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by cgranade 18y ago
Those figures sound suspect to me, given the immense volume of searches performed on Google. I would guess that there's some double-counting going on. All else aside, figures like those are all derived on the assumption that electricity is
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by cgranade 18y ago
OK, I'll admit that color barcodes are cool, but there's several problems with this: * There's no compelling usecase that cannot be accomplished with existing technologies like QR-code. * Routing all Tag traffic though MS systems is just as
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by cgranade 18y ago
Criticism, if kept in check, can be a valuable tool IMHO. Remember, to many eyes, all bugs are shallow. In a way, then, I think that criticism can provide a way of bug checking designs and modes of thought. Of course, criticism can turn nas
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by cgranade 18y ago
I mostly agree, but I must take slight issue with the point about imposing a significant cost being morally unquestionable. Microsoft, to follow the example, has gained an unfair monopoly, and has exploited such to prevent possibly superior
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by cgranade 18y ago
Scam? Ivory tower intellectuals? Those are two very odd ideas to conflate. Who better to attack issues of global inequity than those who have studied and researched the causes? Frankly, I would encourage you to not be so flip about calling
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by cgranade 18y ago
Edit: Boy, do I feel stupid. What I proposed exists, and is called RDFa. ( http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/ ) It occurs to me that the W3C already has an extensible semantics framework: RDF. This framework can be represented in many diff
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by cgranade 18y ago
That said, the W3C validator does reveal several issues with the HN code. Sure, they aren't do-or-die issues, but they do have an effect. The validator reports that alt text is missing for several issues, that many attributes are missing qu
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by cgranade 18y ago
Reminds me of when I was simultaneously marked by the public school system as gifted and in need of special education. Some people have a hard time with the idea that there are different kinds of intelligence.
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by cgranade 18y ago
Though I agree with the main gist of the article, the tone leaves something to be desired. For instance, the author seems to think that somehow free culture supporters such as myself dupe people into using Creative Commons licenses. Free so
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by cgranade 18y ago
As was pointed out in comments on the original article, that's only of small comfort, as archive.org doesn't capture scripts or some images. Besides, because someone else can help repair the damage doesn't mean that it's OK to deal the dama
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by cgranade 18y ago
I know that Google provides an API for accessing Google Contacts w/o passwords, but does Hotmail provide similar? If not, then it is fair... you use what you can. Otherwise, if there is a better way, then it should be used. I don't think th
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by cgranade 18y ago
That's similar to, but more sophisticated, than what FriendFeed does. FF has an "API password" that you plug into other sites, and you can change the API password at any time, but they don't have separate API passwords for different sites.
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by cgranade 18y ago
The title here is misleading to me... it sounds like the kerfuffle is about Power.com not using the proper APIs and instead choosing to capture login credentials. That's a real breach of security, and given that Facebook implements an alter
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by cgranade 18y ago
Another pro? It's also a Greasemonkey userscript, so you don't even need the extension if you're already a GM user.
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by cgranade 18y ago
I didn't realize that Jython was out-of-date enough to miss decorators... I hope that Jython doesn't die.
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by cgranade 18y ago
To my mind, this isn't a problem with just the browsers, but with Flash as well. An in-browser cookie flush shouldn't screw with plugins unless they specifically request it. Thus, I think that there really should be an API for that kind of
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by cgranade 18y ago
Oh, no doubt, there are the self-flagellating type, but I argue that holding them up as the standard is a gross mischaracterization of environmentalism. Just like there are with any movement, there are environmentalists who dreadfully miss
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by cgranade 18y ago
I really do care for the environment in its own right, and I care for a host of reasons. There's the aesthetic argument against destroying anything beautiful and the argument that more sentient species may emerge if we don't stand in their
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by cgranade 18y ago
I really disagree that games lack soul. I wonder if the author has ever played any of the Metal Gear Solid series, any of the Final Fantasy series, Folklore, or even any Shin Megami Tensei games. That's just to name a few! It's a real insul
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by cgranade 18y ago
Test a few the big ones (Fedora and Ubuntu spring to mind), play nice with native package managers and use a liberal enough license that someone can make a package of your game for another distro, even if they still need to install the data
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by cgranade 18y ago
What, pray tell, is this "PC establishment?" It is odd to see such a concept invoked to defend a set of societal stereotypes, when "PC" is intended to raise images of, well, societal stereotypes. As other commenters have pointed out, the bl
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by cgranade 18y ago
In response to the blue/pink thing, there's always some set of societal discriminators between boys and girls (and later, between men and women), and to a one, they seem to me to be completely arbitrary. Shoulder pads, now a staple of women
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by cgranade 18y ago
Missing the application of Foo.description(). That said, I feel that compile-time failure is vastly underrated. Java is making even more progress on that front by introducing type checker frameworks with JSR 308.
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by cgranade 18y ago
C# feels dreadfully underdesigned to me. Despite its massive flaws, I still love Java for how consistent it is, and for how well-thought out it is. For instance, generics in C# aren't getting covariance and contravariance until 4.0, which I
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by cgranade 18y ago
Really, it sounds more as if Google wants cohosting than a "fast lane" or other special treatment.
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by cgranade 18y ago
LyX is a godsend for taking LaTeX-formatted notes in class.
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by cgranade 18y ago
Really, from what anecdotal evidence I've seen, the ability to deal with things abstractly is crucial. Moreover, it has seemed to me that the ability to maintain multiple abstractions and switch between them is also crucial. Note that this
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by cgranade 18y ago
Good for him for straightening things out. I can really understand getting ticked at ignorance, even well-meaning ignorance. Moreover, I can really understand being ignorant on an esoteric issue... I am quite ignorant about a great many thi
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by cgranade 18y ago
The version incompatibilities are a large part of why I respect Sun's commitment to backward compatibility. Even when it means that I can't use things like generics, that backwards compatibility also means that I can use the same applet for
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by cgranade 18y ago
Really, in many ways, that wasn't too original of an essay, but it was very well written, and it was something that needed to be said.

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