dubya

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   by dubya 15y ago

   iTunes has a preview button for all tracks, right? (Besides, "Julia bieber" gives the cover two stars)
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   by dubya 15y ago

   That distinction makes sense. I find Apple interesting in that even their "loss leaders" seem to be profitable, and more, that though they could throw tons of money into something like ebooks to try to hurt Amazon, they wouldn't. Though n
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   by dubya 15y ago

   There's a precedent with "Wyngz" ( http://askfsis.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1450 ), which are chicken wing shaped but contain no actual wing. They just need a name catchier than "Pink Slime".
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   by dubya 15y ago

   But what does "ekes out" mean for a company making as much money as Apple? They're probably impossible to separate, but it would be interesting to compare iTunes store profits to those of other retailers.
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   by dubya 15y ago

   Is Apple getting dinged for Java installation being too easy? That seems pretty easy to fix. Having Java on by default in Safari was a bad choice (just like disk images and packages last year). I hope they'll do a scan and remove with So
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   by dubya 15y ago

   Here in Tennessee, profs have to sign a form when they pick a textbook stating the cost. Unfortunately the deadline for picking books is about five months before the class, so some crappy, expensive books stick around because the time near
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   by dubya 15y ago

   I really like "Concrete Mathematics". It has nice, interesting problems, a very readable style, and introduces all notation used. It also has well written solutions to all of the problems. That said, I read the book after I had a math deg
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   by dubya 15y ago

   I'm sure we agree on the law and even on when and against whom it would be enforced. I'm not sure you would agree that there's value in pointing out to the companies advocating for a law which of their actions would technically fall outsid
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   by dubya 15y ago

   Definitely, Apple would not go after NBC for this, nor should they. But I'm incredibly uncomfortable with laws that are this open to abuse, even with the assurance that those laws are absolutely necessary and will only be used against the
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    by dubya 15y ago

    This is pretty nice. I wonder how hard it would be to import a minimal stats package. That and a table entry widget would make this a superb environment for a 1 semester probability and stats class.
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    by dubya 15y ago

    If the same activists were advocating laws allowing them to go through other people's garbage looking for recyclables, with disproportionate fines or the suspension of all municipal services as the penalty for violation, then yes.
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    by dubya 15y ago

    I was thinking that "subject to the approval of the carriers" was a legal requirement, along the lines of anything that could alter the operation of the radio would have to be approved. The hope being that a thin layer that deals directly
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    by dubya 15y ago

    I can't find a reference for what firmware covers. Could it be as small as something like the BIOS on a PC that doesn't have to change between OS updates?
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    by dubya 15y ago

    SE Xperia Pro, Slide, Captivate Glide, Desire Z? It seems like another problem with the diversity of hardware is coming up with names that don't sound like something you would buy from a vending machine in a truck stop restroom.
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    by dubya 15y ago

    "TL is big because it includes everything possible" isn't the confusing part, what's confusing is why it has doubled in size every couple of years. Is that all from CTAN? The other why could be: why do they include everything when they ha
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    by dubya 15y ago

    I know exactly zero Lua, but if ffi == nil then ffi = require("ffi") end is suggestive.
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    by dubya 15y ago

    The system I'm on now was upgraded to 10.7 from 10.6 recently and has drwxr-xr-x+ 69 root wheel 2346 Feb 29 12:14 Library
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    by dubya 15y ago

    I think the string thing is inaccurate enough (try it!) that you might as well just eye-ball it. If accuracy mattered, I would make a paper circle of about the size of the pizza, divide into twelve (sixteen would work too) slices, remove o
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    by dubya 15y ago

    I'm slightly surprised that VoiceServices API is still private on iOS. It must not be too far from the current state of the art, because automated appointment reminders now sound like the Mac TTS.
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    by dubya 15y ago

    I haven't looked into why TeX distributions (looking at you TeX Live) are so big these days, because it mostly doesn't matter. I suspect that I could take almost everything I write today and typeset it on your Amiga without too many proble
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    by dubya 15y ago

    There are a lot of alternatives for the easy stuff. TeX makes the harder stuff like bibliographies, cross references, figure and equation numbering, indices and aligning equations relatively easy. As a mathematician, I would need to see t
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    by dubya 15y ago

    For a lot of things, a huge spatial visual index would be more useful than the text. Microsoft had some sort of project where you could have several thousand photos onscreen at a time. An analogous case from the physical world would be se
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    by dubya 15y ago

    I'd love to see this tied to opening up the last-mile infrastructure to competition. It seems like variable pricing would require regulatory approval, so it might be a good time to renegotiate.
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    by dubya 15y ago

    Gmail's mobile version has had pull to refresh for a while. Google's pockets are probably deep enough.
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    by dubya 15y ago

    This seems like it really depends on the way Apple implemented scrolling, where you can pull past the end and then have it spring back. I don't know if this was new with Apple though.
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    by dubya 15y ago

    Off topic, but what about that site makes scrolling with arrow keys so slow? It's really slow in Safari, and quicker but still laggy in Chrome.
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    by dubya 15y ago

    Skip the maths?! I bought volume 4 because the math was interesting. I just skip all of the coding bits. Reading Knuth, for me, is similar to reading Martin Gardner's books.
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    by dubya 15y ago

    I sort of wish this were true, though it doesn't sound like something Knuth would say, but apparently it's a myth: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/don-knuth-steve-jobs/
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    by dubya 15y ago

    You're right of course. Somehow that doesn't make me any happier.
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    by dubya 15y ago

    NodeBox also has the tremendously useful "clip to path" which Processing does not.