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by euske 6y ago
A somewhat historic article, but I think the comparison is off and dated too because the "Mac-ness" depends on the people's expectation of the day, which keeps changing. I tend to think that as more people are getting tech sa
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by euske 6y ago
This kind of dogmatic statement is good for soliciting a response, but I think it's intellectual degradation. There are infinitely many interpretations of "democracy" and "free speech" and it's hardly a simple
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by euske 6y ago
> I don't believe the government, either side, should be the arbiters of what is real news or real information. Shouldn't they? When a murder happens, a court (which I guess is a part of a government) decides which testimony is
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by euske 6y ago
I teach CS to freshmen. The author keeps telling something is "a wrong question", but I feel that he is tackling a wrong problem. The problems shown here are rather syntactic/superficial - it's mostly a matter of languag
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by euske 6y ago
I was kinda surprised that the phrase "long tail" didn't come up in the OP. I think that the author's point can be well summed up as "the open web protects the long tail / diversity". After all, why divers
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by euske 6y ago
I tend to think that page-based presentation is becoming a thing of the past. I usually write a big sprawling one-page HTML, magnify it, and do a presentation by gradually scrolling them. The advantages are obvious: - No need to tweak the c
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by euske 6y ago
Depends on the type of websites. Most corporate websites are polite. In a message board like 2-chan, (unsurprisingly) not at all. Actually, some of the most vulgar Japanese that most people would never speak in real life can be only found o
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by euske 6y ago
While I might not agree with the conclusion of the OP, the performance of a programming language should be always paired with its "average" programmers. A lot of people tend to straw-man a language they dislike and iron-man (?) a
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by euske 6y ago
As a Japanese native who's fluent in English, I disagree with this. I regularly translate English (mostly technical) texts to Japanese, and the translation I get is roughly the same size as the original. Its density is certainly not &q
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by euske 6y ago
Shouldn't they be called... gantastical creatures?
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by euske 6y ago
I really hope that this doesn't end up with being somehow a "cool" website. Screw professionalism. Stay crappy and amateurish. with love
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by euske 6y ago
FYI, LaTeX notation is used by many blind people to express math ideas even if they don't actually use LaTeX for typesetting. (I personally know two programmers, one math teacher and one scientist who are using it with a braille displa
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by euske 6y ago
Looks like a universal pattern across different domains: an immediate cause of human death is usually different from the long-term cause of their health deterioration. Similarly, an immediate cause of crash is typically different from the r
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by euske 6y ago
It's like asking how to become a cook. There's just so much variety to it - it could be hobby, professional, corporate, or artisanal, etc. You can't give any more specific answer to that.
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by euske 6y ago
But is it really possible to establish such a system that ensure correctness, innovation and public trust, and so on? It seems like to me that science is already an impossible endeavor from the beginning. This kind of thinking reminds me of
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by euske 6y ago
I like the idea of math being a fiction, but the difference between math and novel is that in math you can never ever break the rules once they're set. In contrast, I see that novelists constantly ignore or retrofit the rules to make i
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by euske 6y ago
I think that "Security by obscurity is bad" is really a misstatement. The right version should be "Open design is better". The underlying assumption is that criminals are often smarter (or having more advantage) than def
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by euske 6y ago
Maybe not this extreme, but we can use natural language as more like programming languages (by reducing vagueness). Corollary of this: we should mandate that politicians and officials all learn programming language and speak rather like pro
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by euske 6y ago
Agreed. So much for a "new language" that doesn't want to show off what an actual code looks like.
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by euske 6y ago
This is both good and scary idea: for the good part, I'm frustrated enough that some unscrupulous websites (even some news outlets) secretly alter their contents without mentioning the change. I want a mechanism that holds the publishe
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by euske 6y ago
This is actually a brilliant idea. If you change the pitch by the allocated chunk size (maybe in log scale) or use different sound for free(), someone could be actually detecting memory leaks just by listening to the app.
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by euske 6y ago
And they'd replace it with a special browser that limits to the amp-enabled sites only. This is so obvious.
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by euske 6y ago
[Reserve Now] (31/200 left in stock) Considering the activity of HN users, I found these numbers highly suspicious. (But a good try anyway.) I wonder what is the best number for tempting a click. Maybe you should increase
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by euske 6y ago
There's a similar relationship between efficiency (convenience) and security (safety). Examples are everywhere. A centralized system (efficient) is a SPOF (not safe). Aggressive caching can be fast but unreliable. Adding a lot of featu
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by euske 6y ago
In Python, I usually put the following aliases: upperbound = min lowerbound = max Use: a = upperbound(a, 10) b = lowerbound(-10, b)
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by euske 6y ago
I can't stand with the unquestioned use of "understanding" here and there - did the author give a more precise definition of that? (I couldn't find any in the paper.) It reads more like a ranty blog piece than an academi
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by euske 6y ago
This would make sense if Apple guaranted that my machine is "more secure" with this feature and offered some compensation or extra services for it.
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by euske 6y ago
I think the fundamental idea behind this is that "every decision must be rationalized", which is fine, but in reality it's difficult to pull off in my opinion. Because people (including myself) are so easily fooled, I'm
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by euske 6y ago
I think the major obstacle here is the cost. Since intrinsic motivators vary a lot from person to person, the program has to be customized for individual learners. Unless every kid has an individual tutor or something, this isn't feasi
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by euske 6y ago
A big mistake is that people still consider PDF as a "document" format. In reality, it's just a convoluted image format. Because it's an image, it doesn't have any logical structure and reformatting them is pain. Wo

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