Herring

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1. 721.▲
   by Herring 15y ago

   1) Nothing succeeds like success. It settles a lot of arguments in people's minds, and Microsoft's mobile strategy is not succeeding. 2) Microsoft's users are likely more change-averse than Apple's. 3) Over the years, Microsoft has cultivat
2. 722.▲
   by Herring 15y ago

   The abstract says the rats ran the same distance, so the voluntary exercisers spent less time. That could be the important variable.
3. 723.▲
   by Herring 15y ago

   >I also really want to emphasize that my time at Facebook was incredible [...] I'm sure you're telling the truth, but the fact that you feel you should mention it speaks volumes about Facebook & the reputations we cultivate.
4. 724.▲
   by Herring 15y ago

   Unimportant. The patent problem needs to be solved Right Now, and it's worth risking a long term complication.
5. 725.▲
   by Herring 15y ago

   >living in the past Yeah and so is everyone on XP, and there are a lot of them worldwide.
6. 726.▲
   by Herring 15y ago

   This is why I love gmail filters. Opt-in spam is terribly easy to filter out.
7. 727.▲
   by Herring 15y ago

   Apple has spent decades working on its reputation. Success today depends more on what you were doing 5, 10 years ago.
8. 728.▲
   by Herring 15y ago

   > I was also lectured by some senior professors that "I should change my assignments from year to year". (Thanks for the suggestion, buddy, this is exactly how I detected the cheaters.) what? how can there be cheaters to detect if the
9. 729.▲
   by Herring 16y ago

   I see. It looks like an effective method. Though I'd argue the problem isn't quite that he's not receptive. Maybe emphasize that feedback sometimes has to be done, even if it looks wrong to him.
10. 730.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    Out of curiosity, how did you take care of the attitude problem?
11. 731.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    That doesn't scale.
12. 732.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    The extension https everywhere auto-encrypts wikipedia https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
13. 733.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    Good luck. The media (and people in general) are horrible when it comes to technical things and scary invisible things. Nuclear is both.
14. 734.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    MITM is a type of eavesdropper.
15. 735.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    Spoken like a true geek. Normal people don't want to know that such things even exist. Let machines with radiation detectors track them down in the dumpsters.
16. 736.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    I recently started on "starting strength" & I'm seeing that exact same linear progression. It's really awesome.
17. 737.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    Apple's misquote was probably more truthful than the actual quote.
18. 738.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    >We don’t yet know how the revolutions will work out... The only thing we can be reasonably sure of is they probably won't work out, given the track record. Public institutions take a long long time to build.
19. 739.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    Here's a quick intro for beginners who may not be ready for the full book. http://www.how-to-meditate.org/breathing-meditations.htm/
20. 740.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    I find it easier on my eyes, but YMMV. http://imgur.com/jPXrT
21. 741.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    Landmark AI event, and you guys are worrying about buzzer speed. *sigh
22. 742.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    If the free linuxes can do it, im sure MS can handle it. It's not much of a hassle to add an extra menu item. I think the real problem is unlocking & GPLv3. MS was never GPL friendly either.
23. 743.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    I was being charitable. Not all opinions are created equal.
24. 744.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    I really hope it's other trolls modding up these pro-censorship posts.
25. 745.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    It's almost like there's more than one person with an opinion on foreign policy in America!
26. 746.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    those millions of users are all searching on platforms where 99%+ of the work was already done by the site's own engineers. Cmon, this isn't rocket science.
27. 747.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    > As it should, the ranking would be effected by the click activity that users perform on the most popular websites. Effectively I'd have crowd sourced my ranking. Not exactly. Those sites work hard to present relevant links to the cro
28. 748.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    > never mind that Bing only used its toolbar as a url discovery device, not to 'copy search results' Yeah, they just happened to discover high quality urls on google. What are the chances?
29. 749.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    You cant make excuses for a lack of evidence. Like if you're caught copying someone's homework, you can't say "but nobody can prove he didn't also copy from me earlier". It's ultimately irrelevant; you can't conclude anything out of ignoran
30. 750.▲
    by Herring 16y ago

    Well MS now knows how to perform this sting, so I'm sure we'll hear if their results show up on google. Until then, you have zero evidence.