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by cooper12 11y ago
Yeah the lack of a scrollbar and an inability to highlight text really irked me, especially because I wanted to search some of the terms in the article to find out more. I really don't get why they bother with these anti-features...
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by cooper12 11y ago
They recently overhauled it, [0] but back then the pageviews [1] wouldn't count mobile users. You can see the old stats for Jackon's page here: http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Michael%20Jackson . The actua
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by cooper12 11y ago
It blocks Tor users because of vandalism. You can however request exemption if your account if in good standing or have an account created for you. [0] Also this "personal attack" business you see is because Wikipedia really car
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by cooper12 11y ago
Such as?
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by cooper12 11y ago
Jesus, what a baby pretending to be the victim. Admins only step in when you've been breaking rules such as by edit warring—which means refusing to discuss changes and just redoing edits to get your way—or by constantly using personal
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by cooper12 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
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by cooper12 11y ago
I mean packet loss and mutation is inherent to communication though. Just consider the game of telephone or how rumors spread; the technology doesn't matter, it's our own memories and interpretations that are at fault. In this cas
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by cooper12 11y ago
Why would "computers become more like the AI in the movie ex machina"? What are you basing that on? Are you knowledgable about how the field of AI is progressing or how these bots function? Do be careful to not confuse fiction wit
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by cooper12 11y ago
Even the most mundane stuff can generate interesting discussion. From the current comments I've already learned a bunch about car tracking systems as well as the topic of theft. And yes the theft being related to the Internet Archive i
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by cooper12 11y ago
Likely so you could see things other people have open-sourced that you might not have before. It would probably be most useful for getting ideas of what people have made rather than finding projects to contribute to, since a lot of these wi
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by cooper12 11y ago
Wow, while I'm still disappointed that this doesn't support EPUB, I'm impressed by the feature set. It's clear that the team that did product design is really starting to understand book readers and their needs. The pric
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by cooper12 11y ago
Fair points, especially the car part. It just feels exploitative to me though, making money off people who are already desperate for any they can get. Looking more closely at the article, it looks like they wanted to profit off things like
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by cooper12 11y ago
Okay that's a much more reasonable thread of thought and I actually do agree that there isn't a viable solution present, especially because current solutions aren't effective at solving the issue. You choice of quotes just ma
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by cooper12 11y ago
The app actually has a bunch of neat features: really nice typography, material design, offline articles, article preview cards. Just try it out, I found it to be a good experience. Also, the Android version has half a million ratings so yo
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by cooper12 11y ago
I've been seeing a interesting trend lately with people conflating "not being a jerk" with "political correctness". If you're aware its a dangerous game and that its hurting people's feelings, why are you
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by cooper12 11y ago
Great job reducing a whole population to two people in order to perpetuate your biases. I bet people love living on the streets and begging for handouts. I don't understand why they can't get jobs like normal people?
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by cooper12 11y ago
Honestly, I don't see any redemption here. Rather than looking inward and questioning his beliefs and place in everything, it just seems like he was desperate to do anything to salvage his image—which was all his doing in the first pla
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by cooper12 11y ago
That's because the former wasn't updated yet. Thanks for pointing it out, I've fixed it.
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by cooper12 11y ago
I think since this is a Wikimedia project, that the images themselves were freely licensed, but Sweden has weak or no Freedom of Panorama, which is where the "public" part would factor in. ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by cooper12 11y ago
Yep, as they say: "The Suit is Back!" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html )
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by cooper12 11y ago
Looks like MediaWiki (the software behind WIkipedia) verifies that the MIME type matches the extension: "MediaWiki tries to detect the MIME type of the files you upload, and rejects the file if the file-extension does not match the mim
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by cooper12 11y ago
One thing that's happened is that Wikimedia Common's is utilizing IP range blocks for the country. (meaning users will have to request exempt accounts) [0] However, users can also upload files to their local Wikipedias and the Por
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by cooper12 11y ago
You're catching some flak for your unrelenting attitude, but I agree. Directors make films as a cohesive whole. That's why people watch complete movies rather than just a scene. Skipping a scene is just the same as closing your ey
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by cooper12 11y ago
Yeah I have, it has interesting results sometimes. The thing is, it's just a markov chain implementation rather than any involved machine learning. Though I do realize now that the twitter bot is probably using likes and retweets as a
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by cooper12 11y ago
Actually now that I look at the context again, and found a more specific term: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Zero+chill , it seems it just means not caring/being reckless, as in the first definition in
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by cooper12 11y ago
Bad idea warning: they should have put this on reddit instead. While the current culture of reddit is very inflammatory (lots of vitriol all around), at least on reddit there's a feedback system in the form of upvotes and downvotes. Wh
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by cooper12 11y ago
When in doubt, consult the dictionary of youth vernacular: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=No+Chill . The way I'd define it personally is that chill is the quality of not being easily fazed and implies a
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by cooper12 11y ago
Why haven't more freely-licensed databases taken off in general? For movies, IMDb (Internet Movie Database) is hugely popular and even lets its users edit, but its data is proprietary. TMDb (The Movie Database) provides an API, but its
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by cooper12 11y ago
That's actually their standard 404 message: https://www.npmjs.com/package/lukegt-test .
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by cooper12 11y ago
I did mention it, and when most people speak of education they are usually referring to the learning aspect.

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