rsegal

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I'm a Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science major with years of robotics experience through work and FIRST. I've been programming since before I was ten, and am familiar with Python, C, C++, Objective C, LabView, Scratch, SML, and Bash.

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Aug 23	answered	Best word for “unable to change”
Aug 17	answered	Implied meaning of “patriotism”
Aug 17	accepted	Does “allegedly made a drug that does X” or “made a drug that allegedly does X” sound better?
Aug 17	comment	Does “allegedly made a drug that does X” or “made a drug that allegedly does X” sound better? While the paths are different, would you regard the state of the solution as comparable? Would you consider "allegedly a drug exists that does X" and "a drug exists that allegedly does X" to mean X is just as likely/extant in both circumstances?
Aug 17	comment	Does “allegedly made a drug that does X” or “made a drug that allegedly does X” sound better? It prompted something almost describable as a philosophical question.
Aug 17	comment	Does “allegedly made a drug that does X” or “made a drug that allegedly does X” sound better? Oh, I totally agree that it's certainly real and almost certainly exactly as cool as they promise. I was asking a phrasing question.
Aug 16	comment	Does “allegedly made a drug that does X” or “made a drug that allegedly does X” sound better? They come to the same thing, though! In one, you're alleging they made a drug with certain properties, and in the other, you're claiming they made a drug and then alleging that it has those certain properties.
Aug 16	answered	How to avoid ambiguous wording: “Each has the same number of each type of flower”
Aug 16	asked	Does “allegedly made a drug that does X” or “made a drug that allegedly does X” sound better?
Aug 15	comment	How to pronounce “linearly”? @nohat while that may be the convention, a lot of Bostonians I know would have pronounced it "cah" under those circumstances, without a doubt. Further, I think it's good form to not get it confused with the word lineal, which it undoubtedly would without the 'r' sound.
Aug 15	comment	Which nouns can be used as verbs? A pretty cool novel that deals with the creation of new words (and overcoming 'blocking') is Frindle, by Andrew Clements. It's certainly aimed at kids and is by no means an academic piece or other authority on the subject, but the ideas are there. Interestingly, the book very explicitly plays the teacher, Mrs. Granger, as a benevolent anthropomorphism of blocking. Also, obviously lots of new words are made to fill a niche. Somewhat less obviously, the "this word isn't used by your parents" niche is very powerful.
Aug 15	comment	Term for disrespecting people with lower social condition @Mitch while that's true (and made me snicker), he was looking for something more specific. A hypothetical person would also be 'kind of a jerk' if they threw small animals at blind people, but might not be snobbish, elitist, etc.
Aug 15	comment	How to pronounce “linearly”? It's only LI-nee-uh-li if you pahk yah cah in Hahvahd yahd.
Aug 14	answered	what do you say when someone is at your door?
Aug 14	comment	“You both ordered drinks” or“ You both ordered a drink” I actually like your conclusion better than either option the OP offered. Not sure I agree with you on "Both ordered a drink" being ambiguous, though. I would find ambiguity in "Both ordered the same drink", leaving it open whether it was the same instantiation of a drink, or if both drinks were instantiations of the same class.
Aug 13	answered	What does “reeling” mean in “difficulties have left budgets reeling”?
Aug 13	comment	Why is it called boxing ring if its shape is a square? Maybe boxing knocked the Kindergarden right out of them? ;) It seems the question answers itself.
Aug 13	answered	Where does the term 'double-jointed' come from?
Aug 13	comment	Where does the term 'double-jointed' come from? No idea who it was, but I think it's a good comment.
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