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That sounds more like something from Lovecraft's mythos.

Or perhaps the article should have been titled "Gantastic Beasts and How to Draw Them".

They said "records", not "recordings". I took this to mean references in historical records.

Every version of .NET Core has always installed side-by-side with previous versions. There's no way to avoid it.

I believe he did this in the movie "The Hunt-and-Peck for Red October".

Er, the article isn't about e-sports, it's about the tabletop Scrabble tournament scene.

"The successive ratios of the terms, i.e. 1/1, 2/1, 3/2, 5/3 ... tend to a number called the Golden Ratio by the Greeks."

Fun fact: take any two numbers (e.g. chosen randomly), and use them as the seeds for a Fibonacci-like sequence by summing the last two terms to generate the next term. The ratio of any two consecutive terms in that series will tend towards the golden ratio.

That's how I would characterize captchas in general.

Pardon me, but I think you are mistaken. The correct phrase is "Pardon me, but I think you are mistaken.", not "Did you have a stroke just now?"

Different author. iTed Hodges vs. Simon Royal.

I think "customer" in this context just means an Apple customer, which they obviously are if they have old and new Macs.

I hope you don't mind a piece of constructive criticism about the web page but: the syntax coloring scheme you're using makes the comments nearly invisible. Code comments are useful, and therefore should be easily readable, IMHO.

> Don't leave the browser

For someone saying that they don't like browser-based apps, how is this an advantage? They're presumably not in a browser in the first place.

Informative article! I'm not a coffee drinker, and I never even heard of Nespresso until the George Clooney ads started in the US (which according to the article was in 2015). I've been under the impression that Nespresso was an upscale rip-off of Keurig; didn't know it had been around since 1986!

I bought the Klutz Book of Card Games during my high school years in the late '80s. The best part IMHO was the section on solitaire games, which provided several superior alternatives to Klondike. I played quite a bit of Yukon during my freshman year of college.

I still have the book, as well as the deck of cards that came with it. The tuckbox has held up surprisingly well!

If you're talking about Mac, you mean "Option", not "Alt".

If the author himself feared them to be extinct, then it's technically true...

I once came across some code, written by a coworker, that consisted of deeply nested blocks. I added a comment that simply contained a URL:

  // http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/b/c/2/600_436939394.jpeg

I don't know if anyone ever noticed this comment and followed the URL, but I hope they did and were amused. (The code was eventually refactored/rewritten, so the comment no longer exists in the codebase.)

Yes, but another way of looking at it is that if you prioritize A over B, it's because the opportunity cost of not doing A would be greater than the opportunity cost of not doing B. So "prioritization" is another way of saying "minimizing opportunity cost".

It's not so much progress, as reversal of a regress.

That Outline page is giving me an error. Meanwhile, the original article page is perfectly readable if JavaScript is disabled.

Me too. Sometimes I notice my internal monologue is slowing me down, so I turn it off and let the thoughts flow without converting them into words. Other times, I feel like the abstract thoughts are coming too quickly, so I'm like "woah, slow down there!" and work my way through the same thought process again in words, to assure myself that I'm not skipping steps and jumping to conclusions.

The article that modernerd linked to has links at the bottom, in the "Appendix". The reviewer report is here: https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/review-form....

E-prime has the prime property...

Since this was posted in 2015, the title should be changed to one of:

- The Next 50 Years of Databases (2015)

- The Next 46 Years of Databases

:-)

There's a fairly recent Numberphile video about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYfpSAxGakI

Same problem for me in Firefox on Windows. Scrolling using cursor keys doesn't work. Using the scroll wheel on the mouse doesn't work. Scrolling by clicking and dragging the scroll widget also doesn't work, because the page puts a transparent header at the top of the page, that somehow extends over into the scrollbar, blocking the widget!

I found three ways to scroll the page:

- Click in the scrollbar below the scroll widget; this moves the widget out from under the invisible header, allowing it to be clicked

- Use the Kill Sticky Headers[0] extension to remove the header

- Use reader mode

[0] https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

TL;DR: Written language can be used to communicate information.

Intaglio: A vector drawing program, designed in the tradition of classics like MacDraw. It even supports importing old MacDraw, AppleWorks, and ClarisWorks drawing files. But that doesn't mean it's not an up-to-date application, with support for modern Mac features like CoreImage, Automator, native tabbed windows, 64-bit, retina displays, etc.

http://www.purgatorydesign.com/Intaglio/index.html

I sincerely hope that nushell becomes popular enough for O'Reilly to publish a book with that title. :-)