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by ggchappell 15y ago
Good question. Perhaps web forms are thought of as a kind of CAPTCHA, the idea being that any ol' bot can send e-mail, but it takes a human -- or a bot specifically written for the site by a human -- to fill out a form. Note: I'm not endor
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Amazing. I was familiar with Fomenko as a mathematician, but I had no idea he was into this stuff. Thanks for the link. BTW, much of Fomenko's mathematical work is quite accessible -- lots of pretty pictures. Also, whatever one might say ab
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Well, perhaps I am one of the many who don't really grasp iteratees. In any case, my point about efficiency in the context of lazy evaluation not being well understood, still stands.
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by ggchappell 15y ago
I'd have to say that his arguments are interesting, but they only work well with carefully chosen examples. In particular, the question of efficiency in the context of lazy evaluation appears to be very tricky, and thus far it has been only
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Interesting. I wonder if this fellow might reasonably be considered a new species.
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by ggchappell 15y ago
From the Guidelines: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual cur
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Still have the old one here. Screenshot for comparison: http://imgur.com/r9SSm New version has less colorful icons, dividing lines traded for whitespace, some colored backgrounds, and a smaller Google logo. A really strange change you mig
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Thanks for the info. > No version numbers in press releases (they are meaningless, except as a convenient identifier for bug reports and such). Meaningless? Maybe. That depends on how automatic updates are handled. I have 3.6. Updating
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Well, this is bizarre. I was planning on upgrading my 3.6 to 4.0 shortly. I guess I won't. Better stick with 3.6 until the dust settles (?). Can anyone point me to a concise-but-thorough explanation of just what I can expect from the new FF
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by ggchappell 15y ago
> if I were starting a restaurant, would I be asked to give away free food for a year until people decided it was good enough to pay for? Maybe, if you were surrounded by other restaurants that were giving away free food. I'm not saying
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Well, that's good. Thanks for the clarification.
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by ggchappell 15y ago
FTA: > The bill generally updates the process for challenging patents and would change the patent system to one that awards a patent to the first inventor to file a specific claim. > Currently, the first person to invent something h
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by ggchappell 15y ago
When I started grad. school in math, I hung out with a bunch of set theorists & topologists. And they all used \mathbb{N} to mean {1, 2, 3, ...}. Their reasoning was that we already had a symbol for {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}, namely, \omega,
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Very nice. But it leaves me wondering about a couple of things: (1) Given the info captured by the camera, can we, without further human input, create an image in which everything is in focus? (2) What the heck are these people thinking?
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by ggchappell 15y ago
I get the same thing -- except it's command-click. (FF3.6/Snow Leopard)
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Ages ago, when the world was young (say 1994 or 95), I thought ads on web pages were a fantastic idea. Unobtrusive, able to be taylored to the viewer, a one-click gateway to all kinds of information, and a nice way to get free content paid
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by ggchappell 15y ago
> I don't know if many researchers, for example, who usually know their field quite well, would be willing to volunteer their skills. They already do, when they referee papers. Journal peer review is unpaid. This text-reviewing idea cou
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by ggchappell 15y ago
This is a good idea, and one whose implementation has already been begun, to some extent, in places like Wikibooks. OTOH, if we're really looking to write good course texts, then let's remember what a text is all about. It is, of course, fi
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Yes, it looks like they might be doing something sensible there. Thanks for the link.
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by ggchappell 15y ago
This is an interesting article about an interesting ruling. Of course, the overriding fact determined by Judge Pro was that Righthaven did not have standing to sue. Good for Judge Pro. Also: > "Righthaven did not present any evidence th
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by ggchappell 15y ago
The HN title about "'alternative' approaches" strikes me as taylor-made to get HN downvotes. It also makes a statement that is far more general -- and less well supported -- than what the article is actually saying. In fact, this is a rathe
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Same here. I'd put it on the right, just under the ID & "logout". That space is almost always unused.
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by ggchappell 15y ago
> I think we can be confident that Google will "Do the right thing"' Well, hopefully. But they've officially announced the dropping of support, so I have to wonder. > I'm reasonably certain by that by "Two Major Versions" they are r
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Yes, dropping support for IE 7 is fine. But the recently weird-ified FF release schedule is going to make this new Google Apps policy have strange results. FF 4 was released 3 months ago. It's just now looking confidence-inspiring enough th
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Looks promising, although some information about what you actually plan to do , would be good. Also, if you want to make an impact with a page in English, I would strongly recommend that you run it by a native speaker. In particular: >
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by ggchappell 15y ago
An issue you might want to think about, which is not related to the particular choice of words: When you say something along the lines of "we're not lying", in my mind you are implicitly reminding me "this is a situation in which we might
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by ggchappell 15y ago
> Does anyone else smell a less free Internet approaching closer? Hmmm ... any chance Lulzsec is really a false flag operation?
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by ggchappell 15y ago
I very much agree. Blog platforms are being used for things that are not blog-ish. But the problem is not overuse of blogs; the problem is a lack of appropriate, high-quality platforms for non-time-dependent info. There are the various flav
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Consider another use for this idea: it would allow governments to prevent all those photos/videos of rights violations that we've been seeing a lot of lately.
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by ggchappell 15y ago
Well, I tried. On question 4, I answered "never". That meant that questions 5 & 8 are not applicable, but you require me to answer them anyway. What am I supposed to do? Also, every question has an asterisk after it. I looked for a foot

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