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by allenz 9y ago
The app model is particularly aggravating since Edge is less secure than Chrome, e.g. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/03/21/2330222/microsofts-...
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It's probably because of the syntax highlighting, which is fairly slow due to regex. Sublime should have no problems reading it in text mode. more would also work!
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by allenz 9y ago
Sometimes I like reading not just about the facts of the news but also about all the different worlds and ways of living out there. If you've enjoyed a conversation with an interesting stranger, that's kind of how I feel about lon
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by allenz 9y ago
Yup, Penney's game is surprising because at first glance the probabilities of two sequences of the same length are unrelated. But if more than half of the sequences overlap, then one sequence will tend to arrive before the other. As th
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by allenz 9y ago
You might find the result less surprising after you solve a riddle by Martin Gardner: > A young man lives in Manhattan near a subway express station. He has two girlfriends, one in Brooklyn, one in the Bronx. To visit the girl in Brookly
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by allenz 9y ago
Good points. Pedantic aside: scale-free is a dangerous assumption for two reasons. First, there may be fairly large deviations from power law in real data, and any such deviation renders the problem intractable. Second, botnets can modify l
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by allenz 9y ago
> how hard can it be to spot these kind of non-organic actors in the social graph? Very hard. Graph theory contains some of the hardest problems in computer science. For example, maybe you want to find the largest group of nodes that are
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by allenz 10y ago
I agree that the calendar shouldn't make questionable assumptions. However, Scott's complaint is that he often forgets to set the timezone, resulting in significant harm. I think that it's a fair complaint--after all, the ent
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by allenz 10y ago
Taking a look through https://stackexchange.com/sites , I see several fairly specific programming communities: askubuntu.com and unix.stackexchange.com vi.stackexchange.com and emacs.stackexchange.com stackoverflow.com and c
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by allenz 10y ago
Instant gratification exacerbates the network effect, but it's not the root problem. A decentralized social network could provide the same upvotes and be just as addictive. I think the root problem is economic. There's no profit t
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by allenz 10y ago
I think that it's reasonable to feel conflicted. The internet is interesting and addictive, especially the social corners. Other commenters have pointed out that SA, HN, FB, etc are potent time sinks--it's all too easy to spend mo
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by allenz 10y ago
You can simulate a hexagonal lattice on a square grid: https://geometricolor.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/hexagonal-cel... Example in Golly, the most popular CA simulator: https://github.com/golly
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by allenz 10y ago
This is by Lapka co-founder Vadik Marmeladov. https://twitter.com/vadikmarmeladov/status/85147501833262284... In 2013, before Lapka was acquired: "He was dressed head-to-toe in tailored black garments... he c
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by allenz 10y ago
There is a one-to-one correspondence between them: a length 9 combination is just a length 8 combination followed by the sole remaining node. The lock screen has 9 nodes.
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by allenz 10y ago
I think college lectures are still the best resource for learning problem solving. You might want to work through https://youtu.be/xWTc8xuHX00?list=PL-XXv-cvA_iDbtIylJDpPPJfa...
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by allenz 10y ago
He was. "We cornered one suspect and we tried to negotiate for several hours. Negotiations broke down. We had an exchange of fire with the subject. We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot..."[1] Also he wanted to "ki
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by allenz 10y ago
Yes, but that's at the federal level, where the economies of scale are better. Most towns contract out their websites and don't have capability. Paying Uber is cheaper than paying software engineers.
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by allenz 10y ago
I'm not sure how your example fits in. The police didn't use a state of mind defense in the Dallas case--the suspect was shooting at police officers, which is, objectively speaking, a violent felony. They couldn't capture the
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by allenz 10y ago
A drone is not a person, so while assaulting a police officer is a violent felony, killing the drone is just more resisting arrest and possibly property damage, which doesn't add to the justification of deadly force unless someone gets
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by allenz 10y ago
Security isn't an absolute thing. Just the fact that you use the internet indicates that you're willing to sacrifice a significant amount of security, which is clearly worth it to you. Presumably most LastPass users prefer autofil
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by allenz 10y ago
I still disagree, I don't think costs are high because of collusion. I've seen no evidence of collusion between insurance companies or drug companies, which would be very illegal. There is no reason for collusion. You say that peo
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by allenz 10y ago
Nope. Development costs $1B+ by itself, as you can see from my source or your link. Marketing spend is on top of the R&D cost. I agree that we should limit drug advertising, but that Global Data report is off by an order of magnitude. T
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by allenz 10y ago
> Drug prices in US go up because of collusion between Insurance Companies and Drug manufacturers. It's great that you're interested in healthcare policy, but you should be careful about making blanket statements without the ev
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by allenz 10y ago
The significance is also that cellular automata might be a good model of physical reality. The idea is probably more interesting than practical though.
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by allenz 10y ago
They will indeed fix this. At minimum, they can freeze the editor when it's out of focus. So there is no need to justify--this is a minor oversight, as someone phrased it over at Slashdot.[1] I was responding to those who believe that
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by allenz 10y ago
And value delivered also gets multiplied by the number of users. VS Code users decided that they like it even after accounting for Electron. Clearly, then, VS Code has certain strengths, and I'd argue that some of those strengths are m
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by allenz 10y ago
We are incredibly off topic, but I think it's a bit reductionist to call China unreasonable. China is, above all, pragmatic. The Taiwan situation is a farce, but the Communist Party has reasons to believe it necessary. Party sovereignt
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by allenz 10y ago
What do you find stupid? The way I see it, HTML/JS is a pretty good higher-level GUI language, and much effort has been spent making it work well. The overhead is worth it if it makes developers more productive.
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by allenz 10y ago
I enjoyed your comment. The non-funny response is that all GUI layers suck, possibly because visual interfaces and abstract code are inherently incompatible. Since no one has managed to make the perfect GUI, we constantly look to improve on
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by allenz 10y ago
Distill does assign DOIs. There is a citation_doi meta tag in the page source, and you can also find a complete list here: https://search.crossref.org/?q=Distill&publication=Distill I agree that the DOI should be includ

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