ewiethoff

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by ewiethoff 13y ago
Thank you. I would love an article about accessibility for people who must use voice commands or those who cannot use a pointing device. Dragon is fine with spoken keyboard commands, but much of the JavaScript out there borks site navigatio
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by ewiethoff 16y ago
Because mathematicians, physicists, and engineers use i through n for integers in their mathematical formulas, and Fortran was their FORmula TRANslator into computerese. (Additional fun fact: They begin their matrix row and column counts wi
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by ewiethoff 16y ago
Would Perl's Unicode::Normalize module fit your bill? I believe Unicode::Collate uses it so that a single codepoint accented 'e', for example, sorts the same as 'e' with a combining accent.
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
I'm sure you're not alone. My beau gets motion sickness at the sight of some GUIs, and I get seizures from same. Hence, I will not be taking a look at Google's new homepage, and I'm going to warn him about this change.
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
... and away from people with accessibility issues.
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
IIRC, Ruby lets you set taintedness Safe Levels with the -T command-line option or setting $SAFE per thread.
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
Content MathML to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML#Content_MathML
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
You want XSLT. ;-)
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
Nevertheless, I've gotten so bored by the sight of movie CGI. There's just too much texture or not enough light or something. Please, someone, make a physical model, shine some lights on it, and do some stop motion.
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
May I suggest http://www.artima.com/ , although not just anyone can post news there?
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
I sing in a couple opera companies in New York City.
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
Obligatory xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/451/
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
"History Lesson" by Arthur C. Clarke ( http://web.math.hr/~veky/T/T1/historylesson.txt )
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
If you attack us, we'll use the red matter.
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
That people have to resort to such creative contortions is a testament to what a pile "Thou shalt not use tables for layout" is.
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
I, too, hate your saying this. I hope you're joking. Because bullet point summaries and trying to make the article seem non-intimidating rather contradict what the author is saying.
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
What do you mean by "penultimate"?
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
Irony is fine. I'm just tired of its current popularity: http://www.google.com/search?as_oq=ironic+irony&as_sites...
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
Am I the only person who wants to stab my eyes out whenever I see the word 'ironic'? I count two appearances in the article, and one in the title.
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
We can plan this all out in a novel called The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress .
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by ewiethoff 17y ago
"Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence." -- Leonard "Bones" McCoy, 2009
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> 3) Be a testing masochist, i.e., I ruthlessly try to break my own code. 'Hap' means luck. Therefore, the happy path is the lucky path. Being a natural pessimist, I can't help picturing unlucky paths and believing they will be follow
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I smile when I think of Ruby's throw/catch (not to be confused with raise/rescue) as labeled GOTO.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Perfumes and food flavors are concocted in the same factories in New Jersey by the same chemists. In other words, food flavors are food perfumes. Factory processing of mediocre quality farm products can create a food which is not particular
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
That's the rub. It doesn't occur to most Americans how many products contain corn syrup. Wander through any conventional supermarket in America. Study the ingredients list for whatever product you have in your hand. The list of ingredients
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Sounds like what New York has been doing with pseudoephedrine sales for the past year or so, though I don't know whether the limit is daily, weekly, or monthly. I find the whole pseudoephedrine thing eerie, but I'm not opposed.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> Hm. I just installed Windows XP out of the box, and Facebook works on IE6. That's as strict a test as need be applied. I am laughing so hard. You need to put a little icon on the sites you develop saying "Best viewed in Internet Explo
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
A small positive from the "TL;DR" post: It finally occurred to me to do a bit of research and find out what it stands for. Now I have a greater understanding of why I get a slummy feeling when I see it.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Older lady here. My little sister and I were children when Nixon instituted DST for January 1974. We stood in the Minnesota cold in complete darkness (no streetlights, often no moon) waving a flashlight at the morning school bus. We checked
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
(~_~) I know what you mean about the sun in your eyes. As a kid, I spent year after year with the sun in my eyes as I rode the school bus 15 miles each way. I told myself, "This is stupid. When I grow up, I'm not going to live west of town.

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