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by calcnerd256 16y ago
It's time for distributed trust.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
I'm not sure, but I'd guess closing over it in the callback would work, as long as the TCP timeout is longer than the database response (even then, you could probably touch the stream every so often while you wait, perhaps via nextTick or s
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
I guess it's time for me to try Plan 9 in a virtual machine again soon. Last time I tried it, I wasn't able to get it up to the point that I could use the Web browser. That's kind of necessary these days, if one wants to stick with an OS.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
I have a severe (self-diagnosed :P ) case of Not Invented Here. It prevents me from hacking on Somebody Else's Code. It's why I use Ubuntu instead of Plan9 or HURD or Movitz. I really want to move toward one of those, but I just can't make
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
My naming convention is naming conventions. My server is named slogan, my tablet is named color, my netbook is named protagonist, my car (a Nissan Quest) is named Tribe, my ad-hoc wireless network's ssid is synonym, my external drive is nam
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
Yes, but they are read throughout the year.
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
I'd like that a little better if it had one or two past elements for each zoom level (eg., the first column is fine, the second column needs a "yesterday" and probably a "today" for grounding, the third column needs last week, and the last
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
Ideally, whoever grants the telcos monopoly power (Is it the FCC that does that? I don't know.) should be able to enforce net neutrality. If that's the FCC, they should be able to enforce it; if it's someone else, they should.
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
Perhaps it was to help others who won't understand that you did not imply otherwise.
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
or if the audio tag were designed differently
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
They could just be being glib. Clipping and LOD aren't the same thing as one another. Consider the 2-D case of sampling a line (uncountably many points) for a raster display. Reimagining our favorite line drawing algorithms as search proble
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
Is that akin to saying "It made me smile."?
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
Not arbitrarily. Make sure it's nothing new before you say it is. How complicated is the predicate they're searching?
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
Is the move Pareto-optimal?
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
"searching" a "point cloud" sounds like a winner, reminds me of Seadragon's claims about bandwidth/screen resolution, but in 3D (and complicated with a search problem with probably lots and lots of parameters)
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
Don't think of it as substitution. Think of it as telling the computer (and thus the world). It also provides a log, so the next time you're happy or mad at them, the computer can remind you of a good thing they did.
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
Why doesn't the dad give his daughter points when he's proud of her? When society has a bunch of different points systems like that, social points from each individual ought to be one kind of points system. It could help make trust networks
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
Sure. Myf = f(Myf) yyf = f(yyf) Suppose yxf = f(xxf) for all x. Now y is simply (lambda x f . f(xxf)) Note that this doesn't get you the applicative-order version we want, but it does satisfy the definition of Y My = (lamb
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
I prefer to start with two definitions and an assumption: Yf = f(Yf) for all [combinators] f, defines the desired behavior of Y Mx = xx for all [combinators] x (note that M then equals SII in SKI combinator calculus) assume there exists a y
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
So you wish you'd exercised the equivalent of a robots.txt?
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
Hanlon's razor
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
It would have taken me a lot longer to become familiar and comfortable with this culture if not for esr's help. A hard rule like "no esr" would throw the baby out with the bathwater. HN's shower has a drain.
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
For someone who studied Scripture in its original language, you've still managed to hit my pet peeve of pluralizing the title of the scroll of Disclosure.
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
The article is about the problem caused by not being explicit with our privacy intentions and expecting software to figure it out. If we keep catering to the expectation that software will solve this problem, we'll miss out on lots of oppor
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
the latter can cause the former
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
Opting out is at the bottom of the page, by the way. It's right next to opting out of chat.
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
I wonder how many songs would be in a fifty-year playlist
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
one foot in each I use facebook and Orkut. Sure, I use one more than the other, but there's possibility for that to shift because I'm free to use both.
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
and so both extremes violently agree, while the people in the middle misunderstand both
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by calcnerd256 17y ago
at which point the only thing to say is "denial of service"

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