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by blinks 16y ago
What is intuition? What is flexibility? How do you test these things in a lab? Turing's test is based on the most straightforward way of measuring intelligence (loaded word, but common; here I'm specifically talking about "intuition,
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by blinks 16y ago
Did you notice that it uses accelerometer data? That's the most impressive part to me.
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by blinks 16y ago
Dunno about playing un-fun games for achievements, but Civ V (for example) has achievements to push you to explore every part of the game. Going through them has me working on crazy win conditions, the 1-city challenge, different leader st
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by blinks 16y ago
Protect static content behind authentication? Hosting static files naked is almost _asking_ for them to be hotlinked.
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by blinks 16y ago
Have you seen the 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 DNS servers? ( http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html )
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by blinks 16y ago
Ah, I like it. :)
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by blinks 16y ago
Seems like it should just reset in that case. Honestly, didn't find it too difficult; just dropped into chair-zazen for a couple minutes.
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by blinks 16y ago
What about opening in Opera? Skyfire?
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by blinks 16y ago
Note: "Say you have one string of alphabetic characters" The array of bools, bitmap (remember 32-bit int!), hash map; all are the same basic deal, easy to understand code, etc. Any would probably be fine, imho. Hash map would be my initi
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by blinks 16y ago
> I cannot imagine how hard it must have been to learn how to program without the internet[.] Personally, the hard part was getting good documentation, though my parents' 286 came with a manual on GW-BASIC, which was included. I also m
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by blinks 16y ago
> I imagine he's just as angry that the Android UI is basically a second-rate knockoff. [citation needed] I used an iPhone for a couple years, got a G1 and used it for a while, got a Nexus One and used it for a while, used the iPhone fo
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by blinks 16y ago
Minor correction: Gmail has an offline mode that gives archive access. Personally, I use my web apps for backup already -- images go on Picasa so I don't have to worry about whether my local drive is going to die or not. (I already have Ti
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by blinks 16y ago
> do not invite police into your house. Sorry, just made me laugh: can they cross running water? Do they reflect in mirrors? The TL;DR seems like good advice in general.
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by blinks 16y ago
You must sync a new iPad (on a computer with iTunes) before first use. I don't know if that still applies for the iPhone (though it probably does, for activation). The iPod is worthless if you don't have a computer, for how would you get
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by blinks 16y ago
> The original Mario has already stood the test of time,... Just a note: 30 years is not a test of time; I think you need to hit around 200 years to get to that mark. Video games are truly a nascent art form, and I think Mario's got
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by blinks 17y ago
Clarification would be good, here: what is the point, exactly, that you'd be missing?
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by blinks 17y ago
The downside is that they're selling tweets -- you have to wonder about their followers.
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by blinks 17y ago
There's a bit more going on there. See http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/code-its-trivial.ht... for a related principle.
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by blinks 17y ago
Grep for "Being killed does not make the Natives good but the Europeans bad."
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by blinks 17y ago
People aren't "good" or "bad." Actions are.
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by blinks 17y ago
> I'll argue that it exists - not everybody who torments a baby has an excuse for it. [citation needed] -- It's practically a tautology that people take actions for reasons , even if they don't consciously know what those reasons are.
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by blinks 17y ago
Or ping me; I work there. :) (There are quite a few of us on HN, afaict.)
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by blinks 17y ago
[citation needed]
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by blinks 17y ago
> ... (by selling the data, ...) ... http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html -> grep Information Sharing.
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by blinks 17y ago
> rather than some half-assed assessment of me as a person > made in an interview. Any judgement made in a 45-minute (or less!) interview is going to be half-assed. That's the unfortunate way of the world. How do you think people
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by blinks 17y ago
On Edit2: interfaces don't replace generics, they're more like a strong duck-typing system (if that makes any sense). Generics are being worked on (according to the tech talk), but they haven't determined the best way to do them yet.
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by blinks 17y ago
This is why a proper test needs to be administered by a professional, I would expect.
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by blinks 17y ago
Well, I'm still getting free food up here in Google Kirkland, and it's great. The article seemed pretty odd to me, too.
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by blinks 17y ago
Sometimes; generally not, though. I'd love to come down, but I'll be somewhat busy.
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by blinks 17y ago
Electronica, compared to Brian Eno and Joe Satriani; I'm on Last.FM ( http://www.last.fm/music/Hacker+Blinks ) and AmieStreet ( http://amiestreet.com/music/hacker-blinks/ ) Oh, and tools: earlier stuff was with Reason, later stuff with Logi

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