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by elblanco 16y ago
> I never seem to see much mention of them around XML discussions. Which is a shame since I've been banging my head against a particular set of problems for a while with XML, and XQuery nicely resolves that, and I think it's easier to u
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by elblanco 16y ago
If you look at global markets the same way, the fall of the Soviet Union was also remarkably localized, it's just that the Union and its Satellite states covered so much of the planet.
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by elblanco 16y ago
A fun bit of history I learned from a retired Soviet Analyst...My analyst friend learned of this years later from his Russian counterpart, after finally being allowed to visit the country he had studied for so long so I'm guessing it's pret
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by elblanco 16y ago
Some dishonest advice about this - Give them false data to boost your own negotiation. If the perceived delta between your old salary and the new one your are asking for doesn't seem unreasonable, then you can likely get it.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Absolutely fantastic notes, the standout ones to me: "They have had 7 significant revisions in 11 years" - This echos something I've learned in my own career. You'll never ever ever ever get it right the first time. If you spend all of your
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by elblanco 16y ago
For Pete's sake, it's about time. I think that the lack of mobile editing has been the #1 thing that's prevented me from using Docs for any serious work.
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's Achilles Heel of all general purpose semantic graphs, "it'll work if only we add more stuff to the graph!" except I'm not convinced that the approach will ever work, no matter how large the graph is.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I don't disagree re: Cyc. I am however, trying to draw an analogy between Cyc and an open Semantic Web. If Cyc has issues like the ones you describe, these issues will only be magnified ad infinitum in a completely open graph where there ar
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by elblanco 16y ago
The Cyc project, while fascinating, is basically a serious attempt at a general purpose semantic graph. It's been in the works since the early 80's. And you know what? It should act as a warning to anybody thinking seriously about building
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by elblanco 16y ago
One wonders, what exactly makes a person "superhuman"? What if you're just 5% better than the mean? 10%? Does the label "human" encompass all of the variations? Does an IQ in the top 1-2% of a nation make somebody "superhuman"? (I originall
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by elblanco 16y ago
In the cases where I've been on projects that successfully used Google Wave, it was always as a coordination tool to google docs...basically a content management tool with pointers/links to individual docs...on occasion as a file repository
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by elblanco 16y ago
I agree, but I also like "pornoscan" as a descriptor.
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's a bit nonstandard sounding to me, but understandable.
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by elblanco 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1765749
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by elblanco 16y ago
The good news is that at least it made a good first impression. As a technology it definitely looks cool and useful even if it doesn't do TeX quality layout at the moment.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Japan's funny take on the whole thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEeRD26hDDw
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by elblanco 16y ago
With various professional air-industry unions now protesting and individuals now getting truly fed up, have we finally started to reach a point where enough is enough? It's already demonstrated that the TSA doesn't appear to be capable of p
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by elblanco 16y ago
I never really understood how the developers and maintainers of the Java language could put up with the overly complicated disaster that is file I/O. They've managed to take something that's relatively simple in most languages and turn it i
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by elblanco 16y ago
awesome! love the old-skool scene music by 4mat.
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by elblanco 16y ago
It seems to be one of those few places where people will be content to be absolutely miserable in their jobs for 20 years. There's a certain feeling to doing business in the area (even if it's not with the government), a certain soul-suck
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by elblanco 16y ago
> serve as wallet, mass transport pass and identity card, video call How are these things handled by people with iPhones in Japan?
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by elblanco 16y ago
Really "win" just means "able to sell lots of stuff and make a profit". Nintendo realized this a few years ago and actually was profitable with the gamecube even though it didn't come close to outselling the PS2.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I know this isn't a popular POV, but I've always thought that developers should work on last gen hardware. Getting good performance out of last gen hardware ensures great performance for the typical user. (okay, let's be reasonable, the bui
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by elblanco 16y ago
That's why I'm confused. Somebody else in this thread brought up performing some kind of k-gram analysis and building a "thesaurus" of sorts from that. While that can be really good for vector space style document matching, if you try and a
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by elblanco 16y ago
Exactly what I was thinking, I can't even count the number of times I've been working with a softsynth and wanted to just reach into my screen (or have a configurable multi-touch interface down on my desk) I could touch and work with. The m
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by elblanco 16y ago
> What is a semantically related word? Right, I was going to say, just get a dump of wordnet and build a thesaurus graph...
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Gameboy Emulation in Javascript and HTML5(imrannazar.com)
47 points by elblanco 16y ago|7 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
This is great, all of the modern iOS devices are powerful enough to run as soft synths...combined with a multitouch interface, there's no reason I can't have a bank of 303s and 808s such with knobs and sliders and stuff I can move about as
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'm always curious at what exactly the hell people are doing to their macs to make something like a single flash widget on a page bring their machine to its knees. My 4 year old MBP runs stuff just about as well as my 4 year old Windows lap
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by elblanco 16y ago
I can't wait till we all have to install some kind of "canvas" block extension on all our browsers.

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