Jkeg

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by Jkeg 16y ago
If you're serious, then your idea of rating people according to some measure and denying people who score low is outrageous. Why would you so blatantly misrepresent what someone said? All CWuestefeld said is that if you don't know that m
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by Jkeg 16y ago
I've moved on from Opera. It took them forever to implement basic usability features such as text box spell-check, and inline password remember/find in page. They also removed great features such as one click bookmarking. Their widgets used
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by Jkeg 16y ago
And the back button doesn't even work.
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by Jkeg 16y ago
>The main playback controls apply to the content in the main window. First of all, that's wrong. You are able to stop a track in the iTunes store, so you can control media items from other areas of the program while browsing. You ju
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by Jkeg 16y ago
>Of course not. That's how iTunes already works, and iTunes is already consistent. What's consistent about arbitrarily removing 'pause' functionality when not necessary? That is not consistent, and it's poor usability. > However, th
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by Jkeg 16y ago
>You are forgetting these iTunes use cases: None of those are contradictory to the idea of control consistency throughout iTunes, why would they be? In fact, deliberately selecting something and choosing specifically what to do with it
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by Jkeg 16y ago
The way they work is exactly the problem. Considering there's a lot you can do in iTunes, it makes more sense to have the control buttons apply to items independent of where you're browsing, as for example, Windows Media Player. The current
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by Jkeg 16y ago
> Right, because there's nothing to play. There's nothing there to play because "pause" irrationally became "stop" for no apparent reason (remember there's no playlist in sight), and the user accidentally pressed it. There's no reason f
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by Jkeg 16y ago
Well yes. Microsoft is often said to have problems with teams competing internally (pointlessly), or just not working together. However, that's a management choice that can come from the top. If there's one thing a "Chief Software Architect
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by Jkeg 16y ago
1. You can't press play again, it's just faded out. 2. What other playlist? I'm in the iTunes store. I haven't given any indication that I want to or even could specify another playlist to play. 2. That's exactly how it should work anyway.
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by Jkeg 16y ago
My favorite iTunes feature insanity: When you listen to a song in the "Music" section of iTunes, you have a "pause" button; when you are listening and browsing iTunes store, the "pause" button inexplicably and detrimentally becomes "stop",
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by Jkeg 16y ago
Sure, most of those plants can be cheaper to buy than grow, if you treat your garden shop clerk as a used car salesman and let him connive you into buying every unnecessary over marketed garden gadget in the shop. But really, most plants wi
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by Jkeg 16y ago
Because everyone understands Assembly?
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by Jkeg 16y ago
This is a motivational article. And a good one with great specific tips on how to optimize your workload. But obviously wrong in that natural talent has little to no effect on skill. But of course you have to say that in a motivational "wor
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by Jkeg 16y ago
The same reason why people use facebook and don't just email their friends/family anymore. Having it all organized and separated from other activities is a huge benefit. I don't think too many people actually worry (or even know it's an iss
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by Jkeg 16y ago
In truth I think a service like this is more about not having your family and colleagues being able to easily snoop in on your private life, not about giving you iron clad privacy. Or any level of social separation that you want which Faceb
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by Jkeg 16y ago
So these people think they are better predictors of the future than all the people who failed, even though they probably never made a serious prediction themselves? They believe something is never going to happen just because it hasn't happ
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by Jkeg 16y ago
It's definitely intellectually lazy. But dismissing something because it was also made into a bunch of films? Utterly failing to think for yourself and just reacting via knee-jerk because it's past an arbitrary mental line of what's 'accept
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by Jkeg 16y ago
The majority of people, who when told of the singularity, automatically dismiss it offhand only because it has that Hollywood "scifi ridiculous" sound to it, seem a lot less sane to me than anyone on that list.
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by Jkeg 16y ago
Those are pretty timid explanations for how iTV will 'change everything'. Per network applications, instead of just say, one feature set for all networks? iAds to monetize content, meaning something like ads on Hulu, or, the internet? $99,
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by Jkeg 16y ago
It would have to be based on any interaction the receiver has with the email, including viewing the inbox. However, if we're already worried about that level of privacy, even that change would do no good since it would mean the sender would
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by Jkeg 16y ago
Unlimited undo to Gmail users until the E-mail is open would make sense too.
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by Jkeg 16y ago
It is a reasonable assumption that the other genomes involved in human development are selected for as well, but don't drastically multiply the overall complexity of humans and especially not for the brain's design. Thus the issue is still
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by Jkeg 16y ago
True, but my guess is that the extra-genomic data, the preexisting cell, is a trivial amount, since it's always only interpreting the genome and is itself built on an interpretation of a genome. Selection pressure has no reason to store a h
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by Jkeg 16y ago
Selection pressure creates the complexity. Aside from what is selected for (the ~50MB of genome), where does the extra complexity come from? Why is it there? There's no reason why selection pressure would concentrate any complexity in the e
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by Jkeg 16y ago
The problem in this case is decision making: over-optimizing flight options even though the gain is outweighed by the time spent doing so. Should we really simplify everything because options might trigger someones OCD to optimize even if t
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by Jkeg 16y ago
The human brain does not need to store all the information in the environment in the genome to develop fully, so why should an AI need to? I expect an AI would include that data in the development of it's brain just as a human does, by bein
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by Jkeg 16y ago
"if you have two different kinds of machines, and you want to program each to compute the same result -- upper bounds on the program size on machine tell you nothing about the the upper bounds on the other machine." But the complexity of
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by Jkeg 16y ago
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyper- It's a prefix, to denote an unusually high amount of something. I'm guessing the reason why he wrote the article in the first place was because he wanted to share start-up tips that had an unusually hi