gmurphy

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by gmurphy 16y ago
FWIW, your post (even including the VS behavior hate) is an accurate description why we don't do MRU tab switching in Chrome. It's a very common feature request[1], but we think we can do better and don't want to ship a middling stopgap. [1
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by gmurphy 16y ago
Though it seems few people here are Windows users, Windows 7 lets you directly switch to/launch apps by using WinKey + [Num], where [Num] corresponds to the app's position in the dock. Chrome lets you do the same with tabs using Ctrl + Num.
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by gmurphy 16y ago
This is the thought process and slippery slope that leads to sites like experts-exchange - with a large userbase, it's easy to create and demonstrate changes that result in bags of money in the medium term, yet destroy the long-term value a
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by gmurphy 17y ago
There are a far few novels that cover this - for example: Fast Times at Fairmont High/Rainbow's End (near-future) and The Golden Age (far-future). The latter is interesting because covers the automated mediation of the interactions of peop
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by gmurphy 17y ago
As you would expect, it works much better if you close one eye - with binocular vision the effect mostly disappears. If you watched the video, you've pretty much seen the extent of the app.
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by gmurphy 17y ago
I failed to notice this and it did end up posting a Twitter message under my name (I'd like to think I missed a checkbox somewhere), so I deleted my account :\
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by gmurphy 17y ago
I come from a country where resume decides most things and interviews are mere sanity checks, so at the time (2005), I didn't know what to expect of my day-long Google interview. At the end of the day though, I emailed home: "Even if I didn
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by gmurphy 17y ago
I agree (I made the video). There is actually bunch of thinking behind it, but we're leaving it rough because we don't want to pretend we're developing high-detail specs just yet, as doing so tends to lock you in to a certain approach - we
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by gmurphy 17y ago
Until that happens, you could reduce it to a single field and show results for both types of searches. I found the prefix/suffix thing pretty confusing.
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by gmurphy 17y ago
This isn't an American perspective, and I know American academia is pretty different to elsewhere (wtf 7 year PhDs!) but over my life I've found that the rules for admissions into various things were usually just rough guidelines that peopl
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by gmurphy 17y ago
He's talking about http://np.ironhelmet.com/ - I'm currently bitter-sweetly loving it (huge overlap with a personal project that I keep ditching in deference to work).
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by gmurphy 17y ago
Anecdote: while the environment is probably a contributing factor, the 25-30 teenagers and adults I know with IQs of 130-160 (gifted children's program) basically make the same career and life choices as others in the same socio-economic gr
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by gmurphy 17y ago
Don't forget jpbrown's CubeSolver from the first-gen mindstorms: http://www.jpbrown.i8.com/cubesolver.html