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by jvdh 17y ago
A lot of interactive webpages break the back-button behavior. However, this one takes the breakage to a whole new level: for each page you turn, an entry to the history is added, but it does nothing. So if you turn a few pages and decide yo
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by jvdh 17y ago
an inbox full of emails that you do not read is a behavorial problem. Not one of email. No amount of twitter, facebook or "email 2.0" is going to fix that. Even though the traffic between SMTP servers is in plaintext, encrypting that traffi
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by jvdh 17y ago
MSN is widely popular here. And there are lots more social networks besides Facebook. For example, in the Netherlands there's hyves.nl and I'm sure the same is true for other countries.
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by jvdh 17y ago
People living in the US really should realise that there is a world outside of the US. Facebook may be the way of communication for american youths, but it is not that entrenched in other countries.
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by jvdh 17y ago
What is so broken about email? (apart from spam)
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by jvdh 17y ago
Even those non-US citizens who fly business class still have to go through the same line with the same stoic DHS servant asking the same questions they ask everyone in the same non-interested manner.
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by jvdh 17y ago
This is great news! The site played such an important role in the history of computer science, that it really deserves to be preserved. I've been there myself, and they've created a wonderful museum there. The Colossus rebuild headed by Ton
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by jvdh 17y ago
Historically OS X shipped with ancient versions of Python that were not always complete. Same with Perl and others. It's only since the last two or three releases of OS X that they included halfway decent versions of them. I agree that it m
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by jvdh 17y ago
For the last couple of years there have been different CPUs for Macs. First we had the G4, then the G5, followed by the switch to Intel. And even for the Intels there's lots of different subtypes. And of course now with the switch to Snow L
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by jvdh 17y ago
Most comments about this article when it was originally submitted weren't too positive either: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=755833
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by jvdh 17y ago
er, how does this data correlate to Maps?
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by jvdh 17y ago
True, but this is buried deep down in a very inflammatory reply, where most people would have stopped reading anyway. He makes some good points, but they could have been made a in a better tone, which makes him a terrible front-man.
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by jvdh 17y ago
It is stupefying that this article is written now, and there is not a single reference to semantic web, or artificial intelligence research. This problem has been identified decades ago, years of research have gone into it, and some solutio
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by jvdh 17y ago
Your site goes down?
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by jvdh 17y ago
That writing out of numbers is extremely annoying. I can understand when writers do it with numbers that are unexpected, or very important. But here it is done almost consistently with every number. It makes me feel offended that the writer
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by jvdh 17y ago
I don't follow. Of course you want common sense to prevail. And I'm not saying that you should always treat users as if they are stupid. But you do have to assume the worst when you're dealing with these kinds of severe business risks. And
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by jvdh 17y ago
Imagine a company where information flows have to be closely monitored and/or guarded. Like say, a hospital, a bank, or a financial corporation. Any leaking of information in any which way is going to be a severe loss for that company So th
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by jvdh 17y ago
An internal site with that code running there is probably going to be tested if any browser updates will be performed. Upgrading to Firefox will mean that you will effectively have to perform these checks twice. (No, you are not going to ge
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by jvdh 17y ago
I see. I apologise for my harsh tone in my first response. I've been reading too much focused articles, and this stood out. I missed the reference to the xkcd meme upon first reading (my bad! can't believe I missed that :( ) and upon reread
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by jvdh 17y ago
What prompted me in making the comment is that the title suggests your post is about troll hugging. But in describing that whole story, you do some large side-stepping, that in my mind are not related to the subject that you gave the post.
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by jvdh 17y ago
I can't decide whether this really is about troll hugging (which is what it's about in the beginning and at the end), or a shameless plug about Pugs and himself (which fills the middle of the story).
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by jvdh 17y ago
Elsevier sends you a draconian form by default. If you tell them that you're a PhD student and want to retain copyright and later publish your article in your thesis, then they will send you a new form. That form lets you keep the copyright
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by jvdh 17y ago
I did not exactly mean it like that. You see more and more magazines and journals offering their accepted publications online first. It will not be long before that will become the main mode of how people learn about these articles.
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by jvdh 17y ago
I've just finished my PhD, so I'm an expert in a very small field. Yes, it is true that I've read a good paper that I do not care whether it is peer-reviewed, on arxiv, or just on a homepage. As long as it is of good quality and there is a
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by jvdh 17y ago
One thing you really should at least do is retain the copyright of your own paper. Journals will allow you to retain copyright and almost all rights of your paper if you just ask for it. Then you can always publish it on your homepage.
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by jvdh 17y ago
Computer Science is one of the places where dead tree publication is going the way of the dodo pretty soon I think. Results can come very fast, and one of the top journals can take 18+ months to review and publish an article. By which time
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by jvdh 17y ago
The problem is that your articles get measured by the "quality" of the journals that they appear in. The problem is that the whole system is fundamentelly broken and it is going to take a complete mindshift of everyone involved to change th
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by jvdh 17y ago
That’s a lot of apps. 8,500 per week with 40 reviewers works out to 212 apps per reviewer per week — about 40 per day. It's even worse than that, quoting the Apple text: There are more than 40 full-time trained reviewers, and at least tw
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by jvdh 17y ago
That may be true, but that is not a strategy that would apply to writing a PhD thesis. That is just such a great amount of work, and with no real end-date. Even then, the fear of not finishing on time will very likely come too late with suc
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by jvdh 17y ago
This might also be the reason that _why just upped an ran. Staying anonymous is one thing, but letting someone else take the hit for you is quite another. disclaimer: I don't know how long the blog has been trying to figure out who _why is.

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