adharmad

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   by adharmad 15y ago

   "Looking back on some piano competitions, it seems like the vast majority of the time, winners were chosen simply because they didn't do anything that was stupid enough to be easily criticised." The recent presidential election comes to min
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   by adharmad 15y ago

   "I was born to be a computer scientist - I have a way of organising stuff in my head that just seems to make me a good programmer. I think everybody can learn to use computers, but only about one person in every 50 is a geek in the same way
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   by adharmad 15y ago

   And Loopt recently, although they handled it pretty well.
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   by adharmad 15y ago

   I use rsync.net with git: http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2010/02/git-and-subvers... Works pretty well.
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   by adharmad 15y ago

   Microsoft opened an office in the bay area for Jim Gray once..
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   by adharmad 15y ago

   Would be interesting to check the email headers and see where they are originating.
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   by adharmad 15y ago

   What about gcc?
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   by adharmad 15y ago

   http://www.thereferencestore.com/
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   by adharmad 15y ago

   I have always wondered how the housing/renting market would be if mortgages were not tax deductible (or rents were also tax deductible).
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    by adharmad 15y ago

    So why hide their involvement to begin with until the story broke out? If Facebook really did not think it was wrong, they should be able to do it openly and not via proxy.
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    by adharmad 15y ago

    How about sorting comments in any subtree by the number of votes? That way hierarchy indicates the comments with the highest number of votes, while hiding the actual number itself.
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Rob Pike, Vint Cerf, Peter Norvig
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Sorry about that. That was my 3 year old.
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    by adharmad 16y ago

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    by adharmad 16y ago

    likewise :)
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    The perils of the walled garden: Apple can take their ball and go away anytime.
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Yes, but in addition they also assume that: - That the only way you know the photo ID is by having access to the photo. - If you had access to the photo at some point, you have access to it forever (even if it is revoked later on). It may
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Facebook allows very sophisticated privacy settings, including allowing access to photos for a specific subset of users only. I wonder what those privacy settings mean then, if the authorization checks are not happenning when the photo is a
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    From the article: "All of the senior people at Sun got screwed compensation-wise. Their job titles may have been the same, but their ability to decide anything was just gone." It need not have come to that if they had used their "ability to
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Isn't going public just another sort of a public auction?
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Think of facebook as a service - using it for identity and also possibly your social network. A lot of startups have a social component and having an easy facebook integration means no longer implementing it from scratch. However, it does n
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Why is Oracle suing Google not ok but Sun suing Microsoft for essentially the same reason ok?
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Sad to see him become a Patent troll. Also, what could be the point of such a lawsuit? Surely Paul Allen cannot think that he can have out-of-court settlements (no cross-licensing since his company does not produce anything) with all the li
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Truly amazing. Reminds me of the anecdote about Jim Gray wherein he was able to figure out that the database was not tuned based on the the hard disk noise.
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    What about facebook?
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Continuous interference is detrimental to efficient functioning of representative democracy. It is difficult for a government to rule if it is second-guessed by the voters using the initiative system. California's initiative system creates
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    An analytical solution would be nice in addition to the simulation one. Even better if the number of sides of the polygon could be parametrized :)
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Agree with your sentiment. But what we really need is a substitute for facebook. Until that comes, folks who want to socialize will continue to use facebook.
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    by adharmad 16y ago

    Jobs sure is doing a good job of making Microsoft and Gates look saintly.
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    by adharmad 17y ago

    So Google has a slightly reticient and secretive culture.. They also cannot get anyone to comment on serious international matters in which the company is the accusar. And the journalist does not like it........big deal!