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by deong 12y ago
As far as I know, every system that can go to LaTeX as an export option gives you a basic LaTeX document. I don't know how you tell Pandoc, for instance, "OK, I need three authors in the author block, centered horizontally, with t
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by deong 12y ago
I'm happy to be corrected on that point, but then the question becomes: what gives us any confidence that the CSS spec is going to be followed in exactly the same way by multiple browser vendors consistently between now and 2034? Certa
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by deong 12y ago
I'd give the same answers as you've probably heard a dozen times before. Binary logs, D-bus fundamentally baked in, the whole "shims are a perfectly good solution" viewpoint, basically the usual things people like me don
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by deong 12y ago
There are a couple of issues here. First, Markdown and HTML simply punt on the vast majority of the issues that TeX solves. Just as the author rightly comments that TeX is not geared toward online publication, HTML is geared toward only t
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by deong 12y ago
> Again, this is only for software where the developers have explicitly decided to hard-code in dependencies to systemd, which is not likely going to be everyone. I'd put good money on this getting harder and harder going forward th
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by deong 12y ago
Me personally? Not really. Like I said, I've been using it for a while and it's fine, but I also haven't tried to "stretch" it yet, so my experience doesn't really mean that much one way or the other. It's
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by deong 12y ago
As another article I read just today pointed out (in a completely different context), the point of Unix isn't the number or size of the tools. It's the composability of the tools. systemd might be a collection of many small tools,
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by deong 12y ago
Plenty of people seem to buy 27" 1080p displays though, which is arguably worse than 768 on the 13-14" screen of a typical cheap laptop.
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by deong 12y ago
I've heard dozens of people say that about the iPhone 6 -- not necessarily about the 6 Plus though. I'd say that 5" versus 6" is a qualitative difference. People don't buy a 6" phone thinking, "Eh, whate
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by deong 12y ago
I much prefer a big tablet (currently a Nexus 10) to a laptop for several things, most notably reading-heavy tasks (RSS, Magazines). I usually use a Kindle for novels and the like, but I read technical books or illustration-laden books on t
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by deong 12y ago
It does seem to be the majority, from all the anecdotal evidence of that being what people complain about. Maybe I'm weird. I don't care at all about one-handed use. For me the difference is being able to put it into my pocket wit
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by deong 12y ago
I'm also an old fart who wears relaxed fit jeans pretty much all the time, but some of them have much smaller pockets than others. And I'm 6'3", with a 38" waist, so it's not a matter of my tiny pants. However,
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by deong 12y ago
Mac development is still reasonably open. Distribution on the Mac App Store is not, and the limitations are crippling. It's not a matter of convenience -- you simply can't sell a sophisticated application on the App Store, and i
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by deong 12y ago
Just have the app detect that there's a new version available (via a call to your server) and prompt the user to download the new apk. I run betas of the BeyondPod app, and it does exactly this perfectly well.
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by deong 12y ago
It comes down to a question of definition. Is it a monopoly if there is literally zero cost to entering a market, but the market conditions make it almost certain that you'll fail? Hatchette and any other publisher could stop selling t
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by deong 12y ago
By definition it must be able to see your keystrokes. What sort of policy are you looking for? I guess you could deny them internet access on a more granular level, but otherwise, it seems like they need pretty terrifying permissions to eve
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by deong 12y ago
Most of the iOS ones have been on Android for a long time. Obviously, it's easy to get yourself up to speed on the new platform when you've already done all the R&D and just need to do a port.
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by deong 12y ago
It doesn't, but a long press on the delete key deletes words at a time, accelerating as long as you keep pressing.
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by deong 12y ago
That part is presumably easy enough, but it won't matter if you can't convince Wal-Mart to spend an extra $X per reader across every checkout aisle in their massive network of stores.
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by deong 12y ago
I agree, but all the little coffee shops and convenience stores are more likely to adopt a new payment scheme if it becomes ubiquitous, and for that, it has to be adopted by the Wal-Marts and Best Buys of the world.
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by deong 12y ago
That would make my point even stronger then. If Wal-Mart makes up far more than 6%, then it's even more important that they support any retail payment system you expect to take off.
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by deong 12y ago
I don't know that it is -- I just pulled it from the cited link. The source cites it's own sources, and at a first glance, it seems reasonably well done, but there you go. Oh, and on second thought, maybe it would have been better
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by deong 12y ago
The comments there are pretty much why people talk about a "distortion field" around Apple. It's basically person after person saying, "once all the iPhone 6 users start wanting to pay, they'll have to change their
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by deong 12y ago
Where do you get the idea that there's no economic opportunity cost without physical items? The whole idea of opportunity cost is intangible -- it's the difference between what you got by doing what you did versus what you could h
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by deong 12y ago
Ah, that would explain it.
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by deong 12y ago
At some level, it all boils down to increasing accuracy, but the point I was making was just that doing that seems right not to be best accomplished with loads of data. If you look at the deep learning work that's been big lately, you
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by deong 12y ago
I recommend diversifying your hopes for the future into a few more buckets, because any eggs you put in this particular basket aren't coming back.
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by deong 12y ago
More data gets you way more than that, but it's not just the data anyway. Google has the personnel who are able to make use of that data. This isn't the kind of stuff you can easily outsource, you need a superb research team. (Sou
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by deong 12y ago
> Neither does Google in most places. And Apple, Google, Microsoft etc all rely on third party data providers for most of their map data. Surely they would be confirming the data. Apple Maps has been out for two full years now, and it ha
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by deong 12y ago
You're right, synchronization means making two directory trees identical. Nothing about that definition refers to or relies on the concept of a canonical source and a target to be wiped. That's cloning, which is a special case of

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