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by aufreak3 14y ago
I understand that the 2.9mil figure is small compared to the figures for the other makers today , however, what were these figures for, say, the second or third generation of android devices? For a relatively new entrant, a market take up
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by aufreak3 14y ago
"Windows Phone is doing so badly that Nokia, Microsoft’s largest and staunchest mobile partner, actually sold more of its abandoned legacy Symbian devices (3.4 million) than its new Windows Phone Lumia phones (2.9 millio
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by aufreak3 14y ago
"So now, ESPN Watcher, the price you have to pay to watch the same network you love has to cover all those lost homes and all that lost advertising." That's assuming no alternative revenue streams in the "TV is dead" world
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I'm not sure the wheel has really been invented yet, at least in the case of JS. One of the things I found was that all the libraries had little or nothing to say about "error handling". Error handler bodies are always given with a comment
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The Google Creative Lab(creativity-online.com)
3 points by aufreak3 14y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 14y ago
"It won't do logic to figure it out,..." If it could do that, wouldn't that amount to having an oracle that can tell whether a program will terminate?
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From Löb's theorem to spreadsheet evaluation(blog.sigfpe.com)
30 points by aufreak3 14y ago|5 comments
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by aufreak3 14y ago
The interesting bit in the original experiment seemed to be the kids who'd say they'll wait for 15mins, but then succumb to the temptation of the marshmallow in front of them and eat it while waiting. Any rational (inductive) bit ought ma
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by aufreak3 14y ago
If the "Eastern Economy Edition" (EEE) prints of textbooks are similar to the ones that Kirtsaeng sold on ebay, the books may have a sale restriction based on region - a clause on the book that says something like "this book may only be sol
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RoboMind: A New Introduction to Programming(robomind.net)
7 points by aufreak3 14y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Ironically, I was thrilled to read this article! If the complaint that the state of the art of tech teaching in Indian colleges is stagnant is true to any extent, then at least some people (read the "project" folks) are improving by lea
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I'd like to record here that today both "The Music Academy" as well as the hospital I searched for are locatable on iOS6 Maps!! This makes me wonder what Tim Cook meant when he wrote "The more our customers use our Maps the better it will
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Some time back, I tried to take JSON as the AST and see if I can build a Scheme-like programming language with it. I did it just for kicks, but if it interests anyone .. [1]. It's lacking in docs, but this might be of interest - you get a S
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by aufreak3 14y ago
whatever .. I reserve my right as a user (who's paid for the device) to have expectations of functionality - the business side of things be damned. For now, I've done an "add to home screen" of the google maps mobile device page. Works muc
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Users are human and such generalization is what we "lusers" slip into when we're so radically disturbed by something. The post is a rant alright, but I'm pissed just the same that Apple's maps doesn't recognize "The Music Academy" in Chenna
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I'm not dyslexic, but I still checked out the fonts expecting them to bump up readability even for me. Usually, if some product is made to be usable by folks who have difficulty with something, it turns out to work better for folks who don'
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by aufreak3 14y ago
If you like scratch, check out BYOB ( http://byob.berkeley.edu/ ). It is just like scratch except you can "build your own blocks" - i.e. abstractions.
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by aufreak3 14y ago
> But human beings, with their very complicated behavior > patterns for adaptation to many environments, probably have > a system for regulating immune response that is harder to > observe. That, and even when playing alon
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by aufreak3 14y ago
It is healthy to be wary of "evolution explains X" claims. As you say, evolution theory is intended to explain all biological developments. That doesn't mean that any particular evolutionary pressure we can conceive of that logically leads
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by aufreak3 14y ago
At this point, I get the feeling that "skeuomorphism" is a broad sweeping category label created without enough cohesiveness within the category. Doing so urges discussions to assign properties to "skeuomorphism" (is bad, is good, is the wa
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by aufreak3 14y ago
That .. and the sleep LED that "breathes". The lock that shows in system preferences that need admin permissions is also a good one I think.
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Epigrams on Programming(pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de)
3 points by aufreak3 14y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I'm not sure what "kind of code that we all produce day-to-day" you're referring to, but Max being priced at $400 per license suggests it isn't only a "useful learning tool". Do checkout http://cycling74.com and see whether the long dista
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Unlike the "workflow systems" you mention, non-programmers make audio-visual art using Max/MSP/Jitter and kids make stuff using Scratch/BYOB. Both have been rather successful in engaging non-programmers of various age groups. So we do hav
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I, for one, am for more realworldness like this on these devices (not misplaced realworldness though). Given that an iPad can morph into so many things that were formerly analog - books, synthesizers, effects boxes, instruments, the calenda
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by aufreak3 14y ago
This is merely things that I practice that I think may be useful to some. I did read the full article and not just this one all the others including Matt Cuts post on 2fa. The companies are to blame, yes, but the "victim" is also responsibl
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I see no reason not to use a password manager (ex: keychain on macos) to keep different usernames and passwords for each account. It is very little overhead (at least with keychain). And yes I mean different user names even if it is require
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Thanks for the correction. Wonder what I was thinking. Must've had Pages or something on my mind.
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by aufreak3 14y ago
This was one of the strongest criticisms of the original iPad by Alan Kay to Steve Jobs iirc. After that criticism, we got Garage Band for iPad (which imo is so insanely awesome I bet it will take at least 2 years to appear on other devices
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by aufreak3 14y ago
The other part of making the "20% time" idea work I suppose is the ability of a company to rally behind what shows potential.

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