kenjackson

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IPhone, Kindle, and Surface: The Big Holiday Winners(chitika.com)
1 points by kenjackson 13y ago|0 comments
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Steve was probably very correct here. The thinking at the time at places like RIM was that the iPhone would not technically work -- even after they saw it. Capacitive displays weren't ready. A full screen display would drain the bat
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Then there are MUCH bigger problems than the first word anyways.
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Reading the Classics (college course)(cs.berkeley.edu)
2 points by kenjackson 13y ago|0 comments
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NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you(theguardian.com)
2 points by kenjackson 13y ago|0 comments
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by kenjackson 13y ago
I think it safe to say that your day to day observations won't line up with the general public.
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by kenjackson 13y ago
This would require a good amount of coordination and risk. These politicians are pretty well connected. And I think that if one politician was threatened, they'd likely bring in many others for support. As much as politicians may ha
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Is this equivalent to a depth vs breadth first search? Sounds very similar...
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by kenjackson 13y ago
What is copy/make vs move/undo? I'm not familiar with that terminology...
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by kenjackson 13y ago
The data from that table doesn't say what the other poster said. From the document: " Basic indicates skills necessary to perform simple and everyday literacy activities. " That sounds like functional literacy. In Table 8 t
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Do note that if you look at income data a little bit closer, you will notice that people with _only_ a bachelor's degree represent roughly 20% of every income bracket, which implies there is no significance to just having a degree as
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by kenjackson 13y ago
First, I agree 100% with what you note above. And furthermore, showing the salary of college grads in isolation is useless. You need to show the delta between those with vs those w/o college degrees. If the salary of those without co
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Agreed. Free/Open OS'es changed the world. Linux happened to be the most popular one.
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by kenjackson 13y ago
I just walked through some of their tutorials and it is still programming. It has a UI for a lot of it, but the concepts are probably more like what I consider traditional programming concepts than HTML/CSS (excluding JS).
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by kenjackson 13y ago
They still support Surface RT. It's simply that they introduced effectively a new HW port on the new devices, which they haven't retrofitted on old devices. Apple has done the exact same thing on gen X to gen X+1 in the past. E
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Joe Hahn has composed with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK6Hs-qHh84 As an ex-DJ I could definitely find use in something like this. The core music program has to be good, but a complimentary keyboard like this one wo
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Web apps run on PCs too. The long tail is Visual Studio, SPSS, Excel, Illustrator, Photoshop, Audyssey, Matlab, Emacs, Call of Duty, VLC, etc... Tablets are a great secondary device. I think Chromebooks are too bulky and not feature rich
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If not the NSA then who should store phone data(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by kenjackson 13y ago|1 comments
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by kenjackson 13y ago
They are really Netbook challengers. For OEMs it is a race to the bottom. But it is a smart play for Google. But like Netbooks I think it'll have a short run. In the same way it is hard for WinPhone to compete against Android in the
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by kenjackson 13y ago
There are "girls code" events which are dominated by white females. There's no need to have one specifically for white females, except to exclude other races, There is a need for Black Girls Code as an effort to bring them
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Huh? For many people your phone company, is their internet company. They already have your address (they have to deliver the cable to it) and your billing information. The don't even need to do any fancy analytics. They have all you
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by kenjackson 13y ago
The Carver Mead interview is more than a decade old (and honestly I'd never knew about it before) -- great find and read. Is his characterization of Bohr and the statistical thinking (a remnant of poor tools) still believed?
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Do you hire those who worked as Los Alamos? People from the South? South Africa? People who worked at Facebook? The US Military? Paid taxes to the US govt? I should add all of these to my CV just to avoid ppl who would irrationally dis
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by kenjackson 13y ago
How do you avoid thus when it comes to national security? Not every single person in the Army needs to know that Bin Laden is getting rolled on tonight. I think what happened is the citizenry picked security over privacy. And our elected
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Bullshit. They're adults who chose to do what they did and work where they work. They did, but that presumes they knew all that was going on. I suspect that very few people did. Ask people at Microsoft and Google if they were servi
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by kenjackson 13y ago
The built in Podcast app does that.
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by kenjackson 13y ago
I no more have to subscribe to your morality as your ideology. I'm not a bug Facebook user, but it has nothing to do with privacy. I've always known some random engineer at Facebook could read my posts, and assumed it was not a s
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Apple had a whole TV campaign with Justin Long mocking Microsoft. It was pretty successful I recall.
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by kenjackson 13y ago
I think that the idea of surveillance is to increase safety with only a marginal decrease in freedom. Additionally, one could argue that as our freedom grows the opportunities for surveillance increase. That is, if you use the same means o
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by kenjackson 13y ago
Couldn't the Amiga already do all that multitasking on a 256KB machine, years before?

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