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by Lewisham 16y ago
The reason Jenkins nee Hudson was moving to GitHub in the first place was that Java.net was fundamentally broken; long outages, SVN was clearly not the right way for a project like Hudson to be run (commits came from all plugin authors, so
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Bandwidth, servers and staff. Storage is most certainly not their problem; the English language Wikipedia is only about 5TBs of text. That's cheap.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
...and this is why almost all academics put their papers as PDFs for free on their web sites. Have you even looked? It is times like this when I wish there was an appropriate emoticon to express an eye roll.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
From what I've seen, I wouldn't say CS is immune to this at all. CS seems to only be accepting papers that illustrate some big win. In my short PhD career, I've an article in the drawer where the result was inconclusive. This result, in and
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by Lewisham 16y ago
It's not necessarily any worse than if the developer simply doesn't care enough to test it/update it. It might be better to use minVersion, then have plugins that use deprecated functions disabled.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
You mean aside from the press-and-hold on the Home button?
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by Lewisham 16y ago
If I'm reading this right, this means that the fix for the problem in 2.2 was supposed to come in 2.3, but maybe will now come in 2.4. Except that, going with how Android upgrades have gone so far, most users on 2.2 will never see 2.3. Why
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I just got an Android with that great Virgin Mobile deal, and I was surprised at just how much the Back button is used in almost all contexts. It's severely overloaded: want to get out of an on-screen keyboard? Back. Want to move back a scr
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by Lewisham 16y ago
That's the rub. Google's trick was created by a bunch of CS grad students at Stanford, and annihilated Yahoo! (who had a very similar trick) in less than a decade. One of Google's biggest competitors was started by an undergrad in his doom
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I think one of the mistakes this article makes is believing that people know what they want upfront. We all know that people are very poor judges of what could and couldn't be useful to them before you actually give it to them. OpenID shoul
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I think this article perhaps focuses a little bit too much on the negatives :) I'm an Englishman living in California, and I don't really plan to leave here. I like it here. I like the people, I like the weather, and I like the way things g
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by Lewisham 16y ago
The UI for Honeycomb, as displayed, would not work on phones. I get the impression that Honeycomb isn't going to be coming to phones. Why Google is doing this is anyone's guess. Things that are deeply important, like graphics acceleration,
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by Lewisham 16y ago
My wife doesn't trust automated debit systems. "If they take too much of your money, then what do you do?!" I pay everything by CC, but she writes a lot of checks. She's not what I would call a luddite, she just doesn't trust other people w
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by Lewisham 16y ago
This question comes from incompetence, not malice, but why $6m? It seems like a lot of money for what I thought was a fairly small operation. Does $6m just not go that far, or is it supposed to last for a long time?
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by Lewisham 16y ago
The thing that popped into my head while reading the piece is that sparing one star developer might be pretty cheap; how about putting him on a Skunkworks rewrite for 6 months and see how it goes? If it's looking good, give him whatever res
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by Lewisham 16y ago
It is and it isn't. ACM provides a clause which lets you upload pre-print versions of your work. In Computer Science, where its almost guaranteed the academic did the typesetting anyway, the pre-print and the actual camera-ready version is
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Google Scholar is really good at showing you a free PDF link if there is one, usually from Citeseer, but also from .edu sites. If you host under your own domain, like me, you are unfortunately left out. I am not sure how to get round this y
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I have an API for the World of Warcraft Armory which almost certainly broke after they updated when Cataclysm was released. It's not brilliant code (particular shame for the testing, or lack thereof) but it should be fairly readable and doe
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by Lewisham 16y ago
My intuition has always been that the rates are higher in otherwise "happy" countries because the people at risk feel far more isolated from the rest of the populace.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
A mail system that doesn’t have a Bcc function doesn’t belong in the 21st Century. This reminds me of a comment that we almost always get on HN when Facebook comes up, and its almost always right: it's not for you. If you want Bcc, it's n
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by Lewisham 16y ago
The author thinks that it was just "PR and faffery", while discounting the actual value of PR and faffery. Never discount these things. MySpace was practically built on it.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Cheques/checks are more common in the US as there is no national system like Direct Debit. Bills can be paid by card, but sometimes you are penalized for that due to the processing fees. The government always requires cash or check. I had t
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by Lewisham 16y ago
...but why? Free checking/current accounts are par de course. You can use any cash machine/ATM you want. You can actually speak to a bank manager. One of things things I miss in the US from the UK was a banking system that wasn't entirely s
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by Lewisham 16y ago
HSBC is headquartered in London, not China, and takes your money in the native currency (USD/GBP/AUD etc), not in yuan.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
No no, they've had feature patches on top of the UI they've already got. If you take my original first-gen iPod Touch and compare it to iOS 4, the differences are largely hardware, plus multitasking. I would like a rethink of the icon grid,
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I really hope this year is the year iOS also gets a refresh too. Apple has really let it stagnate and let their hardware do the talking. Windows Phone 7, I think, is a much prettier interface. Android has some killer features, like Navigati
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I know anecdotes aren't data but I doubt she's unique in this regard. Yes, my experience is the same. Don't discount the power of free minutes for calling inside your network. If all your friends and family are on Verizon, not only do you
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by Lewisham 16y ago
They are abstract in the sense that it is not immediately clear what makes them go up or down. Does the presence of a sports team make students feel more school pride, increasing student performance? How much does commute times factor in? W
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Non-academic diversity should never be "rightfully ignored". Universities are a wonderful tapestry of people, and students benefit by being exposed to students from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. My undergrad university in the UK
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by Lewisham 16y ago
That's the nature of the game; loss on the razors (consoles), profit on the blades (game licenses). Microsoft ate a huge amount of cash to push Sony into a game they thought Sony wouldn't win: they invested heavily in the Xbox being a softw

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