FaceKicker

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by FaceKicker 14y ago
I guess, in the same sense that the implementation of any local binary executable is "all there" because you could theoretically figure out what all the machine code does. (But granted, I'm sure that reverse-engineering obfuscated JS is ge
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
I'm not sure you read past the first paragraph ... the author is on your side; Netflix isn't.
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Right, you can get more out of the assignments if you try, but to me the purpose of assignments (versus passive learning - lectures, reading, etc.) is to force your brain to synthesize rather than just comprehend. The ideal assignment,
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
From the headline: 33 Percent Of Google Users Will Use Bing More After ‘Bing It On’ Challenge From the article: 33% said they would use Bing more often after taking the Challenge Two very different statements IMO - how many of those 33% are
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
> My one complaint is that the programming assignments weren't interesting at all. The results were interesting, but the setups were mostly given to us, and we just had to code an algorithm that was in our notes. For someone who underst
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Regardless of the effectiveness of spam filters (unless they are literally perfect - 100% precision and 100% recall), doing something like the "Building with Javascript" method seems strictly better than doing nothing based on the linked st
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Right, it only lets you view up to 30 days at a time. I want to see it all at once, and I wouldn't even mind if it's just a messy pile of incomprehensible lines. Something like this fog of war idea would be even better, though.
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
This is neat, I wish Google Latitude had it. For that matter, I wish Google Latitude had any useful visual representation of the 2+ years' worth of location data I've been feeding it. =|
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Seems exactly wrong to me - Google uses its free customers as beta testers, whereas its paying customers (Google Apps users) don't get to see the products until a year later.
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
If you're defining "free market" that strictly, then I don't see how your original post has any relevance. Shortages might not exist under your definition of "free market", but if that's the case then we clearly don't have a free market an
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
I've had way too many experiences driving in a city when I've just needed to run inside somewhere for 2 minutes and really wished someone was in the car with me to drive around while I'm inside rather than spending 20 minutes to find a park
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
I think the point is that Spotify is so convenient that you essentially own any music on it, especially if you have premium, potentially making it pointless to buy the album for many customers. Prior to Spotify and similar services, if you
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Is it possible that there's in some sense a unique "global optimum" of UI and/or aesthetic design (as opposed to just a bunch of equally good but very different designs), at least as far as is possible under the constraints of available tec
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
> free food Am I being dumb or are you saying Facebook pays for their employees' groceries if they choose to work from home instead of working at the office and eating at the free cafe(s) there? I'm impressed if so (even though it proba
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
I think I understand the reasoning behind open floor plans, but what's the point of having everyone in a single mega-room? It's not like the two people in opposite corners of the hangar will be able to communicate seamlessly just because t
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Assuming the article is completely accurate, the doctor's phrasing and mannerisms (e.g., shaking his head, emphasizing not only that the child is in the bottom 1% but that 99% are better than him, "seemingly perplexed"), don't seem consiste
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
> "You know cognitively, he's functioning at the bottom 1 percent of children his age," [our neuropsychologist] said. [...] "That means 99 percent of children are doing better than he is." [...] He waited, seemingly perplexed. "Having s
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
He may have thought so because the phrase "income inequality" is usually used in the context of describing it negatively (in the US at least). I guarantee you that the phrase "income inequality" is used by Democrats in the Senate/House 10x
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
There is recent work along these lines for birds specifically, e.g., [1]. It's not anywhere near human accuracy and I think it's only a couple hundred species but it does kind of work. [1] http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~farrell/birdlets/i
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
I think I may have been slightly exaggerating about trading 5K a year in income for free full service laundry, but I was mostly serious :)
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
It really doesn't need to cost that much though. I wouldn't be surprised if every state in the US has a public school that costs less than a quarter of that. (and obviously college is much cheaper in every other country). To clarify, I w
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
> "And in addition to your salary, we're also giving you a roll of quarters every month in case you need to pay tolls, do laundry at one of those barbaric laundromats not in the Googleplex, or play arcade games." ... is it just me or wo
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Not that this is a particularly insightful point, but I keep wondering, why does it never come up in these discussions that college is FUN? Regardless of its financial value or lack thereof, it really is an experience like no other.
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
And isn't it also possible they gave Starbucks a special deal considering the marketability and value of a deal like this?
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Right. Did I say something contradicting that? Google could have decided not to offer application-specific passwords at all, but from any individual user's perspective, that's exactly equivalent to just not using them. At least having ap
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
The app-specific passwords are a feature and if you prefer the extra security over being able to use apps that don't support 2-factor, then you can choose not to use them, and get the full security benefits of 2-factor. It's just that, sho
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
To be honest I was mostly using the comments section for this link as a soapbox, I realize the idea isn't too relevant to this particular case with Dropbox, as no passwords are known to have been revealed. Sorry. Though, I do think it woul
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
I wish websites with user accounts would offer the option to "login via email" - as in you'd type in your username (or preferably your email) and maybe a captcha and then you'd login by clicking a link it sends via email afterwards. Ideall
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
> There's no way for LaunchServices to know, a priori, whether a given executable file's default app is going to perform a safe editing operation, or execute its contents. But in that sense an executable file isn't any different from a
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
> Kind of an odd article, the writer spends the first part of it trying to come up with compliments, which usually fail. Personally I thought that part was hilarious. I'm not sure whether it was true or not (due to how naive it made th

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