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by jey 16y ago
The fix is amusing: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/73619/branches/chromium/597
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by jey 16y ago
Can you explain (3)? Isn't it enough to check whether you're on the right domain before logging in? Or is this to prevent logging in at an IDN URL that looks like the real URL?
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by jey 16y ago
I don't think it's fair to say that Aaronson's course was devoted to debunking Penrose. It just happens that Penrose is very good at explaining these concepts, so his (wrong) book on consciousness (which contains a lot of physics) was used
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by jey 16y ago
I don't mean that at all, and I'm sorry for coming across that way. What I intended to communicate was that the incompetence applies to Microsoft as a whole. There's plenty of brilliant and competent individuals who work at Microsoft.
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by jey 16y ago
Nah, that seems like a classic textbook late response of a company caught empty-handed by a disruption. The very pressures you cite to preserve their existing business will ultimately kill them without some IBM-style creative thinking. Yes,
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by jey 16y ago
People think it's real because the "last login" date on the account is Dec 31, 2006.
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by jey 16y ago
“It’s a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the world?” said Jeffrey L. Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner, in an interview last week. “I don’t think so.” Someone please throw a dozen copies of The Innovator's
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by jey 16y ago
I'm not talking about making it "easy on the human eye". I'm suggesting that they use the output from a classifier to make parts of the image stand out more .
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by jey 16y ago
Fully agreed that that's a real problem.
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by jey 16y ago
I'm against security theater, but this sounds like an information visualization problem: if the image contains enough signal that a theoretically optimally trained eye can detect the contraband, they should be able to use machine learning a
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by jey 16y ago
Maybe the first column contains the sender's reference number for the Cr48 packages? I.e., maybe someone generated this list by querying UPS using Google's UPS account number combined with knowledge of the format of the reference numbers (b
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by jey 16y ago
> an evolving medium with lots of potential That one. Don't worry about commercializing for now; in the worst case you can always make money by applying the same skills to program webapps and other things people will pay for.
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by jey 16y ago
Socionics, which is a Jungian typology that's similar to but different from MBTI developed primarily in Russia, provides some of the evidence for this. The types in Socionics don't map one-to-one onto MBTI types, but the general idea of wh
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by jey 16y ago
If you try it, you might succeed. If you don't try it, you definitely won't succeed.
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by jey 16y ago
but is quitting really necessary for that? Short answer: Yes. Why are you so attached to having a full-time job? Is the point of life to just spend all of it working and accumulating cash? You're in a great position to grant yourself a sa
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by jey 16y ago
Great! Now quit your job and take some time to just explore. I'm not talking about places; I mean thoughts, ideas, and projects. Derek Sivers on "finding your passion": http://sivers.org/passion By the way, have you already put in your 10
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by jey 16y ago
It's not a conscious decision to be hostile, just an effect of Microsoft's cultural norms and attitudes.
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by jey 16y ago
Even though it offends my egalitarian idealism, the existence of a "g factor" is pretty well documented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
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by jey 16y ago
Why not? There's timing events and etc that should operate at a high enough resolution for any such syncing.
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The Algorithmic Lens: Christos Papadimitriou on how CS is transforming science(scivee.tv)
4 points by jey 16y ago|1 comments
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by jey 16y ago
I thought one advantage of <video> is that regular HTML can be used to display content like ads?
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by jey 16y ago
What are the specific problems with Flash and YouTube on Cr48s?
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by jey 16y ago
It sounds like you haven't done any research. Try http://www.google.com , it has links to many good resources.
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by jey 16y ago
Hilarious, but flagged for being off-topic here.
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by jey 16y ago
Addendum: before doing any of the above, make sure you know how to use the software at at least a moderate proficiency!
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by jey 16y ago
To me it sounds like you have two separate but related tasks: 1. You need an embedded systems programmer who has experience with porting complicated things like network stacks to new hardware. I doubt you specifically need "experience with
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by jey 16y ago
Please be more specific. Are you looking for someone to do hardware design, firmware development, create drivers, something else, or all of the above?
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by jey 16y ago
Will he sue me for royalties if I watch this video?
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by jey 16y ago
I think the best way to get started is to have some small bugs or features to implement, and start diving in. By tackling a series of small problems you'll get familiar with different parts of the code base as you try to figure out why a
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by jey 16y ago
I see two main reasons: - Freedom to move on to the next project. I bet most entrepreneurs are more interested in creating than maintaining. - Money/security. The trend toward payouts when raising major rounds is helping with this issue, bu

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