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by aufreak3 15y ago
Hmmm ... the "guy" could be a self-aware AI as well?
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by aufreak3 15y ago
It's good to remember Jeff Raskin's theorem "intuitive = familiar". If you come from the C++ world, Objective-C is going to look weird. If you come from the Smalltalk world, not all that weird. Also, syntax is the worst place to start lea
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by aufreak3 15y ago
... And to top it, i really hope they put the front facing camera somewhere in the middle of the display -- a patent they've held for a while without being used in a product. That'll change all the awkwardness with video conferencing on the
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by aufreak3 15y ago
To add to this, much of what was said about the ipad 1 when it launched was along the lines of "but this is just a large sized ipod touch!". Tech "analysis" quality seems to have taken a dive. Thank goodness sites like anandtech exist. Pers
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by aufreak3 15y ago
It seems useful to address the question of why people create new languages - either DSLs or full languages. Would anyone know of work in such an area? The answer to the "why" is not the reasons people say they make a language. I mean th
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Sounds like a nice idea, but this post makes it look like it is doomed from the start ... and such a system could even be detrimental to a humane, forgiving society.
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IBM Quantum Computing Press Release(ibmquantumcomputing.tumblr.com)
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by aufreak3 15y ago
I find use for G+ due to the same higher intellect density that my circles generate on it. If Google were really interested in integrating their crawling search with social search, they'd provide a "share this search with your circles" fe
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by aufreak3 15y ago
The real solution to this problem would be for tesla to setup "anti-brick" charging stations, install google's self-drive system on their cars, and program them to drive themselves to the nearest station and charge themselves if there is
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by aufreak3 15y ago
The action that path says they've taken - which is to delete all the contacts they have so far collected - serves to move me to forgiving them, 'cos that action is the only thing they have going for the contact collection being a "mistake".
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by aufreak3 15y ago
The word "autodidact" hides a lot of complexity behind it that makes it difficult to make any coherent argument for or against it. For one thing, a teacher cannot shove anything down your throat. It is always the student who learns and in
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by aufreak3 15y ago
I find code that does more with less to be beautiful and valuable. Note that I'm not including code that does the same with less. As with all things beautiful, this is tough to illustrate, so I'll use an analogy here from Physics. Page "x
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by aufreak3 15y ago
The article's title reminded me of this post on lesswrong - "timeless causality" - http://lesswrong.com/lw/qr/timeless_causality/ - also based on Judea Pearl's work.
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by aufreak3 15y ago
If you go by "skate to where the puck is going to be", the puck, when it comes to communication, always moves towards platform agnostic protocols. (.. and Skype provided a decent fraction of Facetime's functionality well before Facetime). I
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by aufreak3 15y ago
The point I was trying to make is not that Apple is bad at designing these things. My point is that they seem to consistently miss the fact that communication is a platform agnostic need. To give an exaggerated example, would you buy an iPh
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Apologies for misreading the reframing of "monotonic". I only skimmed the article 'cos i'm familiar with the domain and the ideas expressed in it. It doesn't help that the article hijacks a common term in music for the special purpose of ta
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by aufreak3 15y ago
If you string together the cases of Appletalk, iChat, ping, FaceTime, and now iCloud (photo stream in particular), the Apple model of 'communication' seems always limited to the apple ecosystem. Apple doesn't seem to understand that even if
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by aufreak3 15y ago
I think PG does make one contribution in this essay - "The most dangerous thing about our dislike of schleps is that much of it is unconscious. Your unconscious won't even let you see ideas that involve painful schleps. That's schlep blindn
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by aufreak3 15y ago
The iTunes music store can be seen as a schlepp solved. Apple made tough deals with record labels and Bill Gates' comment "This time somehow he has applied his talents in getting a better licensing deal than anyone else has gotten for music
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by aufreak3 15y ago
This is very old thinking (like half a century old) and the folks most qualified to comment on what is music and what is isn't are those at the vanguard, the "noise music" folks, the electroacoustic artists. For one thing, monophonic musi
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Cubelets - a modular robotics construction kit for kids(modrobotics.com)
1 points by aufreak3 15y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 15y ago
I wonder whether the anti-thesis of such sites might be more effective than these "complain away" ones. By that, I mean sites where people can post appreciative notes about job well done by particular government staff. If the ratings ther
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Here is another way to refactor that example in JS - // constructor for the FileInfo class FileInfo = function(filename) { function withFile(block) { var f; try { f = File.open(filename, "r");
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by aufreak3 15y ago
The convolution series question is bad 'cos you don't give enough terms to even see it. The next term is 28 only if the first four numbers are 1,5,7,15 and you assume that what precedes 1 is 0. If you give two or three terms more (28, 48,
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Also, the open-source examples he presents don't help eliminate the explanation that it is the attitude with which a piece of software is open sourced that might make the difference - i.e. are you "dumping" it on the open source community
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by aufreak3 15y ago
We don't need to be told ideas are worthless. What we need is how to tell when an idea is worth it? The "eureka method of idea formation", I think, banks on our grand vision of telling a great story at some point in the future about how t
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by aufreak3 15y ago
If scaling is an important consideration from the start, erlang would be a good choice. I think whatsapp runs on an erlang and c++ backend.
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Aha! I think I see the difference now. It's (in all earnestness, I swear) the difference between OOP and FP. Vim is verb-first and emacs is noun first :D My vim preference correlates with my language preference. How about yours? Do you pre
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by aufreak3 15y ago
> A very trivial example is the fact that most IDEs don’t even have keybindings optimized for touch typing - they require you to move your hands often from the home row (such a waste) and have mouse-centric UIs. what? ... and Emacs has
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Hmmm ... the author says that percentage of frame time left for game logic is the important factor, but if raw c++ is around 6 times faster, doesn't that mean you can do 6x more sophisticated game logic in a given amount of free time as wel

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