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by 6ren 14y ago
> However, eventually you’ll reach a stopping point where you can’t explain. That’s the precise gap in your understanding that you need to fill. This is a useful technique, giving motivation and focus. Though imperfect: it can't detec
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by 6ren 14y ago
Do you think these bugs could be fixed in parallel? i.e. Apple is rich, just throw more devs at it? Or are there interactions, so that adding more developers would make it later?
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by 6ren 14y ago
When new legislation is interpreted, the starting point is previous legislation and case law - sometimes going back hundreds of years. Law is an old man's game.
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by 6ren 14y ago
Christensen (disruption guy) notes that one of several barriers to large companies leading with a disruptive technology is that they don't get excited by small wins. Disruptive technologies start small. He suggests they spin out a little co
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by 6ren 14y ago
I have a free account on github, but I must be a terrible customer, because starting from my account, it took about 8 clicks to find the pricing information. I ended up having to go through the FAQ, and one question happened to link to the
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by 6ren 14y ago
You are right that the components used in phones/tablets could (will) become cheaper due to scale. But the effect will be the same as when laptops drove 3.5" drives - desktops started using those components. It's the same as when workstatio
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by 6ren 14y ago
Exactly. I've tried selecting text on an iPad, and it's not easy. Maybe you can perfect rolling your finger to do it, with practice, but it's not as intuitive as a mouse for precise selection . Fingers are too big. Actually, just having cu
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by 6ren 14y ago
That's single core (not quad) and 1GHz (not 1.3GHz). But $87.99 is a great price if that's fast enough.
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JSON versus XML: Not as Simple as You Think(metajack.im)
10 points by 6ren 14y ago|2 comments
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JSON Sucks (for complex format evolution)(nocarrier.co.uk)
2 points by 6ren 14y ago|1 comments
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by 6ren 14y ago
life imitating mathematics imitating life
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by 6ren 14y ago
Patents act as a tariff against imports. So, if the US abolished patents, imports of products using US inventions could compete on an equal footing (perhaps winning, because of cheaper labour costs; perhaps not). For example, Foxconn could
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by 6ren 14y ago
If it was "absolutely clear", there'd be no need to test.
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by 6ren 14y ago
$ ping 10.010.0x10 PING 10.010.0x10 (10.8.0.16) 56(84) bytes of data.
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by 6ren 14y ago
SO aims at definitive factual technical answers. That's impossible for this question. I think SO should have a sister "discussion" site, and just move these interesting questions across instead of closing them.
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by 6ren 14y ago
> OnLive's assignment came less than two months after Sony bought rival streaming game company Gaikai for some $380 million. I heard about OnLive all the time, but never Gaikai. Was it big in Japan perhaps? According to jeffool, it seem
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by 6ren 14y ago
But that way of saying wasn't usually diplomatic. The whole thing sounds cheerfully implausible to me.
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by 6ren 14y ago
Wow: open door to unlock. I can see some problems (e.g. you want to check it's locked; someone breaks in while you are standing near-enough to the car), but this seems a powerful approach. Google search is an e.g.: almost no UI, improves ov
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by 6ren 14y ago
[please refute, not just downvote] Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done (maybe it should be done, but for some other reason). I'm suggesting that barriers to modifying systems have had an accidental benefit of
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by 6ren 14y ago
Link formatting suggestion: I found the sentences broken by line breaks for links difficult to read (and it discouraged me from starting, because it looked like jumbled nonsense when I skimmed). Instead of a separate paragraph, just puttin
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There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes...(turing.org.uk)
1 points by 6ren 14y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 14y ago
> most languages don't seem to have a simple library for parsing data This is what lex and yacc (etc) are for, but they aren't quite simple. Arguably, XML has largely replaced these for "parsing data", since DTDs and XML Schema are CFG
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by 6ren 14y ago
My intuition is that a branching story is exponentially more complex than a linear story. However, there might be devices that make it manageable. I understand the form of the novel took a while to be established, so why not this too. An
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by 6ren 14y ago
I feel it too. His statements are so nice and logical, the truth becomes secondary. That's one talented advocate. Let's instead condemn reality for lacking truth and beauty.
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by 6ren 14y ago
> ... a problem domain you don't fully understand and don't have time to understand. One resolution is to create products that address problems. Then, you can justify time in understanding and improving, because it's amortised
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by 6ren 14y ago
Thanks - I thought Engelbart was at PARC, incorrectly. Well, I'm happy for there to be stages of commercialization, just as there are stages of invention (and not always a clear demarcation), people improving what went before is the way. I
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by 6ren 14y ago
Yes, it's better than quad-core for that reason. Also smaller, lighter, uses less battery etc. We already have faster PCs; the achievement is doing so within the other constraints. Yes, marketing is their greatest strength, but "marketing"
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by 6ren 14y ago
I hesitate to contribute to a troll thread, but Apple is a commercialiser of technology. That involves both marketing and engineering - it's not creating a new vision, but realizing a vision. For example, with the iPhone 5, they doubled
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by 6ren 14y ago
He's also misinterpreted. The incredulity was about 3 things: "achievements, DLC, and even Steam Workshop support." When the focus is on an opinion, rather than facts, the result is often rudeness and inaccuracy. Those two often appear tog
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by 6ren 14y ago
his answers http://slashdot.org/~SteveWoz

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