skermes

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by skermes 6y ago
The Retain keyword is similar to the effects from Treasury or Mandarin in Dominion, where you put some card(s) back on top of your deck during clean up if you meet the condition. Treasury especially is also a cantrip, so it doesn't use
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by skermes 10y ago
Yes, the fact that you can send email to people who aren't using your email system is the main thing that's keeping chat services stuck as part of a company's communication tools and not being the entire (or almost entire) th
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by skermes 10y ago
I don't know if it's really that rare, though. From where I sit Maciej is playing the fox/anansi/trickster character to a tee, with a healthy dose of ha ha only serious ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/jar
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by skermes 13y ago
I don't get the logic that starts with "Technology is moving fast but email doesn't change" and leads to the solution being papering over email's faults with some slick UI. It's like the whole city's wate
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by skermes 14y ago
1) There's nothing wrong with using a phrase (like "Your life would probably ...") instead of a word. That's kind of what they're for? 2) What about "can"? It's not a drop-in replacement for "should", but it has a lot of what you're going
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by skermes 14y ago
You joke, but http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2012 LITERATURE PRIZE: The US Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the r
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Gander - Don't Be a Goose(youtube.com)
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by skermes 15y ago
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.htm... ?
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by skermes 15y ago
When I spend all day hopping up and down through different levels of abstraction in the service of building some particular program, it's all too easy to start confusing the map with the territory. If I'm writing some code to draw a circle
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by skermes 15y ago
I can't claim credit for this, but: Knock, knock Who's there? Interrupting coefficient of friction Interrupting coeff -- MUUUUUUU
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by skermes 15y ago
A lot of people bring up the idea of rigor when I compare prose and code, and I think it's really overemphasized. Just think of English as a language with a really flexible type system that lets you duck type the hell out of everything. I
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by skermes 15y ago
The same way that it's your fault if your new building doesn't provide adequate wheelchair access, not the wheelchair's fault for not being able to climb stairs.
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by skermes 15y ago
To expand on mrk-hn's comment, I don't think the comparison is entirely without merit. From what I can tell, a lot of the scorn directed at hipsters (or at least the "hipster" archetype/strawperson) stems from fact (or perception) that the
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by skermes 15y ago
I have enormous respect for designers, and I know full well that I, a programmer, can't do what you do and that anything I might produce that puts pixels on a screen benefits immensely from a qualified designer's input. That said, those ar
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by skermes 15y ago
I'm not sure why it'd be a goal to find a way to do code reviews that doesn't involve version control. We review everything everything before it gets merged into our mainline branch, and the process is pretty much what you described. Ever
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by skermes 15y ago
I'll do you one better: bug reports filed as screenshots of a web page showing an exception message pasted into a word document, attached to an email. Of course, the screenshots had been scaled down to fit on a portrait page, so the text o
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by skermes 15y ago
Please do enlighten us: what is the correct clothing to wear on a website when you discuss attempted suicides? Should we make sure to stick to earth tones so that we respect the solemnity of the topic, or do we want to add some bright colo
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by skermes 15y ago
You can actually add more fonts, though it requires editing the registry and doesn't work for all fonts, I think. It does let you at least get Consolas, which is good enough for the time I spend in cmd. http://keznews.com/3308_Adding_font
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by skermes 15y ago
We have a number of failing tests that we've marked ignored at work. There are a couple reasons we don't remove them from the test suite entirely: Some of these tests are from the 'before times', and they test functionality that was alread
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by skermes 15y ago
It's not actually that ironic. Robots tend to be symbols for an oppressed underclass - their masters have (or think they have) a high degree of control over their every thought and action, they're often tasked with menial or dangerous labo
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by skermes 16y ago
In my more expansive moments I've even used 'trip dub' to cut it down to even fewer syllables than letters.
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by skermes 16y ago
People with dyslexia apparently find Comic Sans substantially easier to read than many other common computer fonts: http://www.dyslexic.com/fonts It would be interesting to have something similar to CSS media queries for screen size for a
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by skermes 16y ago
Not quite, I'm afraid: http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/pearlharbor.asp
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by skermes 16y ago
Yes! I was just looking for an app to reinforce my unimaginative opinions about heteronormative lifestyles and socially regressive gender roles! Void in my life: filled.
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by skermes 16y ago
It seems like the best response to both that mistake and that situation would have been to have a policy of pulling any error messages (or other text that'll be visible to users) from a resource file. If you made the resource file use a si
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by skermes 16y ago
The obvious reason not to make color part of the syntax is that it precludes me from having different colors from whoever designed the language. In my case this is just inconvenient, but for color blind programmers, it could actually be a
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by skermes 16y ago
Beyond bull, the article doesn't even come close to making sense. They predict a 3% drop in 'computer programmer' jobs over the next decade, but a 32% increase in 'computer software engineer' jobs over the same timeframe. Futher confoun
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by skermes 16y ago
Based on the prose examples the article gives (the chess/lunch story and the crucifixion/bike race story), it looks like a truly 'pataphysical system wouldn't need IO at all. Instead, you'd have a program of some sort, that was simultaneou
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by skermes 16y ago
http://www.madebysofa.com/ maybe?
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by skermes 16y ago
It looks like the problem the author is struggling with is vocab-as-meaning vs vocab-as-etymology. She complains that english creates new words for everything; "bus", "envelope", etc, but we really tend to re-use words for different but al

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