syncopatience

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by syncopatience 3y ago
I think the reference is to Verlan, where the syllables in a word are inverted. It reminds me of "Pig Latin": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan
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by syncopatience 4y ago
Cooking the bones makes them brittle. They break open easily when chewed, and the sharp edges can perforate the GI tract after they're eaten.
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by syncopatience 6y ago
Well put. I wonder if a lot of this comes from classical piano players (which there seem to be a lot of, proportionally?) assuming that everyone who learns piano is necessarily aspiring to play those super difficult classical pieces one day
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by syncopatience 7y ago
This brings to mind something Ira Glass said about "the gap": > Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this
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by syncopatience 9y ago
Couldn't this same reasoning be used to argue that we don't need for loops or functions because we have GOTOs? Boilerplate is tedious and error-prone to write and to read/understand in my experience.
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by syncopatience 9y ago
If the concern is Uglify slowing down the dev cycle, you could turn it off for development builds.
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by syncopatience 9y ago
There's always GOMAD! https://stronglifts.com/gomad-milk-squats-gallon-gain-weight...
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by syncopatience 9y ago
For anyone else who happens by and has the same issue, vim had (has?) substandard syntax highlighting for javascript. Pulling in pangloss's vim-javascript ( https://github.com/pangloss/vim-javascript ) fixed that up
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by syncopatience 10y ago
I wonder why text editor preferences are so personal. I use the same editor and probably 90% of the same config as this guy and was nodding along until I saw he remapped B and E. Horrifying! Those are fundamental motions.
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by syncopatience 10y ago
Does learning about the Lambda calculus have any take-aways for programming in modern languages, or is it more of a cool toy/mostly of interest for language designers and academics?
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by syncopatience 10y ago
Could anyone weigh in on his assessment of Martin Fowler's Refactoring book? I'm considering picking it up - some seem to be of the opinion that its ideas are old news in 2016 and there's not much to learn from it, others say
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by syncopatience 10y ago
In my experience French people are much happier to talk politics than Americans. Possible they are sick of hearing about burkinis right now though.
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by syncopatience 10y ago
I had a similar problem working over a metered cellular data connection recently. One thing that helped a lot was the uBlock Origin extension for Chrome & Firefox, which has a feature that prevents automatically loading media elements o
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Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)(tynan.com)
50 points by syncopatience 10y ago|31 comments
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Learn CSS Layout(learnlayout.com)
1 points by syncopatience 11y ago|0 comments
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by syncopatience 11y ago
Not as high as it sounds when you consider that the top 20% of earners collect 50% of the income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
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by syncopatience 11y ago
“It’s wonderful to have so many hours in my day – I feel like I can live two lives,” she says. ... “There’s this social view that short sleeping is a good thing and should be encouraged – we’re always hauling out the exam
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by syncopatience 12y ago
It's no different in the midwest, at least in the larger cities (Chicago, Minneapolis, KC, etc).
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by syncopatience 12y ago
Is meth a completely different phenomenon? It's prescribed by doctors under the brand name "Desoxyn" for ADHD and narcolepsy - evidently they find more value than harm in it for some patients. The negative effects of meth are
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by syncopatience 13y ago
This might be beside the point, but combinatorics, set theory and algebra are prime examples of discrete mathematics, not continuous.
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by syncopatience 13y ago
An electric kettle uses a lot less energy than a pot on the stove to boil water. I wonder how much water you'd need to boil to break even?
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by syncopatience 13y ago
Fortunately some research indicates that stoned driving is less cause for concern than drunk driving. One study[1] has found that "THC's effects after doses up to 300 mcg / kg never exceed alcohol's at BAC's of 0.08
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by syncopatience 13y ago
It's my understanding that LSD production is far more complex and resource intensive than growing marijuana.
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by syncopatience 13y ago
I don't think this is true. According to this table a large apple has more than 100 calories: http://calorielab.com/foods/apples/62
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by syncopatience 14y ago
Thanks for this. I've always been a little perplexed as to why an enumerator in Ruby uses 'yield' when it seemed like it was really the caller that was "yielding" to the enumerator. I ought to have been thinking of an enumerator yielding (
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by syncopatience 14y ago
I bought bulk-size toilet paper at a Target in St. Louis and the cashier taped a plastic handle to it as she rang it up. Fear not - the US is still advancing the state of the art in toilet paper delivery.
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by syncopatience 14y ago
There are lots of great bikes to be had on Craigslist. It's not tough to find a modern road bike for around $300 in my city, and if you don't mind something frumpier you could get by with spending $150 for something that'll get you to work
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by syncopatience 14y ago
The most common term is "stabbing", e.g. "stabbings are up 25% this year."
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by syncopatience 14y ago
Contrast with Brazil, which has far stricter gun laws than the U.S. and far more gun deaths.
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by syncopatience 15y ago
I spent a weekend in Chicago and saw more pedestrians in near-death situations than in the rest of my life, cumulative. Where on Earth does that come from?

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