wpears

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by wpears 7y ago
I took the parent comment to be making the assumption that politically attractive options for responding to emissions and climate change tend to be "market-based" solutions or activities that are picking winners between industries
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by wpears 10y ago
Link to PDF of policy[1] [1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/...
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by wpears 10y ago
Where x can be any combination of letters of any length?
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by wpears 10y ago
If the DNA in a seed is still in good enough shape to support blooming after being frozen 30,000 years, perhaps a seed frozen in a meteorite [1] could also survive long enough to be spread between solar systems. [1] maybe after glancing off
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Kimbia downtime stalls donations for hours during Give Local America event(kimbia.com)
1 points by wpears 10y ago|1 comments
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by wpears 10y ago
Ruby. Rails is the web framework, Ruby is the language and thus the thing that is interpreted.
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by wpears 11y ago
BST is O(n) in the worst case (when a tree is completely unbalanced and is essentially a linked list)
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by wpears 11y ago
Mirror via the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150409042753/http://www.intell...
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by wpears 11y ago
The video at the "byzantine regulatory framework" link[1] is worth a watch (at least the first 10 minutes to get a taste). One of the most valuable offerings of cloud.gov is (hopefully) the ease with which it can go through the AT
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by wpears 11y ago
Nice explanation at http://grammarist.com/usage/all-but/
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by wpears 12y ago
His second bind example is incorrect. function handleClick(i) { this.innerHTML = i; } for (i = 0; i < elems.length; i++) { elems[i].addEventListener("click", handleClick.bind(this, i)); } In the for lo
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by wpears 12y ago
Not the friendliest program but http://mrale.ph/irhydra/1/ can display all sorts of intermediate representations spit out by v8
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by wpears 12y ago
You mixed up your definitions of function declaration and function expression. In this case, if the '!' weren't there, it would indeed be a function declaration, but with improper syntax (removing the '!' would resu
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by wpears 13y ago
r is a model parameter that affects the strength of gravity waves. r=0.2 was much higher than expected. See http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/20mrz4/cosmic_infla...
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Spree: The Spritz-like reader that you'll love(github.com)
1 points by wpears 13y ago|0 comments
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by wpears 13y ago
You're quite correct that cadence is diminished, though that can be mitigated by adding a delay to each word based on its length.
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by wpears 13y ago
That's what I did with Spree [1] (also posted below). Just a simple word.length*8 seemed to have quite a nice effect on readability. 1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spree/aehoaolhojlm...
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by wpears 13y ago
Similar to what I did with the chrome extension Spree [1]. Though I find your pauses on periods to be a bit much. Code for Spree available on github [2]. The IIFE in spree.js can also function as a bookmarklet. Also, Spree doesn't walk
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by wpears 13y ago
If the socket is terminated mid-command (thus emitting 'close'), one would want the process to be killed. Also, the socket doesn't know that no more transmission is required just because one particular stream is over. That is
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by wpears 13y ago
The getter is wrapped in a try/catch, so the circular reference hits the max call stack size and errors out silently.