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by 11ren 18y ago
Hmmm... I don't think hackers ever went towards XML. The old C hackers hated it (too inefficient.) The nice thing I see in XML is that it abstracts out grammars (using XML Schema / DTD). For JSON, a grammar isn't used - it's a nested tupl
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by 11ren 18y ago
Do you have references for that exodus? By Google, XML is winning 50 to 1 - but declining, and JSON is growing: http://www.google.com/trends?q=xml%2C+json&ctab=0 However, a factor is that people already know about XML and don't need t
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by 11ren 18y ago
> you can't use the Jabber protocol by hand over telnet like you can use POP3, SMTP, IRC. There's an intriguing view that text can't be used by hand either - you have to use a "text shell". Wouldn't a fair comparison use an "XML shell"?
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by 11ren 18y ago
JSON is another contestant in the generic data serialization space, which is doing better than sexp - possibly due to the ubiquity of javascript (free-riding the web). Though, for this technology generation, the fight is over. I think there
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by 11ren 18y ago
Yes, I meant a direct message too - like a flag - because it would discourage spammers. I didn't unpack it, so it was ambiguous. I'm not sure if the "10,000" reports would happen; have to try it and see. It's probably more like bug-reports,
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by 11ren 18y ago
I have a corollary to Greenspun's Tenth Law, which is that: Lisp programmers see everything in terms of as an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Lisp, and don't see other benefits it might have.
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by 11ren 18y ago
> merely thinking about the task in more concrete, specific terms makes it feel like it should be completed sooner and thus reducing procrastination It doesn't say how they drew that conclusion from the evidence, but it seems a bit of
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by 11ren 18y ago
Checking, yes, the same text. But as a reader, I didn't see the other one and i did see this one (maybe because it had more upvotes), so, for me, it was a good thing that this one was here. There's an element of competition for most eye-cat
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by 11ren 18y ago
great idea, not a full-blown comment, but a small link (like "flag") that gives room for a one line description. Most typos are pretty short, and are covered by something like the below. Even if the description happened to be ambiguous, it
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by 11ren 18y ago
The Amazon reviews of "XML Schema" agree it's poorly edited - but both are surprised: http://www.amazon.com/XML-Schema-Eric-van-Vlist/dp/059600252...
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by 11ren 18y ago
I think it would enhance immersion, much more than the wii controller (which it turned out people wanted). But I agree the lag spoils it (esp visible with the baseball bat). Version 2.0?
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by 11ren 18y ago
Dragon's Egg (Robert Forward) is an excellent hard science fiction novel, in which merely from knowledge of the fact that it could be done better figures prominently.
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by 11ren 18y ago
I tend to think that ideas are a dime a dozen, and actually doing it is what makes the difference - Boyer-Moore is one of the few counter-examples. But if you also had the idea... could it be that you're unusually smart? The details of Boye
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by 11ren 18y ago
Boyer-Moore string searching is a good example of a simple but non-obvious "idea" (search backwards; it's much faster). http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/best-ideas/string-searc...
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by 11ren 18y ago
Similar to your gun example, the first seven claims of Morse's telegraph patent were upheld, because they claimed his specific invention; but the eighth was struck out, because it tried to claim the general idea of transmitting information
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by 11ren 18y ago
> compensate all the people who made possible the compilers, algorithms, programming courses, books, hardware, and so forth that put them in a position to have their brainstorm ... eventually everyone will own parts of our communal know
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by 11ren 18y ago
It's bigger than an eee PC, the defining product of the "netbook" category eee PC: 8.9 × 6.5 Vaio P: 11 x 7.9
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by 11ren 18y ago
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
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by 11ren 18y ago
> it's like a drug I think criticizing is enticing because it gives a feeling of superiority, without the hard work and risk of mistakes... and risk of criticism. Even more insidiously drug-like is that habitual criticizing makes one mo
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by 11ren 18y ago
eee netbook is about 1 kg, this is 635 grams; and it has a built-in cell phone. http://www.obsessable.com/laptop/sony-vaio-p/specs/ Not sure on the price-point, but I think there's a market need for netbooks in the direction of these spec
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CES 2009: 3D video gaming to become a reality next month(tgdaily.com)
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by 11ren 18y ago
"Technical success needs technical skills; business success needs business skills."
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by 11ren 18y ago
# You don't want to be Tesla. He was one of the greatest inventors, but it's a sad, sad story. He couldn't commercialise anything, he could barely fund his own research. You'd want to be more like Edison. If you invent so
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by 11ren 18y ago
Try tweaking down the trailing edge of the wing and/or the trailing horizontal edge of the tail, to counter it. Mine was diving, and tweaking these surfaces upwards made a dramatic difference. He talks about this after the instructions: ht
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Great Depression Inventions (including Xerography)(images.businessweek.com)
1 points by 11ren 18y ago|0 comments
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by 11ren 18y ago
Now there's an opportunity for a startup search engine.
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A Better Way to Load a Plane(abcnews.go.com)
78 points by 11ren 18y ago|58 comments
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by 11ren 18y ago
The idea that human intelligence isn't so much a fundamentally new thing, but a mix of existing things, appeals to me. I see two features: (1) that we can intercept senses, so a car, bike or horse (or spear, axe or hammer), is neurologicall
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by 11ren 18y ago
It would seem embarrassing to write up in a paper; but excellent filler (and justified) in a thesis. The thesis goes online, google indexes it; now it's available as lit.
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by 11ren 18y ago
Some university libraries have a public terminal or two (mine does), which has access to all the electronic journals they are subscribed to (ACM, IEEE, JSTOR, Springerlink etc). They don't advertise this; you have to ask.

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