joeyo

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by joeyo 17y ago
> Does it provide any support for avoiding/detecting > Javascript "memory leaks" which are easy to create with > closures and anonymous functions? I don't understand this. Do closures leak because of buggy javascript
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by joeyo 17y ago
> My main peeve with matlab is that to write a function it > is required to make a separate file however most problems > that are solved with matlab don't really need functions > in the first place. That's ju
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by joeyo 17y ago
Definitely. Projects that predate git and don't absolutely need dvcs will probably stay in subversion for the rest of their natural lifetimes. Plus tools like Joey Hess's mr make working in a heterogeneous vcs environment somewhat managea
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by joeyo 17y ago
This would be disastrous for scholarship. While I don't know anybody using the Kindle right now to conduct research, it's not too hard to imagine that this could become commonplace in the future. I already use Amazon's Look Inside feature w
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by joeyo 17y ago
For some reason these arguments all seem to start with the assumption that we are not all zombies. I have yet to see any good evidence that we aren't and it seems like the simplest explanation.
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by joeyo 17y ago
They derived laws that were already known. It won't be until their system derives unknown laws and relationships, then we'll have something.
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by joeyo 17y ago
It looks like we are getting that anyway, modular schedulers or no.
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by joeyo 17y ago
I almost wonder if "Google Everything" would have been a better name for it--some aspects of just about every social website could be replaced with waves. It overlaps a lot with the functionality of Facebook, Twitter and 4chan just to name
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by joeyo 17y ago
I know more than a few people who use sharepoint effectively as a way to move around documents that are too large to send via email.
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by joeyo 17y ago
I'm not familiar with the studies you are referring to, so what I am about to suggest may have been controlled for, but I wonder if the apparent increase in strength of the placebo effect is simply due to recent drugs being less effective
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by joeyo 17y ago
Why does google need to advertise to end users? Most of the savvy ones already know about Android and the rest probably don't care what their phone runs as long as it can do email, get map directions, etc. If they are spending money on mark
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by joeyo 17y ago
I completely disagree with your second point. The manufacturer necessarily markets almost exclusively to the doctor. Most patients will happily go with whatever their doctor says is the best device on the market. And health insurance is pro
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by joeyo 17y ago
Another possibility that I have heard discussed, specifically with respect to spy bugs, is "spray on" battery technology.
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by joeyo 17y ago
At the risk of being very cynical, which do you think makes more money for the pacemaker manufacturer (and doctor and hospital, etc): a pacemaker with an eternal nuclear battery, or one that has to be replaced every few years?
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by joeyo 17y ago
The problem isn't the acute supertick bite, but the chronic, expensive condition that arises from it.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Sola fide is a controversial stance, at best. Consider James 2:26, "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."
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by joeyo 17y ago
Market economics? Is that what Pinochet's regime is being called now?
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by joeyo 17y ago
Education (alone) is not sufficient. Look at Uruguay. (Uruguay had one of the highest rates of literacy and school enrollment in the Latin Americas.)
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by joeyo 17y ago
Just to give you one datapoint: I played forumwarz episodes 1 and 2 pretty much like an addicted fiend when they initially came out. But I am not sure if I have been to the site in between and since (if you made an episode 3 in the interim,
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by joeyo 17y ago
I have seen this argument being made frequently here recently--that the "AI" that we have produced is not "real" AI. This is understandable true in a way, since after all, AIs cannot do many of the things that natural intelligences can do.
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by joeyo 17y ago
I suspect you know this, but as of Lua 5.1 there are modules: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.3
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by joeyo 17y ago
And who are the other big guys in your analogy?
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by joeyo 17y ago
Indeed. So goes the James-Damasio argument, in any rate. Perhaps the parent actually was referring to the qualia component to emotion--or indeed qualia in general--which is much more difficult to explain.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Considering that the population most at risk for HIV/AIDS might be unwilling or unable to use condoms (sex workers), having more mechanisms for preventing the disease is a Good Thing.
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by joeyo 17y ago
That sounds like a pretty cool system; thanks for sharing!
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by joeyo 17y ago
Unless there are very few Hindus using the site, in which case there could be (in the extreme) a single bad hindu-hindu match that skews everything. We need error bars.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Gotta agree with you on this one. It's amusing to look at the plots and note the bits that agree (or disagree) with your prejudices, but without some information about the variance this is nothing more than entertainment.
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by joeyo 17y ago
At some point though, you definitely want the teachers to be experts . This may not be true for most undergraduate curricula, true, but are not most undergraduate courses already taught by graduate students, lecturers and adjunct faculty?
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by joeyo 17y ago
If the system in question permits it (unix accounts do, at least) including spaces in passwords--making it technically a pass phrase--is another nice trick.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Another alternative would be for Google to simply offer those apps for downloaded as they do for their software on any other platform. I wonder if there is some Google authentication glue that they have not yet modularized enough to allow t

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