stepvhen

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by stepvhen 6y ago
This looks great! I too have been working on a critter tracker[0], but writing it in C using kcgi[1] (no JS at all). I have never done a web project before, so this has been a great learning experience. I still have some functionality to co
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by stepvhen 7y ago
I would have to check, but the resources on lex/yacc that I remember would make a point of their usability at scale. Generally it would be unlikely to wrote a faster lexer than what lex could do, but very likely to write a better parse
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by stepvhen 7y ago
The author's math works out to a bit over 2 hours a book. I assume this was elided because thats wild to expect. I would have been more convinced if the author posted their list of books, with page and/or word count, and math&#x27
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by stepvhen 7y ago
in situations like this "one bad cluster of comments" isn't considered a mistake or a lapse in judgement but a symptom of what a person actually thinks. RMS more than likely did not form those opinions on the spot and then fo
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by stepvhen 7y ago
The "Hard CC" isn't a power move its how things get done. I constantly check in to make sure I'm doing my job right and when I am and the problem isn't fixed, its time for it to be someone else's problem. sourc
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by stepvhen 7y ago
> maybe even playing with colors to indicate if verbs form a train or other composition. I understand that is a quite different problem from just substituting @: with o̲. With regards to how different of a problem that would be, J's
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by stepvhen 7y ago
If you only read one book, I suggest Don Quixote, the Grossman translation particularly, if only for the higher quality footnotes (compared to Lathrop's which is very well translated but poorly commented). The advantage here is DQ is r
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by stepvhen 7y ago
i actually just finished reading it last night. probably one of the best bits of fiction ive read.
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by stepvhen 7y ago
i think you might be making metaphysical claims, while the topologist is not. moreover, in topology, things dont.become other things or kinds of things; they stay as they are and the (simplified) statement "a staw is a donut" mean
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by stepvhen 8y ago
is for->fer Utah? I'm in Indiana, born on the West Coast, and I dont know where I picked that up. I have also started to morph "car" and similar in the direction of "kerr," and (most embarrassingly) instead of &q
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by stepvhen 8y ago
FWIW, from what i remember facebook's redesigns were never just a visual thing. they always added and pushed some functionality, made some things much harder to find, or quietly removed things entirely. A similar thing happened when La
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by stepvhen 8y ago
For literary fiction, literary friends and book reviews. Also, anytime you see a name come up again and again, look into getting a something they have written. I bought Dostoyevsky because I kept seeing him come up (worth it). Find small&#x
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by stepvhen 8y ago
Pretty sure most folk in Hamlet get a bad deal in the end, and Hamlet's brooding and whining doesnt outweigh that. Ophelia literally goes mad and is driven to arguable suicide. Everyone that mattered dies, and if that is outweighed by
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by stepvhen 8y ago
Think of it this way; the last time you cooked this dish there was way too much and youd prefer not to do that again. This would help.with that problem. I guess it also makes more sense for baking than cooking.
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by stepvhen 8y ago
Perhaps I missed it, but i didn't see anything about physical copies, i.e. it seems this is focused (exclusively?) for the ditigal reader. Is that the case?
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by stepvhen 8y ago
> I would skip man pages are they just aren’t used that often anymore. I understand that man pages might represent a minority, but I cannot express enough how wonderful it is to get the full manual of a program without interfacing with t
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by stepvhen 8y ago
Greeks didnt invent philosophy, technically. The western tradition, maybe, but not the whole itself. And most of them, Socrates included, talked about thw gods a lot of the time. In fact, socrates's way of living a good life is, more
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by stepvhen 8y ago
I read The Trial, and I am an avid reader of literary fiction. I understand that the trial was published posthumously, and against Kafka's wishes. These facts track, for me, because I feel The Trial was unfinished, unpolished, and most
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by stepvhen 8y ago
>How do people decide to make major life changes? before the change, on those days when it seems like nothing is happening, those people are thinking around the change. constantly, subconsciously (or not) and internally weighing options
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by stepvhen 8y ago
Well, first, use a logic programming language and report back. Then understand that math is almost wholly non-empirical. The things discovered or made up in math are not reflective of the real world, most of the time, regardless of how clos
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by stepvhen 8y ago
It comes in the base of OpenBSD, and I use it in lieu of a calDAV server. Being able to quickly jot down an appointment and recall it on the command line is hecka useful.
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by stepvhen 8y ago
An interesting other side of the coin here: Emily Wilson, in her recent translation of The Odyssey made it a point to call the slaves in Odysseus' house slaves. In other translations, this idea was glossed over, the people called diffe
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by stepvhen 8y ago
Why only one cup of coffee? Is it the caffiene? Does decaf apply here too? (I work in coffee and often skip breakfast.)
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by stepvhen 8y ago
any array talk on HN is fine with me. its an opaque topic and more posts means more illumination. whats particularly interesting is this is implemented in perl, and from a quick look pretty well formatted perl. which, for somebody who might
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by stepvhen 8y ago
i think there is value in analytic philosophy, mostly when used as a tool to clear up otherwise muddy issues. Case in point, Jay F. Rosenberg's "Thinking Clearly About Death." In the second half he spends his time clearing up
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by stepvhen 8y ago
could you clairify the following: what is an example of a primary problem? what is an example of a secondary problem? what is failure by your definition? what state would a problem be in if it were "solved"? is a problem solved wh
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by stepvhen 8y ago
this paper is about lip reading, which is indeed a difficult task (i cant do it well, to be honest) and worthy of study. however, lip reading is not body language. lip reading maps movements to words in a natural language. recognizing body
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by stepvhen 8y ago
GNU and the FSF operate on the level of language, and rightly so, since terms like "freedom" are nebulous and have been thought about and debated by philosophers since Augustine (or maybe before with examples by sophists) all the
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by stepvhen 8y ago
protip: tr ' ' '\n' < foo | sort | uniq
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by stepvhen 8y ago
as a baseline, to constitute entering an agreement, each party must have a reasonable idea of what they are agreeing to, as well as the capacity (mental, emotional, physical, rational, etc) to actually make such an agreement. to enforce an

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