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by djacobs 16y ago
First the President wants to be able to wiretap any digital communication (encrypted or not) and now Congress wants us to censor without due process. When did freedom start being such a bad thing?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Or (inc clojure) perhaps? Isn't (++) an abomination in functional programming with immutable state?
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by djacobs 16y ago
I wish I was amused. This is what you get when you conscript unwilling programmers into video advertising. In programming, the difference between 5.times { say 'pizza' } and 200.times { say 'pizza' } is, what, an order of
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by djacobs 16y ago
I have to say that, despite the terrible, terrible writing, reading the Hardy Boys did a) pique my interest in vocabulary and b) introduce me to the idea of learning words through context. For that reason (and nothing else) I do not regret
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by djacobs 16y ago
Yesterday, I wanted to show a friend a video and typed http://hulu.com/top-chef , and the show's page came up. This seemed natural and efficient to me, but my friend could not get over this "magic". REST FTW.
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by djacobs 16y ago
The first thing I do when I install Ubuntu and open Nautilus is to turn this feature off. It's so much faster to type "~/Scripts/some/hierarchy" than it is to click through that. Then again, I (probably like most of you) believe in the comm
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by djacobs 16y ago
Given the vast number of iPhones I see in Harvard Square every day (probably about 40% of all visible phones), I don't know if Verizon is necessarily the logical end here.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."
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by djacobs 16y ago
Oops, yes CPAN is indeed for Perl. I guess I give myself away as a Rubyist...
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by djacobs 16y ago
That may be true, but RAM is not so limited (even on VMs/servers) that DLLs are worth the extreme hassle. Case in point: Linux (for me) runs much better on a minimal VM than any version of Windows.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I definitely get what hippich is saying. The idea is that when you have a community built around a platform, and that community is, well, communal (cooperative in some ways), solutions emerge to avoid conflicts and problems like this. (Ruby
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by djacobs 16y ago
Can the iPhone handle bytecode? It seems like if it could, most developers wouldn't be complaining about the iPhone's closed language ecosystem. Ruby devs could compile using JRuby; Python devs with Jython; Lisp guys with Clojure (I know th
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by djacobs 16y ago
I remember reading this when it first came out, at a time when I was still on Windows. I remember thinking, "Finally! Microsoft products are bound to improve after a letter like that from Gates." Two years later, nothing about XP had change
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by djacobs 16y ago
Take note: Scrollbars have been matte in iTunes for a few versions now, from before Snow Leopard came out, and we haven't seen wide adoption of those in the rest of the OS. Reminds me of Tiger, when things were horribly disjointed. Then in
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by djacobs 16y ago
I pulled up the iLife photos in Finder and compared them at 512x512px with the new iTunes logo and... there is no comparison. The amazing detail we find in the former is strangely lacking in the latter and the result is shoddy craftsmanship
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by djacobs 16y ago
My take is they're trying to stay a step ahead of Ubuntu.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I hear ya. However, I've got some fantastic friends with whom I talk medical ethics, the state of the world, our technical future, etc., almost exclusively. On Facebook, with those same friends (I constantly prune my FB friend list for real
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by djacobs 16y ago
> When we "chill out" with our friends, what do we talk about other than "man, my work sucks" or "omg, my son Jonny is learning to walk!"? If all I ever had to talk about was work sucking and kids learning to walk, I would not consider
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by djacobs 16y ago
@what, I understand the basis of the argument, I just don't think it's logical. Of course popular social services fail, regardless of their user base at time X.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Is it just me, or are there more (R) and TM symbols in this press release than is usual for Apple PR?
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by djacobs 16y ago
I agree. Sure, if we define "failure" as something as embarrassing as "bankruptcy", maybe Facebook won't "fail". But if we define failure as "starting to decline instead of inflate, after years of unchecked growth", well, maybe that's what
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by djacobs 16y ago
When I said "Diaspora, not Appleseed", that was meant as clarification of intent and not as a refusal to host Appleseed instances. That said, I'll only use Diaspora for myself, but that's based on personal preference. I know Ruby like the b
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by djacobs 16y ago
It's weird... the first five scenes I saw were fantastic, exotic, sharp images, and I was so inspired I sent the link to several of my family and friends. Now, I'm clicking through, and I can't find any more good ones. Weird?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Yes I agree. I, for one, plan to offer to host some of my good friends on my own VPS, along with my instance. (Diaspora, not AppleSeed.)
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by djacobs 16y ago
I've had several friends come to me after installing their first OS X application, saying they thought they had a virus. "Whenever I try to run this application, I get the warning 'This was downloaded from the internet', etc., etc. I have t
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by djacobs 16y ago
Seeing as Einstein's theories are based on math + the observable universe (and that they explain events as we see them in our universe), how can we say that our universe is governed by a specific part of Einstein's theory, namely the behavi
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by djacobs 16y ago
For me, the use of Twitter is: 1. I see X happening when I'm walking around (protesters, fireworks, concert, police barricades). 2. I search where I am in Tweetie. 3. I find out what's going on and, if I'm interested in it, might join. Twit
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by djacobs 16y ago
My overall point is that Windows (in my experience) breaks at the slightest registry change or missing DLL or config file. Linux/Unix try to be as loosely coupled as possible, which means you can still run your in-memory gnuemacs (as in the
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by djacobs 16y ago
This makes Unix's orthogonality really clear. I'm fascinated the system was still able to run after taking that kind of a hit. Imagine what would happen to WIndows (immediately) if half the system (including key system binaries) were destro
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by djacobs 16y ago
"Nowadays, everyone uses a nat to connect to the Internet" haha. Argghhhhh NAT != device.

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