joeyo

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541.
by joeyo 17y ago
> You could have good FOSS usability - if you had a central > company driving the development. As in Firefox. It just > hasn't happened many times so far, because people are > willing to pay for good closed-source
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by joeyo 17y ago
You picked a really strange counter-example with the V2 / Saturn V comparison. If there were ever a set of rockets that shared a lineage would be those. Von Braun was brought to the US specifically for his rocketry expertise and he designed
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by joeyo 17y ago
This review, and its references, are a little dated, so I presume that the animal models are much more sophisticated by now: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1990.tb00461.x
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by joeyo 17y ago
The author list alone strikes me as a dead giveaway.
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by joeyo 17y ago
I would guess that the rationale for omitting tags was to make their pages smaller so that the data transfer is quicker and cheaper.
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by joeyo 17y ago
> there are some distinct conditions for when a tool > is like a part of your body and when it's simply a tool > we learn intimately. Perhaps these are just different points along a continuum-- all tools (and limbs)
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by joeyo 17y ago
I'm generally a fan of SciTE. It runs on Linux, Mac and Window with the exact same UI; you can drive it with a keyboard alone. It is very simple to use, but it's intended as an editor for code (it has built-in syntax hiliting for a large nu
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by joeyo 17y ago
Tetraplegic.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Sure; there's no silver bullet. My remark about closures was more to address his criticism that packaging up and passing around state was too much work to be worth it. Programming in Lua has a nice example of a maze game where state is pa
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by joeyo 17y ago
His example is amusing to me because state machines are one of my least favorite things to code in imperative languages (especially C). It's so easy to forget an infrequently occurring state-interaction or side-effect. So if you want to b
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by joeyo 17y ago
The way it works is you use a web interface to enter the number you wish to dial and the number you wish to dial from . Then your phone rings, you pick up, and the number you are calling subsequently rings and the connection is made. Incid
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by joeyo 17y ago
> and will, though not yet, make the number you appear to be > calling from your GV number In my (limited) testing, I've found that it does indeed present your GV number to caller id when you make outbound calls.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Definitely. It's not uncommon when singing to intentionally "mispronounce" certain words to make them more intelligible to the audience. I would think that that skill alone would help without even getting into the tonal aspects.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Worked for me. I'm on Cupcake. Not sure how much space I had before the install, but after it I have 7MB left.
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by joeyo 17y ago
I think I would gladly put up with more tip-of-the-tongue syndrome in exchange for for early-age bilingualism.
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by joeyo 17y ago
I've always gotten the flip up SD cards for this reason-- it works works every place an SD card works, then you flip it and it works like a USB stick. Of course the proliferation of mini and micro SD cards has lessened the effectiveness of
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by joeyo 17y ago
> First, there isn't any reason there would only be one > ratings organization, one insurance company, and one Yelp > for-doctors. You would be able to reject or accept the > rating of any person or organization,
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by joeyo 17y ago
It seems that all that this does is shift the effective grant of title of nobility from the university to Consumer Reports or to the insurance company or to Yelp-for-doctors.
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by joeyo 17y ago
This is an interesting argument. Do you have an alternative method in mind for aiding people to figure out who might be qualified to perform certain types of skilled labor? For example, imagine that universities can no longer confer the nob
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by joeyo 17y ago
I don't fully understand this feature. I presume it does something different than archive, but I haven't figured out what. Edit: Ah, it keeps future messages in the thread out of the inbox too. Neat.
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by joeyo 17y ago
It sounds like this will be fun^H^H^Heasy to googlebomb...
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by joeyo 17y ago
Not only that but you should be able to add predictive text logic to the decision process: pick the next letter both based on the location of the key press and the next letter that we think you would type anyway. If you last typed a Q you p
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by joeyo 17y ago
I think these devices are definitely a step in the right direction but I am not so sure that regulation of them is pointless . Surely at the very least we can agree that all drugs (and e-cigarettes are certainly a drug delivery device) sho
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by joeyo 17y ago
> Technically, no. (I've never understood how anyone got > sequel from S-Q-L.) Sequel is quicker to pronounce than es-cue-ell, so it's very attractive for that reason. For similar reasons, I generally pronounce /etc as 'et
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by joeyo 17y ago
Transmission delays suck, but this is something that the brain has evolved to cope with (consider the speed of an action potential vs the speed of electrons in a CPU and the distances between neurons in a typical mammalian brain vs the dist
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by joeyo 17y ago
On re-read, I was being snarky. I apologize.
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by joeyo 17y ago
I suspect that there are varying degrees of synesthesia that range from the aura you describe to full-on hallucination. I have a friend that has an aural-color synesthesia who tells me that listening to music in the car (or for that matter
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by joeyo 17y ago
Synesthesia, at first blush, seems to be something that would be very difficult to study, since it involves the subjective experience of the subject. If you claim to see certain numbers in color, I either have to take your word for it or de
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by joeyo 17y ago
I think it is at least plausible that some fairly complex image recognition could be genetically determined. Indeed, the classic example of the seagull proves that pre-programming such circuitry is possible in animals with significantly
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by joeyo 17y ago
> There would have to be a complete image recognizer > implemented in the genes? Are you questioning the fact that humans and animals have image recognizers? Or do you doubt that genes play a major role in their developm

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