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by ezy 16y ago
I use "ectags --file-tags ..." and the ordinary tag mechanism in vim (:ts filename.c).
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by ezy 16y ago
I use a simple hack in my .vimrc com -range YY :<line1>,<line2>w! ~/tmp/cnp.txt com PP :r ~/tmp/cnp.txt Then :YY, :PP as appropriate
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by ezy 16y ago
Why can't you construct or find your own examinations? They are, after all, just a set of questions. In fact, even in school, this is the way I learned... You write down questions, put the materials (far) away and work on it until you get
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by ezy 16y ago
(Since I don't particularly care about my karma at the moment, I guess I'll continue beating this dead horse :-)) And here's my snarky rejoinder: Hey look! There are bug fixes and new features in the latest beta. How did they do that?
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by ezy 16y ago
This made me laugh, WTF does "purpose of software development" actually mean? That phrase is itself a misunderstanding waiting to happen. :-) Yeah... Ok, I probably deserved a bit of a snarky reply -- I missed the 32-bit requirement for si
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by ezy 16y ago
Flash video crashes constantly and it still doesn't work with netflix. Who cares about crappy 90's style GL demos? SOmehow, it seems priorities aren't quite right at mozilla, IMO.
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by ezy 16y ago
Android phones, App Store, and, oh yeah, check out the industrial design of that Netbook they came out with. And those are the flat out rip-offs... Google is not all about stealing ideas, but they certainly will if it benefits them. They
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by ezy 16y ago
Huh? Creativity is what humans do! For everything else we find a way to build machines to do it (or enslave other humans :-)). There are very good arguments that constrained creativity is the best creativity -- or perhaps the only creat
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by ezy 16y ago
It really depends on what units of data your chain (in this case, an n-gram model) is dealing with. You can increase or decrease the granularity and modeling depth to get different kind of erroneous data using the same training data. For e
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by ezy 16y ago
Well, for one, it treats poor people like criminals who need to be punished for being poor. Granted, we do that to a large degree in the US now implicitly, but this would be very explicit -- and, I feel, tremendously mean-spirited. More p
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by ezy 16y ago
Seems like the post article just wants to belabor a point Bill Gates did not actually make. The points he did make, actually agree with the article's sources, but he does not reach the same overall conclusion. He did explicitly say that se
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by ezy 16y ago
When (attempting to) think critically, you can't just choose to ignore the entire context. And when you're talking about both the kinds of sources and the order of magnitude or so difference, one estimate is not "just as useless". One esti
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by ezy 16y ago
I think in aggregate, it helps. And it's hard to not be anonymous when you can be put on a black list. It's not like you're converting anecdotes to data in the typical sense. It's more that it illustrates the kind of abuse that can happen,
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by ezy 16y ago
That would be an earth shattering announcement if there was one. :-)
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by ezy 16y ago
A "bug" is simply a reported issue that the developers feel must be fixed at some time in the future. It is defined just by existing in the database, and not being deferred or reclassified as not a bug. That's what I mean by bug count. It
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by ezy 16y ago
Ok, you're taking "advertise" too literally. What I meant was that software typically is thrown out to the world to serve a certain function, I wasn't making a comment on advertising materials :-). I see what you're saying, but when you bui
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by ezy 16y ago
I think code quality misses the issue. The right metric (IMO) is actually fairly easy: bug count perhaps normalized by project size or reach (number of customers). Whether the software does what it is advertised to do is the very definitio
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by ezy 16y ago
The ability to post should be linked to the rate of posting. Or maybe the rate of pt change in general. This has two purposes: It cuts down trolls who snipe in lots of different threads at once. It cuts down on me too commenters, or the k
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by ezy 16y ago
It is. You get paid either way.
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by ezy 16y ago
Ok, I was looking an a MacBook Air, but somehow now I'm also considering a lazy-boy armchair and a mounting arm for my monitor. That's a nice setup you have there. :-)
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by ezy 16y ago
I don't think of android as a "desktop". I don't see it as being useful for workaday stuff -- in the same way my iPad isn't really great for that. I'm doubtful, but I hope I'm proven wrong -- just because it'll be interesting to see it ev
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by ezy 16y ago
I've always found the competition for the "linux desktop" to be somewhat weird. It will never "win" -- and who cares? If you're not sold on the Free Software manifesto or not dirt poor (or just cheap), why bother when the non-free alternat
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by ezy 16y ago
You're going to notice 1.4G. Anyone who has taken more than 1000 photos and has put them in iphoto is going to notice 1.4G, or actually tried to use garageband is going to notice 1.4G.
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by ezy 16y ago
Hey, I know, they could add a feature where you drag the menubar down to see the full screen app partially exposed running behind it. And the same for that app, etc. Wouldn't that be cool? Oh wait.... :-) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by ezy 16y ago
Actually, the app store for ipad is pretty damn clunky (steam isn't great, but I like it better). Honestly, I dont think they have anything to fear... They are, after all, cross platform. Game Center is a pile of schlock at the moment...
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by ezy 16y ago
Oh look, a netbook. But 1.4G? Really? I love how they keep saying "fast processor" in the presentation, where "fast processor" is apparently two steps backwards in CPU technology. :-) The GPU is decent, however. Is it me, or does anyone
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by ezy 16y ago
Ugh, The less legitimacy this type of "research" gets, the better. Oh, and here's an interesting page by one of the "Scientists" involved: http://www.theistic-evolution.com/ where he desperately tries to reconcile his science with his re
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by ezy 16y ago
My feeling is that, if I could have an electronic version that you could mark up appropriately -- I would start to get the same feeling about the personalized electronic copy as well. However, there is one huge problem with textbooks on t
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by ezy 16y ago
Not good enough at small resolutions, and looks horrible with light on dark colors. ProFontWindows doesn't suffer from this, and works at small sizes. http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/
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by ezy 16y ago
I have nothing to say about Axiom in particular, not my domain -- I'm glad it's a cool piece of software. But I feel my comment still holds; Axiom is obviously a piece of research software with a research interface (e.g. a programming lang

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