i want to invite others to try to visit Yelp on mobile with JS turned off. first off, you canr access anything. then the website provides nonsense reasons for why a user should have js turned on, and tries to guilt the user into doing do.
i always have js off by default, and turn it on momentarily when i feel it necessary. i do not feel it necessary for yelp.
the idea comes from ancient philosophy, when philosophers could make claims like "everything is made of fire" or "everything is made of water" or "everything is made of triangles" and argue it reasonably. the platonic solids, also, are five in number, where the fifth is a dodecahedron. i think it was plato, among others, who also believed in a fifth element, aether, but i cant remember the details.
how one would demonstrate any of these relationships mathematically is beyond me.
often, you can buy the works placed in a gallery, while museums you cannot. also, usyally, galleries have rotating stock depending on events etc, whereas museums have storage they rotate out of. additionally, galleries are not, most of the time, focused on non-contemporary artists and works, while museums have a substantial historical focus.
there is a distinction, thats why there are different words. outliers and exceptions not withstanding, since words and their meanings do not force their usage.
because the article spends the first half taking a cynical stance of "but can we reeealy believe what people say about their experiences" and spends the latter half first talking about the authors experiences and then more or less stating that those experiences were wrong, or at least not the original intent of the indigenous culture.
part of the PR problem with psychedelics is its easy status for cynical evaluation: "everything we hear is anecodotal, and furthermore the subject of discussion was tripping anyway, how can it be believable." it is probably hoped by those sharing experiences to provide reasonable sounding arguments to break through the cynicism.
>This afternoon I sat down to write a mini text editor.
i understand reinventing wheels is both fun and educational and grants a deeper understanding of wheels in general, but the way that statement reads is... over confident. the idea that any nontrival standard tool for software developers can be written in an afternoon, presumably from sratch, starting cold, not even done with preliminary researche (as evidenced by the rest of the article), is just silly.
>I wanted this to be easy.
has the author ever programmed anything at all these things are never "easy" just "easier than once thought", which is rare, and "inexplicably more difficult and obtuse, and motivation enough that time is better spent on other projects" or somewhere in between.
J (i and i assume APL/K to an extent) is called an arry language because arrays are, essentially, a primitive data type. There is no special syntax for arrays, either for creation or handling. The verbs in J just work with arrays, and in most cases, work better with arrays than if you were to manually break it down.
i rewatch this one now and then just to hear Joe Armstrong speak of another author's complex compiler code and the singular comment " and now for the tricky bit"
read: it is not an image generated by google's recaptcha service, but an art piece designed to convey and draw attention to the possibilities, and probabilities, of the recaptcha service.
i deleted my facebook last year and i tell everyone i can at every opportunity to do so as well. statistically invisible isnt actually invisible.
whats frustrating is blogs and comments that carry an air that facebook can change in the user's favor, much less that it ever will. i have read quite a few complaints myself that backtrack once it gets to presenting a positive, constructive solution to the problem (i.e. deleting your facebook) and suggest that facebook can be used by users for their benefit if users change their behavior. this puts an insurmountable burden on users to change a product that they are not in any way shape or form in control of. truly the only thing users have in their control regarding facebook is whether or not they have and/or use an account. deleting facebook is exhibiting control, and i believe everyone should do so.
reading from a selected list, which implied the list is not selected by the reader who uses it, wont allow for real individual exploration, finding ones own unique combination of tastes. thats without considering that most lists generated by large audiences wont include books from ibdependent presses, difficult books, or books that do in fact offer a broader view and different perspective of subject matter. most aggregations result in watered down and untimately forgettable literature; next time you have the opportunity, ask a bookseller (preferably one at an independent bookstore) what they think of the new york times "best sellers"
i write passable poems using ed; it doesn't get more distraction free than that.
i understand the drive to flatten out the learning curve of software for non-software-people. most of these options could be covered quickly with an author oriented LaTeX frontend, and i venture to guess that would be easier to develop. It already has an entire document class for books, covering frontmatter, mainmatter, backmatter, chapters, table of contents, headers footers, bibliography, etc. all that is needed is a author friendly GUI. file management, tabs, etc would then be the main part of the NEO ecosystem. One just has to supplement with templates and never mess with actual document creation.
Club soda with anything, syrups, bitters, citrus, is the secret for a happier sober life. not to mention is usually free in bars. (bitters are technically alcoholic, so that is a personal choice)
You sound like you need a hobby. Have you tried baking? Like, get a breadmaking book from a ised book sttore, read it carefully, and make bread. Its super rewarding, not that difficult, you end up with a finished product (that you can eat!) and its not math or programming.
Also, read literature anyway. Learn how to by doing it. If a novel is daunting read short stories (particularly Jorge Luis Borges or Cesar Aira). Reading wasn't important in my life until about 2 years ago, and since then books have improved my life dramatically. Its low cost, high yield, fully analog, ubiquitous, and enriching. Just learning new words makes it easier to form new concepts in your head and be better at stuff like math and programming. Seriously I cant suggest reading enough.
But really, this sounds more serious than just boredom or ennui. I side with Cozumel, and might suggest looking into a counsellor.
Parallelization automatically, special constructs for sparse matrixes, complex manipulation of multidimensional arrays without need for making sure they are constructed correctly. Not to mention never having to worry about an indexing error, unless you are specifically asking for an index, in which case the bug is in your design, not the program. Built in methods for sorting and searching that are very efficient, as well as filtering. Also, J is faster when you give it all the data you can at once, rather than moving through index by index. A lot of these advantages take time to really be aware of, much like Erlang's bread and butter often hiding behind much more than one article.
J syntax is very strictly enforced; the rules for verbs are unambiguous and fairly easy to parse as a human. The difficulty arises in learning and committing these rules to memory.
For example, every verb is infix, but the right side is evaluated before the left. thus expressions like '2+34' is unambiguously different from '43+2' (the former evaluates to 14 while the latter is 24). J is a language similar to C in that it will oftwn assume you meant what you typed, but has much less undefined behavior.
Re: types, J has a type system, albeit most are numeric (support for complex and rationals are built in). I dont, personally, imagine a type system akin to Haskell or Ocaml would benefit J greatly. Almost every verb in the language is overloaded with respect to the numeric types, thats why addition works as it should with ints, floats, complex, and rationals. Whats more, it handles all that stuff in the underlying system, so that everything works together correctly (coercion and whatnot). A type systen would introduce complexity and virtually nothing more to an already complex language.
I loved reading through Walden, and some of his other essays, namely "Walking". My probably-misplaced opinion on Thoreau is that is a very talented writer but a bit of a nut-job. His views are often rather polarized and/or extreme, which by the end of Walden makes him seem like an eccentric old man living in the woods for confusing reasons, opposing the reality of being an intelligent young man with sound and substantial reasons.
This article however casts a new light on Thoreau, showing a side of him I think I completely missed the first time through. I will probably give his stuff another go around in the next year.
As for suggestions, Walden is very pleasant. I favored more the small interactions he has with the local wildlife or other small musings, rather than the social commentary, but still overall a very nice, cozy read.
i assume all the time you save reading summaries and notes allows for more introspection on the more serious, though-provoking, and fleshed out non-fiction books you read, regardless of their length (article, essay, essay collection, what have you).
I got my undergrad in CS and am now pursuing pure math in grad school. Not exactly what you asked, but the time i did spend in the industry was enough to make me want to do something other than programming for money.
dont get me.wrong i think it is a wonderful project, and i would def try it out, but i dont forsee much benefit for any programmers, unless youre writing pure sql or cobol, i guess
The website says it would be good for coders, but I'm skeptical; there are far too many particular characters that wouldnt translate as easily to steno as natural language, not to mention the need for keyboard shortcuts to compile run etc.
Well, there is always J (jsoftware.com), which is the standard open source APL-like language. It also has a columnar database. And a wealth of resources available on its website/wiki (more than I have seen for any other language's base website).
But Finnegans Wake isnt difficult like Pynchon or Gaddis, who have tons of characters and complex plot devices and rich narrative. It is syntactically erratic and full of "puns" and "wordplay" whose existence the reader is forever aware of but cannot understand without countless hours more poured into the supporting literature. It is not an awful experience but you do not get out what you put in, unlike other difficult authors.
I am reading DFW's nonfiction right now, before i jump into infinite jest. I am almost through Consider the Lobster, and ive managed to piece together the duality of DFW's cynicism and desire to not be so. and then all his literary critique which is exciting in and of itself.
If you would like an author who can do such a thing, read Borges. His fiction is rarely over 50 pages, is absolutely riveting and beautiful, and his nonfiction mirrors this.
The very idea that somebody takes half and hour each to exclusively cook and eat three meals a day is absurd for a number of reasons, e.g. leftovers, the act of eating and reading at once, sandwiches, meal planning, skipping lunch, very-american-pre-processed-food, rice cookers, toast, etc.
Last time I used retropie it wouldn't correctly render vibrato effects in the music, so all of FFVI's wonderful score came out flat and awful. That was over a year agohowever, maybe its been updated.
I understand your argument, but I don't think anybody is playing SNES games competitively, on a non-negligable scale. Moreover if such a game exists, it would probably fall into the pathological cases he mentioned.