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by aphyr 15y ago
I think the tactile response is important. I see the ipad falling at the extreme end of the response spectrum: glass, unweighted cheap keyboards, weighted keyboards, cheap piano, Steinway. Reconfigurability is important, but I suspect that
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by aphyr 15y ago
Agreed. My roommate's new microwave is a Panasonic with exactly this behavior, and it's one of the best appliances I've used. Was actually thinking of it (and some physics PSU/amps) when I wrote this.
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by aphyr 15y ago
You're absolutely right: it is a spatial resolution problem. There are only so many distinct targets for a finger on a given surface. Part of the reason we're seeing so many finger-oriented glass interfaces is because it lets us sweep the r
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by aphyr 15y ago
The article focuses on "everyday object" manipulation, but he's right about technology too: there are a wealth of common HCI tools that glass cannot accommodate. - The textual keyboard remains one of the fastest methods of text entry. It ca
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by aphyr 15y ago
Yes, they transmit their location on regular intervals (from the article: every hour) via the cell network.
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by aphyr 15y ago
I feel it's worth mentioning that words aren't sexist; communication is. Even really awful words (n.+, for example) can be used both in hurtful and supportive ways. One can't always evaluate the meaning of a word in isolation; the context
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by aphyr 15y ago
I have a slightly different problem, which resulted in writing UState: http://github.com/aphyr/ustate . It's a state aggregator with an HTML dashboard, email alerts, state combiner, and more. Outputs to graphite, highly extensible, simple
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by aphyr 15y ago
You're absolutely right; I've been bitten by chrome/webkit bugs as well, some of which remain unpatched. And Chrome's relative youth means the browser code hasn't acquired the same level of cruft--so I can't strongly infer a difference in p
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by aphyr 15y ago
Not trolling, but perhaps I was unclear. First, my information is about a year out of date. I only used FF (well, Mozilla Suite/Galeon/Phoenix/FF) from around 2001-2010, and it's clear the FF team has moved to improve performance since then
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by aphyr 15y ago
I've done the direct propagation measurement. Took about 20 hours (design, build, runs, analysis, report) in a four-person team, to obtain a value of .97 c. Laser, beam restrictor, beamsplitter, rotating mirror, and a 40 meter hallway with
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by aphyr 15y ago
Sure, the impact of any specific bug is limited--but the gestalt of Firefox is of a development process that values press and feature creep over performance and correctness. I haven't looked back since switching to Chrome. FF ignored obvi
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by aphyr 15y ago
The point is not to connect you with houses 2.5 miles away--it's to connect you with houses 50 meters away that are completely inaccessible thanks to the street layout.
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by aphyr 15y ago
I was nodding along until I started reading Put This On. Roughly 80% of the clothing pictured suggests "uncomfortable", "impractical" or "I'm a tool". I'll keep my sneakers. :-/
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by aphyr 15y ago
True for arrays. Very wrong for singly-linked lists, as in lisp, haskell, erlang, etc.
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by aphyr 15y ago
If you can cross-compile to this build target, so can an attacker. Maybe removing compilers made sense ten or twenty years ago, or on obscure/proprietary systems--plenty of exploits in old editions of Phrack use local compilers--but I don't
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by aphyr 15y ago
https://github.com/mochi/statebox
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by aphyr 15y ago
wget http://downloads.basho.com/riak/riak-0.14/riak_0.14.2-1_amd64.deb dpkg -i riak_0.14.2-1_amd64.deb Our production configuration and setup/deploy recipes for riak are 241 lines in total, ~150 of which are the stock config f
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by aphyr 15y ago
If we allow that large, computationally capable entities are likely to form in free markets, it is probable that individuals will be faced with a market in which the prices of major goods vary wildly from minute to minute, from person to pe
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by aphyr 15y ago
One could argue a certain kind of engineering personality tends to comprise its own distinct culture. As an INTJ, a cross-cultural divide is precisely how I look at it. I'm speaking more in general, though. To reiterate, this guy acted as
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by aphyr 15y ago
Perhaps we misunderstood one another. When I said "without loss of generality", I meant that for almost any conceivable objective function, free markets may not maximize that function. For a social objective like "the weighted average of
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by aphyr 15y ago
It is about social skills. What do you think "maturity and respect" means in the context of interacting with other humans? These are cultural norms, and different people conform to culture in different ways. Place "respectful, mature" Ameri
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by aphyr 15y ago
Jerf, this is a surprisingly insightful and concise statement--one that I largely agree with. I'm curious, though, and want to ask CWuestefeld as well: If we accept that the free market can act in ways which are detrimental to the global ob
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by aphyr 15y ago
Privacy is a matter of visibility, not compromisability. Ultimately, almost anything you do can be observed, shared, and exploited. The reason we lead any semblance of a private life is a combination of a lack of interest, goodwill, and
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by aphyr 15y ago
On a related note, producer-consumer relationships in Ruby: https://github.com/aphyr/producer_consumer . Should probably be an arbitrary DAG, when I get time to generalize.
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by aphyr 15y ago
Perhaps gnucash? I haven't played with its multicurrency support extensively, but it is at least partly functional.
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by aphyr 15y ago
I think it's great that people are sparring between disciplines and integrating various styles--but at the same time, this system can only act on its inputs, which are MMA fighters. I do wonder whether the culture of MMA prevents some tal
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by aphyr 15y ago
Depending on your definition of legacy, your argument is either incorrect or invalid. Case 0: Legacy means "unscalable". Argument cannot be used to evaluate the scalability of client-server models. Case 1: Legacy means "old or crufty".
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by aphyr 15y ago
This is exactly the reason why client server technology failed and could never scale. He said, on the internet.
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by aphyr 15y ago
PSH, URG, SYN, FIN, all set.
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by aphyr 15y ago
Whoops! Serves me right for sloppy editing.

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