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by Triumvark 15y ago
This article correctly notes that those in the lead should play to conservatively extend their marginal advantage. The corollary, for those in behind, is that they should attempt more gambits. The principles of variance are strange. Sometim
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by Triumvark 15y ago
Ok, the OEMs offer such customizability that it hurts margins and offers a silly customer experience. But they might have chased this model for a more complex reason than "all these companies are idiots." Maybe OEMs found, with the ubiquity
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by Triumvark 15y ago
> Only Apple seems willing or able to put the consumer first. Ironically, the story began with a note on how Apple puts the UK consumer last.
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by Triumvark 15y ago
> since when did associating with types considered unflattering or considered dangerous make YOU guilty of the supposed crime they committed? RICO was passed in 1970.
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by Triumvark 15y ago
It's like Comodo and RSA are the security equivalent of 'too big to fail.'
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by Triumvark 15y ago
True. Cite: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI They plan FileReader and FileWriter though. Now I wonder: a) What is Moz leaving out? Why? b) Which of the other items from FileSystem does the Google team need, if any?
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by Triumvark 15y ago
> U.S. companies would not invest $70 billion (yes, that's the size of TV's ad market) in something they thought didn't work. Advertisers sell advertising first, products second. It's not implausible to think they are better at the one
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by Triumvark 15y ago
True, and shortcut key functionality (the commonly used good UI) is simultaneously expanded.
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by Triumvark 15y ago
Feynmann discusses this problem in one of his lectures on symmetry. He seemed to suggest that chirality of any physical system was relative, though you may have to down to the subatomic level to completely reverse everything. If I recall co
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by Triumvark 15y ago
After reading the problems, I expected we were looking for dynamically generated transit maps (excluding all lines/stops that aren't directly between you and your destination), coupled with a statistical curve of actual arrival times at eac
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by Triumvark 15y ago
> [Optimization is often beneficial.] Your point is indisputable. Fortunately, it's not inconsistent with my own: >> [Optimization is sometimes harmful.] Optimization pays the greatest dividends to tasks which: (1) could be brie
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by Triumvark 15y ago
> What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions. People like that are time sinks... If people really thought of those questions as time sinks, t
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by Triumvark 15y ago
> I've often done things iteratively and interactively that could probably have been done more efficiently if I'd taken the time to think out the correct incantation. Maybe not. Efficiency is a measure of the time it takes accomplish so
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by Triumvark 15y ago
Anyone could review extensions in Chrome's gallery and provide a seal of quality or recommended avoid list. With Chrome's model, competing groups with different priorities could recommend different sets of apps to use or avoid, just like co
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by Triumvark 15y ago
> A method shouldn't be patentable just because it's too boring for a human to perform a mindless computation over and over again. That's not the effect here, it doesn't ensure patentability. It's excluding the low hanging fruit of task
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by Triumvark 15y ago
We won't know til fall, but any guesses on pricing?
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by Triumvark 15y ago
Since some might exploit or squat on these, no one should get them? Following that logic, we wouldn't have any domain names at all. The prima facie argument seems 'pro' - it's a technical restriction that didn't turn out to be necessary or
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by Triumvark 15y ago
I wonder if Carmax has an API...
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by Triumvark 15y ago
This same thing comes up in eBay, Craigslist... Some court should declare that a headline is a real offer, and if someone calls to accept, then it's a binding contract.
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by Triumvark 15y ago
Common password crackers will take a dictionary and then extend that basic dictionary by using common transformations. Moving a letter around on a keyboard or replacing vowels with numbers, all of these increase the dictionary size, but sin
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by Triumvark 15y ago
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by Triumvark 15y ago
Eh, I found Jonathan's "Buying yuppies coffee will improve the world!" naivete far more offensive. I didn't see OP as criticizing frivolity, I saw him more criticizing Jonathan's suggestion that this game was meaningfully altruistic. Eye of
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by Triumvark 15y ago
Gift cards held by a group are an interesting way to move money around with a little deniability. If there was an easier way to cash in Starbucks gift cards, Starbucks could take over Western Union.
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by Triumvark 15y ago
I wish we knew more details on which "clean tech" firms were going under... sounds buzzwordy.
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by Triumvark 15y ago
Hmm, according to that, it sounds like cubes should work better if the employee is facing outward. Computer on the open side of the cube with the screen facing into the cube, rather than computer on the far side of the cube. Is this common
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by Triumvark 15y ago
Cable cutting numbers are so low as to be almost unmeasurable. So why are Hulu and Netflix hamstrung by content creators as a threat to revenue again?
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by Triumvark 15y ago
Is this NSFW?
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by Triumvark 15y ago
> So about once in a year I [apply to] an advertised programmers job... This doesn't sound frequent enough to really extrapolate anything about trends. Maybe he meant once a month?
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by Triumvark 15y ago
The Zombie License 1) This license safeguards the rights of the public, and as such, any member of the public has standing to bring suit in its defense. 2) Use of any technologies covered by a zombie license implies agreement to the followi
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by Triumvark 15y ago
The full history: Dec 13, 2005: "I encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease." - http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00... Jan 26, 2

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