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Re:The Tools I Use to Write Books (2018) on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @06:17AM (#31490159)
A pixel art book - that sounds very interesting! What's the title?
Re:IOTA Surges Past Ripple on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:40AM (#15860625)
It's the second time I hear that today. I don't deny it's true, but can't we put some sources on this? I think it is a little childish to just be spreading rumors.
Re:Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @04:02AM (#11342792)
I'm no sure I understand why it was an error of forceful to show his MD5 and SHA1 hashes. Can anyone explain?
Re:Brendan Eich: WebAssembly is a game-changer on Saturday March 12, 2016 @01:50PM (#11273936)
This looks AWESOME
Re:Counterintuitive economics of a chess tournament on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @04:57AM (#10385623)
I see - then we are in agreement.
Re:Counterintuitive economics of a chess tournament on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @04:42AM (#10385575)
I agree with you. But this article states a few reasons, I think are a valid, why a female league is necessary: http://www.chessblog.com/2009/10/abolish-womens-itles-ridicu...
I wans't talking about just PIL - I was talking about Python 2 vs Python 3 in general.

EDIT: And I'm not talking about development only. I'm talking about download small scripts and being able to run them seamlessly as well.

I read the same article as the guy and was also discouraged by using PIL. Python 2 vs Python 3 just makes life hard for people not used to Python. Maybe someone should do something about that.

I just went ahead and implemented the code in C++ instead.

Re:Unicorns on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @03:53PM (#9734777)
This was a tough read. I find it hard to read through stuff just throwing quotes, graphs and all into a big mess. Seems like the consistency just takes a dive.
Re:Drawscript – convert Illustrator shapes into code on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @04:32PM (#9614118)
> Obj-C C++ Javascript CreateJs/EasyJs Processing Actionscript 3 JSON Raw Beizer Points

Why do we have a bunch of languages/technologies listed as one of the first things on the page with no explanation?

Re:What happens if you remove randomness from Doom? on Friday April 24, 2015 @06:40AM (#9432387)
> The chance of monster in-fighting is never, or a certainty.

Still seem a little random, though

Re:10%? 20%? Apps Are Changing How We Tip on Monday March 30, 2015 @04:17PM (#9292282)
Indeed. Tipping or no-tipping is really not a black and white issue. Just because they do not receive tips does not mean they don't care. For all you know they could get fired for standing around - like you would be with a regular office job.
Re:10%? 20%? Apps Are Changing How We Tip on Monday March 30, 2015 @04:15PM (#9292264)
> you do not get anything near the level of customer service experience you get in the US.

I don't know. I have experienced both. Being a waiter is a proud occupation. People takes a sort of long education to become it and they really seem proud of making the dining experience a good one for their customers. And I guess this is true everywhere - not just when you work under the expectation that you get more tips the better you serve.

Re:10%? 20%? Apps Are Changing How We Tip on Monday March 30, 2015 @09:15AM (#9289224)
I am from Denmark. 10 years ago tipping was only something you saw in movies. Today some places are trying it and they ask upfront "Do you want to leave a tip?". It seems so forced and wrong. It just makes the whole experience end in on weird note.

Needless to say, I dislike tipping and I feel it should be a part of the salary. The servers need to be able to just focus on their jobs.

Re:Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:49PM (#9271031)
I just had a course about functional programming and proof theory in Coq. It's super fun and super enlightening. If you are into that kind of thing, you should definitely give it a try!
I am great fan of disallowing smoking inside public places. I can barely stand being near smoke: My throat just shuts down. So this is a great win for me :)
Re:Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @05:42PM (#9228891)
I'm only using Facebook. After creating an account, it seems kind of lackluster.
potato potato
"We are not naïve, we knew it was coming," Rubin tells Fast Company. "We thought that we would at least get a week notice—a fair game"

He knew it was coming, he knew it was wrong. Why would he need more warning than two hours? Why even a warning?

Re:Know Your Tools – Terminal and Bash on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:44PM (#9199061)
vi move commands works a lot of places in the UNIX world.
Re:Know Your Tools – Terminal and Bash on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:40PM (#9199027)
When I was a student programmer, my boss came over to my desk to introduce my new project. He then fired up a terminal, ssh'd into the box where I would find the data. He then presented me the data by doing all kinds of bash magic. I was fairly impressed each time. I used some time just trying to make sense of what he did and how.

It's insanely useful.

Re:A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors on Thursday March 12, 2015 @12:05PM (#9191615)
But how come it is less similar to itself than other words?
Re:A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @07:27PM (#9188169)
Very exciting stuff. I love how you can take simple building blocks and create something elegant and fun with them.

However, why are there words more similar to "vacation" than "vacation"?

Re:Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent on Thursday March 05, 2015 @08:10AM (#9150469)
I don't think it is so much a question about why. More that is pretty cool idea.
Re:Tired of Safari on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @10:32AM (#9107161)
On the subject of things I'm tired about. That website uses 448 px for the main content. For me that is 448 px of 1905 px. That's not even a quarter of my screen. Why in the world would you do something like this?
Re:Simple software rasterizer in a single C++11 header file on Sunday February 22, 2015 @11:40AM (#9089897)
What exactly is the difference between this and for example a simple ray tracer? Seems like it takes a lot of the same steps.

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