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by gord 16y ago
Id like a simpler feature - to be able to upload a photo from the iPhone via Safari Webkit [upload file form field]. Its such a pain to have to work around this in web apps.
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by gord 16y ago
Give him the Nobel Peace Prize
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by gord 16y ago
Absolutely not - he has defined a new paradigm in education by force of will. He has proven that one person can make a huge practical difference. Arguably he has achieved more good than facebook. To put it bluntly, the man is a force of
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by gord 16y ago
I disagree, after seeing a video of him give a talk in front of a medium size crowd. He came across as excited, informed, innovative, an excellent communicator and a great guy. I think he's in the best-of-TED bracket already.
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by gord 16y ago
a) Look to buy innovative startups. b) Solve the no-appstore-for-web-apps problem, win over developers by making this a nice rollout platform with simple cloud JSON data storage, search integration, social integration etc.
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by gord 16y ago
What is $xxxx in practice, for IE6? [or as a percentage]
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by gord 16y ago
Nice link.. seems like HTG have taken the first step towards a pluggable infrastructure, where the plugin is the quant/programmer + their algorithm implementation. ps. I never really understood the difference - Hedge Funds seem to be more a
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by gord 16y ago
I assume their business model is roughly : to implement algorithms that find near-arbitrage opportunities by sifting through vast amounts of market data, then use those to multiply investment funds. This sounds like the perfect domain for
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by gord 16y ago
I thought OAuth2 solved this?
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by gord 16y ago
I dislike admitting that Chrome is a lot faster than Firefox in some useful ways. One useful way I ran into is with 2000+ svg objects in a custom UI. SVG + Javascript is a fantastic platform for user interfaces, in my experience... compare
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by gord 16y ago
You know CSS, so it seems logical to learn Javascript. That opens up both server and front end web programming [jQuery/DOM and Node.js on the backend] For books, try Crockfords 'Javascript the Good Parts' and mimic some of the nicer idioms
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by gord 16y ago
Im saying theres not much more we could put on a mobile device that is a game changer [and yes I entertained the tricorder idea with a DNA sampler & diagnosis, but I guess thats out of range for a decade ] Agreed longer battery life has
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by gord 16y ago
I think its more like 5months. I do get it.. they are driving amazing innovation, and exceptional polish that everyone else will have to copy. But they will catch up, because its fundamentally about engineering - its better when you decoup
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by gord 16y ago
I'm moving from native iPhone to web apps for mobile. The tools will catch up to flash rapidly. The browsers will kick themselves into line, so its viable to have one code base. But most of all... Javascript is just less verbose than Obj
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by gord 16y ago
I actually wonder whether marriage should have a time limit specified. Its a better fit to reality : people living longer, large proportion divorcing after 5 years, sequential marriages to different people. "I love you darling, will you sp
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by gord 16y ago
Truly obscene video of him being stalked.
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by gord 16y ago
Can we say with some certainty that 'Parkinsons is not caused by a virus' ?
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by gord 16y ago
My reasoning goes as follows : Assuming "You can't install IE7 or 8 alongside 6" You can virtualise Windows XP on Windows 7 and run both browsers. This alleviates pain and provides for legacy apps that rely on 6. Of course, infinitely bett
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by gord 16y ago
yes, but that would not be enough to do something useful [yet, and less so with lisp] Theres lots of housekeeping [~bs] in programming, maybe some in math too.
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by gord 16y ago
virtualization
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by gord 16y ago
Not important whether its normal... if we all said yeah sure its normal, would you still feel comfortable doing it? So, ask is this a rational, fair, acceptable, professional, moral request on their part, and are you agreeable to it? Id tel
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by gord 16y ago
perversely that illustrates my point...
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by gord 16y ago
I think its due to conditioning and the inertia of the surrounding environment. Many [most?] smart people work 9 to 5 even though this clogs the roads at those times, so is optimally bad resource usage. Even more so for religion or politica
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by gord 16y ago
Better that millions of users worldwide see this : <canvas>Please install a standards compliant browser, we recommend : Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome</canvas> The reality is, M$hit are so far behind, that if they were to do
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by gord 16y ago
Does using vi to edit my program comply with 3.3.1 ?
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by gord 17y ago
Gottman does seem to be a great relationships artisan/artist. btw, heres a blurb on Asimovs Foundation series fictional character http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Seldon , the founder of mathematical psychology of masses, 'psychohistory'.
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by gord 17y ago
It would be nice if psychologists would be honest and introspective enough to call their field an Art... at least until the appearance of a Hari Seldon.
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by gord 17y ago
Im not keeping track... I upvoted your comment to nullify a downvote, because I believe that downvotes should be reserved for offensive content. [ Its a political position, context free, and orthogonal to your intent, so I hope you can forg
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by gord 17y ago
yes, I agree perversely. Im assuming HN users value freedom of speech, and I think less down-voting helps preserve the value of HN by encouraging open discussion. Im hoping that down votes happen less when people speak their mind.. and tha
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by gord 17y ago
Without knowing exactly why, my feeling is iframes are broken. If not.. why arent iframes used in say yahoo and google customisable home page mashups? Differences : granularity - share one div, not whole page scope - how should javascript

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