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by dmorgan 14y ago
Only, he could see the 200x200x square sample, and tell that it was just common sand, before picking it as representative of the sand for analysis.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I have no over-excitement just because something comes from Rich Hickey. Ahh, sour grapes and/or jealousy. Yes, it IS obvious now.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> But that's not more likely than any one of thousands of other possible explanations which there is no specific evidence for. True, but the point I wanted to make is that Occam's Razor doesn't give us the "true story", just the more p
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Simulationism is predicated on the hypothesis that we could construct a completely accurate simulation of our universe in our universe, as if recursively-simulated universes are possible it becomes vanishingly unlikely that we do not
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> First, some background. The problem with all simulations is that the laws of physics, which appear continuous, have to be superimposed onto a discrete three dimensional lattice which advances in steps of time. That's only if we assum
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Occam's razor would say that the simplest explanation is the best _Best_ not as in "the true one", but as in "the most possible, if we don't know any better". An event could have an elaborate explanation and a simple one, and the ela
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by dmorgan 14y ago
How about contributing something to the discussion?
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by dmorgan 14y ago
This tool sounds like a nice addition to "Light Table".
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Sure it could, albeit in a more limited way. It has been done actually, at least in Flash (which includes some similar bitmap features, although it is vector based). The main problem, as is with Flash based editors, would be performance. &#
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by dmorgan 14y ago
True. Putting up a Wiki as documentation for a project/API, essentially means "we don't have time to write documentation, so we jotted together some napkin notes, maybe you can come in and fix them". I've never seen "wiki for documentation"
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> People will pat themselves on the back for saving $10 on a $50 garment but won't bother going out of their way to save $100 on a $20000 car. Which also makes sense. $100,000 to me is serious money. To Bill Gates it's small change. Mo
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by dmorgan 14y ago
That and tin-foil gloves for keyboard work.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Why differentiate plugins? What makes a VM with JIT not a plugin save the browser vendor shipping it with the browser? I think you answered your own question with the "save" part. The vendor shipping it with the browser means it cont
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> (P)NaCl are specifically designed to allow execution of untrusted code without making it run on top of a VM or GC And this is the argument he's making: that does not fly by browser vendors. They DON'T want to have code run OUTSIDE th
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> 1/50 at age 43 is insignificant? 43 is quite far from 30. > however, it's a gradual thing and not much different at 32 versus 28, for example Exactly.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> 1. I'd say "basic math" is a fairly complex beast. The difference being that children in elementary school are taught how to do math, not how or why math works. Same thing happens with 99% of "easy" stuff. E.g if you find cooking eas
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> There's a measured correlation between maternal age and the incidence of Down's Syndrome and other trisomies - the longer a woman waits to have children, the higher the odds there will be a problem. The odds of which are still insign
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Government solutions to government created problems. And the college being expensive is a "government created problem" because?
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Not to mention a placeholder for a more advanced captcha to eventually be deployed. Extremely believable.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Not running with Javascript enabled? Really?
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> your condescending tone aside, jQuery's API and vendor support is subject to change, especially in the coming months. last i heard, 50% usage also means 50% non-usage. I'm afraid the points you make are not gonna help with my condesc
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> If this isn't the ethos of everything Apple I don't know what is: other people have to support Apple. Apple just can't do anything standard or play along nicely with everyone else. You mean like the hundreds of standards they adhere
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Can you point us to all this hype? I didn't know about it and I watched the iOS6 presentation, skimmed through the iPhone 5, iOS 6 apple.com pages, regularly read 2-3 Apple websites + HN, and am a web developer.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Android didn't have it at first too. What other mobile OS matters?
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> They still don't give websites access to camera feed (read or frontal), among other things, so you can't use a website to make a video conference. And they will NOT do it until the battery, CPU power et al are there to support it run
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I am not sure why this is being touted as a "hidden" gem, it was on the feature list and expounded as much as many of the other features in iOS6. Because many people don't yet know about it? As if people read the "feature lists"... &
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by dmorgan 14y ago
The whole "Apple's skeuomorphism is bad" meme was blown out of proportion. Hundreds of millions of people use bloody DVD/Video/Music player UIs that resemble in tiny detail AND behavior an actual dvd/cd player for no good reason, and then c
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I don't want to be an asshole who just criticizes, but really? It's the best W3C, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Facebook, HP, Adobe, Nokia and Opera could come up with? No, it's the best a small team, sponsored by those companie
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by dmorgan 14y ago
You might want to lookup the term "de-facto standard": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_standard
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> You can find silly faults with individual examples all you want, but studies indicate that people have a tendency to think percentage-based about savings rather than absolute terms. Which sounds like the smart way to go about it. It

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