StrawberryFrog

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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> That's also not a problem you need to be a bank to solve. Mint and others are already doing a lot of innovation by pulling existing transaction data Allowing 3rd parties access to your transaction history is a good idea?
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Others come to mind: Ravel's Bolero has a "huge build" at least in some versions: http://labs.echonest.com/loud/?songId=SOKNXIQ13134384E1B Metallica's To Live Is to Die actually has quite a quick build http://labs.echonest.com/loud/?art
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Fun fact (possibly irrelevant, probably even true) an early example of that pattern is the river Thames that flows through London. It used to be pronounced like it's written, starting with a "Th". Then King George I took the throne in 1714
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
A while loop isn't in itself an iterator. There's a difference between while(collection.Count > 0) { collection.Delete(0); } .. which is a working implementation of clear, though probably superfluous. and... int i = 0
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
The devil is in the details, specifically in working out the probability of loss. The whole point is to know that a bit better than the other guy. See also: putting your trust in AAA rated mortgage-backed securities.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
If Microsoft is all-in on JavaScript on the web and desktop, I guess that Google will have a very hard time convincing them to switch to Dart instead.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
For me too. The black on dark brown does not make for good readability. Design - not impeccable after all.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I agree, source is better. But. Flash isn't served as source, is it? And JS is often minified/obfuscated. Sure you can run that through a tool to get back the source (sans comments and long variable names) but you can do just that with MSIL
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
To be pedantic, it wouldn't be "application/csharp". By the time it's compiled to MSIL bytecode it doesn't matter if it was C#, VB, F# or whatever. "application/MSIL" is what I'd say. I can imagine it, and I guess my browsers already have t
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
The article is specifically about generics in Java. I don't know Java generics, just the c# ones, so it's hard for me to say if the author is right about generics in java only or just wrong in general. Either way, a pointless article for
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
"The Grouper algorithm mines your friend graph, ... and then sets you up with someone of the opposite sex whom you're not Facebook friends with" ... That is the ex that I don't want to see.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
It's not an either/or thing. It's not good for Mr Avitable to repost his home address. And OKCupid's security and abuse processes are lacking.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Feynman only taught physics. Sal Khan teaches maths, astrophysics, economics, history, etc etc... The potential for misinformation from someone who is teaching a subject that they are not an expert in, and have just "understood it quickly"
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
My question has always been - will Khan Academy lose relevance outside Sal Khan? He can't be an expert in everything. In order to scale, I'd expect that he'd have to be able to pick people who are great teachers and also domain experts.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Buyer's remorse.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> Vista (IMHO) had a rotten core ... I think W7 is arguably the best OS Microsoft has released You are overly negative on Vista and overly positive in Win7. I think you fell for the hype. The differences between them are minor.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
From TFA: "You know when you used to have no choice but to use Windows XP ... Well, you must remember, then, how annoying it was to have the same bugs and weird glitches happen over and over again;" Nope .. I must have used a different Xp.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
DOB + name is unique in most cases. Which is why I deliberately give an incorrect DOB on most websites that want one.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> Generally, people may be offended as they pass by but there's no real harm done Which reminds me of another quip: "you do not have the right to never be offended." e.g if the street-corner preachers don't offend you, the atheist billb
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> As for the second, I can't for the life of me figure out what it would mean If I understand right, it's better phrased as "you do not have the right to have everything you say heard." E.g. Making a website about the God Thor: OK, sayi
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
If that caught on, the next logical step would be for more counterfeit gold coins to come into circulation. Do these businessmen have the energy to try to detect fraud in two kinds of currency? Especially as gold coin fraud doesn't have the
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
The original statement was "A real currency is widely accepted, gold is not". The following question was "Where is gold not accepted?" My reply of "At the supermarket" is, I think, a succinct and correct response about the basic difference
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Gold is not accepted at my local supermarket, and probably not yours either. They take cash or card, but not gold. You have to convert it into currency first. You can do this in any country if you know where to go, but you get the point - i
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I mean "current" as in today, not historical. I didn't call it a currency, I said it was valuable. I agree that gold is entirely useless - you can't eat it, and it is unhandy; however the gold price today says that for all practical purpose
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Good point. However, would you say that Dostoyevsky has tension and pacing? I raise him because Lem does, and to my mind, Lem reads more like Dostoyevsky than like Stephen King. How about Dickens or Victor Hugo? I admit that I don't know e
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> the monetary value is merely historical In theory, yes. However, the all-time high price that one can get for gold today is actual and current.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
It's harder to tell how good an author's writing is when it's in translation. The Cyberiad's writing was absolutely fantastic IMHO. But I can't say if the Polish original was that good. Lem's longer, more serious novels don't sparkle like t
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
That's near the heavy end.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Do you want to start at the heavy end or the light end? Solaris is heavy. The Cyberiad ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad ) is light.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Main takeaway points: 1) The iPad is disruptive. Interesting evidence for that from HP, but the point is not surprising. 2) In order to be very successful, do something "disruptive, mind blowing, magical" (which the author hasn't thought of

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