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by ezy 17y ago
This needs to be more than just a whiteboard, and it needs iPhone/iPad apps ASAP. a) What does this have over Microsoft NetMeeting? b) What does this have over Abode Connect Pro? c) Drawing with the mouse sucks d) Writing with the mouse suc
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by ezy 17y ago
Totally off-topic, I know, but I was expecting some kind of description of a virtual quarry or code pebbles or something. More on topic, this seems to suffer from the same lack of control that most "cloud" software does. When they pull you
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by ezy 17y ago
This I don't get. The branching/merging thing seems to be overblown to me. The reason I'm switching is because I like the tools better, and you can be up and running with a repo in about 5 seconds. I think that's argument enough. There's
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by ezy 17y ago
Yes. See: "VTLN". Also, the audio feature transformations are adapted during recognition in most cases. For instance, speaker independent recognizers generally do runtime adaptation on a per conversation basis. Speaker dependent ones ge
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by ezy 17y ago
The conditions you laid out are hypothetical. Yes, if we ignore the anonymity requirement for all free speech, and it was strictly identity only with no other requirements, it would less directly associated with censorship. But this hyp
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by ezy 17y ago
No, but you're asking the wrong question. The right question WRT to free speech is whether there is any free speech which requires anonymity -- and the answer to that is obviously yes. Martyrdom should not be required to speak against t
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by ezy 17y ago
The NYTimes app is truly trivial. In fact, I expect it actually is a web app with some native stuff around the fringes for transitions, popups, etc. And it fits in the genre of a webapp, where you sit and read pages. That is not a good
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by ezy 17y ago
Wow, do people think if they say this enough times, it'll be true? Apple doesn't give you access to the same experience from the web as from a native app, and simulations of such have up to this point been second class and will remain so.
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by ezy 17y ago
My guess here is that "programmer productivity" is probably the wrong measure. And that by trying to be reductive about that, you will probably miss somethng valuable... My idea: what if we came up with an app idea and set two teams to it,
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by ezy 17y ago
Give me a break. This is utter crap. You're obviously using the hyperbole at the start of the article to score points. You go on to impugn the character of the author, while not directly addressing the thesis at any point in your response
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by ezy 17y ago
That's somewhat subjective -- I've found Netflix's OD to be pretty good. At any rate, "weak" is less important than ubiquitous right now. Weak is easy to fix, you just encode more titles and perhaps upgrade your software. Netflix is on(i
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by ezy 17y ago
Netflix is much, much closer.
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by ezy 17y ago
This doesn't make sense to me. You've widened the scope of "language" to its libraries. And that's entirely fair. So, yes, Arc has it "built in", but Arc itself is (IMO) only marginally more mature than the libraries one might invent fo
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by ezy 17y ago
I was wondering about this. It seems to me that the 10% conversion rate for junk mail is based on selling to a credulous consumer. Hence the urgent tone. Most people (the other 90%?) toss the shit out because they know even if the copy s
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by ezy 17y ago
Fair enough, I could see relative evidence being used as evidence. :-) I think that negates my first point, you are correct. But I strongly disagree on your understanding of the impact of priors. There are several ways to look at it, all
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by ezy 17y ago
This doesn't make sense. For two reasons. (a) It isn't zero-sum. Guede was convicted -- he is guilty, he did it. What we are determining is whether he acted alone. (b) The priors are crap because they are weak, not because they are agree
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by ezy 17y ago
Is that actually true, or are you assuming that is true? The comments on the post relate further evidence that was missing from the analysis the poster provides. Why? Because the poster made a judgement call that it wasn't relevant.
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by ezy 17y ago
e.g. A bunch of people debate "rationality" using a few "priors" based on flimsy evidence from the internet. Just because you can use Bayesian nomenclature to snow others, doesn't make it rational. This whole thing hinges on the priors, a
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by ezy 17y ago
I'm not sure this is quite correct. My own (admittedly controversial) opinion is that lisp is old, and it's "syntax" is broken because it's nonexistent. Python has it's own problems, but it is less broken. :-) The raw basic "syntax" in te
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by ezy 17y ago
See, this is what happens when you're too sensitive for your own good. People's reaction has been far too simplistic to this. Do people really think, in this day and age that their emails and searches are guaranteed to stay private?
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by ezy 17y ago
Cloud interfacing :-P
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by ezy 17y ago
I understood the point of the article... but damn, it made me respect the OLPC less , and confirmed my suspicions about NN. You see a village without power and your first thought is to make a laptop --- yikes, maybe you can include some c
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by ezy 17y ago
Classic touch typists are at increased risk for RSI. I'm fairly convinced of that fact. Even though I don't know if there's real research to back it up -- I'd rather not take the risk. For that reason alone, I do not wish to learn. I nev
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by ezy 17y ago
$100 jeans (e.g.) are a signal of status, not taste.
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by ezy 17y ago
I don't want to be a complete turd, but you haven't given any examples of such people -- or even really made an argument that whatever examples you would have given are a significant proportion. I can think of a few, and in all but one cas
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by ezy 17y ago
Yep, definitely not funny.
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by ezy 17y ago
Yeah, you could interpret it the other way if you wanted to be contrarian. E.g. A rich family is a family with good genes. But that seems like it would be too categorical for a 15% difference (maybe, what's the min SAT score?). What makes
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by ezy 17y ago
Aaaaaannnd... this is the number two reason Lisp's are not more successful (number one being the syntax, although that is somewhat related). Instead of helping to solve your problem, advocates (and the reference documents, "tutorials") w
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by ezy 17y ago
The "cloud" isn't fast enough. Until most everyone can access files in the cloud as fast as a local NFS connection over 1G ethernet, and do so consistently , desktop apps are here to stay. I view the suggestion that web based photo mana
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by ezy 17y ago
Vista was really obviously bad on release. I mean really unusably bad. It wasn't just that it was only on par with XP, it was substantially worse . Windows 7 is quite different. It's not going to blow you away, but it works and looks

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