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by ezy 15y ago
Not yet. My wife is not an advanced user of computers by any stretch of the imagination, but I would never buy an iPad for her. She has a DSLR and 60k photos in iPhoto (~320G). iPads will eventually store this much in 3 years, but you will
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by ezy 15y ago
"Because so many people liking such a violent sociopath has always bothered and confused me." I think it's pretty much what you state, but less evo-psych than being an alpha male. Someone who is a sociopath doesn't really care too much abo
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by ezy 15y ago
Is this just iCloud, or something else? Needing to be in the app store (or signed) to use iCloud makes perfect sense to me. If you don't want to do that, simply use Dropbox -- which works better anyway (at the moment).
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by ezy 15y ago
He's a pop science writer who does a bit of synthesis. He has interesting ideas -- but they aren't super well substantiated. I've always viewed his works as launching points for further work or ideas to consider, but not really definitive
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by ezy 15y ago
I have to say, having to buy the book (no independent description or studies of the process) and $200 seminars (indoctrination) sets off my "woo" alarm. As does anything mentioning "NLP".
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by ezy 15y ago
It's worthwhile to note that PDF export only outputs in a fairly useless landscape, two textbook pages per pdf page form. I have to think that this is done in this horrible way by design. Similar for your .epub "hack", I'm sure that will
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by ezy 15y ago
I'd say it probably doesn't really replicate the feel because human tactile sense is so subtle, but it's cool to know these exist! I might pick one up.
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by ezy 15y ago
Fair enough -- the transient nature of electronic media kind of short changes the human nature of existing in a physical world. I have to say, I'm still pessimistic about bound books however. Perhaps future generations will be reading old
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by ezy 15y ago
Most of these, with the possible exception of the feel of the book in your hand can be replicated by an ebook. Not ebooks in their current state, of course, but by a hypothetical electronic book that has more capability. I suspect paper bo
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by ezy 15y ago
Civil rights legislation was not "widely reviled". People were protesting in the streets for god's sake. It was not universally approved, of course, especially in the southern states. But I don't think there's a really a comparison to be
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by ezy 15y ago
False dichotomy. Access to running water is not a luxury. I think that word is too loaded to use technically here. In the context of a country where running water is ubiquitous, it is a horror that people have no infrastructure providin
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by ezy 15y ago
This isn't all good. There are reasons that email tends to be popular. On the other hand, there's a reason email can go off into the weeds as well. The issue I have is that face-to-face meetings tend to lack depth. By necessity, you eith
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by ezy 15y ago
Similarly, you had to do a lot of peeks and pokes in most 8bit BASICs to really get at the machine. But you could still do something reasonably worthwhile. I don't want to imply that you could do everything. The main idea is simply that
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by ezy 15y ago
Yes, I read your article. I think I understand where you're coming from, but it's completely circular. All you need to do is create another mostly impermeable strata. People do this all the time, and it has been wildly successful so far.
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by ezy 15y ago
You're completely missing my point. I'm actually sort of agreeing with you -- but I'm also saying you don't really need (want?) to duplicate Hypercard. Let's just say that considerably more than "thousands" have written BASIC programs that
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by ezy 15y ago
This doesn't seem to be anything special about Hypercard. Hypercard was the BASIC of the Macintosh in that it served the same niche. It certainly was not BASIC, but the idea was the same, a little language and environment that fit into the
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by ezy 15y ago
Sort of almost there: Airplay and a Bluetooth keyboard. I think we're on the verge... :-)
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by ezy 15y ago
As far as I can tell, this rebuttal... isn't. The author just completely misread the original argument. EDIT: Example: "in particular, how a monad must be capable of "wrapping" (their terminology) arbitrary datatypes, not just one particul
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by ezy 15y ago
From personal experience, my impression is that this kind of defensiveness comes from a lack of perspective. Especially when you realize you're hurting someone (and perhaps yourself). I don't know whether it's confined to nerds -- there a
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by ezy 15y ago
Ok, I can buy that my perspective is slightly different on these matters. I see people who set their AC to 67 and their heat to 78 -- even with time regulation this isn't going to save energy. IMO, Blankets and socks are a fairly universal
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by ezy 15y ago
Sorry, a simple digital thermometer with a digital push button up/down temperature select is more than sufficient, and cheaper. Home automation, in general, has a similar feeling to all those weird devices you put in your microwave to make
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by ezy 15y ago
Now if only they could get their drives to last longer than a year on average. :-)
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by ezy 15y ago
I think you can always find exceptions -- such is engineering. :-) In my example above, one of the things I also failed to clarify about that test was that it was in the context of a system that could back off and restart or the call was
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by ezy 15y ago
Your boat will sink if you use do while break. I know, I've tried. :-) One aspect I failed to highlight is the logging the macro does, which can come in handy. I wish I could erase the MALLOC thing, it was an after-thought ... and now I f
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by ezy 15y ago
I can accept (most of) your issue(s) with the MALLOC macro, MALLOC is a bad name here from previous habit. The point was that there's code one has no control over which indicates failure by returning a NULL values, this is where it's gener
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by ezy 15y ago
I don't know whether this qualifies as a "trick", but by far the most useful idiom I use in C code is: // in some header file somewhere #define CHECK_ERROR(rc) \ if (rc != SOME_SUCCESS_VALUE) { report(rc, __FILE__, __LINE__); goto
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by ezy 15y ago
One of my favorite short stories (had no idea he extended it into a novella) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands
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by ezy 15y ago
I wrote something up above, but the gist is -- you don't have to do anything to have something you want to hide.
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by ezy 15y ago
Because there is no action -> consequence chain in that phrase. All you have to do to see this is make the private information involuntary -- not the result of an action. The canonical case is not some horrible thing you might have
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by ezy 15y ago
That reads the exactly the same. Who are you (rhetorically, not 'you' :-)) to decide that I shouldn't be doing something? It's authoritarian and creepy. Eric's misstep is precisely that addendum. If he said something to the effect that "

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