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by SiVal 13y ago
This sort of thing is alive and well in US schools, too. The official policy of the Seattle Public School system is to stamp out racism in all its forms, and notice how many forms there are. (Note in particular the Cultural Racism section t
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by SiVal 13y ago
Since iOS6 and iOS7 have different looks and feels, it is apparent that rigidly adhering to the one true native look and feel isn't mandatory. I'll bet HTML5 can get closer to either iOS version than they are to each other and so
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by SiVal 13y ago
This is very true, but what most employers want is programmers, not computer scientists. In the same way people used to have to buy the whole album full of songs to get the one song they really wanted, employers are often forced to buy CS g
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by SiVal 13y ago
Yes, I've used multiscreen setups before and always wanted more. I always have multiple apps running, which means that I have to flip from one to the other if I can't just turn my head. If it's paperwork, I tend to spread it
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by SiVal 13y ago
Honest question, does 4K and up really make sense for private use? It's a good question, but my answer is definitely, Yes. My ideal work station would be a room with a wall-sized 8K touch-screen monitor covering the wall in front of
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by SiVal 13y ago
This is true, and we often forget it. But since they knew the answer after the Las Vegas building, the risk that this might happen should have been obvious.
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by SiVal 13y ago
The Wizard of Oz keeps a big machine turning, but that machine isn't really running the kingdom, despite all that smoke and noise and imperial pomp. The imperial palace is merely the largest and possibly least productive participant. T
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by SiVal 13y ago
More accurate to say "governments are more innovative than corporations." Nonsense. If that were true, then government wouldn't contract so much of their "innovation" out to corporations. I used to work for a corp
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by SiVal 13y ago
What nonsense. In a free market economy, you vote every time you voluntarily accept an offer. Not voting for a corporation, a vote that costs you your own money, is a vote against it, because corporations die by default. If ever people stop
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by SiVal 13y ago
Yes, this is a "map of America's racial distribution ". Calling it a "map of America's racial segregation " means someone is pushing a political agenda. Calling it a map of racial integration would be just as
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by SiVal 13y ago
I was referring to the examples in the comment I was replying to, not making them up myself. I like your examples much more (and upvoted you for them), but yours are what I had in mind with my original comment. Microsoft was able to create
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by SiVal 13y ago
I'm speechless. Well, almost. Apple revolutionized the music industry, how music is sold, and how it's listened to. It revolutionized phones. Its iPad changed consumer computing, media consumption, user interface expectations....
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by SiVal 13y ago
Microsoft's approach was different: let others innovate, then we'll dominate. Others would come up with new stuff, and Microsoft would "embrace and extend" whatever got traction in the market by adding it to their near-m
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by SiVal 13y ago
I can't see them all, even at 80% zoom, on a rMBP using Firefox with three rows of browser tabs. There are too many ways for this component to fail.
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by SiVal 13y ago
Because they, like many other countries, have created an arms race. The perceived status rank of each university with its fixed number of slots and the behavior of employers, who give applicants jobs with pay and prestige corresponding to t
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by SiVal 13y ago
Many years ago Safeway, a commonly seen grocery store in the US, started using a Safeway Card to gather data on its customers. Shoppers get lower prices if they use it, so I filled out my paper form. Some non-English speaking data entry cle
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by SiVal 13y ago
Yes, and imagine the impact this has on "foreigners who work in China" such as Tibetans in Lhasa.
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by SiVal 13y ago
If you alias rm for some users, you'll train them to think that rm has an undelete feature: bad idea. Experienced *nix users often work from an ordinary user account and turn to "sudo" only for special cases so they don'
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by SiVal 13y ago
As an American working in the UK, I was surprised to discover how often Brits and other Europeans assumed that genuine friendliness was "fake friendliness". Their own attitudes toward others were assumed to be universal, so any si
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by SiVal 13y ago
The elite and ultra-rich commit theft and fraud on a scale that would bankrupt entire countries... Replace the first word, "the", with "some", and I'm with you. It's undeniably true. And "some" elit
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by SiVal 13y ago
I can't help noticing that the article lacked a study of the sort where they parked an open convertible with a MacBook in the back seat in several high-class neighborhoods and in several federal housing projects and measured mean time
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by SiVal 13y ago
Maybe it's simpler than all this. Maybe it's just a front for organized crime. The front of a mob operation won't seem to make much financial sense if looked at too closely, because what's really going on isn't in t
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by SiVal 13y ago
I remember when the Stanford Bookstore was the largest bookstore in the US west of the Mississippi by number of titles. It had a tremendous technical section, and all Silicon Valley engineers shopped there and at a few smaller technical boo
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by SiVal 13y ago
I would say that the difference is that the Web is almost entirely about I/O, which Haskell treats as an unfortunate aspect of programming that is to be made as unpleasant as possible so it will be avoided except where unavoidable. The
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by SiVal 13y ago
That same species is just now invading Silicon Valley: http://belmont-ca.patch.com/groups/editors-picks/p/deadly-as...
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by SiVal 13y ago
WARNING: Watch out for laptops. Since they are so portable, people don't tend to do the careful ergonomic adjustments they often do with immovable desktops. You can end up regularly using a laptop for long periods in dangerous postures
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by SiVal 13y ago
I like these articles, because I like learning from other people's real-world experiences with various tools. He spent years using C++ at Google, yet decided not to use it for his own business even though he, presumably, wasn't on
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by SiVal 13y ago
Well, here at Stanford they put Indians and Japanese in different categories, but that's hardly the point. These groupings represent political categorization based on racial categorization. I had thought the tongue-in-cheek nature of m
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by SiVal 13y ago
Many people don't believe in climate change for the same reason many don't believe in the findings of cigarette companies' scientists or drug company scientists or Department of Agriculture scientists: they don't trust t

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