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by drharris 14y ago
I don't know if that's jaded... it's pretty realistic.
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by drharris 14y ago
Ah, that makes more sense. I don't make appointments over email, so bounce an invitation and they can see me in person. I've always liked the idea of email as a non-guaranteed protocol.
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by drharris 14y ago
This, to me, is the winner, minus the bouncing. Email servers or clients can append headers based on what content is in the mail, and that information can be used to provide context sensitive app links. I can imagine a big button next to an
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by drharris 14y ago
I'm not bullish on the idea of real-time collaborative coding. Maybe a simple CRUD app can handle that sort of thing, but anyone who's spent days debugging a corner case knows that the presence of someone else tends to just complicate the p
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by drharris 14y ago
It sounds like it wouldn't be perfect (some good brain cells would die), but it'd likely be a heck of a lot more selective than existing methods of dealing with brain tumors. And certainly better than an alternative of letting the tumor gro
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by drharris 14y ago
This is definitely the truth. Only recently in this country have people put the government on this kind of pedestal; it smells of nationalism. For years, we existed without any central government, and then for years with a relatively weak o
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by drharris 14y ago
False analogy. You can indeed predict tomorrow's lottery numbers, or at least their probabilities, with extreme accuracy; the odds are defined and exact. This is why long-term predictions of lottery numbers are extremely accurate, because t
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by drharris 14y ago
I can just feel the hope and change.
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by drharris 14y ago
> Science shouldn't be emotional, and I find that worrying. This, definitely. Was I the only science-minded person that saw the Al Gore presentation and was more convinced that global warming ISN'T an issue? Anytime someone speaks under
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by drharris 14y ago
This is definitely the cause of such situations. Yes, changing the routine might only cost a quarter, but the end employee has no reason to want to go out of his way to help; he is compensated for standing there each hour, not for finding c
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by drharris 14y ago
This is really cool. It's basically hacking the macroeconomic system, taking advantage of the devaluation of Greek bonds to actually get out of debt. Just imagine if people all over the world started throwing in some money here and there; w
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by drharris 14y ago
You probably can't get the trademark on a single word like those. Any trademark would likely have to include the word or logo for Google. That said, if Yahoo creates a music/video service called Yahoo Play, you can guarantee there will be a
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by drharris 14y ago
Indeed. Location-aware, time-aware. I'm seeing a Siri-killer. The best personal assistants know what you want before you ask for it. So, why not the same for digital assistants?
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by drharris 14y ago
Probably a fifth of that. I'd imagine it's a 20% project.
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I think you overestimate the level of functionality a quality GUI can actually express. This is a tool for developers, and developers will always need to know the command line.
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I'm thinking this is a definite value-add to Glass.
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by drharris 14y ago
Looks nice. I have been using a shell script with some of these common commands (even does a git pull). Something like this might be more flexible for cross-platform.
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by drharris 14y ago
Loving these guys. The pivots were hilarious, and all too true.
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by drharris 14y ago
That's a bit of a straw man argument. Serving "blacks" and "coloreds" does not require any extra work. Serving people with various disabilities can take an extreme amount of extra work.
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by drharris 14y ago
I can't seem to find an ideal column number to keep the items in an order where matching items go together. I think it's because the first item is shorter and it causes misalignment. I do see what they're trying to do, and it's definitely c
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by drharris 14y ago
Coal is not pure carbon.
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by drharris 14y ago
> coal causes horrible pollution Source? There is a lot of FUD about coal, but modern generation facilities ("clean coal") produce little more than water vapor. We have enough coal to power the country for centuries, and modern technolo
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by drharris 14y ago
I have tutored some high school students in programming/algorithms, and I find it is definitely better to explain "NP-hard" after they take a crack at the problem. Classically educated CS students tend to see the true difficulty of the prob
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by drharris 14y ago
Indeed. It's something that we smart folks are aware of, but it's difficult to comprehend the effects on a day-to-day basis. Makes me wish I were a few inches taller!
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Consequences of Living on a Sphere(datagenetics.com)
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by drharris 14y ago
Thanks for posting this article. It was extremely well written, so much so that I just bought some of his books. It feels like this should be a movie. Sounds more inspiring than Stand and Deliver, Freedom Writers, etc.
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by drharris 14y ago
I especially like the anecdotes about people who get so offended at "stealing" mayorships. I did something similar last fall, but didn't make an automatic script. Just made a series of buttons linked to various venues, and instead of actual
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by drharris 14y ago
Have to disagree with this sentiment. I understand where it's coming from, but it simply doesn't play out that way in reality. Competition is important to determine which service is going to last. If there are 80 startups in the exact same
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by drharris 14y ago
I see it as they made an early exit and focused on the half of their system that seemed more promising income-wise. There is still a space for the all-in-one market, and frankly it's wide open. Environment + IDE + Deployment in one place de
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by drharris 14y ago
Wow, I'm very impressed. There is definitely a killer app for this, and that is Windows rails development. While it's better than it used to be, it's still far from ideal, and time consuming to set up. Love the idea of being able to use a c

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