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I want to talk to you about the affect and aesthetics of computing. 好记性不如烂笔头

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2009.

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  1. 7. pro 2019.

    Harvard's scholarship eligibility questions are WILD

    Please indicate if you are a lineal or collateral descendant of one or more of the following people
John W. Appel of Lancaster, PA
Henry Bright, Jr of Watertown, MA
Gov. Thomas Dudley of MA
John and Hannah Ellis of Walpole, MA
David Ellis and Beulah Newell of Dedham, MA
Allen Bedford Hudson
Robert Pennoyer
Member of the Harvard class of 1889
Member of the Harvard class of 1902
Joseph or Robert Downer
Edward F. Slater
    Please indicate if you have a family surname of
Baxendale
Downer
Hudson
Thayer
  2. 7. pro 2019.

    Got my Lambda the Ultimate Frisbee from :')

    White frisbee with a shield inscribed on it. Inside the shield at the top is the Y combinator, (Y F) = (F (Y F)). Below it, there is a large λ, and to the right of the λ the entire shield pattern is repeated. The recursion seems to extend infinitely but is clearly visible five times.
  3. 4. pro 2019.

    Also the math avoidance plan failed spectacularly: I had to take even MORE calculus than the Psychology major required. I still struggle a lot with basics, as seen in my Totally Normal GRE Scores for a computer science applicant, but fortunately higher maths are much more fun :)

    Your Scaled Score:

179/170 Verbal (99th percentile)
159/170 Quantitative (70th percentile)
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  4. 22. stu 2019.

    Interest piqued, nodding, smiling. I—what? Oh... Ok...Of Course

    Heading: Do you have a backup plan?

FinalMessage allows you to automate a message to a loved one, trusted friend, or business partner that is only sent if you stop responding.

The primary use-case is using it to send 1 of 3 bitcoin multisig keys to your recipient in the event of death, memory loss, or kidnapping
  5. 21. stu 2019.

    Heartwarmingly matter-of-fact description of flying with a cello from

    This causes two new problems, though. The first is that when booking a plane ticket, generally speaking, you need to provide the airline with the name of the passenger. That’s often difficult enough when dealing with human passengers (see, for example, the bonus fact below), but it’s worse for cellos, because cellos typically don’t have names (at least not legal ones).
    The problem is so common that some airlines have specific policies in place to account for this.  For example, the website of British low-cost carrier EasyJet instructs cello-carrying customers to “please add an additional seat during the online booking process and use the passenger name MR SEAT CELLO.”
    The second problem: who gets the frequent flyer miles? Mr. Seat Cello can’t book his own flight and isn’t a real person, but his (its?) owner is still paying for two tickets. But not all airlines are willing to grant double miles to the cello’s owner.
    In 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that cellist Lynn Harrell had been flying on Delta Air Lines for years with a companion ticketed as “Cello Harrell.” Delta warned Mr. Harrell that his cello wasn’t eligible to collect miles on his behalf, but shortly thereafter, he claims, Delta’s ticketing agents offered to set up an account for his instrument anyway. (Delta denies this
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  6. 7. stu 2019.
    > public static void

public static void ia_get_file_path_as_string ( FILE * file, FILE * file_str, FILE * file_end_str, char * path, int len) { if (file == NULL ) { perror ( "file" ); return ; } const char * filename = NULL ; const char * directory = NULL ; if ( file_str == NULL ) { filename = "file" ; } else if ( file_end_str == NULL ) { filename = "file_end" ; } else { filename = "directory" ; } …
  7. 4. stu 2019.

    R-88 will decide the future of Affirmative Action in Washington state. My friend Ben Yan made a Mandarin-language video explaining the history of AA and why it helps, not hurts, racial equity. Please share on WeChat & with your Chinese relatives!

  8. 1. stu 2019.

    I normally use DuckDuckGo, and only switch to Google when there's something specific I can't find (typically an academic paper or esoweb). This leads to a rather skewed profile of my interests

    Google search history:
is there a window emoji 
1984 siggraph gem uniform random unit sphere 
1984 siggraph gem uniform random unit ball 
generate random transformations
siggraph gem uniform siggraph 1984 
generate random affine matrices uniform siggraph 1984 
generate random affine matrices uniform 
generate random affine matrices 
"shampoo for notmal hair" and "today i've been to sainsbury's"
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  9. 31. lis 2019.

    Httpy Halloween from and me. Not pictured: ALL OF THE OTHER ENGINEERS who DID NOT participate because they were "busy" doing things like "making the app faster" and "IndexedDB transaction sync"

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  10. 17. lis 2019.

    I try to write all my dreams down, especially if I wake up in the middle of the night after a memorable one. Some of these are less comprehensible than others

    Sound the alarm sprinting
Nintendo Switch and how the benefits of cmd-¥{% Engineering were
Accidentally discovered when we were holding down curl trying to figure out how to debug it / remove the effects of holding down ctrl
Particles would just fall around debris when a space craft exploded and the absence of (gravity? The ctrl key?) meant there wasn't a driving force for handling the collisions
15 = getScore(x)
  11. 6. lis 2019.

    Update: the chat has just described the Pfenning-Davies modal logic paper [1] as "the ultimate convo starter," so that's how our corner of the universe is going [1]

    > it's also like the ultimate convo starter- "you work with *thing vaguely related to modal types*? have you read davies-pfenning?" [one surprised reaction]
> and the answer is always yes
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  12. 30. ruj 2019.

    Hilariously, a few years ago Venmo redesigned the keypad, presumably to make the calculator buttons more visible. Based on ~5 years of convenience sampling, I don't think it helped much.

    Venmo product screenshot featuring two stylized mockups of iPhones running the Venmo app. On the left is the same payments interface, but the keypad design is flat with no separation or drop shadows between buttons.
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  13. 30. ruj 2019.

    Don Norman famously said that "good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible." My favorite accidental example of this quote is the Venmo calculator UI. How many times have you sent a payment without noticing the four-function calculator buttons?

    Venmo iOS app's interface for sending a payment. The payment description reads "How many times have you looked at this keypad without noticing the calculator?" The keyboard has a standard numeric keypad with white keys. To the right of the keypad are grey keys with the four standard calculator functions (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
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  14. 26. ruj 2019.
    Odgovor korisnicima
    Hillel:
LEARNING STYLES

Me:
NO

Hillel:
ARE YOU A KINETIC LEARNER
I"M A KINETIC LEARNER
I CAN ONLY LEARN ON A TREADMILL
  15. 22. ruj 2019.
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    How did I survive

  16. 20. ruj 2019.

    Tried out a new brush this time

    Girl sitting cross-legged with a MacBook in her lap. She has long black hair in a braid and is wearing a striped turtleneck, jeans, and socks.
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  17. 19. ruj 2019.
    Odgovor korisniku/ci
    Progress bar, about 95% full. 1,430 TQPs to Select.
  18. 17. ruj 2019.

    My coworkers decided to meet while I was in the bathroom, but instead of Slack-ing me they planted a trail of Almond Roca leading from the bathroom to the meeting room

    A sunny office with concrete floors and white walls. There are candies wrapped in gold foil on the floor leading from one closed door to another. By the destination, a woman is standing with her back to the camera looking at a laptop, while a man holding a bucket of smirks.
  19. 16. ruj 2019.
    Odgovor korisnicima
  20. 16. ruj 2019.

    I thought about this a lot when writing Ply's tooltips. I wish more tools provided proactive guidance in addition to reactive error messages. I am still pretty dissatisfied with mine, despite lots of effort and user testing!

    Tooltip: This property is a "default" setting for these base styles. The current element overrides these values with more specific styles, higher in the cascade.
    Tooltip: These properties likely represent a base style applied to multiple elements on the page. This particular element overloads the highlighted default.
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