago
Yes, I’m aware that he died, but since it’s still up I was thinking that arguably he still has it? I actually was going to say ‘had’ but I felt that would incorrectly imply that it doesn’t exist anymore. Then I was going to put ‘late’ in fr
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by codyrobbins 14y ago
Interestingly enough, ancient Greek [1] did happen to be tonal even though modern Greek is not. More specifically, it had had pitch accent [2] which is somewhat different than fully tonal languages like Chinese but more involved than langua
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by codyrobbins 14y ago
Yes, that’s exactly the same problem illustrated the other way around. Japanese speakers also fail to make the /l/ and /r/ distinction and it’s a rather stereotypical feature of a Korean or Japanese accent in English. Japanese happens to ha
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by codyrobbins 14y ago
Having an alphabet, as it does, Korean indeed isn’t hard to learn to read and write. The difficulty is learning how to pronounce it properly—it has a number of distinct consonants that are treated as the same consonant in most other languag
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by codyrobbins 14y ago
Hey, would you be kind enough to email me? My address is in my profile. I’ve been looking for a Hindi speaker of Korean for a while. I’d love to ask you a few questions if you have a moment!
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by codyrobbins 14y ago
I actually don’t use Stack Overflow as a contributor for precisely the same reason: I created my account with an OpenID, the provider is no longer around, and now I can’t log in nor fix it.
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
You’re in good company. The rising tone at the end of a sentence used in a non-interrogative context is called uptalk or a high rising terminal [1]. Its increased use has been a far-reaching dialect shift that has been ongoing for a couple
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
It’s an excellent name. It’s not supposed to be proper grammar—that’s part of the playfulness of it. It’s not a sentence, it’s a name. What you’re saying is like saying ‘Flickr’ isn’t a word.
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Whoa—I can’t believe this #cache_key and :touch stuff was introduced years ago and I somehow completely missed it. This is the most useful and elegant thing ever!
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Are you defining dependencies between the keys somehow so that keys invalidated further down in the hierarchy propagate up to invalidations all the way up the stack?
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
I am completely, wholeheartedly, emphatically, and unabashedly in favor of finally bringing control over OpenType features to CSS—finally!! But this syntax they’ve come up with is an absolute horrifying mess. Ugh. Please say it ain’t so!
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Those aren’t f’s, they’re long s’s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s . You should read up on typography before decrying things about it. Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style or Warren Chappell’s A Short History of th
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
The comments here are generally calling these “old-style” figures, but—while I’m aware that this is what some people call them—I think the term is a poor one. The old-style figures are better referred to as text figures and the so-called
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
You presume that the point about them being greedy or immoral is invalid Yeah, I am presuming it—because I just laid out how what they’re doing is not necessarily driven by greed or immorality but defensible motives from their point of vi
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
That’s an interesting point, and I’d like to read that article, but I think it’d be highly situationally dependent on the particular brand and you’d have to know their internal sales numbers to confirm it. Even if it were true, though, it s
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
No, I don’t think that’s the reason why fashion brands are against knock-offs. They don’t necessarily expect that everyone who buys a counterfeit will buy the real thing. Instead, a market glutted with counterfeit products dilutes their bra
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
God doesn’t exist: it’s simply an interjection. One that expresses my gladness over the death of someone who is legitimately an evil person.
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Thank god.
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Hey Larry, I'd love to chat too if you have the time—my email’s in my profile. Thanks!
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
1700 was three hundred years ago, when John Locke pointed out in his Second Treatise that the amount of wealth in the world is not fixed.
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
No. Perhaps most of the wealth that you saw, working in finance, may have come from brute force (although I would disagree with that claim, prima facie, as well); but that doesn’t mean most wealth is accumulated that way. You get money b
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
I think this is a long-term vote of confidence in the NYC tech ecosystem, but I also think they’re counting in the short term on the at least partial unraveling of the startup craze freeing up lots and lots of talent that is currently tied
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
The problem here is the judge, not necessarily Chanel. There’s a number of interesting quirks about the fashion industry that may make you more sympathetic of their tactics. First, fashion designs are not only un-patentable, but they can’t
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
You’re joking, right? Who would you propose is more qualified to draft the word of the actual laws than lawyers? What lawyers are at their essence are experts in law—the word ‘lawyer’ even has the word ‘law’ in it. It's like asking a tea

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