YokoZar

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by YokoZar 14y ago
LocalWiki really is a fascinating project. I went to University in Davis right when the whole wiki project there was starting. This wasn't just a technical effort, it was also a social one -- regular wiki barbeques were held, and consider
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by YokoZar 14y ago
I think the idea was to put the unvaccinated children into their own ghetto so those with selfish parents don't infect the rest of us.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
No, lawyers are not all felons.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
I've had this intuition as well, and tried to put it to use when redesigning the Ubuntu Software Center's ratings system. Ratings are fundamentally ordinal data -- higher is better, but the difference between 4 and 5 is not the same as the
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by YokoZar 15y ago
I really appreciated the post. Unfortunately we're using 5 stars, and need to do it a bit less wrong. The main thorniness of 5 stars is that you have to answer the question of what the difference in star ratings actually mean. Is going fr
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by YokoZar 15y ago
Funny you ask this, as I'm probably the only Ubuntu dev with an economics degree rather than a computer science one. Regardless, from a technical perspective, we don't really collect enough data about users to know who would be willing to p
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by YokoZar 15y ago
The free software isn't going away and never will, and what we developers provide as the core system will always be free. Making it possible or easy for users to also install additional proprietary software doesn't change that.
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by YokoZar 15y ago
Do you regularly search for 99999...999999? Sounds like it's unusual to me!
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Becoming a real developer(yokozar.org)
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