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by jfager 16y ago
That's fine, I agree. My point was not "His metric is the most awesome, shut up", it was "Despite only giving one kind of number, the author still included other analysis and subjective opinion in the writeup for each photo, so it's not as
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1. How else would you construct an objective test? Creating images of the same quality and then comparing their file sizes seems prohibitively difficult if not impossible. This test, otoh, implies the same information (minus the exact di
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Actually, yes: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0....
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http://cloudera.com http://riptano.com http://couchone.com http://10gen.com http://neotechnology.com http://basho.com ...
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Given that we've had web browsers since 1992, and that they've only recently started supporting hardware acceleration, that doesn't seem like something that needs to be "admitted". They advertise it because when and if it works for you, it
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by jfager 16y ago
To be fair, they've been saying IE9 requires D2D, which provides both hardware and software rendering. All he's saying here is that you can ask IE9 to use D2D's software rendering if your VM is having problems with hardware rendering. Thi
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And it's going really well: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dkk3l/iama_we_are_memb...
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Did you share that experience with him? He's still writing the book, I'm sure he'd love the feedback.
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by jfager 16y ago
That's not fair to say at all. IE6 is a perfect example of complacency in a competitive market from years ago. Their mobile efforts to date are a perfect example of complacency in a competitive market today. They were years late in shi
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When I was in high school, I was riding with a friend who was kind of a jackass. For some stupid reason, he flipped off some guys in a truck, who promptly started chasing us. Immediately behind them was a cop car. We ran into some traffi
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by jfager 16y ago
Secure enough for what? The attack is simple: pick a target whose email you know, and then start guessing emails of people you think they might have an account with. This could be as easy as browsing to a website and entering pairs of em
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It is a good thing, but it isn't the highest good. It doesn't make sense to avoid useful basic features simply because they aren't immediately obvious to a novice in the language.
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This is the one way to do it. masklinn has cousin comment that does a good job of explaining why: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1732575 , and others have made some good points questioning whether you'd ever actually want to do this
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by jfager 16y ago
Unpacking applies to iterables. That seems obvious and easy, but the feature is commonly called "tuple unpacking" in the Python world despite the fact that more than tuples can be unpacked. I resolve the apparent conflict by thinking of t
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by jfager 16y ago
Yes. Why is that surprising? f is a generator, generators are iterables, iterables can be unpacked. I've always thought that the tuple referred to by 'tuple unpacking' was the target containing the variables being assigned, rather than t
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by jfager 16y ago
If someone's knowledge of Python is so shallow that they can't handle tuple unpacking, they should learn more Python. It's one of the basic foundations of the language, and it's hardly a difficult concept.
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by jfager 16y ago
It seems somewhat obvious that sooner than later all code will be written in this (or a similar) way. LtU is just outright adorable sometimes.
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by jfager 16y ago
There's a huge interest in education material in the free software and creative commons movements. The idea of putting free education material on the web isn't new at all, and there's tons of material available out there (and has been for
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by jfager 16y ago
At the time I made the comment, the article was two paragraphs long, the first being the actual news about Apple and the second being what I quoted. It doesn't stick out from the most recent revision as much, I agree, but I still think it'
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The quote was completely vapid, from some random analyst with an obvious c.o.i., and totally unnecessary for the story. Why include it at all? Maybe I'm just cynical, but I read the disclosure of her position as ad copy as much as minimal
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by jfager 16y ago
“There’s no reason at all Apple can’t grow much, much bigger,” said Jane Snorek, an analyst with Minneapolis-based First American Funds, which has more than $100 billion under management, with Apple as its largest technology holding. Holy
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For a little more context, a 33B valuation is ~1/5 Google's current market cap, 1/8 Apple's, 1/6 MS's, 1/4 Oracle's, 1/2 Disney's, 1/2 Amazon's, 2x Yahoo's, 15x AOL's, etc. It would make Facebook the 79th largest company in the US, and 226t
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by jfager 16y ago
Earlier this summer when LeBron James decided to go to Miami to play with Dwyane Wade, there was a lot of discussion over the next week about the fact that many players have basically grown up together in the countless shoe company basketba
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It's a tradeoff, sure. In my case, I'm perfectly happy to trade a few comments from people who don't want to deal with a captcha for never having to manually deal with spam. YMMV.
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I'm not saying captchas are a magic one-step solution to end all spam (hence the mention of Akismet). I'm just disputing the idea that they are "nothing more" than illusory security. Sure, they can be turked, and sure, if someone relies o
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Before adding captchas to my stupid personal blog, Akismet was catching ~300 attempted spams a day, and I was manually flagging ~2 a day. Then I installed reCaptcha, and now Akismet catches ~10 a month, and I've had to manually flag zero. I
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Facebook has zero incentive to confirm the rumor, and tons of incentive to deny it. I'm not saying I think the rumor is true (actually, I don't care), but you can't call BS just because Facebook has denied it.
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When this is good: when the bounds of permission are set by an entity which has no legitimate right to restrict an action. See: Rosa Parks sitting at the front of the bus. When this is bad: when the bounds of permission are set by an ent
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by jfager 16y ago
My ZipCar experience: I rented a car for a full weekend last October, and returned it several hours before it was due back. I forgot to "tap out", though, and ZipCar sent me a late return notification and charged my credit card. No big d
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Have you seen Lucandra? It's Cassandra-backed Lucene that gives you soft real-time updates. I'm sure Google's infrastructure is far more advanced, but the idea of real-time indexing for big data has been around for a while, and is availab

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