alayne

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by alayne 14y ago
Half the fun of online discussions is being an armchair whatever. Telling people how to behave sounds awfully judgmental to me.
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by alayne 14y ago
Is Bayesian filtering supposed to be impressive? This paper is more a symptom of somewhat smart people being bored.
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by alayne 14y ago
Nearly every website is owned privately. That doesn't mean we still shouldn't seek free speech as a moral goal. What if Google censored your Gmail messages? You're using it at their discretion, right?
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by alayne 15y ago
Well, it's not standardized yet. A draft was just submitted last month.
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by alayne 15y ago
That wasn't "intuitive" to me either. And what about the simpler case of multiple values of a single index, for example Chicken and Cashews. Any good retrieval system should be able to intersect the lists from the indexes. The existence of
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by alayne 15y ago
I've used and programmed an HP-15C, but it was a novelty even then, 22 years ago. I haven't used my HP-48GX since college. This reimagined 15C might be interesting if you could access the ARM CPU or there are extended features. I don't see
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by alayne 15y ago
She's very articulate for a 20 year old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0kC48wSbsA
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by alayne 15y ago
Thank you for the analogy. I think I overstated my case in a way that sounds too general. I disagree with Google's terms of service. They impose restrictions that could limit productive discussion. They have control over identity I think is
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by alayne 15y ago
Freedom of speech is a basic human right, not a privilege granted by governments. When companies stifle speech, it's immoral even if it is legal. However, I think I made it clear that I am talking about not allowing companies to control spe
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by alayne 15y ago
How long are people going to tolerate the tyranny of large companies controlling social interaction? Google+ has all kinds of terms of service that I find infringing of free speech. Facebook has their own terms. I think we need to stop bein
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by alayne 15y ago
I got 25,600 but that was below the median of 27,123. I didn't select words I recognized but couldn't define and I double checked some definitions. I think I have a decent vocabulary. It's like I'm competing with the High IQ Society book cl
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by alayne 15y ago
That's some blatant ageism.
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by alayne 15y ago
Not only does Lua have the length problem, but array offsets are a matter of convention. Lua chooses 1 as the first element of an array instead of 0. But that is just convention. Your code could use 0 or -100. A confusing implementation of
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by alayne 15y ago
Eclipse has a set of Emacs key bindings, but it's hard for me to use because I have muscle memory of features that don't exist in Eclipse (prefix arguments, buffer manipulation, and so on). The Emacs+ plugin is better, but I honestly prefer
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by alayne 15y ago
The last two comments are true for CPUs, but I think they are only talking about transistor switching speed.
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by alayne 16y ago
I had trouble with DNS not resolving mafipulation.org (without the www). Try http://www.mafipulation.org/static/shairport-0.01.tar.gz
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by alayne 16y ago
I know the point is accepting the process of failure, but it reminds me of Edison vs Tesla. Tesla supposedly said "If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after s
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by alayne 16y ago
I'd be interested in any recommendations you have for books about chaos/non-linear systems. I read Chaos in high school and it was a starting point for me to later explore fractals, IFSs, and attractors. My math skills were never good enoug
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by alayne 16y ago
Zing. I remember reading/watching studies of classroom settings a few years ago where teachers were unconsciously giving boys a better learning experience. It was eye opening. I thought there was a fairly established result in gender bias s
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by alayne 16y ago
Well, I'm losing my religion. I already have a Greasemonkey script to stop the fading top row. Look at the results page for "cat toys" in Bing and Google. Maybe Google should just redirect to Bing. I get that they're trying to satisfy a div
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by alayne 16y ago
I don't see a way to divine loyalty information from the survey questions asked.
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by alayne 16y ago
People are playing word games. The Flash file format is published, but it isn't governed by a standards organization which is what people usually mean by "open". Even armed with this SWF file format specification, is it possible to create a
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by alayne 17y ago
Why is nobody in prison yet?
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by alayne 17y ago
How is hotmail's current spam filtering? From my experience with other web email, gmail's filtering is second to none.
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by alayne 17y ago
I doubt the experience is better than iPhone development from a tools perspective. I often feel like I'm participating in a Google Labs experiment. If you can deal with some rough edges and lack of direct developer support, you will be okay
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by alayne 17y ago
It's a major step backwards for information junkies like myself if more content gets locked into apps. Search and linking will be threatened. However I think it will regulate itself. If you can't find content, you won't consume it. I disagr
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by alayne 17y ago
Interesting. It was readable on IE/Chrome/Android Safari though they all look different. Oh web, where did we go wrong with you. Maybe after iPad, Steve will work on getting web font support up to the 1984 Mac level.
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by alayne 17y ago
Why is the type on this site unreadable on Firefox?
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by alayne 17y ago
Yes, they did. http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-google-andro... You can choose the Target animal (e.g. Guinea pig), press the listen button which "listens" for four seconds and outputs translations like "I could really do w
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by alayne 17y ago
Where's the POSIX? This is bad example code.

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