abraxasz

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by abraxasz 14y ago
I think YOU missed something. smacktoward understood the sarcasm, translated it, and commented on the message itself. You're the one who did not read or undertand the comment carefully.
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by abraxasz 14y ago
I very much agree. I'm a (grad student) statistician and most of my time is spent developing models, running simulations, etc.. But once I have all the results, I need to find a way to present them in a way that is both informative, and inv
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by abraxasz 14y ago
Interesting initiative, but I see many issues in the study: - As others have mentioned, it is not generalizable to other types of jobs. Call-center work may be improved when working from home, but what about other types of jobs requiring mo
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by abraxasz 14y ago
I'd like to add a thought: maybe inconsistency in UI design is the only way to experiment and actually improve the current state of design. When Apple released its ipod (with the big wheel in the middle), it was nothing like the other playe
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by abraxasz 14y ago
Ok, so basically the very deep and smart analysis consists in one argument: Facebook is a website, so there's no way it's ever going to become a mobile company. Besides the shallowness of this argument, I think it makes two assumptions that
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by abraxasz 14y ago
Either that, or he is just trying to cover his ass for the next elections. I don't know exactly how the debate about internet freedom will come in the next debate (if at all) but it might be a good move from politicians to move away from th
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by abraxasz 14y ago
I will have to disagree. Or rather, I think that while some bubble are pretty closed, some are very permeable. I'll take Hacker News for example. Although some people complain about the fact that there are strong biases on HN, I actually th
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by abraxasz 14y ago
I'm extremely happy to see that there are still generous people around. You see, I'm African, and when I see the current mess in my continent, I think that we should do something about it. Since you disagree with Muzza, I would suggest that
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by abraxasz 14y ago
I like the article, a lot. But I have some reserve with the advice given. In my experience, many people would actually be glad to hangout with someone weird if he gives them some time to get used to it, and take it easy on the weirdness at
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by abraxasz 14y ago
I actually thought that the article was a joke (no offense). It starts off saying "... how you can become more productive and happier", and then: - libraries are needed. And then it proceed to describe how if you want to get something done
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by abraxasz 14y ago
I disagree. There's a huge confusion between the movement as a whole, and the movement at the individual level. What exactly is stupid: the fact that some people sell bullshit seminars about a new fancy programming paradigma or the fact tha
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by abraxasz 14y ago
I'm experiencing something similar. Many universities have some kind of "teaching assistantship" or "teaching fellowship", that is, they pay students who've already taken the class (or a similar class) to teach and hold office hours for oth
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by abraxasz 15y ago
Well, that's assuming people actually believe what Google. And even they believe what Google says, they don't have any compelling reason to switch from Facebook until their friends actually do switch. What I mean is that even assuming that
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by abraxasz 15y ago
Completely agree. This might explain why Apple didn't act on some of the "issues" raised by the OP: - "Junk Apps": As someone mentioned below, this one's really unreasonable. "Junk" is subjective, and even if it's not, who's to decide which
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by abraxasz 15y ago
I'm genuinely interested in the following question: why would anybody think that spam based advertising works? I'm not in the business of marketing so I have no idea whether this is common practice in the business, but just looking at the w
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by abraxasz 15y ago
I'm not too sure about the market correcting these inefficiencies in the near future. I mean, I understand your point, and it makes total sense, but it may not be in everyone's interest to act on this. Let me give you an example. I interned
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by abraxasz 15y ago
What you say makes sense, but I think it misses the point. This whole post reminds me of another article that was posted on HN a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3633985 . The question is not whether what the OP is do
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by abraxasz 15y ago
You might be right. What is surprising though is that an airport that's under such security threat like Ben Gurion airport hasn't been breached in a very long time (I think the last major problem was in the 70's). Now you're going to say th
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by abraxasz 15y ago
I think that everybody agree on that. The question is: are those very very expensive scanners the only way to achieve that goal. If it is, then fine (I'm not american, so it's not my taxes that are blown), but if there is another way, then
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by abraxasz 15y ago
Very, very biased article: - What about you divide the prices you mention by the number of people required to make the product. An app developper's team is often less than 5 people. Apple's iphone team is probably more than 150 people inclu
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by abraxasz 15y ago
I'm usually a nice guy, but I'm an absolute jerk when it comes to my inbox: - If a service's registration has the "send notification" button checked by default, and I don't see it when I register.. well each time I get an email from the ser
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by abraxasz 15y ago
>> It's fills the use case of "I love my iPad, and I love my Mac, but I really hate that I have these two devices." It's an interesting point, but if this is the target, then I think it's hopeless. Indeed, I don't think that people
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by abraxasz 15y ago
>>Why are there so many language wars-lovers in some open source communities...? Honestly, I think that the reason is simple: because it's entertaining. Yeah, sometimes I'm tired of reading the same arguments over, and over, and ove
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by abraxasz 15y ago
I theory you are right. But can you say of a king that he understands his people? Or of a president that he fully understands the country he is ruling? There is a difference between knowing, and understanding/acknowledging. And sometimes, p
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by abraxasz 15y ago
I will have to disagree. Not that I think that the people in charge of the MPAA and co. are altruistic, nice people. But I don't think they act the way they act because they are looking for immediate profit, or rather this is not the princi
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by abraxasz 15y ago
I still have a problem with the statement "...make time to find out what you really enjoy". Sure, everybody wants that. But take the example of running, or writing. Well like many people, I hated running at first, I really did. But I sticke
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by abraxasz 15y ago
"The creation of that risk, the extent of that risk and the cost of putting it right mean at the end of it all I'm afraid a prison sentence is inevitable." I'm not sure what the "creation of that risk" part is supposed to mean. If it refers
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by abraxasz 15y ago
When I was still living in France, I used to rent a vps in the US, so I could tunnel my connections via ssh, and get access to those websites. Well this was not the main reason for my renting the vps (I hosted my website, and played around
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by abraxasz 15y ago
First, I'd like to say that what follows is in no way an attempt to justify what Dodd said, or find excuses for him. I believe what he said was chocking. However, it does raise questions about lobbies in general. I'm not american, so when I
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by abraxasz 15y ago
You're right, my apologies for going overboard with a non-justified argument. When I succeed in looking further than my tech-savvy like-minded friends, I fall into the trap of thinking about other people about my age. I don't know about you

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