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by imd 2y ago
Almost this exact situation happened to author Ray Bradbury in Los Angeles, where he lived without a car. He wrote several short stories memorializing the incident, including a scene in Fahrenheit 451.
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by imd 3y ago
In this case, the digitized font is taken not from the metal types themselves, but from specimens printed on paper. The paper was less uniform and smooth than modern paper, and there was a noticable amount of ink bleed. Since OP is interest
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by imd 3y ago
man comes from Unix, info comes from Emacs and maybe the OSes it was developed on. The GNU project also comes from that ecosystem, so even their drop-in replacements for the original Unix tools have info pages.
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by imd 4y ago
iOS and Android are neck and neck in the US. There was a report about iOS passing Android just days ago, so they have similar market share. I can readily believe that at certain workplaces, almost everyone has an iPhone, but this isn't
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by imd 14y ago
+/- doesn't fail in a language where + is addition modulo n.
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by imd 14y ago
Read crntaylor's explanation of this via group theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5278915 So this is awesome insofar as you find things like group theory awesome (I did). But like he says, if you find this awesome to use in prod
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by imd 14y ago
Even the nautilus shell, which this article says follows the golden ratio, doesn't. Proof: m_for_monkey's link: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
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by imd 14y ago
"is expected to unveil its new, more colorful logo" Picture of logo already available in the article.
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by imd 14y ago
Limited indeed. Comic Sans was one of the ~11 web-safe typefaces that you could count on pretty much everyone to have. Now that there's a bunch of good-looking embeddable typefaces, people don't face as much temptation to use shitty Comic S
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by imd 14y ago
That's not an 'except', grandparent never implied otherwise.
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by imd 14y ago
The evaluations are on "how well algorithms submitted by professional data scientists and amateur statistics wizards could predict the scores assigned by human graders." As long as some humans are always included as a control, this shouldn'
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by imd 14y ago
I see that philosophy and math aren't the only fields where someone's work is more praiseworthy for being less practical!
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by imd 14y ago
Surely that's not the best we can hope for—or work for. It is not out of the realm of possibility that distributed social networks, like email or Diaspora, can gain popularity. But I don't know how to make that appealing to average people.
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by imd 15y ago
Zawinski's law? http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
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by imd 15y ago
It's just Zawinski's law in a cycle. “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”
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by imd 15y ago
Sounds like Stockholm syndrome.
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by imd 15y ago
Here's some info about CoreBreach's Linux port being enabled by these changes: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxN...
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by imd 15y ago
If GPS failed before 100,000 ft (and it looks like any commercial GPS would), what about the altitude charts on the project's homepage?[0] How were they generated? Can that data-gathering method qualify it for the Carmack challenge? 0: h
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by imd 15y ago
Alt-F2 works for me. What's Gnome (now not so) classic? Gnome 3?
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by imd 15y ago
I keep hearing that computers are diverging from the kind of architecture C maps to, though. What of that?
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by imd 15y ago
Sure, Python is even more popular today, but it showed up frequently in /. "what language should I learn programming with" threads in at least as far back as 2005. I seem to remember much earlier.
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by imd 15y ago
Bills Gates never actually said 640k should be enough for anyone. Also, some of the quotes ("I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers") make more sense in context.
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by imd 15y ago
I don't know about that. Neither old books I've seen nor TeX do that.
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by imd 15y ago
A critical thinker would try to find a sentence that sounds best in the active voice, then try to find one that works best in the passive voice. Succeeding both times, he would then conclude that both are useful. Specifically, the passive v
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by imd 15y ago
You have a [1] but forgot to include the footnote.
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by imd 15y ago
WTF? In the Mirah examples, I see a bunch of i = 0 while i < 10 ...code... i += 1 end There's no for loop? I couldn't confirm because I didn't find a manual.
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by imd 15y ago
You're only counting his Unix stuff. He's credited on the chine nual[0], he wrote bit-twiddling hacks, he published an AI paper with Sussman, etc. His WP page mentions a bunch of stuff. [0]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/two_pi_r/264672507/
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by imd 15y ago
Probably not to conserve space, since who needs the extra 30px on most titlebars? It's just that GNOME like to eliminate everything they possibly can, to look minimalist.
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by imd 16y ago
RTFA, Google sends a code to your phone.
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by imd 16y ago
By hand brakes, you mean rim brakes. Disc brakes are operated by hand, and they work. The only brake I can think of that's not a hand brake is a coaster brake.

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