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by jfager 16y ago
I don't get it. If twitter already provides the top 5 twitter clients, and 90% of users interact with twitter through those clients, where's the fractured landscape and user confusion coming from? And if the organic trend is towards offici
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by jfager 16y ago
That's not at all true. In addition to the lack of variation in stride that gaius points out, it's almost impossible to not cheat on a treadmill and let it do some of the work for you, and there's no wind resistance. Treadmills have their
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by jfager 16y ago
Implicits are obviously useful for DSLs, I'm not disputing that. My point is that they're obviously useful for other things as well, and so it doesn't make sense to say their inclusion in the language is a sign that the designers are going
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by jfager 16y ago
I don't understand what you mean when you say they went all-in on DSLs with implicits. I far more often use implicits for integrating Java libraries or papering over clunky apis than for putting together DSLs.
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by jfager 16y ago
I agree with the characterization of Scala's generics as complicated, but I disagree that that ends up making its static typing unpleasant or day-to-day programming difficult. Type inference is a big win, and other language features add en
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by jfager 16y ago
I don't think anyone who would care ignores Hadoop. It and Yahoo's involvement with it are very well known and credited. WOEID seems pretty niche. I don't work with geo much, so I don't understand right away why I would want to use a WOEI
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by jfager 16y ago
It is possible to have more than one trademark for a given word, and Apple has (at least) two for "retina": http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4003:o8... http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4003:o8...
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by jfager 16y ago
I have a little bit of experience with tutoring from TAing a senior-level CS course in college. Even at that level, there's a big need for it, and as a tutor, it feels great to see that lightbulb moment when a student suddenly groks a conc
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by jfager 16y ago
One of the hardest parts of getting into Scala for me (coming from mostly Java and Python) was that the yield keyword means something significantly different from what it means in Python. This actually broke my heart early on, as Python's
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by jfager 16y ago
I thought this story was fascinating, so I did a little bit of background digging, since this article is pretty thin. There are a bunch of relevant legal documents and news stories up at http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/alerts/whistleblower-
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by jfager 16y ago
Do you actually know what the man's "pledged duty" was, that it was recognized by the applicable laws about privilege, and that he broke it? All of the other privileged relationships you mentioned have limits: - The attorney-client privileg
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by jfager 16y ago
If Groupon wants to associate their own brand with this kind of image, fine, whatever, I can ignore them easily enough. But how would you feel as a business owner if you started getting boycotted because the idiotic company that manages y
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by jfager 16y ago
You said 'utf-8' shows up as a parameter in almost every English Google search, and suggested that this would cause weird associations between 'utf-8' and random pages. I pointed out that there's no reason to expect this to be true, because
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by jfager 16y ago
If that's true, then they should also be associating the sites linked with all the other weird parameter values in a search query If it's a parameter value people will ever actually use Bing to search for ('utf-8'), there's probably plent
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by jfager 16y ago
Why do you think Bing cares or has to know that "q=" means a Google query term? My point is that they don't have to have any semantic information about parameter keys to be able to derive probabilistic associations between parameter values
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by jfager 16y ago
People have made that point, but I don't understand it. 'kecgx...' shows up as a parameter in the url of the Google query. Tons of sites include relevant information in parameterized urls; why is it unexpected that Bing would use that info
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by jfager 16y ago
The thing that bothers me about all this drama is that the actual offense Google wants everyone to be so worked up about is that Bing doesn't filter Google from its clickstream data. Bing wrote code that works across the whole web. The who
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by jfager 16y ago
I think it's a bit paternalistic to be concerned about this because of "wasted work". One of the best ways to learn about a piece of code is to start hacking on it, regardless of whether or not any changes you make or features you add will
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by jfager 16y ago
you get between 5000-1000 executed events per second As a point of comparison, I put together a quick Python script that defines a simple single-threaded event dispatcher and then does the same thing as your testPerformance() test, and i
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by jfager 16y ago
The main EventManager class synchronizes on triggering a new event. Then every event gets its own brand new thread. Then each newly spawned thread turns around and synchronizes to wait for the right to dispatch to the event's handlers. T
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by jfager 16y ago
Yes. YMMV as to which those are, though. Safety-wise, just do a little research before heading somewhere, especially at night (to get you started, in Brooklyn, don't go to East New York, Brownsville, and large parts of BedStuy).
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by jfager 16y ago
Craigslist, as the answer to both questions. You can tell the safe/desirable neighborhoods by getting a good neighborhood map ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Manhattan_neighborhoods ) and paying attention to which neighborhoods CL ad
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by jfager 16y ago
The two SO urls that rank above the efreedom url are for different questions. The identical SO link ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3977343/nstoolbar-on-bott... ) doesn't seem to show up in the results at all. Two SO links on the firs
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by jfager 16y ago
I've done it for a little over 2 years now. I also run and lift weights, and I feel like the three complement each other very well (flexibility, endurance, strength). The hardest part is finding a good teacher that you mesh with. If you g
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by jfager 16y ago
And the second step was writing a highly-visible blog post slagging the free code they use in their many-million-dollar website before they actually understood the problem?
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by jfager 16y ago
If you're using emacs to write Scala, you should check out ensime: https://github.com/aemoncannon/ensime
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by jfager 16y ago
which was a quoting mechanism that DirectEdge experimented with in 2009 Could you go into more detail about what you mean by that? Unless you're being pedantic about something specific, I don't get how you could say that. Flash trading
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by jfager 16y ago
Why would they do that? Disney already does pretty much anything Apple asks them to, and acquiring them would make Apple direct competitors with the other media companies whose content fills out iTunes. The two companies have very little
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by jfager 16y ago
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the big affiliate link on each picture.
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by jfager 16y ago
At which point every developer (except those working on platform-specific projects) would switch their work machine to Linux. Phones and tablets went that way because they're new devices that weren't already entrenched in people's daily liv

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