mjdwitt

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by mjdwitt 12y ago
It does indicate a concept of future. What it doesn't do is use a different tense—the key verb is the same as when talking about the present. It's a subtle distinction, but he is arguing that this lack of differentiation in verbs
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by mjdwitt 12y ago
Moreover, pressing alt while in insert mode causes the next key to run as if pressed in normal mode. I usually use this instead of escape for those times when I don't want to go into command mode. One caveat, however. I recently switch
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by mjdwitt 12y ago
Because in SL, they can be the person that they really want to be in the real world.
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by mjdwitt 12y ago
Indeed. Which is why pcwalton is answering Thomas' conjecture about C++'s STL containers.
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
Because there is equally no reason that the statement should be false.
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
I may be mistaken, but I believe that Chrome uses ctrl+shift+R to refresh everything.
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
Glad I could help. Scheme is great for introducing oneself to many concepts not commonly present or used in more common imperative languages. That, and the SICP is just a ton of fun.
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
TCO refers to tail call optimization , which is a useful optimization for languages such as Scheme which encourage heavy use of recursion. TCO allows the interpreter to reuse the current stack frame when a tail-recursive[1] function calls
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
Those social promotions are clearly screwed up, especially as old as eighth grade. As a counterpoint anecdote, however, my mother is a kindergarten teacher who holds back (on average) two students a year for failure to understand the materi
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
> a lot of assessments (too many, IMHO) I definitely agree there. Just the other day, one of my mother's kindergarten students was drawing pictures of her and her teaching assistant and decided to caption the assistant's with "she hel
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
Of course that class would be worthless. Not all (and in my experience, almost no) classes, however, are like that when one selects a college which has a quality program for the degree of interest. Furthermore, I would go so far as to lay
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
Similarly, at least in much of the US, teaching special needs teachers requires extra certification on top of a normal teacher's license. Without all kinds of extra classes on the various psychological and physical disorders that they deal
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
Text posts are always grayed out here. If you check out the Ask[1] portion of the site, you'll see that all of those are as well. There's no meaning to it, unlike when a comment gets grayed out due to downvotes. It seems like a silly desig
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
I didn't start using Linux (and therefore LibreOffice) until after I stopped using Office 2003 on any computers, so I don't know about its support for ODT. 2007 did do fairly poorly from what I remember as well. 2010 though is much better;
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
Office can open Open Document types pretty much universally. More complex formatting is generally screwed up though, just as it is when opening MS types in LibreOffice.
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
Looks like schiffern answered that an hour ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3774010
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by mjdwitt 14y ago
You're missing a lot of information here. Design Like Whoa is the person who made the racy video in question. The woman who got pointed out the sexism on Twitter is Shanely Kane, who works as a developer for Basho and has nothing to do with
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
I don't know the answer myself, but if you head on over to http://arclanguage.org , I bet the people there can point you in the right direction.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
I'm just guessing, but it would make sense for large paper maps not to use this fold so that you can partially unfold it and look only at the portion in which your are currently interested, instead of having a giant unfolded piece of paper.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
The level of care and thought put into creating a secure encryption scheme doesn't matter if the cryptography is broken. There's a reason you constantly hear cryptographers telling everyone to never invent their own crypto-systems; it's ext
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
Facebook, Mozilla, Google, and lots of other companies encourage this with exploit bounty programs.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
Ah, so instead of having to hand-roll your own really complex regex that would limit the scope every time, VS automatically limits the scope of the renaming for you. That is pretty nice.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
How so? I haven't used VS since a couple of versions ago and never got to know it very well, so I based my above comment on the OPs description; if there's more to the feature than I could easily be wrong.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
"* no easy refactoring. In VS i love how i can just hit F2 on a method name, rename it, VS shows me all the places where it will rename it and pressing OK. This works flawless everytime and makes refactoring so much more painless than worki
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2752553
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The Self-Tuning Piano System(youtube.com)
5 points by mjdwitt 15y ago|0 comments
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
Because AWS's prices have to be more expensive in order to offer the huge increase in flexibility and instant scalability that you don't get with these cheaper VPSs.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
Awesome, thanks a ton. The Amazon link is pretty much the mother lode.
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Ask HN: Where to start reading on security?
4 points by mjdwitt 15y ago|7 comments
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
Rather, I think he means that the US judicial system is currently swamped. Therefore, if drug cases no longer required court time, the load on the system could be brought down to a more manageable level.

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