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by fjh 16y ago
> The sad fact of the matter is most people do not give a hoot about software being open. While that is true, occasionally people care about the consequences of software being open. I think that skype is an example where this is true. I
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by fjh 16y ago
Neat. Does anyone know if there are data sets for games of rock paper scissors available, the kind the computer seems to be using? I would really like to play around with one.
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by fjh 16y ago
Well, I'm a student, so it is entirely possible that I underestimate the importance of company and culture. That being said, I'm not sure why I should care more about culture than my actual work. I obviously want a certain work climate (no
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by fjh 16y ago
I honestly don't think that everyone cares about the size of the company they're working for. I'm currently applying for internships for this summer and I am far more interested in what kind of work I could be doing than how big the company
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by fjh 16y ago
> Being incompatible with other things is not the goal Yes, a lot of the time it is. Apple went out of their way to prevent the ipod working with non-itunes software, they also went out of their way to make itunes music streaming over t
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by fjh 16y ago
> Wave is going to be one of those things people talk about for years afterwards wondering why it failed. Which is funny, considering that the name is inspired by firefly.
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by fjh 16y ago
> Both you and yummyfajitas are making the classic error of espousing an unpopular opinion amongst the emo hipsters of HN. No offence, but if you actually had the facts on your side you probably wouldn't feel the need to resort to insul
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by fjh 16y ago
I would argue that that is not very pythonic, since it breaks the "explicit is better than implicit" guideline.
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by fjh 16y ago
Our definitions of high status seem to be quite different. Which is fair enough, considering how subjective that term is.
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by fjh 16y ago
By that logic prostitute is a high-status job...
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by fjh 16y ago
> The thing is that anything can become intuitive. Use Amarok long enough and I'm sure it becomes effortless. Agreed, but the same applies to itunes. Which is why I think that it is quite hard to accurately judge whether or not one's ow
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by fjh 16y ago
I suspect that your perception of iTunes being more intuitive comes simply from being more used to it. I used to use Amarok a lot and when I had to use iTunes it didn't really make any sense to me. For example, I once ended up deleting some
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by fjh 16y ago
It should be mentioned that Rop admitted at last year's congress that they were too pessimistic and that things are actually better than they looked back than. The German constitutional court has been surprisingly effective in stopping many
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by fjh 16y ago
I'm probably missing something here, but apple aren't exactly relevant in the social networking scene, are they?
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by fjh 16y ago
> I'm merely saying that the corporate culture in Europe discourages risk taking far more than the corporate culture in the States But do you really think that 2 anecdotes are enough to warrant that conclusion?
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by fjh 16y ago
Too meaningless to be false is hardly the same as "pretty accurate".
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by fjh 16y ago
The one problem that I can see is the fact that these studies can only correlate people's behaviour and their longevity, as opposed to randomly assigning people into groups of drinkers/teetotallers. It is a fair assumption that people who d
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by fjh 16y ago
>If he said "oh shit... yeah, I screwed up", I'd reconsider[...] Really? I think that doesn't cut it here. "yeah, I screwed up" is an appropriate response when you show up hungover for an important presentation,not when you try and forc
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by fjh 16y ago
You don't only lack the evidence, I think it is fair to say that the evidence contradicts your opinion. If you look at people like Judit Polgár, it seems like practice is far more important than any kind of intrinsic ability.
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by fjh 16y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that the first one is a terrible heuristic? In my experience, people who don't have a lot of experience tend to be the most opinionated. I may just be thinking of the wrong kind of opinionated, but as far as I c
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by fjh 16y ago
The word paradox is commonly used for things that are surprising or counter-intuitive (e.g. the birthday paradox and simpson's paradox). If you consider this meaning, it makes senses to call it a paradox.
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by fjh 16y ago
To be fair, there is a footnote pointing out how dubious that claim is.
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by fjh 16y ago
Sorry about the nitpick, but no, the LHC does not use antimatter. Both beams consist of protons (or heavy ions sometimes). Some of the accelerators at CERN, like the LEP (Large Electron Positron) Collider, do use antimatter, but the LHC doe
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by fjh 16y ago
While I would agree that most bloggers should not be called journalists, I think that the author comes dangerously close to "no true Scotsman"-territory. Many, if not most of the people commonly referred to as "journalists" (e.g. people wri
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by fjh 16y ago
It doesn't say that apple invented magic. Maybe they just licensed it (from Xerox?)
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by fjh 16y ago
It says "no Fork/Join frameworks", not "no Fork/Join". You can definitely fork processes in Python: http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.fork Using different processes allows you to execute code in parallel, but different processes c
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by fjh 16y ago
>For the record, spanking is not necessarily abuse. But giving a 2-year old the "mother of all whoopings" certainly is.
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by fjh 16y ago
Does anyone here really know if the author is serious? I honestly can't tell, having never heard of this guy, if this is an instance of Poe's Law or Stephen Wolfram-style megalomania (well, at least Wolfram has more to show than "not one, b
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by fjh 16y ago
Why the scare quotes around "customers"? You're not a customer unless you buy a new phone at least once a year? (Not that I agree with the parent, I just think you seem awfully eager to put him in a bad light)
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by fjh 17y ago
No, it works for all email addresses. It basically just waits for a few seconds before actually sending.

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