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by adwf 12y ago
If the source code is not available and it's distributed as a binary, by definition it can't be open source. (Plus some might argue about OSS licensing too) Chromium may be OSS, but Chrome is not.
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by adwf 12y ago
I've been waiting for either Alibaba or Softbank to step up and buy them out for months. Now that they're spinning off the Alibaba shares, and given that their core business is currently valued around $0 (by the market), I imagin
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah I wasn't trying to insinuate that they don't still have a great research department. But you can only see so many cuts happening over the years without thinking that it'll impact their bottom line eventually. Whilst I&#
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by adwf 12y ago
A legacy of bad management. Whilst IBM might have a reputation of top research in the past, they've been cutting R&D in a very short sighted manner for many years now. That their revenue is declining and they need to cut staffing
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by adwf 12y ago
I understand there may be legacy issues from other languages, but in a new language... why on earth would you not take the time to make %p the lower case am/pm and %P - AM/PM?
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by adwf 12y ago
I only watched the first guy - the article author - and yes he asked about the drone program and the drug war, specifically how it targets and incarcerates minorities. I think he got the usual politically safe non-answers back, but don&#x2
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by adwf 12y ago
The study makes some comparisons to UK cycling which should be taken with a pinch of salt. The UK has some of the highest density road traffic in the world - NZ nowhere near. Not to mention the argument that increased cycling deaths offse
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by adwf 12y ago
If you're not too attached to iOS, I've just recently upgraded my old Samsung S3 to a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact. It's a ~4.5" phone with phenomenal battery life. It's got all the power of a flagship phone, but is the
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by adwf 12y ago
This is an amazing feature. I just had to go through half a dozen websites and update my company credit card details for this exact reason. Each and every time I do that, I get to evaluate whether or not I actually need the product or not
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by adwf 12y ago
Welcome to the social sciences, where the facts are made up and the points don't matter...
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by adwf 12y ago
I was gonna say much the same thing. Once a machine has been compromised, you've got to format and re-image it. The machine in the article could well still have a rootkit installed. Not to mention he doesn't seem to know the in
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by adwf 12y ago
I remember seeing this on John Oliver and thinking that it was no different than highway robbery. I've literally seen shakedowns in third world countries that weren't as bad as what the police have been doing in the US. They just
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by adwf 12y ago
True, and our perception of calories out is equally flawed. The average healthy adult male is supposed to burn 2500 calories a day. What if you're not average? Maybe those people who are naturally skinny are doing 2800 a day and the
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by adwf 12y ago
I mentioned the same thing the other day [1]. I don't quite get why telecoms providers who are running ISP services over their lines are not already regulated by the same standard. A phone call is an analogue audio message sent over
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by adwf 12y ago
Poe's law in action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by adwf 12y ago
What I don't understand is how exactly ISPs managed to be declared not utilities. Does no-one remember the really old acoustic coupled modems where you had to literally pick up the phone (utility) and place it on the receiver? All t
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, that was the discussion that got me going on the intermittent diet ;) I'm just too used to seeing extraordinary dietary benefits being promoted for all sorts of fad foods/diets like blueberries, grapefruit, atkins diet, pale
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by adwf 12y ago
Exactly, it's all about "in < out". But it's the psychology that has me trying the intermittent approach. I don't eat excessively normally, so any weight gain I have is due to being 100-200 calories over on a v
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by adwf 12y ago
Note that this paper is heavy on theory, not so much on the evidence. The only "proof" of this conjecture is right at the end where they mention 10 people tried starvation before chemo and reported feeling less side-effects after
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by adwf 12y ago
Great news, I might finally be able to use RDS now. I'm always impressed that the AWS team seem to be on the ball with improvements - whenever I think "I could really do with X feature", they come out with it a few months la
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by adwf 12y ago
It's things like this that remind me that Lisp(s) are really the best languages for taking advantage of the idea of Turing completeness. In terms of ease of implementation that is. I think that really, this is what we mean by "p
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by adwf 12y ago
I think the photo at the top of the article is interesting in just how many of the people there are quite old. Really makes you appreciate the social safety nets that we have today.
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by adwf 12y ago
This is one of the hidden gems within the article: "Selling to your existing customers is orders of magnitude easier than selling to new customers. We’ve never really strictly enforced the quotas differentiating our tiers from each ot
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by adwf 12y ago
It'll surely trigger some flamewar warning eventually. User flagging is just pre-emptive ;)
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by adwf 12y ago
>if those affected had just bothered to try. How about: If those affected had even known that this change was happening. I'd certainly heard that they were changing the VAT rules to crack down on the likes of Amazon. That I'd
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by adwf 12y ago
I've got two points to consider with this: 1) On a proper keyboard, I'm faster typing than writing. But on a "soft" keyboard like a tablet/phone (which I'm more likely to have with me), I'm much slower. T
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by adwf 12y ago
Oh yes, I wasn't trying to criticize that. Every sufficiently large program will have bugs. It was just that the title implied this was a scaling issue, rather than a debugging issue.
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by adwf 12y ago
I was thinking much the same - the Gmail backend surely has scaling issues, but the frontend should be relatively simple. Afterall, you can still use the basic html view if you want, the ajax view is just some icing on the cake; it can&#x2
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by adwf 12y ago
Isn't it the case that Intel Atom has been just that little bit too power hungry compared to Arm chips? They can't quite convince anyone to use them without large subsidies. I know they've been making some headway in this r
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by adwf 12y ago
Is there any chance we might see an updated index for the Common Crawl? I've tried using the dataset before, but I found it difficult given that you have to process the entire thing in order to find the particular pages you are lookin

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