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by SiVal 8y ago
Well now you've gotten me all bothered, too. And if I do manage to find the street name but can't quite read it because the font is too small, I zoom in and the road expands but the font doesn't. No matter how I zoom or pan,
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by SiVal 8y ago
To obtain some market-based grounding in reality, I'd rather the universities be required to collect their fee as a fixed percentage of the students' incomes for a fixed number of years after graduation. Poor students wouldn'
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by SiVal 8y ago
Apple won't allow any browser engine except Safari to be installed on any iOS device. And I'm not aware of any movement toward basing Electron on Safari. Unless one of those changes, you can count iOS out with no need to discuss t
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by SiVal 8y ago
It's working out great for them. Not as great for me, but that's not their problem. I'll be exploring other options.
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by SiVal 8y ago
They don't care much about web browsing and care far less about word processing. They are making appliances as interfaces to services, with as many of the services as possible being ways to buy things from Apple. I'm not saying th
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by SiVal 8y ago
Not just "publishing" software but even writing private software for your own, and your friends' & families', devices is something we can't take for granted. For personal and (private) family use, I gave up on t
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by SiVal 8y ago
I think the way to think about all of these Apple products is through the lens of what I believe their long-term strategy to be. Apple wants to onboard people into the new Apple ecosystem, which is iToys and backend services. They believe
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by SiVal 8y ago
I thought of this, too, but what I decided I wanted was a book that wrote the simplest working version of some useful thing (basic HTTP server, JPEG codec, basic CRUD web app, etc.), explained it clearly, then gradually "hardened"
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by SiVal 8y ago
The code isn't available outside the building unless someone takes it outside, which they make clear is not only a fireable offense but might qualify as criminal. They made it quite clear: If you're in crunch mode, don't be
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by SiVal 8y ago
That's amazing. Contrast that to my friend who works on code at Apple that's so guarded that he can't even access it from Apple HQ. He has to travel to his office in an unmarked Apple bldg several miles from HQ (in an unmarke
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by SiVal 8y ago
Bigger tech companies not only do not host important private source code on Github but won't even host on outsourced physical servers. Where I've worked (incl. well-known names), information that we wanted spread to the world coul
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by SiVal 8y ago
Apple Hype Theory requires the irreducible Apple quantum of hype at any event be spread across whatever announcements are being made at that event. It's Apple's modus operandi , and I don't mind it, because I can compensate.
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by SiVal 8y ago
Topping my wishlist would be for Apple to not have to put every product in the same "fashion bauble" category and consider pro, workhorse computers to be a different type of thing with different criteria. Both the Mac Pro and the
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by SiVal 8y ago
I think I've seen what you're talking about, but only on rare occasions. I would open a PDF in Preview and it would be strangely blurry. I would be wondering about the document itself when, as I investigated, I would do something
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by SiVal 8y ago
It is surprising to me to think that no human being born after the 1930s ever walked on another world.
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by SiVal 8y ago
My wife and I did that, sandwiching our little guy between us, but we put a down comforter over ourselves so his fat little arms would go flumpf in the down as he verified our presence. That allowed us to replace ourselves with big pillow
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by SiVal 8y ago
Yes, I'm quite sure that what is happening is that a particular solution wasn't working well, so they're discontinuing it and continuing with the general search for better solutions. I'm confident they're still work
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by SiVal 8y ago
Very similar in some ways. There are a vast number of interconnected details that have the potential to be wrong and far fewer automated ways to catch any errors. Your "users" inevitably catch a lot of them at "runtime".
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by SiVal 8y ago
I'm confused. (I literally mean it, I'm not advocating anything). If the urchins were dying off, I can understand why that would devastate the urchin divers, but why would a boom in urchins put them out of business? Why aren'
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by SiVal 8y ago
I'm working on the design of a system right now that is intended to be commercial if we can bootstrap it with profits. I had already decided to find an alternative to Google Maps because of the risk of getting technologically locked in
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by SiVal 8y ago
Years ago I noticed that when I used meditation techniques to quiet my mind, it made me sleepy. It's possible that it was just revealing a bit of underlying sleepiness that was usually masked by busy activity. So, I started using it wh
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by SiVal 8y ago
Where did you find "duplicate and increment"?
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by SiVal 9y ago
Why do you say its "best" usecase is for the server? I'm actually asking, not disputing, but I'm asking because it seems the big selling point of WASM, running new types of code that you couldn't run before, was nev
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by SiVal 9y ago
I don't know what "Internet stereotype" is supposed to imply, but you won't live in Japan long before some Japanese friend takes you aside and warns you about the phenomenon of tatemae vs. honne , a Japanese person&#x
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by SiVal 9y ago
I'm not downvoting, but I'll speculate why others might. You express skepticism that this really is a significant problem. Okay. Which you back up with arguments that the problem is: longstanding (has been a "feature"
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by SiVal 9y ago
Yes, exactly. All selection policies (hiring, admissions, contracting, etc.) that say that choosing the best needs to result in proportional representation or it is cheating (not really choosing the best but choosing the "privileged&qu
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by SiVal 9y ago
I've always loved 2001 since I saw it as a kid on opening night. I was just a little guy, but I couldn't get enough space stuff, so my dad took me to 2001. He and I were both so excited about the experience it gave us of our futur
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by SiVal 9y ago
Are all of these non-data science courses from the same source? From different sources? Where are they?
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by SiVal 9y ago
As I said, Windows lets you put a new folder (as well as various types of new documents) in any part of the tree that you right-click, while Mac's cmd-opt-n is limited to the root of the folder you're looking at. And having to sep
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by SiVal 9y ago
I'm far more of a Mac user, but I use Windows, too, and I agree that the Finder is quite inferior to Win Explorer. The simplest, most obvious things, such as having 2 side-by-side trees for file organization, or right-click on anything

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