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by dfj225 16y ago
No, I never wanted an account privacy issues or not
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by dfj225 16y ago
I've been wondering how much fear over privacy issues the normal Facebook user has. My guess is that most Facebook users aren't aware of, or perhaps not interested in, the privacy issues that discussed by people like the ones here at HN. I
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by dfj225 16y ago
I might disagree that it's a poor use of Mark's time. The only product that Facebook has is software and a large portion, I'm guessing, comprises of internal APIs. So, what better way to test their quality than by writing some code against
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by dfj225 17y ago
I had the same thought and wondered, if a developer did follow such a path, how would Apple identify that they did? I'm not sure Apple could detect that such a method was used. Although, I suppose they could ban an app even if they only sus
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by dfj225 17y ago
I agree with Doctorow's points only when looking at the iPad as a replacement for a personal computer. If you look at it like a consumer appliance (just like the iPod Touch, iPhone, Kindle, Nook, etc.) then the iPad isn't really any differe
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by dfj225 17y ago
I took a look and thought the same thing. Doesn't help that it looks really similar to my current setup w/ gvim: http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3051/gvim1.png
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by dfj225 17y ago
All I can think of is Cryptonomicon and how much work Epiphyte(2) put into securing their IP and company plans. Of course this is fiction, but it made sense to me that the main value in a startup is in their ideas/IP so this should be prote
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by dfj225 17y ago
> Computers are quite central to everyone's lives, and still, 98% of people 'tolerate' Windows and OSX... On Windows and OSX you can install and run whatever application you want. You can, without permission from Microsoft or Apple, dev
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by dfj225 17y ago
Exactly. My prediction is that as cell phones become increasingly powerful, they will eventually replace computers, as we know them today, in most average consumers' lives. When this is the case, I don't think that closed systems can or sho
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by dfj225 17y ago
I think the math/cs book by Aho and Ullman does a good job of introducing basic math concepts backed up with plenty of code and examples. Plus: it is available online for free. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html
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by dfj225 17y ago
In the basic CS/Math classes at my school, trees are usually covered early in the course, usually along with proofs by induction. I think this might be a useful approach to carry over to your site. Once someone understands trees well, I thi
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by dfj225 17y ago
It could not answer my simple question: "Does P = NP". Until then, it's useless :-P
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by dfj225 17y ago
Wizards and GUIs (for the most part) only allow the user to perform operations that the developers have anticipated. The beauty of interacting with the computer through the command line -- the shell or some other programmable interface -- i
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by dfj225 17y ago
You are right. It's unfair (and all too easy) for someone from the outside to point their finger and say, "Bad! They should have done X." However, the reality is that Google has positioned themselves such that they have quickly become a uti
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by dfj225 17y ago
When I said process, I meant automated process. As a programmer, performing calculable tasks by hand is always out of the question :-P
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by dfj225 17y ago
Sure, but even if something is faulty I would guess that they have a way to test these updates on only a small portion of their network/traffic (at least much smaller than the 14% they said was affected).
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by dfj225 17y ago
Is it me or does it seem that when you are something like Google there should be a process to prevent just this sort of thing?
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by dfj225 18y ago
Not only that, but on modern processors, the order of operations tends to be important. For instance, the FFT algorithm executes a fixed number of floating point calculations, but can perform very differently based on the ordering of these
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Subversion 1.6 Released(subversion.tigris.org)
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by dfj225 18y ago
What about the multiprocessing module, that has been included with Python since v 2.6? http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html
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by dfj225 18y ago
Cool, that is exactly what I had in mind. So, I guess the real problem is just developer education. There have been many times where I've refrained from using an app solely because it needed access to my profile when I felt that was necessa
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by dfj225 18y ago
Today, IPython has a lot of features, but I only use a small subset of them on a daily basis (namely their shell interface). I would think that a decent ruby hacker could throw something similar together in a weekend, put it online and have
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by dfj225 18y ago
I find it hard to believe that with all the development going on in the ruby world, there still isn't something comparable to IPython. To be honest, IPython is one of the reasons I use python over ruby. It's just a great way to interact w
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by dfj225 18y ago
The fact that all applications, even simple ones like this vote app, require handing over access to your entire profile is still my biggest beef with Facebook. I happen to like the redesign, especially after using it for a few days. I would
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PostgreSQL Conference: East(postgresqlconference.org)
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by dfj225 18y ago
If you do an investigation / code digging similar to this with Microsoft code (or any code that contains a similar license), could this create legal issues if later you decide to write open source code that operates similarly or performs a
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by dfj225 18y ago
Well, I didn't read into it the way you did. Perhaps, I'm being naive but I see it more as an opportunity to match people with different talents (or at least talents focused in varying areas). I agree that to be treated as a "proletariat" t
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by dfj225 18y ago
This seems like a smart approach. I'd guess that there are a lot of people who might want to participate in a startup but don't necessarily have a new idea or concept to bring to the table.
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by dfj225 18y ago
I really like that they provide an option to sign up as a "Hacker" and provide the opportunity to be matched with a startup that could benefit from one's coding skills.
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by dfj225 18y ago
I wonder how useful this will be if you can only ask a single question or a set of questions that can be easily expressed in single line text field? If I'm asking something like, "What is the capitol of Nebraska?" why not just get directed

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