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by judk 12y ago
Define "smart". The ACT is taken by college aspiring high schoolers. If 22 is top 10% of her whole school, she had some sort of personal cleverness to overcome her near-completely unintellectual community.
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by judk 12y ago
Don't want and don't support are two different things. Google have lots of ways to get ad signal.
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by judk 12y ago
Is there really a significant population that self identifies as speaking Ebonics? That whole methodology seems rife with biases. The instructions are in standard american english. The pictures are confusing. The input controls are broken o
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by judk 12y ago
How is evidence-based medicine practiced without evidence? PHRs provide evidence.
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by judk 12y ago
Amazon S3 has offered user-pays storage for years, for any client OS.
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by judk 12y ago
A patent (troll, btw) doesn't stop Apple from letting other clients connect to the network. Those clients could decide if they want to deal with the risk of infringement judgments. And Apple could have chosen to use one of many existin
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by judk 12y ago
In a constant distribution, the majority equals the max. Some phenomena ate approximately constant. (How many eyes do you have?)
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by judk 12y ago
"Paywalls break the web" is a rather strong claim.
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by judk 12y ago
Those people tend to become business multimillionaires.
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by judk 12y ago
Indeed. Reed Solomon coding (maybe only available in system software, not disk hardware) gives you efficiently balanced striping+redundancy
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by judk 12y ago
But only a few years of difference with Moore's Law... Which was the point of the article.
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by judk 12y ago
Parent was saying they left emacs for pinky strain. How can you use regular letters in place of ESC in vim? How would you type "Dijkstra"?
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by judk 12y ago
Yes but whe editing programs we are constantly alternating between insertion and manipulation every few seconds. Acme with keybindings for chord actions might be interesting
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by judk 12y ago
When happens when DNS lookup fails and JSON is missing? Need to handle that case.
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by judk 12y ago
This is a mistake. Taleb's title makes we see in context of Taleb's website. Taleb did not wrote the headline for HN's benefit. This is not Talebs website, so we need to compensate for the different context.
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by judk 12y ago
Only matters if some Nameoogle comes along and publicizes websites with name traslations joined in.
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by judk 12y ago
Conclusion does not follow from evidence.
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by judk 12y ago
What does it mean when Eric Schmidt says someone "should" have a right to do something, when his company works against it every day?
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by judk 12y ago
Calling something "ugly" isn't humble. Putting "humble" in bold is an ironic admission of obliviousness.
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by judk 12y ago
If Excite killed Google, it is likely someone else (perhaps even Googlers who hadn't been hired yet in the hypothetical world) would build Google instead.
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by judk 12y ago
This is why Google's IPO was headlined with the statement "Focus on the user and all else will follow."
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by judk 12y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
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by judk 12y ago
Specific and correct beats generally wrong. Parent's proposal is for cohorts of thousands of students per year, of you bundle objectively similar schools.
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by judk 12y ago
You picked a poor example. ICC is not GWU https://www.google.com/search?q=illinois+central+college+tui... $7k/yr is a great price for a college education. And there is time in summer and after school to work or study a
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by judk 12y ago
Google believes tablets are mobile. Heck, with the new maps, Google thinks desktops are mobile!
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by judk 12y ago
This is one reason In am delighted the Galaxy Nexus was abandoned by KitKat. I still have the one more mobile Browser that is capable of rendering text properly.
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by judk 12y ago
Because on a small screen the size vs data density tradeoff has a sweet spot that varies from one pair of eyeballs to the next.
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by judk 12y ago
That fancy quote seems to be saying "Jaynes believes what he says, even though he gives no reason for any reader to believe him." That's not science, that's storytelling, of the very kind he is analyzing in ancient liter
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by judk 12y ago
Ironically, one thesis of the book is that consciousness arises when you can remember your past thoughts.
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by judk 12y ago
Well the existence of a whole group of "not even wrong" theories doesn't make any single one of them less deserving of complaint when it shows up on its own at a party like HN

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