michaels0620

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by michaels0620 13y ago
One simple thing to make presentations visually appealing is to ensure a consistent style. If you are using outlined shapes, stick with outlined shapes. If you are using semi-transparent boxes stick with them. So often I see presentations
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by michaels0620 14y ago
From what I understand (as a fellow fascinated layman) is that String Theory is still the dominant StandardModel++ theory in academia but there are a few who are being more vocal about its validity. Peter Woit is a notable skeptic of the vi
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by michaels0620 14y ago
He answers this in his faq ( http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/09/genetic-programming-mona-l... ): Q) Is this Genetic Programming?, I think it is a GA or even a hill climbing algorithm. A) I will claim that this is a GP due to the fact that
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by michaels0620 14y ago
The link is now working.
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by michaels0620 14y ago
The other issue with people like me who chronically over eat, is that asking me to eat 6 small meals a day is like asking an alcoholic to go to a bar 6 times a day but only order pepsi.
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by michaels0620 14y ago
It's gotten even worse now with many fitness gurus strongly advocating 6 small meals a day.
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by michaels0620 14y ago
A big part of a child's success in school has to do with parental involvement. Home schooled children, almost by definition, have highly involved parents. It would be interesting to compare home schooled children with regular children whose
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by michaels0620 14y ago
How is the readability from a distance? Between the grain of the individual boards and their color it seems like there is less contrast and more "noise" when compared to a generic white board. They do look nice though.
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by michaels0620 14y ago
Does Scala fit your idea of something in between? It has nice type inference features and does not require pure immutability.
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by michaels0620 14y ago
I haven't heard of one that does this. In fact an oft stated selling point of JVM based languages is the ability to call and interact with existing Java code and libraries.
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by michaels0620 14y ago
For those who are interested there is also the classic arcade game Defender in a favicon: http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/
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by michaels0620 14y ago
I enjoy Scala but I would say there is truth to 3 (phantom menace). Although tool support has improved markedly over the last couple of years I still get cases where the IDE is complaining about an error and I go nuts trying to fix it only
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by michaels0620 15y ago
One issue I have with this is that due to the commonality of spinners, I associate the wait cursor with waiting on the browser (memory issue, temporary CPU spike, large js script running) rather than an waiting on the results of an ajax req
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by michaels0620 15y ago
I've paid for Sublime Text and think it's awesome. I primarily do Scala development and would like to use ST for it but the one thing I miss are highlighting errors in the source. Does anyone know a way to do this? I searched the ST forums
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by michaels0620 15y ago
Actually, what's endearing (or outright cool) is that he has been able to create an editor good enough that people are willing to pay $50 for it. With lots of free alternatives and big players it isn't the easiest niche to break into. The f
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by michaels0620 15y ago
It's a similar approach to the same problem. Code Bubbles make the jumping more palatable. I'm not sure you would need such a drastic change to the traditional IDE look to implement what I describe. You could (for instance) simply have the
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by michaels0620 15y ago
I wonder if this is something that could at least be partly offset by an IDE. Highlighting a function and instead of being able to jump to the definition, it sticks the code for that function where it is being called (initially, only as a v
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by michaels0620 15y ago
How many days in a row do you tend to fast for or is it something you just do now? I have started doing it and have found it not to be as difficult as I thought it would be. For me, trying to eat 5-7 small meals a day is like asking an alco
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by michaels0620 15y ago
There was an article (that I now cannot find) that claimed there was a positive effect of counterfeiting for high end fashion brands because it motivated buyers to more quickly move on to the latest version. Someone who is willing to spend
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by michaels0620 15y ago
That is a great book. It's well written and touches on details that most "physics for the masses" books skip. I also regret the use of the term God Particle though. I know he was being cheeky but it is all too easy for people to grab onto s
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by michaels0620 15y ago
I am a half step above a blub, but I've been doing some work in Scala and generally enjoy it. I do, however, think the Scala community needs to have a more convincing reply to the complexity argument than "You aren't smart enough to see its
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by michaels0620 15y ago
Part of the problem is not just the cost of things like full body scans but the interpretation of the results. From what I understand, these scans tend to turn up all sorts of things that may or may not be anything serious; but all of which
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by michaels0620 15y ago
At first I thought it was a bit silly eye candy but I have found that it really is useful for longer documents. In longer documents and code, the syntax highlighting along with the "shape" of the document gives a nice "gestalt" sense of thi
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by michaels0620 15y ago
I like using it as a text editor but have had trouble getting it set up for Scala development. Other than getting syntax highlighting I have had trouble integrating it with an outside compiler and getting a few niceties like auto complete a
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by michaels0620 15y ago
I guess I am stuck on what it is you mean by "falling for troll bait". In my mind it means that you get sucked into an internet argument by someone who clearly just wants to cause trouble, not have discussion. The fault for this guy's escal
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by michaels0620 15y ago
Your public support for woman's rights is undermined by your implication that she is "stupid" for "falling for his shit". It's not like she got duped into giving her bank account information to a Nigerian Prince. She's become a target for b
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by michaels0620 15y ago
Here is another link (via google translate) with the news although with no source listed, they may have just been going off wendyg's tweet. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
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by michaels0620 15y ago
And repeating it doesn't make it any more true. In what sense his is plea for help shameless? Should he simply sit back, do nothing, and hope something works out? It's not like he is taking from others for his own benefit. Indeed as others
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by michaels0620 15y ago
I think "Reactive" refers to Reactive Programming where the display values change automatically when the input values change without the programmer having to explicitly set them.
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by michaels0620 15y ago
That's pretty amazing that you get to work with someone like Will Wright at such an early point in the creative process! Has it given you ideas for your own games? You hint at one of the other issues that arises. So much of what a piece of

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