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by dgreensp 17y ago
Their "speedtest.bin" file downloads at 175 KB/s for me on my 2 MB/s connection, so no deal. Granted I'm in Australia, but using Rapidshare or Usenet directly I can max out my connection.
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by dgreensp 17y ago
As long as people can put it in context. To a software person who's given AI some thought, the holes in Searle's argument are glaring. I had a very awkward conversation in college with a philosophy student who had just been taught it and w
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by dgreensp 17y ago
It's interesting to consider the same situation in JavaScript, where integers tend to be represented internally as doubles, meaning they don't overflow, they just lose precision somewhere around 2^52. But this is unlikely to be a problem i
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by dgreensp 17y ago
Eh, using the clipboard for files, and especially "cutting" them, is problematic. All three platforms let you do any move or copy by dragging. Mac OS X offers "copy" (with no feedback, when does copy ever have feedback?) but not "cut", so
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by dgreensp 17y ago
The author bungles the significance of the iPhone app platform, which is an obvious example of device lock-down and control, not any kind of departure in the direction of openness. And obviously Apple planned their Tablet in their usual se
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by dgreensp 17y ago
Nice!
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by dgreensp 17y ago
In my own informal experience, running identical CPU-bound tasks on Rackspace and EC2, it's just a lot easier to get good performance on Rackspace. Instance size on Rackspace does affect performance (as their FAQ explains), but it affects m
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by dgreensp 17y ago
Reddit is down super-often for me. This very minute, I can't log in or use the site logged in, it just serves me 503 errors.
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by dgreensp 17y ago
Stay classy RockYou.
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by dgreensp 17y ago
I'm unmoved by the statement "Most start-ups fail", or "Most X fail/suck" for any X. Why should a bunch of people failing deter you, or make you think you are going to fail? Yes, doing a start-up means applying your personal resources in
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by dgreensp 17y ago
Also, AT&T may have more places with 75%+ signal strength, but who has more places with 50%+ signal strength, or more places with any signal strength? All available evidence points to Verizon having better coverage, especially in outlyi
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by dgreensp 17y ago
Sounds like it works to me, except that the lack of the actual coin flip introduces an interesting psychological element -- it's kind of like rock-paper-scissors. Two people say "heads" or "tails", and person A wins if they are the same, e
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by dgreensp 17y ago
SwellJoe, I'm with you in that the "debunkers" seem quite dogmatic. Then there are people who have had personal success with polyphasic sleep and rave about it, typically doing it for a period of months but not on a permanent basis. Scien
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by dgreensp 17y ago
I write a lot of JavaScript and I'm not even sure this is preferable. The "object wrappers" like String are considered deprecated in some circles as a matter of style, e.g. by Crockford. From this point of view, a stricter check is cleane
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by dgreensp 17y ago
My "slow sense" is tingling too. I'm deadly curious to know how fast I could make that "12-hour" job using Scala or Java. I've done extensive work with Scala, Java, and bytecodes; writing performant Scala code requires some knowledge of th
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by dgreensp 17y ago
The author seems to be trying to pass off "programmers are lazy" as his own, unless he's really unaware of that meme. But I could write these "insightful" little counterfactuals all day: Good classical composers are tone-deaf and forgetful
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by dgreensp 17y ago
A truly riveting summary. :/ I really liked how Hsieh talked about positive psychology and different ways to conceptualize, and attain, happiness. Specifically, the major sources of happiness in a job or career, or alternatively things that
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by dgreensp 17y ago
Wave is an immature and new technology. And the Wave client does not speak XMPP; it's not an XMPP client. Federated Wave servers, potentially owned by different parties, need a standardized way to open a persistent socket and send mess
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by dgreensp 17y ago
Needs code examples.
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by dgreensp 17y ago
Interesting data, but lots of fallacies in the analysis. Correlation/causation is just a start.
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by dgreensp 17y ago
If you're not being sarcastic, that's encouraging and makes me want to learn enough Haskell to understand the code.
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by dgreensp 17y ago
I think emphasizing "fun" and "playing" misses the point. Take a step back. The web browsing experience on the iPhone is literally an order of magnitude better than what came before. The screen is huge and gorgeous and responds to your t
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by dgreensp 17y ago
It's a long way to "capturing a significant portion of the market". What they can do is reach some of the Internet users in dire need of an upgrade, like IE 6 users who trust the Google name, and get them to use a reasonable browser. Not
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by dgreensp 17y ago
That it lacks features and there's no market for it? ...
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by dgreensp 17y ago
From the reading I've done, people tend to go off it when external factors make it difficult to adhere to such a rigid nap schedule, e.g. every four hours on the dot, rain or shine. As with any habit that requires discipline, like being ve
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by dgreensp 17y ago
Shouldn't you also post what the data looks like when viewed or something?
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by dgreensp 17y ago
All of this talk hinges on the premise that shipping computers without FireWire is some kind of visionary move for Apple, part of their legendary forward-looking philosophy. Now they're shipping a machine with FireWire. Heavens. Surely
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by dgreensp 18y ago
Did the article really end with a sentence about his being a failure on paper? Ending with the word "failure"? That's harsh.
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by dgreensp 18y ago
I spent some time in Gershenfeld's lab while at MIT. He's on to something in that the machinery and know-how needed to engineer a new kind of robot or sensor are ready to spread far and wide. The title is overly provocative, and brings to
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by dgreensp 18y ago
Ooh, a game, let's play. I'll write an iPod one... "The iPod has morphed a lot over time into many shapes and sizes, but now its days are numbered. This may sound like an unusual statement, but the writing's on the wall. The chalk is on

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