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by hyp0 12y ago
When Apple acquired Beats, it was thought they wanted their efficient manufacturing techniques for different combinations of styles/materials. The customization of the Apple Watch bears this out. It seems reasonable they might next app
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Cargo Cult Science – Feynman(neurotheory.columbia.edu)
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by hyp0 12y ago
NB. People may want better battery life, but they'll still pay for better features or performance. Of better batteries would give both, but we've had intense R&D for decades, and it's a difficult problem. (and if we h
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by hyp0 12y ago
As the first American eccentric, he was a hipster before it was cool. The common wisdom is a model of the world, but must be wrong in some ways, simply because the world is far more complex than any model we could comprehend. Bed pans weren
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by hyp0 12y ago
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law
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by hyp0 12y ago
"Je n'ai pas peur des représailles. Je n'ai pas de gosses, pas de femme, pas de voiture, pas de crédit. ça fait sûrement un peu pompeux, mais je préfère mourir debout que vivre à genoux." - Charb, one of the murdered s
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by hyp0 12y ago
There used to be an IDE called "Together" that supported bi-directional transformation between source code and diagrams. Although it sounded like a really cool idea, it didn't take off. Seems text is best (maybe because it su
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by hyp0 12y ago
Like a smartwatch + keypad. 2G connectivity is slow... but I would love super-lite webpages. Like m.mobile; maybe w.watch? This could also use them. Needs less bandwidth, data, CPU, RAM, battery - and clearer because just the text. If it ha
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by hyp0 12y ago
It does (see the specs). But it has only 8MB RAM (that's MB, not GB).
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There's More to Life Than Being Happy(m.theatlantic.com)
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by hyp0 12y ago
OO = ADT + inheritance. And inheritance is problematic. [ADT is Abstract Data Type; i.e. values that support operations, and are not tied to a specific concrete implementation]
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by hyp0 12y ago
There's also a solar panel, but I agree it seems crazy high. To be fair, the main thing is that they are actually getting adopted and used, integrated into village life. It's common to spend a lot of money "helping" peop
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by hyp0 12y ago
answer to title: I would write, then, to the audience I imagined in the future of my discovery by friendly if unimaginable forces, and to them alone.
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by hyp0 12y ago
Followup experiments with more than two neurons should be interesting, to see whether graph arc destinations are remembered, or just the total. A far-fetched mechanism could be that each neuron transmits a signature (UID), that we've n
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by hyp0 12y ago
Yes, if the best engineers really have x100 or x1000 productivity, why aren't employers offering higher salaries? There's been high-profile high-tech anti-poach collusion, and Ed Catmull (pixar) even claimed it's for the best
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by hyp0 12y ago
Exactly, though movies often aim not at realism but something better. How to achieve that? So far, it's taken a lifetime of trial-and-error in every aspect of movie making to find what works (which happened to be at 24fps). 48fps might
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by hyp0 12y ago
Buddhism includes reincarnation as animals
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by hyp0 12y ago
I was thinking actual PageRank would be interesting, ranking libraries by who uses what, transitively. Might be nice to include weightings of app usage by users and downloads (because apps aren't used by other libraries), but just stic
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by hyp0 12y ago
If go code can now run on android, the go compiler can run on it...? Allowing go coding on-the-unit.
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by hyp0 12y ago
OK, I thought you meant there were many more such languages - but "proliferated" means spread, so my mistake, yours is valid use. Yes, Haskell is better known, but not proliferated in real-world usage (though jq was based on it)
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by hyp0 12y ago
The brilliant thing about PHP is webapages as templates. It's so simple and easy to get something useful going, both to write it and deploy. Templates weren't new - shell had string interpolation - just simple and useful. The li
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by hyp0 12y ago
Haskell and ocaml fit the bill, but aren't new... which ones do you mean?
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by hyp0 12y ago
Maybe, the alternative perl, " Perlb "? I'd also agree with the "perpetual playground" comment, and note that Perl6 originated not as something needed, but as a way to keep the developer band together. Plus, I'
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by hyp0 12y ago
There have been several JSON transformation tools, but they haven't taken off. ( EDIT in general, not just for transformation,) when a task gets too complex for JSON, it's easier to switch to XML. Thus: XML protects JSON. But I a
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by hyp0 12y ago
I guess the JS is just for proof of concept until support is shipped with browsers etc, but it isn't rendering properly in the stock Android browser (4.2.2). It gets to Lena's head in the first image, then becomes brigtly multi-co
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by hyp0 12y ago
Not sure it helps, but an observation is that Oracle's relational database occupied a somewhat similar role, in that it tied together data from different sources, and enabled cross-platform interoperation. This was very important at th
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by hyp0 12y ago
"distributed tools for distributed data" Customers fear vendor lock-in, so an open platform/ecosystem for git could flourish, like java. Hopefully they'll have a better business model for it than Sun did. Maybe amazon&
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by hyp0 12y ago
True. Modern corps have learnt the lesson of disruption. I guess the only way it could happen is if it didn't look like a threat until far too late, such as totally different customers (e.g. third world), doing something completely d
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by hyp0 12y ago
> To prevent a competitor from getting them. Yes, or becoming a competitor, signalled by having users and getting more. "Strategic" aquisitions often seem absurdly high, unless seen as a threat to the future of the acquirer. Yo
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by hyp0 12y ago
Good idea, thanks, I know that idiom but didn't think of it. Interestingly, it's not in the tmux manpage, but I just tried it and it works. Cool!

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