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by ansgri 14y ago
There's the art of disposing of not the cheapest things when they bother you. Then you get self-regulating process: you find disposing of some kinds of things too often and end up not caring about these kinds of things and buying the 'worst
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by ansgri 14y ago
There's a composition I like very much, by GY!BE, "She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field". Maybe you could do similar genre?
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by ansgri 14y ago
Then the browser localizes for you what it can and you'll get a very ugly-looking page that is almost all in e.g. French and dates in English. Seen that with some CMS which auto-localize their UI but not content, obviously.
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by ansgri 14y ago
It's no design flaw, it's constraining your problem to find the most efficient solution within those constraints.
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by ansgri 14y ago
Is it not strange to call it an Atom? Atom is etymologically indivisible, when here we can have arbitrary structure.
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Well, local banks here seem to be compatible with everything plus Opera Mobile. Their web clients were developed not so long ago, when it was already unacceptable to have IE-only sites.
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They are going to integrate Opera Turbo to make it faster over slow networks. Also they have some new caching technology currently used by their Maps.
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Couldn't imagine getting married having any substantial debt at all, sounds quite irresponsible.
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by ansgri 14y ago
Yes, and with dots it would be less obvious that people are reinventing the whole XML ecosystem. Someone should design a meta-language (probably based on s-expressions) that would easily represent all Object Notations and Markup Languages a
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by ansgri 14y ago
> Face.com was closed off, and didn’t share the details of how it operated. Not so true, at least they gave a talk outlining their methods (I remember they used single-point classification with very complex distance and 3D model fitting
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by ansgri 14y ago
Application UX inconsistency is a Mac thing AFAIK. Yes they all look 'pretty' and 'likable', but not consistent. Most decent Windows apps are modeled one after another and are very consistent. They have such things as status bars, sidebars,
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Can't you use cash? I honestly can't understand most of the comments as it seems here in Russia there's no concept of a check, or at least no 'real person' ever used anything like that.
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by ansgri 14y ago
There was an article about HFT recently [0] that mentioned a case where social influence is of small importance: the game is played beyond human capabilities even when really needed. [0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339531
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by ansgri 14y ago
Good analogy to C++ vs C. C++ gives you a lot of power previously unavailable, as git does. And there seems to be no canonical ways to do anything neither in C++ nor in git. And that does confuse a lot!
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Excuse me, but much more typical example is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MiKTeX.org\MiKTeX\2.9\Core. The registry has rather respected conventions.
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Another point is that internet connection is unavailable just too often. I don't know of all world, but even in Moscow the connection in some districts is very unreliable. I'm not talking of 3G, but of any wireless internet. Wouldn't want a
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by ansgri 14y ago
Why open the app list at all? Let them auto-update.
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Better yet, "Don't let anything over what you have no control whatsoever be a mission critical part of a project". If that single company can be heavily influenced by you, risks are acceptable.
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by ansgri 14y ago
Remote erase is a minor problem — you have recovery codes printed out.
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by ansgri 14y ago
If your tasks are basic, they are numerous, and that means a lot of communication, and that means you better be in the office. Besides, this basic crap is boring when done in solitude. On the contrary, difficult problems (difficult not in i
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by ansgri 14y ago
Most people are thinking too narrowly of B2B, and while it may be true that business logic and accounting are dominating in number of installations / volume of sales / whatever, some very unsexy businesses (road toll collection, what could
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I fail to see how there's no option to go to a different bookstore: can't you order the book from Amazon from the same iPad?
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Thank you for the detailed reply. I definitely agree with [3], and wouldn't ask if I've had enough experience with modern web technologies.
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Apparently it uses Google Maps for display, and I wonder, does GMaps API allow use of custom map data, or does it mean that this visualization is made by Google?
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I've actually used it for almost a year, as a primary browser. One of the reasons was that it allows (allowed?) switching of font rendering engine to either Apple or Microsoft one. It was part of the experiment whether it's possible to live
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by ansgri 14y ago
As I understand, the complexity is not much worse than O(A * K), where A is upscaled image area and K is approximate KNN lookup time in a dataset of all tiles for all scales. The question is, how fast is KNN on such high-dimensional data.
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Thanks for the link. I'm now in the process of choosing the direction of my postgraduate studies, and these things quasifractal-related seem rather interesting.
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It doesn't add any information to a human eye, but may be very useful preprocessing for algorithms that do not know about the quasi-fractal structure of natural images, and that's most of CV.
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It would be interesting to integrate with OCR on a deep level, preserving tile correspondence within the image to achieve coherent recognition. Most real-world OCR, though, deals with single-scale fonts, and this reconstruction technique ma
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Why, science in general does happen here.

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