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by aufreak3 15y ago
The share target in G+ leaves me wanting for a "not" operator - i.e. share with "A and B but not C". I really wish they give a special "advanced" geek interface for this - full set operator support. I tend to think "A+B-C" and every time I'
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by aufreak3 15y ago
With G+, I'm seeing a change in emphasis that I like very much. In FB, when I post something, I'm not thinking about who's going to see it. In G+, I spend a little bit of time thinking about who this is for. I'm guessing this makes it more
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by aufreak3 15y ago
What if the standard could be changed from a language to a runtime specification? For example, a subset of LLVM assembler could play the role of a substrate (very much like what NaCl is doing) and leave the language part open. Runtimes with
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Having recently heard "magic" being used over and over again in several contexts, I was looking for a concise expression of what it means to me, covering aspects of design, imagination, the work it takes, etc. .. and sort of came up with th
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by aufreak3 15y ago
For a mental model, pretend that variables are referring to storage locations in an array and you reference them using indices - v = [..., v[100], v[101], v[102], v[103], ....] For example, take the function in the stackoverflow answer -
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by aufreak3 15y ago
It looks to me like all this debate has no observable consequence on the respective programming communities. Node folks will program the Node way and love it and Erlang folks will program the Erlang way and love it. The creators of neither
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Any examples? HTML5+JS does look quite rich as a presentation layer. Well, rich enough for Apple to build iAds on it, WebOS to build its UI layer on it .. and, on the topic, even MS is basing the Win8 presentation layer on it. Is your point
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by aufreak3 15y ago
I'm a newbie to JavaScript, who got in primarily for the upcoming "web audio API" in webkit. As I code, I realize how capable the JS engines have become over time - enough to do some "serious" math for audio. Also seeing WebGL taking hold,
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Whats the fuss about exits? Why not focus on revenues? Do Redbus, Cleartrip and Flipkart need to be sold before they're worth doing?
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Individuals are easy targets for finger pointing when it comes to "who screwed up X". In the case of something as large as a country ... what were the rest of the gazillion folks doing? Supporting the screwups?
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Math and hard science learning can be reasonably measured by the kind of objective testing that KA does, however that is inadequate for subjects like history. Knowing about a bunch of events says nothing about the "lesson". I wonder how KA
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Skills become outdated over time. The skill of mental calculations, I think, is not really that valuable on the average nor is it unlearnable later on if you sit at a cashier's desk at some point ... but the skill of doing quantitative ca
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by aufreak3 15y ago
I like the definition of humility by Eliezer Yudkowsky on less wrong - "To be humble is to take specific actions in anticipation of your own errors." Given Dr. Everitt's commitment to this experiment, I'd wager he was humble enough accordin
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by aufreak3 15y ago
It is actually great that they're doing this experiment 'cos if it turned out in a way that contradicted theory (which I think says "antimatter falls") then we might have to re-examine a whole lot of things! For example, if antimatter rises
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by aufreak3 15y ago
I think the way that is usually phrased is that "photons are their own antiparticles". Rgd "anti matter galaxies", we do detect particle cosmic rays on earth that originate from outer space (outside the solar system), though I don't know ei
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by aufreak3 16y ago
While we're guessing why fb did this, it certainly looks like something that govt bodies which might need to run such infrastructure can borrow. If fb is, for example, shooting for the "national id" programme as I read somewhere, who'd you
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Adding laws about bribery demands new legal machinery. I was wondering whether the need for that can be bypassed by piggy backing on contract law.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I'm left wondering whether such direct intervention of the legal system is the only way to contain the rampant bribery. For instance, what if employment contracts for officials make them agree to an "I will not accept bribes and I understan
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by aufreak3 16y ago
> This finding is of unknown clinical significance. That certainly made me question why the article was trying to project some paranoia around this. A tangential note: I congratulate NYT for actually linking to the original JAMA repor
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by aufreak3 16y ago
There is still a lot of scope for significant hardware changes in the device space. A couple of my favourites - a) Pen input on iPad category devices (great for schools!) and b) camera embedded within the display (so you can look at the o
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Remove the pipe symbols and you get Forth syntax!
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Normally, I'd jump at the opportunity .. but I'm conserving energy for my research .. while a wide world of possibilities awaits :)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Music history has great examples of now considered beautiful music that was once (figuratively) spat on. The audience created a ruckus during the first performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, Wagner looks like, in modern terminol
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I agree with the feeling of "circular reasoning" in this paper. First you restrict yourself to integer ratio pitches, then you lay them out such that simple ratios occur close together, then you claim that scales contain pitches close toget
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by aufreak3 16y ago
The explanation in this seems plausible, but doesn't account for other ways to solve the perception problem - for example, google can do real open code and set up a "signed by google" program to indicate that not all of what's out there is
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Damn! Can't type ω with option-03C9 even with the unicode hex input turned on in macosx! Hope CΩ satisfies them :)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Not quite true. If you look at audio in HTML only through the lens of the <audio> tag, you're right. Some of the work-in-progress JS audio API stuff that doesn't depend on the audio tag rocks, even right now, in the dev builds. Th
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Neat! .. I should've googled before posting :)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
The yearning for the richness of language in computer interfaces is a meme that keeps coming back. I wonder whether there is a way to satisfy that. Here's an idea (around MacOSX) - Push the dock over to the side as a column and set aside a
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Kinect?

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