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by pom 12y ago
My favorite variation is: “if your only tool is a hammer, then everything looks like a thumb.”
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by pom 12y ago
Must... resist... urge... to buy... penis.computer domain...
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by pom 12y ago
If you are referring to 2048, that’s because it was ripping off 1024, not Threes.
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by pom 13y ago
This reminds me of how when Apple created the UI for the Lisa (and then the Mac), they thought that on the original Xerox Alto, windows could overlap, so Quickdraw had to handle overlapping windows [0]: “Smalltalk didn't even have self
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by pom 13y ago
I have been digging Karla recently and was pleased to see it mentioned. A few that I didn’t know look interesting as well.
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by pom 13y ago
TFA is an example of how to improve the quality of about any newspaper or magazine article: ignore the first and last sentence (or at worst paragraph.) Here, they both repeat that “money does grow on tree”, where the rest of the article des
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by pom 13y ago
It’s also my Github birthday, as I joined on April 11th, 2011!
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by pom 13y ago
So I found 2 red letters (C at -28.30,-57.30; M at 34.61,135.73), as well as three red signs (- sign at 35.11,-75.98, 9 at 76.50,-24.01, and 1 at 68.92,40.64) so there’s probably a super secret location given by the red coordinates but I do
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by pom 13y ago
It should have more classic examples, such as the already mentioned Fedex logo, or the Carrefour logo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrefour )
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by pom 14y ago
Like many, I feel that the poster is throwing the baby with the bathwater. Yes, SOAP and XML Schema are horrible. Don't use them, then. Yes, XML is verbose, but that's exactly why Relax NG has a compact syntax. Use that if you don't like th
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by pom 14y ago
Reading this right now. I also made an SVG version at http://romulusetrem.us/10print/
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by pom 14y ago
His points are well taken, but as I player I refuse to participate in this business model. On the other, I would buy this game for more than one dollar, because it looks like it's worth more than that. Too bad.
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by pom 14y ago
Interestingly, this would allow custom localizations. I'd love to play it in French but as far as I can tell the word list is only in English.
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by pom 14y ago
And amazingly, going to Google Maps still defaults to a map of the US... (edit: when you go to maps.google.com)
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by pom 14y ago
Too bad it doesn't include posters... I would have made the list :(
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by pom 15y ago
This sort of thing happens every leap year, and everytime I remember that the very first exercise in the very first CS class that I took in college was to write an algorithm to decide whether or not a given year was a leap year.
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Recreating the original Macintosh boot beep in HTML5 and Javascript(romulusetrem.us)
2 points by pom 15y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Tweet it like Kubrick(romulusetrem.us)
2 points by pom 15y ago|0 comments
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by pom 15y ago
I think that if you had to select just one book, none of the obvious, literal programming or technical books would seem enough... so I would suggest "Fictions" by Borges as a real mind opener.
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by pom 15y ago
I get a "Retrieving position timeout" error, even though I accept to share my location (on both Firefox and Google Chrome on OS X; geosharing works otherwise, for instance on this: http://slides.html5rocks.com/#geolocation. ) EDIT: Additio
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by pom 15y ago
I was intrigued by the "INfinite" in the title; but the author of the article just seems confused.
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by pom 15y ago
For some reason, every time I read the name Intellectual Ventures I sound it in my mind as Intellectual Vultures.
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by pom 15y ago
This reminds me of how Tower Records opened their first store in Japan, when a fake Tower Records store was already operating in Sapporo... (see http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/MTS-Inc-Com... ) Interestingly enough, the Ja
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Musicians, tune your keyboards: playing in a laptop orchestra(arstechnica.com)
1 points by pom 15y ago|1 comments
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by pom 15y ago
I was just reading this lately; really interesting stuff. However, I wonder how much has changed in the last 25 years since this book was written? Or to put it in a different way: what to read next?
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by pom 15y ago
But better expressiveness is exactly what you need to get your shit done. Being able to say what you mean concisely lets you focus on solving your problem and move on to the next task faster rather than getting bogged down into getting some
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by pom 15y ago
No. Mostly because of the egregious use of significant whitespace :(
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by pom 15y ago
Although I had stumbled upon the S and K combinators with Unlambda ( http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/ ) I didn't know about Smullyan's book and this related paper by Keenan ( http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs655/readings/mocking
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by pom 15y ago
I have been updating a few repos on Github daily and got in without a hitch. Nice.
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by pom 15y ago
That was a fun before-breakfast warmup; the input was always short enough that a simple, brute-force approach would usually work. The problem statements could have been made a little bit clearer though. And what's up with the green-on-black

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