noamyoungerm

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by noamyoungerm 10y ago
It's totally possible (and a relatively frequent occurrence) to have pdfs where the order of characters in the code has no relationship at all to how those same characters are laid out visually on the page. Anything marginally more com
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by noamyoungerm 10y ago
> the whole "Earth is the centre of Universe" thing that held back modern thinking This says much more about how we dismiss ancient civilizations as inferior than it does about ancient civilizations themselves. The fact is, the
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by noamyoungerm 10y ago
Notice that 17 days is basically what is needed to add the issue to the next sprint, complete its development along with everything else for that sprint, and deploy to a live site. To me that sounds fair.
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by noamyoungerm 10y ago
I would argue that the surveillance isn't in how the data is used, but rather in the fact that NYC has that data at all. Limits on acceptable data collection are more straightforward, enforceable, and fair than limits on acceptable dat
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by noamyoungerm 10y ago
I once made a moderately interactive widget using pure CSS, and it was a relatively interesting experience. The widget itself had buttons that let you choose several parameters (about 400 combinations overall) and would render out a 'd
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by noamyoungerm 10y ago
There are a large number of issues for which there exist equally well-informed arguments for both sides, or that there is no actual 'true' answer to be chosen.
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by noamyoungerm 10y ago
Why aren't kids able to read text written in rows like everyone else? Programming languages just for kids seems mostly like a way to limit them.
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
Well, we're all familiar with https://xkcd.com/221/ or http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25 The possibility, however remote, exists that you will randomly select a sequence with patterns and o
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
CMSs are dying and static sites are replacing them - there's absolutely no reason to run a complex backend when the entire site is supposed to hold some text and maybe a space for comments. Things like Jekyll or Hexo are straightforwar
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
> willingness to put ones life on hold for a predetermined amount of time. That is almost the definition of a degree. During a degree, every class expects you to devote time and resources to learning. The degree programs we see today are
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
Subscription models and micropayments are not mutually exclusive, as in Spotify - you pay a subscription fee to listen to unlimited music. In practice that is the same as paying a fraction of a cent to the artist each time you listen to a s
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
A friend-of-a-friend of mine built the Red Alert [0] app that sends a push notifications when a rocket is fired from Gaza. Alerts can be as short as 15 seconds, so if you want your Alert to be effective, you have to figure out how to send o
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
> Mere exposure does not make you learn/enjoy a language Then how do babies ever learn to speak? The most fluent speakers of foreign languages are almost always immigrants, because exposure is the key to learning to speak.
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
IIRC, the workflow in Photoshop is this: If you open a photo file, and when you press save there is only one layer in the file, pressing ctrl+s will not change the file format. Generally this means that minor changes (crop, recolor) preserv
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
This is the type of question that quickly runs into problems wrt incompleteness, but there are a few key points that show that there are infinitely many theorems For any given statement P and any given theorem T, P OR T is a theorem, meanin
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
I live in a country that has bomb detectors in every doorway. It's not that bad - at the very least, everybody preferrs a bomb detector to another suicide bombing. I think that when terror is something that can happen constantly for mo
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
Also: Scots is a mutually intelligible language On the other hand, just like trying to explain programming to someone who only knows how to use MS Word, trying to explain linguistics to someone without formal training is bound to end in mis
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
I'm not sure whether the distinction between sub-categories and their parents was treated correctly in this analysis. There is a huge gap between the popularity of HTML and HTML5, CSS and CSS3, and Javascript and its assorted heap of t
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
Gifted people always end up turning out average. Because they aren't special. Nearly every school catering to the middle class and up has a 'gifted' program. How many kids is that? Millions per grade. Everyone who passes thro
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
Why do you think old people and young people should behave differently?
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
These are two separate concepts. The sponsored stories by outbrain are just your regular old "lose 100 pounds per second" blogspam. There is another, more benign phenomenon, where a company's PR department writes an article a
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
I don't get why people always think that "programming for kids" has to be done with blocks and drag-drop interfaces. It feels like it limits the complexity of what you can build to what fits on a screen, and makes applying an
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
The average person doesn't have the time needed to learn how to build a house, either. As a society, we solve this problem by delegating the construction industry to a group of people who specialize in it, and whom we can trust to do t
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
While it is true that in practice, the size benefit of both compressing and minifying is optimal, the LZ77 algorithm is nearly the same as a minification algorithm, so running both has only marginal benefit.
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
>My first thought was "Try describing the internet to someone 100 years ago - your claim that there is going to be an interconnected global network of electricity-powered adding machines that transport pictures of moving sex by pret
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
The competition is basically a huge science fair, and there are no direct constrains on the projects you can submit, but there are several things to take into account. First of all, research has to be conducted entirely in a twelve month pe
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
Your idea is basically a smaller version of a Kibbutz (excluding the shared finances). Interesting to see that kind of approach pop up in the US.
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by noamyoungerm 11y ago
30 years may have passed since the Model M was released, but typewriters have been in use for much longer. The fundamental structure of a keyboard is not new at all, and as such the mechanisms underlying the highest-quality keyboards can&#x
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
LaTeX is pretty dead outside of science, and it makes sense that this is the state of things. Using LaTeX effectively requires the same ways of thinking needed in order to write code. For people who aren't used to doing this, adjusting
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
> Who do you suspect is going to hack you? According to my experience: 1. People I know in real life 2. People who execute phishing attacks Your strategy is harmful in the first case, though irrelevant in the second

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