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by ek 13y ago
Ultimately, I think that this article fallaciously anthropomorphizes Google, and that is the reason why the situation it posits seems so scary. Google is a machine, designed by people. It is true that they have lots and lots of data about i
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by ek 14y ago
When I first heard about the "new logo", as a UC student, I was mad, as were many of my colleagues. The reason for this is that UC has a storied, dignified seal, and replacing it with a watery mod-looking thing like this new logo would be a
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by ek 14y ago
Unfortunately, in Isla Vista, CA, where Freebirds is separate from the rest of the chain (original location, long story, different owner), they see fit to overcharge starving college students, so Chipotle is still a better option (despite i
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by ek 14y ago
Sauce does Mac OS X virtualization using some patches Alexander Graf and René Rebe helped them bring up to date, which they've released (see http://sauceio.com/index.php/2012/08/apple-sauce-android-sau... ). I tried hacking their patches i
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by ek 14y ago
It is extremely true that mathematics curricula for schoolchildren in general require reform, and most mathematicians will agree on this point. The problem with previous attempts is that they have been designed by people who do not fully un
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by ek 14y ago
Languages like Scala have this sort of support for unicode built-in - many operators have Unicode aliases and it is possible for you to designate your own Unicode-named functions as well. There are some nice examples of meaningful syntactic
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by ek 14y ago
My best guess would be object-oriented in the Smalltalk/Self/etc. sense as other posters have alluded to. It's a hard distinction to understand/qualify. Jim Copelien gave a keynote at SPLASH this year about this distinction that left many p
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by ek 14y ago
It's interesting that are actually a processor licensee, as the article notes, and not an architecture licensee - in other words, they aren't designing their own core around the architecture, but instead using an ARM design. With Bulldozer
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by ek 14y ago
Amen - the launches of both Surface and iPad mini are to me terribly exciting events, and I am impressed with both Microsoft and Apple. One of my favorite parts of being a technologist is that I get to observe how people adapt the myriad of
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by ek 14y ago
I think all of the keynotes at OOPSLA this year were surprisingly engaging. I've seen a lot of Go talks from various Googlers, and I have to say that this was the best-motivated, most humble, and most honest of them that I have seen. Rob kn
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by ek 14y ago
That quote in particular is a huge WTF, since it disregards how the free market model works to advance the state of the art. A similar sentence is "Google needs to focus on what it is good at, and stop chasing Apple just because it wants to
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by ek 14y ago
I missed the hoax and found out about it only through this post, but I can't lie, I want one of those. Even the Xperia TL, the phone that James Bond uses, looks plasticky and cheap in comparison to the mockup: http://www.sonymobile.com/us/
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by ek 14y ago
No, it doesn't. Spectrum analyzers can detect WiFi signals regardless of whether or not they are broadcasting an SSID, which includes discerning what channel they are on. By extension, most software built-in to WAPs that automatically choos
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3D Printing: Difference Engine: The PC all over again?(economist.com)
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by ek 14y ago
This was wonderful. Pico Iyer is an amazing writer from a family of intellectuals. The University of California obit for his father, Raghavan, notes that Raghavan was "an inspired and inspiring scholar and teacher on the Santa Barbara campu
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by ek 14y ago
Unfortunately, this is something that has to occur as a systematic change. Individual researchers are not to blame, necessarily. When you are told by your university that you must publish or face not getting tenure, what they mean is that y
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by ek 14y ago
Trying, certainly, but Gruber's criticisms always seem to be of the "if I don't put at least one critical thing in this review, they'll know for certain that I'm a fanboy!" flavor. He spends paragraphs spinning "the device has a bigger scre
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by ek 14y ago
An NFC chip. Apple already has Passbook - imagine if that were NFC-enabled. I want to be able to use my phone to enter my home and workplace, to board transportation systems, and to pay for everything. And it isn't as if I would have purcha
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by ek 14y ago
This is from Santiago Ortiz, who has several other excellent projects on his website. My favorite is "Views of the sky" http://moebio.com/exomap/viewsofthesky/2/ which allows you to either view the stars in scaled positions with their siz
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700+ hp electric Honda S2000 built by high school senior(hackaday.com)
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by ek 14y ago
As well as the usual "that's not how statistics works"
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Intel hosts Dr. Martin Odersky presenting Scala 2.10(blog.typesafe.com)
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by ek 14y ago
You and I appear to have posted similar sentiments at the exact same time. I think you hit the nail on the head - having not to pursue a PhD would be simply awful. When research is something that you daydream about in the shower, breaking a
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by ek 14y ago
This article spends a ton of time talking about the bottom line and then a scant few lines at the end discussing the idea that there may be something more than just money to all this, and even then the treatment is rather surface-level. Per
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by ek 14y ago
Nowadays, that actually isn't very true for end-users - rpm is catching up really fast in all the areas that dpkg was formerly better in. A good StackExchange thread: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/634/what-are-the-pro...
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by ek 14y ago
I'm somewhat glad to see a mainstream news piece covering HN material like this getting slammed by the community - I know people who still subscribe to real newspapers (of the local variety) and am amazed at how terrible and slow their cove
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by ek 14y ago
This is dumb, because he's taking the price per gigabyte for some low tier where Glacier's pricing is tiered. In fact, for an amount of storage as large as his thought experiment assumes, Amazon asks the user to "contact us" for pricing inf
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ACLU files lawsuit against sex-discriminatory West Virginia school(aclu.org)
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by ek 14y ago
Interesting that she notes that it seems harder for her as a woman to participate in rejection therapy -- indeed, gender roles are still so ingrained for many people. You could probably experience success as a male by simply asking women fo
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by ek 14y ago
I used to be an Emacs user and felt rather mediocre about it, and then I tried Vim at the recommendation of a colleague and after some discomfort (like maybe an hour's worth), I was absolutely enamored with Vim in a way I had never been wit

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