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by jmilloy 12y ago
The article is objectively misleading. The title reads "What happens when you install x", but instead they proceed to install x, y, and z. Is it so surprising that when you "click next to install program y", that program
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by jmilloy 12y ago
I agree that there is a lot of useless software, malware, and annoying bundling on download.com and in the Windows software ecosystem at large. But seriously, it's not hard to avoid installing a lot of bundled software. I'd be mor
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by jmilloy 12y ago
What two player games do you know and like already? I love to play Coloretto, Battle Lines, Hive, and lately Innovation.
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Whitney Chromatic Graph(desmos.com)
1 points by jmilloy 12y ago|1 comments
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by jmilloy 12y ago
I'm of the impression that proper southern cornbread is the version without sugar (as well as cooked in a preheated cast iron skillet that goes back into the oven), whereas northern cornbread has sugar. (Wikipedia mostly agrees, at l
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AWS Lambda(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by jmilloy 12y ago|0 comments
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Cognitive Algorithm: hierarchical search and pattern encoding(cognitivealgorithm.info)
1 points by jmilloy 12y ago|0 comments
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by jmilloy 12y ago
Your comment doesn't seem to relate to the article. > where an AI like Siri can beat the turing test for any living human. A key aspect of Siri in this article is that the responses make sense . There is no trickery or deception. W
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Deep Dive into Thailand's Tech Industry(e27.co)
2 points by jmilloy 12y ago|0 comments
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That's what I remember from looking into this a few years back.
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Your Flat-File "CMS" is not a CMS – 2013(asymptomatic.net)
1 points by jmilloy 12y ago|1 comments
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Ubuntu One: Shutdown Notice(one.ubuntu.com)
24 points by jmilloy 13y ago|9 comments
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by jmilloy 13y ago
I don't think so. I think most people can do "slightly uninteresting" things, especially when they can see the benefit, and I think that many people have trouble focusing on things that they are interested in after a few hour
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by jmilloy 13y ago
Changing something about your life is a valid response. So is short-circuiting the measurement system. Keep in mind that the measurement system includes external cultural/societal pressures, out-of-date instinctual responses, and your
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by jmilloy 13y ago
I think everyone understands the concept of "nothing" or "no cookie" vs "a cookie", just as babies (and, say, birds [1]) have a concept of quantity and even discrete quantity at small values. I can understand t
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by jmilloy 13y ago
0 is important, but it's not true that without it we can't have the number 10. In written form, for example, we can represent 10 and 20 without 0 easily, as the 0 is just a syntactic placeholder: - Roman Numerals: X and XX - Scien
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by jmilloy 13y ago
He means legitimate as in "I gave you bitcoins for a concrete purpose" rather than "recognized as legal by a government." People are using BitTorrent for an actual purpose, so it's different.
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by jmilloy 13y ago
Funny, but I think you finally went too far! Speed is one thing, and not executing a function sure can happen fast, but efficiency is productivity per unit time, and if there is no productivity, it can't be "most efficient&quo
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by jmilloy 13y ago
I take your point, and I'm enjoying discussing this. I was never all that good, although we did find the time for a dozen hands or so a day for months at a time. I just remember being bored by the "deeper" things, which my fr
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by jmilloy 13y ago
Right, this just seems like basic card tracking and reasoning, which is fun when figuring it out, and then not fun once it becomes routine. When you present a situation with only two options and one is worse than the other, you will have a
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by jmilloy 13y ago
>Ever heard of a mandatory false card Nope, what is it? Nothing shows up in my Google searches other than plain old "false cards", which are fairly obvious. I don't remember bothering to name such a thing.
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by jmilloy 13y ago
I played a lot of bridge through High School, tournaments, etc. I think it can become very robotic once you are just following conventions and can count cards without difficulty.
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by jmilloy 13y ago
I think Hive is the best chess "alternative". It feels lighter, but plays deeply and is never boring. It has an interesting geometric component. And there are annual championships. (Get the Hive Carbon edition, it's much nice
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by jmilloy 13y ago
Well, I wouldn't discount the bias in the New York Times; they have every incentive to maintain ongoing controversy. Also, notice that it's a NYT blog , which I take less seriously than a news article.
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by jmilloy 13y ago
I think Greg is too close to the events: I still mostly don't know what happened when Obama used Mixlr. Can anyone help out? Some specific questions: >Unfortunately the call was marketed and promoted as a “conference call” ... which
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Awesome, much better!
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Fun. Fell a little flat when I found movies like "Craptastic" for Clint Eastwood, which he wasn't really involved with. Does the data dump have categories so you can restrict the list more appropriately?
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by jmilloy 13y ago
Okay. Thanks. >Refusal of the EU bloc to cooperate... Sharing of banking and passenger data is not something I know a lot about. Why do countries share this data now, and why would they stop because their prime minister is being spied up
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I feel we are taking our eyes off the ball. Domestic spying violates constitutional rights. More to the point, I don't want to support an institution with programs that violate my privacy, no matter what benefits such programs provide.
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I'm not convinced that Hofstadter is pursuing computers that think like humans, so much as computers that appear to think like humans. He abstracts certain observable behaviors of the human mind (e.g. analogy), but there's no gu

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