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BlackBerry-Fairfax takeover dies(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by asg 13y ago|0 comments
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by asg 13y ago
While the headline is nominally true, I don't thing this discussion is complete without talking about how browsers map this concept to actual device pixels ... particularly since they don't know how far the user's eyes are fr
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by asg 13y ago
That is still the case. The following blog post goes into the reasons, and the remedies. In particular, there are ways to automatically devectorise your code. http://julialang.org/blog/2013/09/fast-numeric&#x2
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Shared Command - Ben Horowitz on Zynga(linkedin.com)
1 points by asg 13y ago|0 comments
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by asg 13y ago
The anger by the OP and most of the commenters is misplaced. This is not a decision solely by the BBC Trust, and was not done with the licence players best interest at heart. This is the result of lobbying by newspapers and commercial broad
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by asg 14y ago
Agreed. If you are worried about the syntax for plotting, take a look at Gadfly, which aims to implements the Grammar of Graphics language for julia. https://github.com/dcjones/Gadfly.jl
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by asg 14y ago
That is depressing. Companies are nothing but collection of human beings. One would hope that most humans are not happy to go about their lives lying to other humans on a regular basis. So yes, companies don't have a moral point of view. Bu
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Triumph of the Nerds: Nate Silver wins in 50 states(mashable.com)
1 points by asg 14y ago|0 comments
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by asg 14y ago
I'm amazed at how the discussion here has devolved into the merits of mass assignment. While that is a worthwhile topic in itself, specially given the recent github issues, any suggestion that the this issue would have been mitigated by the
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JSAT: A self contained java ML library(code.google.com)
1 points by asg 14y ago|0 comments
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by asg 14y ago
The primary workflow promoted by github seems to be to fork (using github's sense of the word) and use pull requests to contribute. This workflow, I imagine gets you to spend more time on the site, as opposed to using github simply as an ss
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by asg 14y ago
I think its a significant statement that changes to Twitter's look is being announced on the today programme, as opposed to Techchrunch or similar. Twitter is now well and truly used by the general population, and looking at its strategy fr
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by asg 14y ago
In the western world, people without credit or debit cards are such a small portion of the population that this policy of ignoring such users is worthwhile. In developing countries however, there are many services that aim to bridge this ga
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by asg 14y ago
Good to see them taking a stance. It is a great shame that this law does absolutely nothing to improve privacy. I typically do my casual browsing in incognito mode, which means that I'm constantly bombarded with these cookie warnings. So th
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by asg 14y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to see the LTE specs are freely available. Large consortium specs of this nature seem to be quite expensive. (cf: http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store.htm ) Wonder what the patent licence situation is with the LTE s
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by asg 14y ago
I hope, in this case, given the really close parallels, it wont be facetious to say: Hari Seldon! Fact following from fiction?
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by asg 14y ago
In general very nicely done, but the $4999 option with every detail negotiable seems a bit amateurish. "Lets throw a number and see what sticks" Having said that, the intention is, I imagine, noble. You want to be, and be seen, to be flexib
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by asg 14y ago
I think the linked article answers that question well: the ONLY obligation is to be honest, not dissemble about the truth.
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by asg 14y ago
So long as the primary leverage in an investment bank's business was people (skills, relationships), they were happy being partnerships. In the 80's as investment banks discovered the joy of trading profits, they realised they could then le
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by asg 14y ago
Exactly, this is weird. Till march, @wakemate twitter account was asking saying its email address is arun at wakemate. I was about to order one, even though I had to wait a long time for my wakemate. However, after reading this thread, I've
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by asg 14y ago
Personally, I think this is more about a sense of power, rather than simply 'billionaire envy'. I've seen that people at a certain level think that normal rules don't apply to them. This operates quite insidiously too, it's not always a che
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by asg 14y ago
This seems to be taking some liberties with the facts, and it is unfortunate if they are able to get away with this. He said they're unsure if email addresses have been taken, but is very sure that no customer has been harmed! Even assuming
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EGAL: Equal Rights for functional objects [1992](pipeline.com)
1 points by asg 14y ago|0 comments
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by asg 15y ago
This post was discussed constructively on the Julia mailing list some time ago, and spawned a long and interesting thread. Worth perusing for some followup. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/julia-...
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by asg 15y ago
1 based array indices are indeed a very opinionated decision. But I must say it isn't a very difficult thing to switch one's mental models around. Its very easy to get used to.
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by asg 15y ago
Agreed, one should know the strengths of your language, and avoid the pitfalls. Every language has its share of both. But the effort, I suppose, is to increase the surface area of the strengths. So one of the claims of Julia is that you wri
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Information and entropy will still be reliable guides in a post quantum world(fqxi.org)
1 points by asg 15y ago|0 comments
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by asg 15y ago
This is good advice. There are a couple of things I'd add. If you're more than just a couple of founders, ensure you have a watertight no-solicitation agreement, in addition to an NDA. More than information, employees who know the domain ar
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by asg 15y ago
The flickr username is not the same as your yahoo username. They are linked, but can be different strings. You sign in to flickr using your yahoo username (ie, your @yahoo.com email address) but your flickr username is a completely differen
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by asg 15y ago
I don't think this can be construed as 'fanboy dismissal', though the term 'fanboy' itself is controversial. Post purchase dissonance reduction is a well known cognitive bias[1]. And what can be better for dissonance reduction than someone

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