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pfeyz | 13 years ago | on: Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

I'd just like to point out that Lojban is a constructed language, not a natural language. It was designed and built from the ground up, as opposed to the GP's controlled natural languages which are pre-existing human languages with a bunch of stuff stripped out of them.

pfeyz | 13 years ago | on: Meteor – The next Ruby-on-Rails?

You can edit the PKGBUILD from the AUR. change the pkgver to 0.3.8, and update the md5sums to a292c8d0cd2e9269ea71bcd45f2f7908 and 9a7077a8dd3e5a2c9531e2943cba2f43, respectively. This worked for me.

pfeyz | 14 years ago | on: Programming Music with Overtone

I feel like it's worth pointing out the distinction between SuperCollider the programming language and SuperCollider the audio synthesis server. The audio server is stand-alone and can be controlled via Open Sound Control. The language is a music DSL that abstracts over the OSC messages and acts as a client to the synth server. Overtone is another client to the synth server, but I'm not sure how much it's following the SuperCollider language. Also, there's an scruby project https://github.com/maca/scruby .

pfeyz | 14 years ago | on: Tools I Use - tmux

"setw -g mode-mouse on" in your tmux.conf will let you use the mouse for scrolling and selecting text once you're in copy mode.

pfeyz | 15 years ago | on: Stack Exchange for English Language and Usage

Judging from the top questions that I read, this is not a site for linguists, at least not ones interested in descriptive rules of language. Nearly all questions asked about standards of written English, which are arbitrary and uninteresting to a linguist, except in that the bickering over what is “proper” might bring to our attention divergent forms among varieties of English.

For people interested in the debate over whether a “correct” English (or any language for that matter) exists, here is an interesting article by Geoffrey Pullum:

http://people.ucsc.edu/~pullum/MLA2004.pdf

Re: written English vs. spoken English Spoken English is a primary linguistic form while written English is secondary or parasitic on spoken forms, so actually from a linguistic perspective, calling written English a language is wrong. English exists in speakers’ minds and written English is a filtered encoding of that language with certain non-linguistic constraints put upon it (e.g. in my dialect of English, dropping an auxiliary at the beginning of a yes/no question is completely okay, but in writing, I hardly ever do this, unless in a very informal context. This is because written standards tell me not to.)

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