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Comment · 2 years ago
Fully agree -- documentation as markdown committed alongside the code (and processes to ensure that it is kept up-to-date, discoverable and browsable) is the best way to avoid docs going stale or abandonned.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's the challenge we at Komment (komment.ai) are taking on -- providing tools to maintain high-quality, up-to-date code documentation. We enable developers to spend more time developing, and less time documenting or figuring out what undocumented code does :-)
Comment · 2 years ago
A magnetic object attracts or repells another object with the exact same strength that affects it. Look up Newton's third law, in case your not familiar with it -- can't tell from your messages.
Comment · 7 years ago
I interpret this as, 'for an individual cow given a diet of that seaweed'. I don't think there's an issue there.
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm a bit confused about the point you are trying to make.

Based on your comment history, you seem comfortable with taking liberties with the English language to get your point across quickly (e.g. omitting implicit pronouns and articles in sentences such as 'Somehow never was true with Iceland.', or 'They should quit Euro (Merkel will never allow because others would follow suit) and debase currency. Do exactly as Iceland did.')

So I'm not sure why you seem to take particular issue with 'econ', which is a very common casual way to refer, e.g., to the economics major at uni. ('econ 101' etc)

Comment · 11 years ago
Not 100% sure this is unbiased but from what I see, £50k is good for a 30-years-old and £60k very good I would say. (Permanent employees of course.)
Comment · 11 years ago
Economists.
Comment · 11 years ago
I think it only becomes public if you '+1' the app. Otherwise I would agree with you, of course.
Comment · 11 years ago
Why not mention factorials? 9!! is way bigger than 9^9^9. And you can write many exclamation marks in 15 seconds.
Comment · 12 years ago
Also, methane leaking into the atmosphere.
Comment · 12 years ago
"On the bright side, the longer your marriage lasts, the less likely you are to divorce."

Emmm.. Not too surprising, is it? Divorces kind of tend to terminate marriages early.

Comment · 12 years ago
I used to have it (French accent) on Google voice search, until mid-2013. Nowadays the same service works really well for me, so they definitely improved something.
Comment · 12 years ago
I meant cheap for what it is (or seems to be).
Comment · 12 years ago
$799. Impressive. I think this is a big moment for Microsoft.
Comment · 12 years ago
What are they studying?

I find that scientific textbooks (machine learning, etc) are much more usable as books than as pdf, as I need to often jump from one chapter to another and it needs to be the matter of a split second (or I won't bother to look for the information).

But perhaps mileage varies.

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