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James Fallows on the vulnerabilities of the cloud after wife's Gmail is hacked(theatlantic.com)
27 points by Thrymr 15y ago|19 comments
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by Thrymr 15y ago
PLoS is a non-profit: http://www.plos.org/about/what-is-plos/
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by Thrymr 15y ago
I think it would be very, very hard. You would need to provide something that existing for-profits don't do (open access), while also competing with non-profits that have the same goal. The problem is that scientists who care about open ac
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by Thrymr 15y ago
I'm not an expert, either, and I don't know of much precedent for interviews like this with an individual author being publicly released (say, on the web, rather than in a university archive), but private archival materials are used by hist
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by Thrymr 15y ago
His Einstein biography was great, but very heavy on his personal life and professional interactions, while weak on the science. "Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein" by Abraham Pais is much better on his science
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by Thrymr 15y ago
I would expect he is under no legal obligation. But he ought feel a professional obligation to history that others may be able to use the recordings/transcripts to draw their own conclusions. He is a biographer, after all; he never got to
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Northern Lights visible as far south as Kentucky and Missouri tonight(spaceweather.com)
2 points by Thrymr 15y ago|0 comments
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CGPM approves possible changes to the SI, including redefinition of the kilogram(bipm.org)
2 points by Thrymr 15y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 15y ago
This line is great: "profit in a business is like gas in a car. You don't want to run out of gas, but neither do you want to think that your road trip is a tour of gas stations."
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Homemade computer calculates pi to 10 trillion digits(npr.org)
20 points by Thrymr 15y ago|10 comments
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by Thrymr 15y ago
What's replacing Matlab is not octave, but Python/Numpy.
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Cool, but news? Article is from 2002.
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Or configure a different interface for yourself, e.g. gnome or xfce. I can't stand Unity either, but I just don't use it. It would have been nice if the default interface was more usable by power users/developers, but I can see why they m
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by Thrymr 15y ago
In this case, what's really needed is high-level labor (organization, and maybe programming), and not low-level labor (typing in the damn references by hand). I guess it's easier to get volunteers to do the latter, and the "high-level" vol
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by Thrymr 15y ago
As the article points out, Wikipedia really needs lots of its information in standard forms. Lots of things are done manually that ought to be able to be automated. I think the citation one is huge. Even the same article often has a "No
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by Thrymr 15y ago
From my reading of the results, efficacy is only 35-55%. Does that seem low? Or is that good at this stage of a trial?
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by Thrymr 15y ago
The Python equivalent is, of course, Hyde ( http://hyde.github.com ).
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Hilary Mason Says Twitter’s URL Wrapping Won’t Have Any Effect On Bit.ly(betabeat.com)
1 points by Thrymr 15y ago|1 comments
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by Thrymr 15y ago
I understand the difference between pragmatism and dreaming. In the short term, that pragmatism should include web devs not trying to lay everything out pixel-perfect so it breaks if the user hits "zoom". The diversity of screen sizes and
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Display PostScript - circa 1987 (thanks, Steve Jobs). I know there isn't a good current alternative in the web world, but shouldn't it be a goal to not have to specify pixels anymore? Obviously mobile browsers already largely ignore/change
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Can we get over specifying text size by pixels already? You don't know what DPI monitor I will have when I look at your pages.
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Also, apostrophe misuse, but that one is usually survivable.
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Lots of AT&T 3GS owners just out of contract, though. They'll probably go for the 4S. And Apple gets to save the iPhone 5 for another big announcement in 6 months.
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by Thrymr 15y ago
It seems to me all the resistance from people who don't like Python's meaningful indentation is from people who haven't coded in Python. It seemed weird to me at first, too, but really, it takes about an hour of actually using code to thin
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Real programmers use grep.
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by Thrymr 15y ago
I have to admit that I don't understand this whole "find a technical co-founder" thing. This isn't like just hiring an employee, you have to be full partners and both "all in" on the project. If you don't already have a relationship befor
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by Thrymr 15y ago
"as an R&D software developer, I probably had to worry about complexity maybe about 0.1% of my time." Yes, but does it scale? If you deal with 10x, or 100x, or 1000x the data, that % will grow. Fast.
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Maybe. But it is terribly easy in a high level language to use a built-in function that is O(N) and put in in a loop, and now you're at O(N^2). Maybe it works in reasonable time for N=10,000. Maybe you test it on small data sets to see t
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by Thrymr 15y ago
And my profile pic seems to have defaulted to a drawing of a badger? How is that a useful default?
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Overzealous and yet incompetent. Yahoo mail became unusable to me due to spam very quickly (I have a 4-letter Yahoo handle), and I'm not sure it's much better now (I don't look at my account there often). Whereas Gmail blocked spam pretty

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