kaosjester

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by kaosjester 10y ago
6+ hours of battery life is _absolutely terrible_ by today's standards.
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by kaosjester 10y ago
I read the blog post and I still have no idea what Gomix is. Is it just a web-based nodejs ide?
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by kaosjester 10y ago
It's a damn shame they only did it for the DNC.
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by kaosjester 10y ago
This isn't about marketing. Uber is literally pushing toward this. They hired most of CMU's National Robotics Engineering Center! They're making this push, and it's either that or bust for them.
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by kaosjester 10y ago
You want the Nintendo Switch of computing?
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by kaosjester 10y ago
I completely agree. The battery life difference -- even those few hours -- are enough to drive me away. Combine that with an absurd price point jump, and I'm out. The macbook air 13" was the perfect developer laptop, and now I gue
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by kaosjester 10y ago
No, I got that. The article also has the person who demonstrated it advocating for democratic control of leadership, and I was commenting on how that might run into its own troubles.
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by kaosjester 10y ago
I find the idea of a democratic structure oddly appealing. Don't like your boss? Vote them out ! Love someone and wish they'd be in charge, because they're basically in charge anyway? Vote them in ! If anonymous voting happ
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by kaosjester 10y ago
We spent so long asking if we could do it, that we never stopped to ask if we should .
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by kaosjester 10y ago
So it looks like, in short, welfare dollars have mostly stopped being spent as checks handed to the needy and, instead, are being used to help people with drug problems, childcare, and educational needs. Moreover, most of the states that ha
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by kaosjester 10y ago
Here's the link to the actual website where you can use try it: https://www.eyeem.com/
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by kaosjester 10y ago
Another instance of a cop who has watched the 'war on drugs' rage on and on, and came to speak out about the fundamental flaw in the approach: you can't fight a war against drugs; you have to treat the people at the bottom, h
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by kaosjester 10y ago
It's certainly a mixture of the two.
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by kaosjester 10y ago
To be more explicit, it isn't a guarantee as much as an implicit government economic policy which, it seems, boils down to: It is the individual's responsibility for their own financial security, and the larger economic scheme of
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by kaosjester 10y ago
Or, the amount of drunk drivers is so small that whatever number Uber takes off the streets doesn't make a statistical bump. The p-value hit the threshold for DUIs and deaths, but not for alcohol-involved accidents.
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by kaosjester 10y ago
I'm pretty familiar with various approaches to implementing Lisp / Scheme, and seeing projects like this is almost heartbreaking. What's been done here (which I might call the "mechanical" approach to implementing S
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by kaosjester 10y ago
In the near future, criminals will learn to leaves their cellphones at home while committing crimes, using burner phones for any contact they need during that time. Which, incidentally, is advice that the Shadowrun tabletop RPG gives freely
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by kaosjester 10y ago
There are two kinds of companies in today's world: those who have been hacked, and those who don't know it yet.
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by kaosjester 10y ago
You're blowing my mind. Apple Music's interface is so bad that I literally did not know it could do any of these.
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by kaosjester 10y ago
Compare this to Spotify Premium: - Syncing an album for offline play is a checkbox. - I can play music on any device logged into the account from any other device logged into the account - Robust song discovery - Massive back-catalog - HD P
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by kaosjester 10y ago
Good thing this article names a bunch of people who wanted all of this history about them anonymous.
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by kaosjester 10y ago
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, two MIT economists, recently wrote a book about this, called The Second Machine Age (here: http://www.amzn.to/0393239357 ). We're teetering on the edge of economic shifts, and we hav
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by kaosjester 11y ago
It's recur, not recurse. Would you incurse during an incursion?
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by kaosjester 11y ago
And there isn't a password reset option or password confirmation. Hope you typed it right!
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by kaosjester 11y ago
I went to Trinity and Howland attempted to teach us J there. The entire thing went terribly. I agree with Iverson's assessment: learning J is a lot like learning math in that mathematicians often use weird and cryptic syntactic forms t
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by kaosjester 14y ago
The point everyone seems to be making is that there is no reason to do this in javascript if it's for command line use. Implementing it in js like this is just silly.
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by kaosjester 14y ago
My wife worked on this a bit with Adam ( https://twitter.com/#!/acfoltzer ) and Ryan. There is a pending submission to ICFP. The reason they went with CUDA was to plug into Accelerate's existing framework without redeveloping the entire whe