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by chwahoo 16y ago
Check out Amazon's fulfullment services: http://www.amazonservices.com/content/fulfillment-by-amazon....
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Or maybe more similar, in effect, to getting free pieces of candy from a candy machine :). Of course, there is a contingent that believes there is no similarity between something like this and stealing since nothing physical is taken (but I
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I don't know anything about the people who initially brought up the potential copyright infringement, but it seems like the only potential beneficiaries of the allegation are folks who would like companies to worry about Android's IP footin
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by chwahoo 16y ago
The reason is certainly that Amazon intended the lending feature to be used between a person's small network of acquaintances. This means that the likelihood of being able to borrow every book you want should be pretty low. Lendle gamed t
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Wow, Pfizer is involved with taking down botnets. I would never have guessed that, but the explanation in the article makes perfect sense.
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by chwahoo 16y ago
“...and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.” I can't count the number of mistakes that I
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I think this is an awesome trend by the way. I love the idea of my social/web data living on my dropbox and I get to choose which apps use it. What would be even more compelling would be a standard interface for this sort of thing, so t
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by chwahoo 16y ago
My gut reaction is that this sounds like something I don't have a pressing need for. So the real answer is, you'd have to come up with a really compelling story for why this would improve my life and then build a slick implementation to ma
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by chwahoo 16y ago
XSLT performs transformations (i.e., takes input and produces output). This sounds to me like a "program" so I wouldn't be surprised that a language like XSLT might be Turing complete. HTML and CSS are much more "static" in flavor (hence t
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I don't see why the pedigree of the creators of Tex/Latex/Word was relevant to this article. Perhaps mentioning the clout of Knuth and Lamport was excusable, but I don't think it was reasonable to pick on the creators of Word for being les
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by chwahoo 16y ago
> This puts the user back in control of their internet activities, the way it should be. Why should the user be in solely in control of how a content producer's material is consumed? The vision you reference scares me a bit: We've alre
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I think your comments are a bit too strong for being based on this one review. For example, his battery complaints are not inline with what the rest of the world is seeing. While Apple certainly has a big lead, I wouldn't conclude from thi
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I found your talk to be one of the more pragmatic takes on current challenges to privacy that I've heard for precisely this reason. While people can and sometimes do choose to opt-out, I've never been personally comfortable with the high
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I like it when academic papers include some personality or touches of informality (in headings or examples for example), as long as the required rigor is not sacrificed elsewhere. Now "why else is his cool?" is probably a bit further than
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Doing independent research like this is very cool. I admire your willingness to take such a risk and make this sacrifice. One comment I would add is that, while you might be more "productive" solo (less context switching/blocking I assume
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by chwahoo 16y ago
My point wasn't intended to be as low-level as it came across. Perhaps a more clear restatement is that I suspect that the attention to detail that I associate with the "proof mindset" isn't quite the same thing as the "twisted mind" that
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I haven't seen the shirt that inspired you, so my opinion probably isn't so useful.
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Seven?!! ...so inelegant compared to the two rules needed for evaluating lambda calculus ;)
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Cool idea, I'd be interested in something like that too, although not out of any implied association with YC (the VC firm). More because I'm a student in a PL group :). However, there's something about the font/position of the logo...err..
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I'm not sure that any of this disputes the original post's claim that Apple's bread and butter is vendor lock-in and there are legitimate reasons for users to oppose this. It's not so much an indictment of Apple---pretty much everyone would
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I apologize for being slightly off-topic. I think an open-source PDF -> HTML 5 renderer would be extremely useful and potentially disruptive. I suspect it would produce lots of experimentation into the right way to read, annotate, and
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by chwahoo 16y ago
This looks nice! I've long wanted a PDF viewer that had annotations that appeared off to the side and could be annotated collaboratively so I'm very excited to see that crocodoc has made progress in that direction. Some misc. comments: * T
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by chwahoo 16y ago
> That "definition" includes eight distinct meanings. "Performance" itself, and many other words, have lots of meanings [1]. > not one of the on- or off-line dictionaries I have just checked recognises any similar meaning of the wor
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Where the author's narrative breaks down is when he draws a parallel between security and proofs of theorems . The closer connection is between security and adequacy of theorems. It is true that you need to make sure your software confo
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Hmmm... wiktionary includes a definition of "performant" as computer jargon meaning "capable of or characterized by an adequate or excellent level of performance or efficiency" [1]. I find it hard to disagree that this informal use has ent
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by chwahoo 16y ago
You might be right, but I think your claim is more controversial than you imply. For the most part, I think the league would prefer the rules be applied mechanically. The one exception I can imagine is giving a player a warning about bord
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Ask HN: Good books about malware forensics?
4 points by chwahoo 16y ago|2 comments
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by chwahoo 16y ago
So the point of this discussion was showing that HTML cannot be parsed, in general, using regular expressions and asserting "... it turns out that the programmers who don't understand the pumping lemma are the same programmers who unnecessa
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by that. A major theme in the books is reconciling science with subjective experience, but he doesn't advocate doing so by ignoring factual things. I would have a hard time believing that he intentionally trea
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by chwahoo 16y ago
ZAMM and the follow-on Lila are both worthwhile reads. However, I was uncomfortable with Persig's (pervasive) discussion of insanity. He defines insanity as, roughly, holding beliefs that differ widely from those held by an overwhelming ma

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