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by 6ren 13y ago
Scary fact: everything you "know" is based on convincing storytelling. Perhaps reading Gladwell is a good way to be reminded of this, that all knowledge is tentative, subject to revision. (If yours isn't, you're dogma
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by 6ren 13y ago
I far prefer self-checkout. You can take coins, notes, and receipt separately (note have them all forced into your hand, to be awkwardly separated later). Paying by card would avoid this, but prefer to stay in touch with my expenditures.
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by 6ren 13y ago
Mr Market overreacts to bad news, and when a value investor buys. Agreed, there's insufficient data for meaningful statistics, but his main points were amour-plating, firewalls and that batteries are less fire-prone than "highly
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by 6ren 13y ago
"It thinks it's just so smart."
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by 6ren 13y ago
I see nothing wrong with releasing an utterly bare-bones version, like the schema one he mentions, i.e. a MVP. Then, you polish over time. Even SO wasn't a SO clone at launch. (Of course, if someone promised a complete clone, that&#x27
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by 6ren 13y ago
A breakthrough API can also come through finding a simpler representation/model for some subset of the problem space.
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by 6ren 13y ago
Next: cut out the dentist
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by 6ren 13y ago
Well, they compile to Lua and then use a JIT on the device. Using JS for hardware is an audacious, repulsive, brilliant, horrifying idea - maybe people don't want to call it web assembly language , but it's certainly web lingua
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by 6ren 13y ago
That's the problem with irony, it can be difficult to be sure, unless you have out-of-band info about the speaker. As in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law I wasn't being sarcastic. I was agreeing with
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by 6ren 13y ago
> The OP says it is easy to take Thoreau out of context, because he is so quotable, yet continues to do this very thing! This was also a joke, which was very clear to me from reading it (I wasn't there). I thought it was hilarious h
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by 6ren 13y ago
On the topic of brand, I always read "tarsnap" as "tarsnip" - like a parsnip. I think I get the name (unix `tar` plus a snapshot or securely locked in). It's not lack of familiarity - I've known about it for ye
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by 6ren 13y ago
contest -> publicity
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by 6ren 13y ago
Those people can come across as creepy at times, and learn to soften it.
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by 6ren 13y ago
All is not lost! If you try their sample question, with quotes, it only turns up 4 results - with the article on top. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=“Which+is+better+for+me+—... But it seems inevitable that as google ta
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by 6ren 13y ago
Like VR, touchscreens have not good enough latency . Because many components and their architecture contribute to latency (touch-CPU-RAM-app-OS-GPU-display), an integrated approach better improves it. NB: For Christensen, "not good en
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by 6ren 13y ago
Me too. I'm assuming google cache will be safer: webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache: http://paulyoung.tv/jade-inheritance
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by 6ren 13y ago
An intuitive way to sense latency is to drag you finger and see how far behind the cursor trails. Research showed that people can perceive even quite low latency: http://www.techspot.com/news/47784-advances-in-touch-scr
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by 6ren 13y ago
Thank you! A contrast with academia is a good way to look at it. Also, one might say Bricklin et al did get the academic reward of being recognized as first; but that ethically, whoever helps people most deserves the greater reward (throu
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by 6ren 13y ago
If I invented the spreadsheet today, of course I would file for a patent. I can't help feeling bad for VisiCalc, getting killed by Lotus 123, and they in turn by Excel. Similar to Apple (almost) getting killed by the PC (they
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by 6ren 13y ago
But with a brainless iPad, you don't get the keyboard, mouse and upright display, which was the point... Anyway, maybe you're right about the cost saving. A SoC is pretty cheap. A clearer argument is that the guts of desktops&#x2F
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by 6ren 13y ago
your computer at home has everything waiting for you just the way it was at work. Though not your phone (if you need to work at other times/places). Historically, we've cycled between distributed and centralized computing.
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by 6ren 13y ago
Sorry, I don't understand. Cringely's idea is not a brainless iPad, more like a brainless laptop/desktop When laptops came out, many people docked them at home/work to a full keyboard and monitor. Why have two (or three)
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by 6ren 13y ago
1. of course phones will replace desktops, it's been coming for ages. If your phone is powerful enough, why buy a desktop too? 2. in general, phones are "overshooting" what is needed in a phone: 1080p, 469ppi, quad-core, 2GB
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by 6ren 13y ago
NB: unrelated to TogetherJ
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by 6ren 13y ago
The problem is we don't do similar things over and over again. Each new unsolved problem is precisely that, a new unsolved problem. And if tasks are similar, and they can be made mechanical (or at least, commonalities can be
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by 6ren 13y ago
javac is itself written in java, so you can write a little program that does that in a loop, waiting for some trigger. I actually just had it in a shell, waiting for you to hit return, which also called my code after compilation. An unexpec
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by 6ren 13y ago
Fantastic for sharing, though the startup time improvement is minor (e.g. I saw 17% improvement). BTW: that SO comment references a pdf that shows how to include your own classes, on pages 61-62 http://www.oracle.com/technet
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by 6ren 13y ago
Just a quick thought: the help I got on EE was different from SO, so maybe there's a niche for EE. Let me describe the help: I'd been stuck, and pretty much given up. A friend wondered if there was someone I could ask - but it was
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by 6ren 13y ago
In general, I always felt a bit nervous about money being involved - additional importance, security issues, etc. A certain seriousness, a complication distracting from the actual technical issue. But specifically, I couldn't log back
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by 6ren 13y ago
When experts exchange first launched, it seemed like a clever concept to me, in the abstract; a way to get paid for your expertise (although you couldn't buy anything with it except answers to other questions). And they take a wee perc

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