aristidb

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   by aristidb 16y ago

   This might make it harder for Icelandic (private and public) institutions to obtain international credit. I think they decided against their own self-interest.
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   by aristidb 16y ago

   Because they (or admittedly, their government) agreed to providing bank deposit guarantees.
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   by aristidb 16y ago

   C++'s std::sort in turn is a lot more complex than the quicksort example shown.
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   by aristidb 16y ago

   Allowing one to simplify to: fibs = 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs) Involving zip`ap`tail, the Aztec god of consecutive numbers: fibs = 1 : 1 : (zipWith (+) `ap` tail) fibs Or, pointlessly: fix $ (1:) . (1:) . (zipWit
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   by aristidb 16y ago

   If this means they can force device makers to actually ship updates, I'm all for it.
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   by aristidb 16y ago

   Randomly capitalised words. :-( I don't want to be pedantic, but this is just hard to read.
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   by aristidb 16y ago

   ^ Presumably, heyitsnick meant this sarcastically.
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   by aristidb 16y ago

   Now if Google only added more localized payment options. Did you ever try to convince Germans that a credit card is worth the €30 (per year) that banks typically charge? Even just adding PayPal would improve the situation tremendously.
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   by aristidb 16y ago

   There's a plethora of IRC clients available, many of them very easy to use. No, you do not need to be a genius to be on IRC. Administrating channels (/mode and such) is a bit harder, but not everybody needs to do that.
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    Fukushima explained for Japanese children [video](youtube.com)

    1 points by aristidb 16y ago|0 comments
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    Somehow, Google's upgrades do not tend to end up on the phones, or only with substantial delay. So I don't think claiming that "Google got it right" is accurate if you talk about smartphone software.
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    This analogy seems a bit off, and I don't see how it simplifies things. I guess this is similar to the "Monad tutorial" problem, where the author forces a (typically way off) analogy onto the reader. One concrete problem with "accounting a
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    When I read "Kik (avc.com)", I did briefly think of the retailer, and the associated negative emotions. Maybe that's just me, of course.
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    Is that necessarily true? Germany is not exactly a small country (and Kik has a _really_ bad reputation), and few people type in domains directly anymore. What matters more than a good domain name is a name that is easy to remember and goog
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    I was hoping that he would also lay out the strategies that he DOES consider viable. It's hard to compare SEO and the allegedly superior alternatives without even knowing them. Because, if there were no superior alternatives to SEO (just fo
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    And it works because people are very reluctant to give up things they own, even if they don't find them useful.
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    Nice! I did not know about this feature. How efficient is it, and which databases support it? :-)
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    If you have stored a tree with adjacence (parent-child) relations, how would you retrieve all nested children? Or would you propose a different storage mechanism that keeps the property that reparenting entire subtrees is cheap? (All this i
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    Graph databases are probably also nice for a lot of "non-semantic" stuff. For example, I recently wondered about the best representation for deep hierarchical data, and graph databases appear to be a good fit.
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    There's an often-discussed (hypothetical) extension to Haskell's list comprehensions called Monad comprehensions. I suppose that would be similar to Scala's "'for' loop". But really, the difference between 'do' notation and a syntax based o
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    They even embedded a JSON-based programming language! From the example at https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates/CloudForma... : "UserData" : { "Fn::Base64" : { "Fn::Join" : [ "\n", [ { "Fn::Join" : [ "=", [ "dbName", { "Ref" :
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    Interesting error message: "Could not connect to localhost"
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    Prototype array camera could make your pictures better, phones thinner(engadget.com)

    35 points by aristidb 16y ago|20 comments
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    "But I suppose everyone thinks their youth was some sort of Golden Age."
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    Interesting, and I've always interpreted it the other way. Looks like you are right. But the language on www.robotstxt.org is pretty vague, too. (What does it mean to "visit" an URL?) The "RFC" on http://www.robotstxt.org/norobots-rfc.txt
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    I understand a robots.txt "Disallow: /foo" to mean that it must not crawl that page, i.e. look at the links _inside_ that page.
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    robots.txt applies to the source of the links, not the target. So if, say, http://www.paulgraham.com/ links to http://m.bing.com/search , then http://m.bing.com/robots.txt does not apply to that. EDIT: If you think this is wrong, pleas
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    I cannot log in. Others experience the same problem?
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    The API does not seem to be bad, really. It's just not consistent with other AWS APIs, which would simplify writing language bindings for them.
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    by aristidb 16y ago

    So I was immediately looking at their REST API... And true to form, Amazon adds yet another slightly incompatible request signing method. Consistency is for wimps.