krichman

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by krichman 14y ago
Why on Earth was "greedy" in quotes in the title?
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by krichman 14y ago
I think it would. Then Amazon would need to be competitive about ebook delivery fees to encourage authors to lower their ebook prices.
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by krichman 14y ago
That's a terrible user experience, especially for something that could be a setting.
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by krichman 14y ago
The iOS app also drains my battery by being always on. It was so irritating I deleted it entirely.
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by krichman 14y ago
I would be shopping around for a new ISP right now if there was even a single alternative.
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by krichman 14y ago
Not only that, but I think it would be reasonable to require by law that a service must give its users prompt notice of termination and a reasonable timeframe during which they can download the content they created. What happened to your fa
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by krichman 14y ago
Thirded. I've been trying to read technical papers on my Kindle and wow is it uncomfortable. Reading a novel is an absolute delight, though.
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by krichman 14y ago
An option is not a default, though, so using Postgres or MySQL absolutely would solve the problem of returning with success before persisting the data. The contentious area isn't really that Mongo does this, it's because for whatever reason
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by krichman 14y ago
It looks cool, but I don't see the utility just yet. Are there patterns that are very useful, but difficult to come up with just by following one of the normal forms?
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by krichman 14y ago
Oh, I hadn't made the connection between those and the general statement. Thanks for the clarification.
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by krichman 14y ago
I've curious, under what conditions is a smushed list useful?
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by krichman 14y ago
The PandoDaily readers have chosen the wrong blog to hitch their hopes to.
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by krichman 14y ago
But actually, that argument is applied whenever someone disagrees with popular opinion, instantly silencing them even if they presented their ideas rationally. It's nothing more than an ad hominem argument.
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by krichman 14y ago
Right, any language could do this -- `malloc` and friends return pointers aligned to 16 bytes, giving you 4 bits at the bottom that are totally free. It can go even further than that; most systems only use 48 bits for addresses -- this leav
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by krichman 14y ago
Performance is not the USP, obviously.
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by krichman 14y ago
No :( That's my ideal computer at the moment, though. All I want is Bash, Firefox, and liberty.
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by krichman 14y ago
Take this with a grain of salt because I am surely biased; Objective-C is a great language. I really like the Smalltalk method calling style they've used, and you can still use C to mess with pointers if you know what you are doing. If one
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by krichman 14y ago
This is much better, but since I am going full-on free software advocate at the moment I am obliged to complain that the wi-fi chip drivers are not open source :)
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by krichman 14y ago
Yes, having so many bugs -- they must either be awful at programming, or tried to release too many features with not enough testing. Reducing features probably would have helped a lot.
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by krichman 14y ago
No, not iPhone games. We should be encouraging kids to program for ecosystems that are free to enter, and that don't censor apps for disagreeing with their delicate sensibilities.
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by krichman 14y ago
You are correct, but also if you spot "hundreds of bugs" it seems fair to say the trigger was pulled prematurely.
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by krichman 14y ago
Absolutely not. First, I have heard anecdotes about patents for (device and method for) transferring data over a network. Second, if you know about a patent you are now wilfully infringing and will get triple damages in court. But don't wor
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by krichman 14y ago
Complete with arcane mutterings. I know that law has a lot of very specific terms, but is encoding them in Latin necessary?
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by krichman 14y ago
Other countries force the loser in a lawsuit to cover the costs. Perhaps that's why they don't have so many companies using patents that shouldn't have been issued in the first place.
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by krichman 14y ago
If you do it voluntarily, that's your own fault. But there's no way to prevent everyone you know from tagging you in photos even if you do your personal best to be private.
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by krichman 14y ago
It's not complicated. It's that there is no other option that gives more benefit (to the average user) than having all your contacts in one system. It's not going down until the privacy issue becomes enough to make average users quit, somet
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by krichman 14y ago
I'd prefer not to use a distro with ads on the whole, I had Mint during "special search" and it was not trivial to remove and it did degrade regular searches by a lot. Once bitten... But this is a great point -- not only does a walled garde
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by krichman 14y ago
It's possible to have an open platform and keep malware out. It's possible to go as far as OS X-style sandboxing but allow certificate authentication by more than one CA. But the track that Win and OS X are taking is to try and create monop
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by krichman 14y ago
I've been seeing more Kickstarters after funding lately. I guess it's a good way to test demand and get the word out. But it feels like it's against the spirit of the thing.
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by krichman 14y ago
Yes, that's correct, because most of us subscribe to Bayesianism.

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