SiVal

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by SiVal 12y ago
Right about the editing tools. I'm hoping that security exploits such as this will cause governments and big corporations to start demanding safer document formats (especially for public or other widespread data interchange), which wil
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by SiVal 12y ago
1) I don't expect office workers to directly edit CSS any more than I expect them to directly edit the PPT file format. In both cases, they need GUI editors. PPT already has a good one; we need something similar for HTML5 presentations
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by SiVal 12y ago
All Amazon needs is something great that Apple and Google can't offer. For example, if I had an Amazon phone that paid for itself each month with, say, discounts on shopping, gas, restaurants, etc., I'd get it without hesitation.
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by SiVal 12y ago
This is yet another argument for using HTML5 as much as possible instead of proprietary formats for public document interchange of formats fancier than plain text. Although you might have to give up some fancier features, you can get a near
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by SiVal 12y ago
They're big enough to get some data by trying things.
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by SiVal 12y ago
I think you're right, but Apple does exactly that, so it's clearly possible to succeed that way. Whether it's possible for anyone but Apple to succeed that way is another question. I think it might be--say a Chinese company w
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by SiVal 12y ago
Maybe Google could open source it themselves. A lot of us didn't want to risk much on Firebase, because who knew what might happen to a small company. With the acquisition, we are now in the position of not wanting to risk a significan
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by SiVal 12y ago
If unequal access to home computers in the 1980s was the main cause of loss of interest in CS degrees, why is it that every improvement in access equality has been accompanied by more loss of interest in CS? I suspect that the article mig
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by SiVal 12y ago
Yeah, that statement I agree with. And no apology necessary (but +1 to you for it anyway), because it wasn't an issue of etiquette but of factual correctness. And not just "someone is wrong on the Internet." This one matters,
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by SiVal 12y ago
The surgeon made a comment about roughly 3% of people having side effects, but I'll have to say that I'm skeptical. The way he said it made me think he was just repeating a line he'd heard years ago and never questioned. Cert
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by SiVal 12y ago
I think the article and all the comments about how "medical science has proven that the gall bladder is nearly useless" are dangerous nonsense. I'm not claiming you should not remove a gallbladder when necessary, just that it
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by SiVal 12y ago
I was under the impression that Amazon was primarily a collection of services written mostly in Perl. Socket, do you know?
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by SiVal 12y ago
"only in the US and Canada, i.e. Anglo-Saxon colonies...." Unless I'm mistaken, you claim you are trying to make a point about North America, not the East Coast of North America, and you insist on referring to places such a
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by SiVal 12y ago
Yet you claim, "Today, only in the US and Canada, i.e. Anglo-Saxon colonies...." How could you not understand a point that you are restating? Today's US and Canada are obviously not just the "Anglo-Saxon colonies".
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by SiVal 12y ago
You claim that the US and Canada are synonymous with "Anglo-Saxon" colonies. How do you explain the place names in Silicon Valley: San Francisco, San Mateo, San Carlos, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Los Altos, San Jose...? How do you expl
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by SiVal 12y ago
I totally agree, and I think a combination of a vast increase in sequenced human DNA from all living human groups plus many dead ones plus ever-improving algorithms for determining the space-time layout of the taxonomy will tell us some ama
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by SiVal 12y ago
I'm usually willing to offer bad advice and uninformed opinions for free, so what is his competitive advantage?
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by SiVal 12y ago
"All the value judgments" you accuse me of apparently means a single word, "overeducated", which I used as a tongue-in-cheek synonym for "perhaps a little too sophisticated for their own good in this case". I t
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by SiVal 12y ago
Of course, I may be overlooking something, but this sure seems like a case of overeducated engineers overengineering a solution that then underserves users relative to a naive solution. Individualized closures to keep track of what each use
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by SiVal 12y ago
The API was just announced today. Maybe give him until tomorrow to reinvent Hacker News. ;-)
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by SiVal 12y ago
Good point, and how often are the blogs and podcasts overflowing with news about IBM and Fujitsu? I discovered long ago that there is a huge difference between generating news and generating the things companies are created to generate (mon
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by SiVal 12y ago
I'd like to see some statistics on this. I think you're right, by the way, but I hope you're wrong, and either way, I'd like to know the real answer.
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by SiVal 12y ago
+1. I think that's a wise observation.
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by SiVal 12y ago
That's good to know, because my complaint is the opposite of his, yet the solution is the same. I don't usually want to crash through it all in one weekend, though if that were the best timing, I might. My usual problem is that if
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by SiVal 12y ago
He was one of the architects of ObamaCare, and he thinks that people like you should have more of their decisions made for them by people like him. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/03/ezekiel_emanuel_.
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by SiVal 12y ago
PDFs look gorgeous on a hi-rez color screen; ebooks look dumbed-down. Compare a full-color calculus textbook or news magazine in PDF format vs. ebook format, and which would you rather have? The problem is that US letter paper or A4 are bot
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by SiVal 12y ago
I've owned every model of the Kindle (minus the comically large DX) Funny, I would buy something like the DX ("like", as in price and battery life) for reading PDFs of the textbooks, magazines, journal articles, and so on,
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by SiVal 12y ago
Apple could dramatically accelerate this process by switching their own new development from ObjC to Swift. The huge amount of legacy code means this couldn't happen overnight, but if Apple is obviously making the switch for their own
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by SiVal 12y ago
You misunderstand. As I wrote, "At that price, I'd risk carrying it with me all the time." At five times the price, I wouldn't, so it wouldn't suit the purpose I described. I am more willing to make some other compr
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by SiVal 12y ago
Give me a $199 eInk tablet optimized for reading PDFs, and I'd buy one. I would want a hi-rez 13" B&W screen on which PDF charts, diagrams, maps, B&W photos, etc. looked as good as on a 300dpi laser printed page and a batt

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