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I've never seen it before, but it appears to be inflation notation. It's a subscript on prices, so the year is the original year of the price, and the cost above it is the inflatio…

I've actually been thinking of moving to Atlanta recently. I live in Portland OR right now, so the sprawl of Atlanta scares me, but I've heard there are good walkable pockets of it…

Send me an email at dlp@aperiodic.org

Yes. I was at Puppet (nee Puppet Labs) for four years, one of the larger Clojure shops to my knowledge (not that I've been keeping close tabs on who's picked it up recently). I swi…

In my experience -- I was a professional Clojure developer for 6 years (until 2018), and hung out in the #clojure IRC channel on freenode a lot between 2011 and 2014 -- the Clojure…

I played the heck out of Magic in middle school and ended up with a perfect SAT Verbal.

This is just one of the reasons why Limited (building a 40 card deck from only packs that you and your group open) is clearly the best way to play Magic. Another: even though it se…

Somewhat related, Leslie Valiant believes that if evolution performs a random search in genome space, it is computationally impossible for it to have led to the complexity that it'…

Curiously, the language's features for doing runtime checks as a user--core.spec and pre & post conditions--are both very easy to completely disable for production. I don't know wh…

In this respect, they share the characteristic of being easy to wholly disable (i.e. prevent them from being compiled at all). With pre & post conditions if the var `clojure.core/ …

Well, you can easily do this with a native app that relies on content from your servers (e.g. dropbox).

How do web-apps help lock-in? Because you can force users to update?

It's a great example of worse is better in action: a technically inferior platform winning out because it's better at one or two things that enable virality, which is the only thin…

I've had good results with a normal crock pot on the high setting overnight.

It is exactly that: Pluto is a very tiny astronomical object. Galaxies, nebulae, and such are much further away than Pluto, but that is more than made up for by how mind-boggingly …

More constant tweaking: x * y * (sin((x+time)/5) * cos((y+time)/5)) * 15 + 3000 http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#IHggKiB5ICogKHNpbigoeCt0...

You can build hexagons really easily out of equilateral triangles, which seems even purere than squares to me.

The logistics of supplies and rescue are a lot easier, sure, but the two environments have more in common with each other than the rest of the surface of this planet. You already n…

GPS gives you speed relative to the ground, not speed relative to the air, which is what's important for aerodynamics.

Contrary to popular belief, the reason that spacecraft heat up upon re-entry is gas compression, not friction (remember the ideal gas law, PV = nRT). The gas would still be compres…

Only if there's an exploitable bug in the Siri client.

The mother of one of my friends works with the Zooniverse[1] project, a citizen science effort. She was saying that one of their biggest problems is how to distribute their data to…