InnocentB

9 ms·

31.
by InnocentB 15y ago
This is basically Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, distilled to five paragraphs. Very nice.
32.
by InnocentB 15y ago
I get a 403 from that link too...I've actually never seen that from Coral before, anyone know what's going on?
33.
by InnocentB 15y ago
Jay Walsh's estimate for the number of articles under protection is quite a bit off. I count 7631 right now, not 1500 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ProtectedP... ). His count is pretty close to the number of full
34.
by InnocentB 15y ago
However, Igor's statement does hold true for (some) hashes that are at least as long as the maximum file size :P
35.
by InnocentB 15y ago
"Zero bugs" and "zero known bugs" are two different matters entirely :)
36.
by InnocentB 15y ago
Donald Norman (of The Design of Everyday Things fame) talks about the various strategies for this in his newest book, Living With Complexity. It's an interesting problem because it turns out enough people follow the antisocial strategy of
37.
by InnocentB 15y ago
I wouldn't call either of those an example of a successful freemium business model. A free, ad-supported business model, perhaps.
38.
by InnocentB 15y ago
There was actually an interesting study about this which got mentioned recently on the Freakonomics podcast (you can see a transcription of the segment at http://freakonomicsradio.com/does-college-still-matter-and-o... , the original study
39.
by InnocentB 15y ago
At that point, you may as well stay in a 700-suite hotel for your $100.
40.
by InnocentB 15y ago
Gasoline prices aren't a good indicator of cost of living. They are a factor to be sure, but their prices are too overwhelmed by political policy (ie gasoline taxes) compared with other expenses, which introduces too much noise into the da
41.
by InnocentB 15y ago
WA has good data on cost of living in the US, but I don't think it has comparable data for Canada. For example, if you take out a few of your terms there you'll see that for Toronto it's using the US national average, which is way off. If
42.
by InnocentB 16y ago
I've never seen any reference saying the Rothschilds or the Rockefellers ever had more than a few hundred billion in today's dollars. Compare to the US federal budget, which is over 3 trillion per year.
43.
by InnocentB 16y ago
You have to bear in mind that the Canadian graph is measuring kilbots per second, which is a far scarier metric :)
44.
by InnocentB 16y ago
Basically, this article is saying that through piracy, you get more exposure for your app, and if your app has any social features in it, the network effects can outweigh any potential lost sales through piracy. I think a more effective way
45.
by InnocentB 16y ago
Especially in Emacs: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/textmod...
46.
by InnocentB 16y ago
This is unrelated, but how did Google manage to produce such awful URLs? Is this just a base-26 encoded GUID? If so, they could've saved a few characters: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0xED11C880FA5611DDA6040... Not that this is
47.
by InnocentB 16y ago
I get requests when an application wants to make use of my location in iOS. Android has permissions requests beyond this, but I'm fairly confident iOS has at least the one.
48.
by InnocentB 16y ago
A look at https://github.com/languages yields some interesting results. I see VimL there at #10. Is this all just people backing up their personal vim configs, or is there actually anything interesting happening in VimL (seems unlikely)
49.
by InnocentB 16y ago
I'm not familiar with the Maps API, but the site does it for you: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38... (from searching Texas)
50.
by InnocentB 16y ago
I think the parent is indicating that selling you a ticket is the expectation, and that Virgin went above and beyond that baseline.
51.
by InnocentB 16y ago
I think you're confusing the whole "there was no year 0, so the millenium starts in 2001" business with decades. Decades start on the 0. If you were to say "the 200th decade CE", that'd be a different story :)
52.
by InnocentB 16y ago
My understanding from the Wikipedia article you linked is that you just had to have the string SEGA in a specific spot on your ROM, and that the logo was in fact part of the Genesis III BIOS. A four-character string and an image are pretty
53.
by InnocentB 16y ago
It being a library, refactoring often means that the interfaces are now different. Refactoring should mean your functionality doesn't change, but having interfaces change is normal (and expected). Given that the author isn't modifying the
54.
by InnocentB 17y ago
"Swede" is a term from the movie Be Kind Rewind. It refers to homemade remakes of movies.
55.
by InnocentB 17y ago
The problem isn't with getting some individuals to act on this. The problem is getting society as a whole to do so. This is a general problem with trying to incite a boycott of something that has very widespread usage: the dent you can ma
56.
by InnocentB 17y ago
Is this what you were talking about? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45375 - TITLE text is truncated. Resolved in 3.0, but was outstanding for many years. The bug comments are worth reading (some of them are from the XKCD an