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by drtse4 17y ago
Linking this news to what i read an year ago about google criticizing the router manufacturer for their lousy equipments(performance and both hw/sw quality) i just wonder from who they will buy their optical equipments... Sadly they are not
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by drtse4 17y ago
"...and who want to foster a greater sense of urgency among the public and policymakers." I doubt they will reach this goal, instead this seems a nice idea for a blockbuster movie...
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by drtse4 17y ago
Improving subversion borrowing some "distributed feature" from git&co? I'm not sure of how many would care... The thing that make svn a "toy" scm is the branching model/facilities(e.g. merge) and this is the area that seriously needs to
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by drtse4 17y ago
Considering the wiki nature of wikipedia a useful alternative for true/false could be the stability of a given paragraph, i.e. if it has received an high rate of revisions lately. Assigning a "true" or "false" value seems a more complex ope
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by drtse4 17y ago
Benefit 2: Although you’ll introduce lots of new bugs like this, it’ll be several months before they start showing up, by which time your reputation as an expert programmer will already be assured. I've seen a lot of people trying this ap
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by drtse4 17y ago
Completely agree, i've dealt myself with an access bottleneck as the one he describes. But i found multi-threaded code debugging quite entertaining (sometimes ;)).
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by drtse4 17y ago
Isn't this just an ego related thing common to every human? Showing to the world that you know better?
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by drtse4 17y ago
Being from another continent, i don't even get why is even necessary to catalog people (and sometimes how it could be done) either in the geek or non-geek category. Each one of us should have a multi-faceted personality that makes hardly po
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by drtse4 17y ago
HDTV, solar back, fingerprint reader aside, another not so believable feature is the 2-3 hrs battery when using wifi (should be always on) considering that netbooks already have 5+ hrs duration. Btw, it's still not clear to me what kind of
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by drtse4 17y ago
See this old post: http://tinycomb.com/2010/01/09/breaking-apples-tablet-is-for... It appears that a company named Motion Computing Inc (and i guess they are not the only one) already sells a tablet that targets the healthcare industry.
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by drtse4 17y ago
Fancy job titles and funny job descriptions aside, i always thought that the ability to perform critical architecture related decisions is something that every developer should some day achieve, making this "software architect" as a natur
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by drtse4 17y ago
All the three demos work fine on chrome dev build 4.0.249.64
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by drtse4 17y ago
Definitely agree with this "global approach" when creating a startup, but obviously build all that it's not straightforward and where you start from does matter.
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by drtse4 17y ago
+1 for Selfish Gene, read a few years ago.
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by drtse4 17y ago
After that you should read "Collapse", it's even better than Guns,Germs and steel imo.
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by drtse4 17y ago
I agree on both Vinge & Egan recommendations. Permutation City by Egan is also quite good.
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by drtse4 17y ago
Yeah, completely agree, supporting the 2.0 standard is essential to remain on par with the iphone and not make android phones look like second class citizens. The wave of "handheld-console level" 3d games on iphone is coming soon, so if not
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by drtse4 17y ago
AFAIK android sdk 2 doesn't support opengl es2
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by drtse4 17y ago
Permutation city. After-death scenarios, AIs, a world were computing resources are acquired by trading (even better than the futures on amazon spot instance price than someone was suggesting a few days ago :)) ,etc...
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by drtse4 17y ago
This made me think to "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely too, quite a good example of the anchoring phenomenon. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_o... Btw, i agree with those that says that is quite hard to co
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by drtse4 17y ago
I'm aware of that, i just didn't expect them to care about domain registrations when they can persecute the individual site owners. But i guess that that way there will be less work for them to do.
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by drtse4 17y ago
As far as i remember, the .it domain was also limited to businesses until 1999, what we see in China is something going in the opposite direction, sadly.
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by drtse4 17y ago
And also, consider that even if at the moment China has no significant web activities outside its borders, the internet population in China is bigger than the one in the US or Europe, and every move/law that leads to less freedom in the acc
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by drtse4 17y ago
I didn't expect that something like this could ever happen... ok,it's China, but still unbelievable.
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by drtse4 17y ago
They've increased the coverage A LOT, expecially in the area around Milan. Next step the north est? With Verona, Venice, Udine, etc...
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by drtse4 17y ago
Clean interface and ability to save favorite words, nice but after a few tests i'm not too confident in the quality of the translation (e.g. some related phrases with eng<->ita are just wrong). A good start,btw.
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by drtse4 17y ago
From your link : "we randomly sample a small subset for permanent storage." Even if anonymous that data is really valuable as it allows to identify traffic patterns. I don't see anything "evil" in collecting anonymized data.
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by drtse4 17y ago
Another source of interesting data about internet usage for google. You can find their privacy policy here: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html Quote from "What we log": "In the permanent logs, we don't keep personally id
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by drtse4 17y ago
See http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-in-python-with.... and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923775 . Btw, as someone that has sometimes parsed html using regular expressions (for small and localized html snippets extract