Herring

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by Herring 17y ago
If you somehow got Windows source code into your program, you couldn't distribute it without getting sued. If you liked FUD, you could say the Microsoft license (do not distribute without MS permission) has spread to your code. That's just
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by Herring 17y ago
A few days ago, one of the top threads was "Crime in America keeps going down, yet the American public refuses to believe it" It's very much a human thing, getting shocked about relatively small but vivid tragedies.
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by Herring 17y ago
Well there's nothing really special about the "next" part. It's just that you can't check the accuracy ("truth" is a dirty word, apparently) of your model against the data you used to construct it. It's why there's stuff like cross valida
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by Herring 17y ago
http://cache.techie-buzz.com/images/posts/Omkar%20Dutta/Post... I highly recommend it if you regularly have 10+ tabs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
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by Herring 17y ago
Doing it wrong. What the guy needs is tree style tabs & swift tabs.
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by Herring 17y ago
How do you guys do your note taking? I'm surprised there's so many people. I'll probably be getting an ipad so I'm curious if there's any iphone experiences.
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by Herring 17y ago
I think two, maybe three are within reach of a programmer - secure cyberspace, personal learning, & scientific discovery. Anyway some problems might have relatively easy solutions. I'm reminded of the mosquito-laser article on slashdot
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by Herring 17y ago
Tell that to the billions of religious people. I don't even know what I expected. Maybe something real, seeing as it was so high on HN.
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by Herring 17y ago
tldr: fiction. I closed the tab when he started talking about dinosaurs not having respect for other life.
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by Herring 17y ago
It takes 10 seconds to unfollow, or 1 second to turn off buzz. I'd say it's just a convenient default for the rest of us..
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by Herring 17y ago
Why didn't he just end the interview right there?...
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by Herring 17y ago
It's not an all or nothing proposition. Standards aren't perfect, yes, & browsers aren't perfect either, but there are degrees to it. For example at this rate it'll be a decade before IE supports html5 video.
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by Herring 17y ago
I don't disagree with the facts as stated. I'm just saying they would be relevant if webkit had 90% market share and somehow went back in time to fail acid3 and stopped releasing new versions and nobody forked it. Then you might be ab
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by Herring 17y ago
I realize TFA is a troll, but the problem wasn't just that it was one platform. As I understand it, IE6 was at one time better than other browsers. The problem was it was a de-facto standard, MS stopped innovating, & it became increasin
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by Herring 17y ago
It's quite possible to be biased and correct at the same time.
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by Herring 17y ago
Relax, guys. The general purpose computer is never going away.
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by Herring 17y ago
They're modding you down because they're perl advocates. :)
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by Herring 17y ago
Well chances are you weren't getting any perspectives from a Bo speaker anyway. Societies spend considerably more energy teaching the current lingua franca than in preserving dying languages, which leads me to think the value of a language
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by Herring 17y ago
Diversity in languages is more like diversity in open source licenses. The fewer the better. I like being able to exchange ideas with people.
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by Herring 17y ago
> programmers didn’t like web forums for submitting patches, and later proper mailing lists were setup. I've been curious about this for a while. Any particular reason? Forums to me seem 10x easier to read.
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by Herring 17y ago
>Will the iPad be better for this? I own a DX & I hate to say it, but yeah, probably. The page speed does hurt. You have to decide if it's more important than the e-ink screen. I personally wouldn't trade my DX, but I think many p
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by Herring 17y ago
you forgot "dead thread on HN"
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by Herring 17y ago
> The Daily Show, Castle, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother: Annoying workaround, but Air Video can stream from your desktop.
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by Herring 17y ago
So what? Microsoft can make & has made acquisitions too. It's not Google's fault that MS is bad at that too.
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by Herring 17y ago
You're generalizing from 1 (incompetent) example, & that's despite lots of counterexamples. Someone earlier mentioned Blackberry development. In theory yeah if you run your own code you can run bad code, but it should be up to Apple to
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by Herring 17y ago
As the author wrote it, he's also criticizing Windows, OSX, & anything that's not the iPad. See his finder example. Instead of focusing on people who want to run their own programs, he says they don't want to make easy OS'es. (it doesn'
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by Herring 17y ago
That's a very good strawman. Nobody's complaining because it's too simple. As far as I can tell they're complaining because it's not open.
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by Herring 17y ago
I'd be surprised if they weren't using them already in the UK under some classified program.
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by Herring 17y ago
So what do you think about his other 5000 words?
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by Herring 17y ago
>The court split 5 to 4 over the ruling, with its conservative members in the majority Can't say I'm surprised.

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