SlyShy

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Odd man out(cplusplus.co.il)
1 points by SlyShy 16y ago|0 comments
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Considering how much of a mess HTML5 adoption is, I'd be extremely surprised if RDF or anything similar is "eventually" merged into the browser. Maybe for an extremely distant "eventually".
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by SlyShy 17y ago
I'm not going to be comfortable until Facebook's motto becomes "Don't be evil". ;)
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Denmark is an interesting case study of this working very well to encourage a competitive economy. In Denmark it is extremely easy to fire people, but also very easy to hire people. This actually decreases unemployment, because companies ca
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Regular drive. Which made me queasy the first time I dropped it, after being used to the touchy hard drives in previous computers.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
OT: I wish some people would add a left-margin to their texts.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
I program and write exclusively on my Aspire these days. Keyboard: I have small fingers, and I actually type faster on the netbook keyboard. The key distances are smaller, so I'm moving my fingers les. Screen: I use a small font (Code Envy
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by SlyShy 17y ago
In reality, most teachers accept late work from students they like. Still, I suppose the example was specifically for economics professors. ;)
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Obviously I wasn't clear enough in what I was referring to. Their blog page (not the site root, but the blog root) isn't following the setup they advise. http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog That's understandable, because it's not as if
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Declared by Searchenginepeople.com, which, I might note, does have a home page. ;)
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by SlyShy 17y ago
General principle: short sentences convey speed, long and meandering sentences will give the reader a sense of drawn out time. A pitfall many writers fall into is over describing their action scenes, which makes them seem oddly sluggish and
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by SlyShy 17y ago
I write quite a bit, and my start-up project is aimed at writers. Writing is a lot of fun, if only to serve as a break from programming. Although I would argue they are rather similar activities, particularly once you get to refactoring. Na
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Introducing BrB, extremely fast interface for doing distributed ruby(tricksonrails.com)
2 points by SlyShy 17y ago|0 comments
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Maybe, if Apple weren't collecting a commission on app sales. The brilliant thing is, whatever app hits the price point that maximizes profit * quantity, Apple collects the commission. Apple doesn't have that much motivation to artificially
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by SlyShy 17y ago
http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog,+aapl Google has a higher profit margin, it should be noted. So yeah, Apple has issued more stock, and by stock prices it is more "valuable". I'd still rather own Google than Apple, if I were given a c
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by SlyShy 17y ago
It has already looked like that for me for a few months now. Don't see what the big deal is.
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Campaign contributions and voting positions(ismycongressmanbought.com)
14 points by SlyShy 17y ago|6 comments
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Sometimes I like to form my own conclusions.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Solve for x: sqrt(2x + 1) = sqrt(x) + 1 2x + 1 = x + 2sqrt(x) + 1 x = 2sqrt(x) x^2 = 4x x^2 - 4x = 0 x(x - 4) = 0 x = 0 or 4
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Math major here: I think actually he is arguing for a cure to the apathy. The reason people are apathetic about mathematics is it is presented like a dry and idiotic subject. A common complaint about word problems is "this is contrived, w
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Great table layouts. I was hoping for a large summarizing table at the end, however, because it was hard to directly compare two tables without a lot of scrolling.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Yup. The types of sites that run on the Deck (design, culture, etc.) find the cleanliness a plus anyway. Another thing to consider is the people reading those sites aren't your "everyday surfer" and probably completely tune out Adsense and
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Six months ago (keep in mind the rate for an ad placement was lower back then) I heard a figure of $4,000 a month for a Deck Network publisher. Which is a lot better than I've heard of a similar Google Ads setup doing (it's about enough spa
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by SlyShy 17y ago
They don't publish statistics, but at their rates ($7,900 a day, sheesh) I find it hard to believe they'd have repeat customers if it didn't work. The list of companies advertising includes a lot I've seen every single month since the netwo
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Yes, but with my Facebook friends I have taken a decidedly different tack. That is, friends don't let friends play Farmville. My friends don't play Farmville because my friends don't play Farmville. If someone where to, they would be ridicu
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by SlyShy 17y ago
As stated, it really is the defacto image used in image processing communities. Much like the Utah Teapot ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot ), which you might recognize from using 3DSMax or similar software.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Precisely why targeted advertising networks like The DECK are working.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
No, actually, that's part of what makes this question interesting to me. The situation I envision is a machine that can be programmed to produce some set of "morality" as it were. Who gets to decide what the moral system is, and who it is a
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by SlyShy 17y ago
I'll give you props for the clever answer that circumvents the question. ;)
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by SlyShy 17y ago
This doesn't surprise me, but it does have worrying ethical implications. What if there were a machine to make everyone moral? Would it be immoral to use it? Or would be immoral not to? Edit with expansion of scenario, so it is clearer wh

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