Perceval

64 ms·

571.
by Perceval 17y ago
Firefox 3.6 (currently in Beta 4) opens tabs with the same ordering that Chrome does. You can try it out: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6b4/releasenotes/
572.
by Perceval 17y ago
Or the software can just ignore people that vote both up or both down. The more interesting and 'telling' votes are those who agree but vote down, or disagree but vote up. Of course, it would behoove pg not to tell the secret, otherwise p
573.
by Perceval 17y ago
4chan users are not trolls. They're griefers and sociopaths. Like you said, trolls are generally part of a community, or make an attempt to get a rise out of people through détournement, not through outright antagonism. Over at kuro5hin.o
574.
by Perceval 17y ago
Thanks for the comprehensive answer! You've mentioned several mechanisms: acidity, drought, insects, and presumably more. This raises two comparative questions in my mind. First, changes in acidity, droughts, and insect infestations are ce
575.
by Perceval 17y ago
My concern about the tree-ring data is that, on face, it seems like tautological reasoning. Please correct me if I'm misrepresenting what's going on. The tree ring data, after a certain point in history, is no longer a reliable indicator o
576.
by Perceval 17y ago
Until they develop a really good note-taking / annotation system, I think academics are going to remain buyers of printed books for a long time. I think a well-done annotation system could be a big value-add for e-books, if those annotatio
577.
by Perceval 17y ago
I have to say, I fear the day when people who prefer print books are looked upon like the vinyl snobs of the music world.
578.
The Real Problem With the Climate Science Emails(business.theatlantic.com)
40 points by Perceval 17y ago|69 comments
579.
by Perceval 17y ago
>Judging from the current state of the App Store, the review process doesn't materially improve the quality of applications. It's hard to know that for certain. We don't see exactly what gets rejected. We only hear the horror stories
580.
by Perceval 17y ago
Is the solution to avoid hiring education majors for education jobs, preferring instead people with degrees relevant to the subject? One aspect of academia and academic training is that it is not built primarily to produce teachers, but i
581.
by Perceval 17y ago
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
582.
by Perceval 17y ago
I wonder how comparable this agreement will be to the one signed between Microsoft and Apple that ended their legal battles over "look and feel." They signed patent cross-licensing agreements about five years later. But the agreement came
583.
by Perceval 17y ago
You're probably talking about Second Story Books & Antiques at 20th & P St. http://www.secondstorybooks.com/
584.
by Perceval 17y ago
I don't think he moved as far away from it as you believe. Marx's particular approach to the labor theory of value is key to his philosophical ideas about exploitation and alienation. And subsequent Marxists placed a great deal of emphasi
585.
by Perceval 17y ago
A whole article on graphic design without any mention of the Futurists? For shame!
586.
by Perceval 17y ago
Here's a good site for looking at the Dow priced in gold: http://home.earthlink.net/~intelligentbear/com-dow-au.htm
587.
by Perceval 17y ago
Karl Marx took the 'labor theory of value' argument from David Ricardo, who had taken it from Adam Smith, who had taken it from John Locke among others. Alfred Marshall's 'marginalism' completely displaced the labor theory, insofar as the l
588.
by Perceval 17y ago
Here's an excellent article detailing how the government over the past 40 years or so has been changing the measurements of our basic economic indicators: http://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/0082023
589.
by Perceval 17y ago
I was an amateur web developer back when I was hand-coding my proto-blog in Notepad back in '99. Ah, those were the days of Netscape 4 and IE 4 & 5. Pretty much gave it up when my blogging withered away in '04. So I bowed out before
590.
by Perceval 17y ago
It comes from two places: 1) Experience; and, 2) Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy , in which he lays out the theory of creative destruction and entrepreneurs.
591.
by Perceval 17y ago
I agree. There is certainly far less hassle going between Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.5 than there is between IE6 and IE7 or IE8. That said, this is not really the substance of the article or the article's headline. The headline and the co
592.
by Perceval 17y ago
I think his decision may be related to his favorite economic indicator: freight transportation. In an interview with ABC, Buffet said that the Freight Transportation Service Index was one of his top indicators of how the economy was doing:
593.
by Perceval 17y ago
This is an unfair comparison. No single version of Firefox has greater marketshare than any single version of Internet Explorer. If you take all version of Firefox together, yes they do beat the oldest version of Internet Explorer still i
594.
by Perceval 17y ago
Mozilla was working on an updated Javascript engine before Chrome was announced (actually, accidentally leaked via comic book). Chrome certainly lit a fire under Firefox and Safari to release their updated Javascript engines, but their imp
595.
by Perceval 17y ago
Having separate indexes and separate searches for sub-domains of knowledge is an interesting idea. The original idea of PageRank was that each link constituted a 'vote' for a page. Perhaps different epistemic communities on the internet u
596.
by Perceval 17y ago
Google News has an archive search that is useful for that type of query. http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=2002+house+vote+socia...
597.
by Perceval 17y ago
While I'm certain that the software works, it's obvious that it can only work to a limited extent. It has probably been fed a seed sample of past hits from which a set of general inferences have been inductively extrapolated. It then appl
598.
by Perceval 17y ago
That's the point of his article. He says open source works because you 'release early, release often' to a group of insiders, not the public. Hence why we have multiple release channels: trunk nightlies, branch nightlies, closed betas, pu
599.
by Perceval 17y ago
Like most other social phenomena, the distribution of internet traffic has converged into a power law distribution. The author hints at it, but doesn't really underline the key driver of this change: serving vast amounts of flash and video
600.
by Perceval 17y ago
>Perhaps, instead of a free-net, what's needed is a for-a-nominal-charge-net? We had those. They were called things like Compuserve and Prodigy. And they didn't do well, as you recall. The problem with spamming is that it is very pr

More ›