ColinDabritz

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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
The demo form does seem to handle backspacing and pasting correctly. I do know a LOT of places where this gets missed, and a typo goes to the next field, but reflexive backspace correction also fails.
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
On a brief look, it appears that all of these choices (Including Amazon's new one) only support Android devices and not iOS? I believe Xamarin Test Cloud includes iOS, although I'm not certain if it integrates outside of the Xamar
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Interesting, do you have a citation for this one? It reminds me of the "carrots help you see better" myth that began as WWII propaganda [1] as a cover for radar and has been very persistent since. [1] http://www.washing
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
To clarify, the NuPRL project is like this in what way? They discuss cs topics and algorithms but no source code exists? or it exists but they don't provide it? Or (unlikely) they provide source code no one can compile? I don't wa
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
That may be true, but one of the key ideals in science is that the findings are reproduceable. If I can't reproduce it, it's helpful for the science to be fairly specific, in case the findings depended on details that were thought
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I definitely like this approach in my own code. I think the main advantage of a different approach such as enums is enforcing the explicitness at the call site for all users, especially in library functions. Another thing to consider: In so
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I think perhaps a better phrasing is 'write simpler code', code that expresses what it needs to as directly as possible, without unnecessary complexity. This code does tend toward smaller more compact expression, but you're c
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I found the picture at the top to be a funny reflection of the problems of layout. The bird (I believe that's a cassowary as on the book cover) in a spacesuit is an interesting juxtaposition artistically, but the helmet face plate won&
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
What a wonderfully informative article. I really appreciated all the specific scenarios and cases.
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
It might be interesting to have a gate on publishing images that explicitly runs tests for major known vulnerabilities. You could at minimum flag images as "known vulnerable", or reject publishing attempts. The flag might make sen
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I think it's possible that some form of 'digital literacy' might make sense for all to learn in school, although I'm skeptical of our (US) school system's ability to execute it well. I'm a software engineer, an
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Soon to be, it looks like: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theplanetarysociety/lig... They are well along, this is a test flight for some of the systems I believe. The Kickstarer is for the rest of the fundin
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
In the general case, we can't of course, as Turing proved. How we untangle special cases and categories of algorithms around this is part of the wonder of mathematics for me.
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that strong AI isn't possible, I believe it is very possible. I was reacting strongly to the headline specifically, as it was invoking a "magic computers" image that I dislike. I only meant
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Apologies, I didn't mean to make that implication. I was referring to the history of the original computability paper. There was an era in math where we believed it may be possible to determine the rest of mathematics via algorithm, th
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
The article is delightful, but regarding the title "Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math?" No. Math is about human understanding, elegance and beauty. Computers may be useful tools, and perhaps they will be of even greater as
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
It's impressive the chaos that one second can cause. I think in terms of hard problems, to naming and cache invalidation, I would add time or human notions thereof. Or perhaps time is a case of the first two intersecting...
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
It helped me to think of it this way: Alice is guessing that their coins are different (one possibility) and Bob is guessing that their coins are the same (the other possibility), so from either direction they are covered.
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Interesting. You can, of course, work with actual executables in that environment too. Can you highlight some of the areas where it causes different behaviors or other design issues?
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
This is a specific critique about the usability of the Unix shell, and I think most of this is still valid. The inside jokes (less is more) and overloaded meanings of command names is still an issue today, for example. Some of the visibilit
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Thank you for sharing your perspective. I'm not sure that I agree. This is more than just some people estimating off the cuff, there are many studies in the US, and more instances and evidence world wide. Fortunately it's an exper
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I don't see it. $100k per person costs drop to $20k per person costs, they should want to scale this as fast as they can. They may have had to invest a little up front, or redistribute some of the costs back to where the funding came f
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I don't think the metric 'any code that decreases agility as the project matures' is quite the same thing. I think most code lowers agility, as it is increasing complexity and the number of interactions and entanglements acro
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
It would be neat if you could have it know nothing, and learn from you over a series of games.
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
These were interesting to me: 16. Take better care of your customers -- Apple support is pretty good, especially if you can get to a store 26. If you sell it, make it -- Their supply chain integration and control is impressive today 38. Mak
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
PPA = Personal Package Archive As someone who is unfamiliar with this term, can someone please summarize what it means? What makes it appealing? Thank you in advance.
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
The comic itself does contain violence, so from that perspective I don't think it's an unreasonable choice for a filter to label it 'Violence', and that's my guess as to why it was filtered. Having the category of &
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Not quite. PCIe is just the bus transport protocol. The PCIe SSDs still need a protocol to describe data operations to and from the OS to the Drive. Currently, they use the same protocols as those designed for HDDs, and those protocols make
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
I think you're right! It's difficult to communicate tone and other 'out of band' stuff through text. This is what Wikipedia's "Assume good faith" guideline is to addresses. http://en.wikipedia.o
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
"all models are wrong but some are useful" - George E. P. Box http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_E._P._Box I'm not certain if volume was lost or gained, but it looked possible at some points. Some of th

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