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Dear Scratch House competitor, I love you
(blog.scratchhouse.co)
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nanotone
12y ago
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nanotone
15y ago
It looks like you're using GAE. Not having much experience with it, I'm wondering if GAE provides the CPU jailing, or did you have to write some voodoo yourself? I ask because it's trivially easy to send a statement containing a single byte
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nanotone
16y ago
On the other hand, in Dvorak, Q is directly above the left ⌘ key (where X usually is), and W is directly above the right ⌘ key (where , usually is). I'm always reminded of this serendipitous symmetry whenever people complain about ⌘Q and ⌘W
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nanotone
16y ago
Bravo! Seeing this app makes me want to get an iPad just to play around with it. Well, almost: As a fairly serious amateur pianist, I definitely appreciate that this could let me ditch my dusty bookshelf of heavy scores, turn pages for me,
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nanotone
16y ago
That's an extreme example. How many people are going to fight to keep their home after having power and water cut and a 30-foot pit dug around it? Keep in mind that on the whole, Chinese people are much more likely to give up personal prope
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nanotone
17y ago
Disclaimer: I was a Director of 6.370 for four years, so I think I have a decent understanding of your requirements and the motivations behind them. As you mentioned, using bytecodes to measure computation time is a good approach since it r
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nanotone
17y ago
Right. As I noted above, it's absolutely not acceptable for some situations, particularly those where you want lost or confused people to look you up. But I can still think of plenty of other situations, and was merely pointing out the disp
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nanotone
17y ago
On the penultimate paragraph, and somewhat of a tangent: Wow, I'd completely forgotten that you could have Unicode in domain names, and I suspect a lot of people don't think about it very much either. In my limited experience, even Chinese-
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nanotone
17y ago
Extrapolating strictly from my own browsing behavior while reading the first few on this list, I've noticed that the more interesting I find an article, the more tabs to linked Wikipedia articles I open up for further reading. Of course, ar
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nanotone
17y ago
Agreed. One of the most important skills I picked up in college was not the ability to code in whatever the hot language du jour was, but the ability to learn a new language quickly, and to pick out its important characteristics: Garbage co
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nanotone
17y ago
Interviews are this upcoming weekend, November 20-22 -- i.e. The Future. Either that or we just completely blew our interview by not showing up.