jordonwii

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by jordonwii 9y ago
That's a daily update, so it's paywalled. :(
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by jordonwii 9y ago
That's already started: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/technology/lyft-waymo-sel... Although, while looking for that article, I also found this: https://www.theverge.com/2017&#x2
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by jordonwii 9y ago
This would be great. I just stayed in about 10 or so Airbnbs on an extended trip. A number of them were run by someone who didn't live there, but would, for example, leave a lock box outside the door with the key, and tell us to put th
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by jordonwii 9y ago
This is great. I've spent a couple years now bouncing between various overuse injuries. For people like me who always feel like they need to do a little bit more/faster/etc., what you said seems like a great way to talk yours
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by jordonwii 9y ago
Google posted a response blog post: https://www.blog.google/topics/google-europe/european-commis... It's mostly just fluff, but they do make a good point about the role of Amazon and eBay in product searches.
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by jordonwii 9y ago
Readings still get assigned, even in the python version - although my impression is that a pretty small portion of the class reads them. :) They're at composingprograms.com - written by Denero to use Python, but based very heavily off
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by jordonwii 9y ago
In case anyone's curious, this is a rather old iteration of the course (2011, right after it switched from scheme to Python). The current iteration is at http://cs61a.org - taught by two undergrads for the summer. The most
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by jordonwii 10y ago
> A surprising majority of people says "milk", when the correct answer is "water". This is obviously because of some sort of bias against water. Any other explanation is absolutely inconceivable. It may have something
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by jordonwii 10y ago
Another "hard sci-fi" suggestion: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Goes into a lot of detail about some potentially interesting things (moon science and orbital mechanics come to mind), if you enjoy that. I learned that I don't,
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by jordonwii 10y ago
I'm going to play devil's advocate here, but there might be legitimate technical reasons - streaming from your ISP's network may actually be easier on the network (it doesn't require inter-network hops, or maybe, since t
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by jordonwii 10y ago
In the specific case of Berkeley, campus officials estimated that it would have cost a few extra hundred thousand dollars in order to put in the infrastructure to caption all of the videos that they made public. Given that the return for th
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by jordonwii 10y ago
> it seems like it would be cheaper for the schools to just stop sharing the courses instead of dealing with a lawsuit. Indeed. That's exactly what happened at UC Berkeley, once news of these lawsuits got out. We used to have all of
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by jordonwii 10y ago
Verizon Exclusive only in the US - they're selling it directly in other countries.
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by jordonwii 10y ago
This. I switched to Gnome 2 as soon as Mandriva switched to KDE4, and then ran the last version of Ubuntu with Gnome 2 until I had to upgrade. Those were the days.
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by jordonwii 10y ago
It's not clear to me what it would even mean for "consciousness to turn out to be false." The way consciousness is commonly defined (i.e. not with an analytical definition), its existence as a phenomenon can't be false
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by jordonwii 10y ago
Willing to elaborate or point me somewhere to read more? I'd love to hear the story here.
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by jordonwii 10y ago
This is great! Although, I'll shamefully admit that after just doing the Konami code and seeing nothing happen, I went so far as to take a look at the source to get the last step. :) You did indeed get a 5-star review out of it, though
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by jordonwii 10y ago
Same. I discovered a setting that brings up a little arrow pad on comment pages, so that I can swipe up/down on it to go to the previous/next comment at that level in the tree, and left/right to go out/in a particular co
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by jordonwii 10y ago
> Many people (myself included) would compare X in intent and setup to PARC from the 1970s. That was probably true originally. Lately, (especially post-Alphabet) it seems like the pressure is on them to produce commercial products , alb
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by jordonwii 10y ago
> It seems that Uber might be artificially deflating its prices to try and kill the competition That is indeed the case: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/will-ride-ha...
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by jordonwii 10y ago
Re: 1. I tried learning Rust 8 months ago, and gave up because I couldn't quite get my head around ownership, borrowing, etc. I just read through the link you gave, and the explanation of ownership now is very good - far more approac
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by jordonwii 10y ago
Most of those concerns are because you opted into the Insider program. WSL was included in the Anniversary Update, so you don't have to be an Insider to get it, now, and the instructions are straightforward (no OS updates or lengthy re
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by jordonwii 10y ago
You can actually view messages on the mobile web app (or you could earlier today, anyway). On my phone, clicking on messages tells me to download messenger. If I ignore that and hit all messages, it nags again, but eventually does it. FWIW,
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by jordonwii 10y ago
That paper was the first thing I thought of when I read this, too. It really is a fascinating solution to this problem. Any ideas why external synchrony didn't catch on? I suppose one could argue that the implementation would add a de
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by jordonwii 11y ago
I don't know, either, but, for what it's worth, Joe has said that Midori began around ~2008. Edit: 2003 according to above comment. I got my year from "The project included [...] looking more like the Microsoft of today [...]
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by jordonwii 11y ago
Interesting that you chose Slack as a _positive_ example. Their most recent release notes were exactly what I had in mind while reading this article: "Revel in the ability create a whole new team from within the app! Enjoy a whole new
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by jordonwii 11y ago
Make that 4: Google Photos show up in Drive now, as well.
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by jordonwii 11y ago
Unfortunately, yes it is. http://status.popcorntime.io/
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by jordonwii 11y ago
One of the selling points of Google's Play music is letting you play videos in the background (part of YouTube Music Key).
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by jordonwii 11y ago
Agreed. I used that tool to explicitly tell Google my interests , and started receiving ads about Django IDEs and other useful things, instead of whatever useless junk I'd been forced to see before. Edit: formatting.

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