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by eob 17y ago
Congrats you guys on launching the beta. I've been following Cappuccino for a while and, while I'm still on the fence about it as a developer, it is certainly an impressive technical feat.
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by eob 17y ago
Hah. You got more than 0 and less than 1000 from me.
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by eob 17y ago
Agreed: memory management is easy if you stop thinking about it as reference counting and instead follow exactly what Zev just said. When I first got into ObjC I kept getting hung up on this idea of a "reference count" until someone on #iph
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by eob 17y ago
You're comparing Apples and Oranges a bit. OWL is formal framework that can be used to describe ontologies. Cyc is an attempt to create an ontology that describes the world. You are right that a lot of these "glob everything together" ontol
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by eob 17y ago
Haha yeah seriously. That's kind of a silly rebuttal :p
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by eob 17y ago
Same question but for the Tao Te Ching. What edition? The Jane English edition is the best I've ever read.
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by eob 17y ago
Sometimes a work is best appreciated as a meditation on a particular feeling , and the evolution thereof. Catch-22 was like that for me. It is the same humor, told over and over, but at the beginning of the book you're laughing while at th
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by eob 17y ago
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one of the few books I've ever read where I practically celebrated when I finished because I didn't have to read it anymore. I read it (and forced myself to finish it) because so many people seem
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by eob 17y ago
Perhaps, but I think there is a much more practical and likely reason. It's just one that won't sell magazine articles: Harvard exists in a finite amount of space. Anyone who lives in Cambridge knows that Harvard, like many other city-schoo
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by eob 17y ago
Yeah this is good for everyone. However it might be bad for Flash's chances in MobileSafari, however. Apple wants to funnel people through apps, not web sites. If they can make the argument that the iPhone supports flash because you can c
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by eob 17y ago
I'll second that. Adobe wants to become an alternative platform for the iPhone. Right now it's Objective-C or the highway. I can't stand JavaScript (and therefore ActionScript) but, as an iPhone developer, watching this video made me think,
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by eob 17y ago
PHP is only capable of $quantifiable_performance_improvements at the cost of ugly, ugly code :p
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by eob 17y ago
Einstein bagels.. man that brought back memories. Are they still around? EDIT: It's a good article if you take the time to read it. Don't knock the guy just for being good at marketing.
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Will the Namespace Traffic Jam Kill RDFa in HTML5?(edwardbenson.com)
1 points by eob 17y ago|0 comments
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by eob 17y ago
My thoughts exactly.
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by eob 17y ago
It's the longhand version of Java. You have to feed it into OCR, but it generally works provided your handwriting isn't too messy.
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by eob 17y ago
Sure. I was making a statement about MIT, not this project.
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by eob 17y ago
As someone who went to a state school for undergrad, worked for a few years, and is currently at MIT for a PhD: Yes. MIT is a magical place like none other. It's hard to put it more concisely.. The whole school just has an aura of "what the
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by eob 17y ago
What is a "self-teacher"? The advantage of holding "fancy degrees" is usually that you have been exposed to a wide variety of viewpoints and insignt that self-taught people might have. People tend to study what they are interested in. Unfor
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by eob 17y ago
You don't need someone to tell you what to do -- he/she already gave you the general idea. Why can't you be similarly creative with your class and run with it?
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by eob 17y ago
Shouldn't an RBF kernel be expected to perform better than a 2nd degree poly kernel since, technically, it is infinite-dimensional? (I.e., the radial basis function can be expanded into an infinite-degree taylor series) I think (not a ML ex
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by eob 17y ago
Come on guys (and girls). 4Chan pranks on HN? Leave it for reddit.
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by eob 17y ago
> Also see: Libraries. Ha :). But the library isn't providing a download link, is it? Regarding a majority of a book's sales being made by honest people, yes, I assume you're right. And perhaps the publicity from being available for fre
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by eob 17y ago
I will try to dig it up later this afternoon and paste in in here. My assumption is that because I share rights with Wiley, they can do as they please with the text. So from a legal standpoint I assume no agreements have been violated. Wher
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Any other authors on here horrified at Google Book Search?
7 points by eob 17y ago|10 comments
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by eob 17y ago
My TV was broken for about 4 months this spring and it was great; didn't miss it one bit. Now that it's back, I find myself watching ~1.5 hours a night again. I should just throw the thing out the window.
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by eob 17y ago
You'd be surprised at how much home-grown stuff we run around here (I'm a grad student at MIT). All of the school-owned computers still run Athena OS, everyone uses Kerberos, emacs still rules the day..I once saw a secretary use the `finger
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by eob 17y ago
Thanks for the links everyone! I'll stop by to check things out.
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by eob 17y ago
Seriously. And why is it still 60 degrees. My awesome idea is to move Boston to the Carribean
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by eob 17y ago
Yeah.. it looks heavily borrowed, but I think as long as it isn't an exact copy you can't really hate on that: things done well are bound to be copied in any discipline.

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