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by jfager 17y ago
I don't get how an iPhone can be considered solely a rich person's toy. I'm not claiming to be hard up, but I live a pretty frugal lifestyle, and I consider it a completely reasonable expense. It's my phone, it's my map, it's my address b
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by jfager 17y ago
One way to deal with this is by renaming the artifact itself. So for a project foo-1.0.0 with a branch for Initech, instead of trying to figure out how to increment the version, you make foo-initech-1.0.0, and start incrementing its versio
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by jfager 17y ago
I don't get it. I just read both privacy policies, and they seem pretty much identical. Asa says in the comments that "Microsoft doesn't connect it to my name, my addressbook, my friends, my email address, my physical location, etc. Micros
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by jfager 17y ago
Except that the former is plainly false, and the latter is pretty much indisputable provided you aren't walking up to the phrase with a preconceived notion that it's codespeak for something more sinister. I should add that I very much agree
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by jfager 17y ago
I mean offline as an experience, not as a caching problem, which in my case means games and other apps that rely on the full capabilities of the hardware. I thought that would be obvious from the context as a native app that needs online a
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by jfager 17y ago
An entire article about waking up to the reality that people respond better to a depoliticized environmentalist narrative, bookended with Sarah Palin as linkbait in the title and punching bag in the closing paragraph. Brilliant.
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by jfager 17y ago
I know this is really only applicable for a few cities, but speaking for myself: as a consumer, I don't want webapps right now. AT&T's network sucks hard in NYC, and even if it didn't, a very large portion of the time I spend with app
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by jfager 17y ago
Clicking through to the cited posts: 1. http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/12/optio... - Most of this post is praising Google for their TSO program. Microsoft is mentioned almost as an afterthought, to show that they al
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by jfager 17y ago
Responding to your edit: I don't think data.gov should be in the business of curating too aggressively. It delays data being released, and it brings in a lot of questions about the politics of how that curation is done. I agree, though,
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by jfager 17y ago
I actually meant it when I said I didn't understand what you were getting at. I initially read it as you saying that there shouldn't be a data.gov at all (because raw data's useless, curated data's expensive and difficult, and simplified d
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by jfager 17y ago
I don't understand what you're getting at with this list. 1. Yes, datasets need to be cleaned. But you need to have the dataset before you can clean it, and different people will want to clean it in different ways. Get it up there first,
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by jfager 17y ago
I think this is very readable. Out of curiousity, what would your ideal of the equivalent code look like, in your language of choice? (If you really can't read this to know what your code would have to do, it's either parsing some term t
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by jfager 17y ago
Why spare the boycott? It's not like it's difficult to avoid buying American Airlines tickets, and frankly, it sucks to fly with them anyways.
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by jfager 17y ago
No, they can't. http://officialblog.yelp.com/2009/02/kathleen-richards-east-... http://officialblog.yelp.com/2009/02/east-bay-express-story-...
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by jfager 17y ago
I use Yelp all the time, so I agree with you that there is value in a directory with ratings. But the value of Yelp comes from the carefully crafted community that I feel I can trust, not from some random star rating from faceless people,
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by jfager 17y ago
Service for whom? It doesn't serve the business - I'm sure they'd much rather people contact them directly - and it doesn't serve the customer - who wants to deal with a middleman when your toilet's overflowing? The only one served by thi
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by jfager 17y ago
You missed something. HelpHive uses the same bullshit model that GetSatisfaction and Seth Godin's lame new project got railed for, where it sets up an official looking page for every company it can find, regardless of whether it has that co
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by jfager 17y ago
It's been doing a pretty steady incline. So what? That number only gives you an idea of money in long positions on listed company stock at any given moment. GS isn't making their money because the market as a whole is going up (or, at lea
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by jfager 17y ago
Do you really think anyone who cares enough to want to use a service like this simultaneously doesn't care enough to want to be there in person if they could? If the options are nothing/regular tv or this, which is better?
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by jfager 17y ago
http://www.kickstarter.com/
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by jfager 17y ago
Realtime = Knowing who just trashed my brand, so I can go and fix it before or while everyone's paying attention to the issue. Including 'happening right now' sales in my search for an affordable camera. Hearing news that much sooner than
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by jfager 17y ago
How is 'structure your code to make tail calls' any different from 'annotate "I want this optimization"'?
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by jfager 17y ago
You're changing the topic of conversation from 'recur' to 'tail-call elimination', but I'll bite. I don't understand your argument. How is the decision to take advantage of tail-call elimination any less a part of an algorithm's implementa
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by jfager 17y ago
Okay, but you're still doing the twisting with recur. The only difference is that the compiler checks that recur is actually in a tail position. That's probably nice to a newcomer, sure, but once you do it a few times, it's pretty simple
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by jfager 17y ago
I agree that recur is nice and explicit about what's happening, but what does "it just seems wrong when the semantics of two identical function invocations vary wildly as a function of whether there’s an executable statement between the inv
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by jfager 17y ago
You are far overestimating how good detectors and searching is. No, I'm not, which is why I'm doing all the other stuff, too. They are already doing all your suggestions, so I guess you are happy with them. Yeah, actually, I think a lot
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by jfager 17y ago
I would install metal detectors, x-ray luggage, randomly search people and bags as often as my resources reasonably allowed, use bomb-sniffing dogs, and use law enforcement and intelligence agencies to try to prevent terrorist groups from s
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by jfager 17y ago
The linker can inspect a direct link to see where it was pointing, in order to find it on archive.org or to contact the linkee and notify them the link went down. If a shortener goes down, the linker only has the obfuscated url, and has to
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by jfager 17y ago
Yes, but when a shortener dies, neither the linker nor the linkee can fix the problem, making the problem worse.
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by jfager 17y ago
Cocoa Emacs works great for me, I've never had a problem with it.

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