gloob

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by gloob 16y ago
Perhaps I'm misreading you, but you seem to be fishing for a specific answer. Is that the case? If so, why?
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by gloob 16y ago
A computer without a filesystem that predated personal computers can be called a pre-PC device if you like ;-) I was pretty sure this was going to be part of the answer, but I laughed out loud when I saw it anyway. Thanks for clarifying
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by gloob 16y ago
In order to clarify, I assume when you say "no filesystem", you mean "no user-visible filesystem, but is still muggle-usable (and might well have a filesystem under the hood)", yes? Because we've had computers without filesystems for about
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by gloob 16y ago
I'm actually a big fan of compilers, but maybe I'm just old.
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by gloob 16y ago
There are a few possible reasons for Microsoft to put IE9 on Windows XP that I can imagine. The first ones that come to mind (all hypothetical, incidentally): (1) it would, somehow, earn them money, (2) they have contractual obligations to
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by gloob 16y ago
Microsoft producing new software for Windows XP is like Apple doing the same for OS9.
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by gloob 16y ago
Facebook has something like 500 million active accounts, right? If we assume that the overwhelming majority of those have a 1:1 mapping with real-world people, then somewhere between 15% and 25% of Internet users have a Facebook account. S
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by gloob 16y ago
I expect that by "communism" the poster means "a belief system I don't agree with"[0]. (In fairness, given that there are probably dozens of mutually-incompatible Marxist/socialist/communist philosophies, combined with the poster's use of
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by gloob 16y ago
I don't entirely understand why you would spend your time trying to imply something about the FSF that is completely unrelated to what the FSF cares about. Could you fill me in, perhaps?
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by gloob 16y ago
Everything is unreadable to an illiterate person.
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by gloob 16y ago
C is not a language optimized for stability. The possibility for segfaults, buffer overflows, etc. and the lack of a sensible mechanism for handling them other than "write the program correctly" demonstrate this. It is, essentially, a lan
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by gloob 16y ago
Could you list what you consider to be Erlang's advantages? Most of the ones that I can think of off the top of my head fall into the range of "possible to clone, but would take a huge amount of engineering effort" (e.g. OTP), or alternati
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by gloob 16y ago
SEO.
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by gloob 16y ago
"Negative liberty" and "positive liberty" are at least as much a matter of phrasing as they are anything real. For instance, do I have the positive liberty to compel others not to point loaded firearms at me? Do government officials have t
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by gloob 16y ago
It's generally accepted that the singular of "anecdote" is "proof".
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by gloob 16y ago
As an aside, if negative interactions concern you, it's probably a good idea to keep away from Diplomacy. There have been fist fights in my group of friends over that game.
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by gloob 16y ago
If there was an iPhone available for every carrier and it cost $20, then nobody would be using Android except the hard-core Linux hackers (like myself). That might well be true, but it ignores the reality of the facts that there isn't a
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by gloob 16y ago
Presumably there are at least a few people who don't buy the absolute cheapest iPad out there, right? My understanding is that there are a few different iPads with different amounts of storage and whatnot, with prices that vary by a few hu
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by gloob 16y ago
Establishing the groundwork for this discussion: What do you mean by "societal progress"? Do you mean things like reduction of poverty, or production of arts, or decrease in the frequency of mass murder, or some combination of all of the a
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by gloob 16y ago
In Europe, the Soviets stopped backing the local princelings before the 89/90 revolutions happened. This time around, the relevant powers seem more to be backing whoever wins and congratulating themselves after the fact for supporting free
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by gloob 16y ago
I don't think anyone in this thread is claiming they're the same - just that America has plenty of its own propaganda as well.
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by gloob 16y ago
Because, contrary to the posturing that happens on the site, people still prefer to read a gossip rag instead of actually see what's happened?
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by gloob 16y ago
> http://www.youtube.com/html5 So what you're saying is that without Flash, YouTube wouldn't have existed until 2009 or 2010?
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by gloob 16y ago
As soon as the masses decide that HTML5 = "Flash, but better", everything that is bad about Flash will rapidly become everything that's bad about HTML5. Changing the underlying technology will not change the people who use it.
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by gloob 16y ago
In my (admittedly limited) experience, when web developers say they wish browser vendors would follow standards, what they really mean is that they wish everyone used WebKit.
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by gloob 16y ago
Out of curiosity, where do you find jobs with the title "history major"? Or are you using that phrase as a stand-in for something else?
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by gloob 16y ago
And if the challenge IBM set for itself was "can we build a machine that travels faster than a person", that would be perfectly legitimate too.
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by gloob 16y ago
Speech recognition is speech recognition. Different problem entirely.
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by gloob 16y ago
Your implicit assertion that natural language processing is something "a machine is good at" really calls the rest of your post into question for me. In particular, your demand that the researchers solve half-a-dozen Hard Problems instead
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by gloob 16y ago
That would give a more precise idea of just how many of the questions Watson was able to answer correctly, but at that point the discussion starts to feel like people proposing changes to the rules of chess in order to screw Deep Blue.

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