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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Pen+touch+type seems like a great idea. It is something no other manufacturer has tried to do. I think the devil will be in the details, but this sure is interesting, because Apple's strategy is "people should buy multiple devices-- iPad,
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
ClearType has been around for a very long time. It's basically subpixel-rendering that improves the visual quality of text (sort of effectively tripling the LCD resolution). Last I checked, Microsoft had patented the hell out of it (and I
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
I agree with you. I think it's better to use transparency to show density-- here's an example from ggplot2: http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/graphics/25464f1f2c009d435b862debca... and the page in general at http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/geom_point.ht
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
In my experience, I think smart people often think others are smart. And that's sometimes a problem-- because they believe that others are smart as well, they should think everything through the way they do (Also, I'd really like to say we
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
I'd rather have a link to the actual Atlantic web page for this story, not the Print view. It's at http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/how-th... I think directly linking to the print view is dishonest: telling the Atlant
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
How does ranking between plugins work? Is the order arbitrated in advance?
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Yes, it is rebranded SmallParts. From their FAQ ( http://www.amazonsupply.com/help/200223050/ref=sp_ft_au ): What happened to SmallParts.com? SmallParts, Inc., joined the Amazon family in 2005. In the past seven years, the dedicated team at
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by kulkarnic 15y ago
I am very loathe to trust this article because a) there are 8 reasons mentioned. If you're trying to change your design, you want the top 2 or 3 that give you the most bang for your buck. and b) because the author doesn't say where s/he got
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by kulkarnic 15y ago
I think an even better policy is to let the browser prompt if the permissions that the extension demands are grossly above those required for its purported purpose. It may seem like a hard machine learning problem, but it seems to me that o
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by kulkarnic 15y ago
I think education at a great University provides primarily four benefits: 1. Great instructor-driven education 2. Great student peer-group-- folks that are truly smarter than you and teach you to think in ways you hadn't imagined (and those
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by kulkarnic 15y ago
It is interesting how blatantly Paypal has copied Square. They don't even seem to make a secret of it. >>"The key differentiator is that it comes from PayPal, a trusted brand in the online payments industry" My translation: "Nothing
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Apple store being updated?: Are they launching something?(store.apple.com)
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by kulkarnic 15y ago
Got it. It is a very cool demo. Thanks!
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by kulkarnic 15y ago
Perhaps I'm missing the point: besides a cool demonstration for what CSS can do (when aided by JS), why is this a useful idea? For anything practical, would one not be better off not being a purist, and using images etc? After all, image fo
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by kulkarnic 15y ago
Well, rare earths are not all that rare. I think the actual short term problem is actually Lithium. AFAIK the only economically feasible producers are Chile and Bolivia. But I actually don't believe these crises are all that bad: if the ele
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by kulkarnic 15y ago
I am planning on using my Amex everywhere they take it. I know they're not non-evil with their commissions, but I'm picking from what we have.
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What's happening at Google I/O? (Word cloud visualization)(wordle.net)
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by kulkarnic 15y ago
Not so. The specific tactic the NYC recommends is questionable, but it is possible to surrender your boarding pass for the onward flight. (Say you no longer want to fly: there's nothing they can do to stop you). Note this is also possible i
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by kulkarnic 15y ago
>> There is no doubt that Socialcam looks much better with the red line in place than without. So we needed to keep it. Let me just say that if it's that subtle a detail, you'd rather spend engineering effort on something that gives
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by kulkarnic 15y ago
Hey, pgbovine, I think you and I go to the same school! Also, I think this is true of other organizations too (I've met people through Barcamps, gyms, hobby clubs...)
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by kulkarnic 16y ago
I think I am too late to the discussion already, but I think all of pg's a), b) and c) are caused by people who think that this is OK-behavior. I think a new user should, by default, get "read-only" access. Once the account ages, so the use
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Microsoft Research's latest product demos(digitalnarratives.net)
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by kulkarnic 16y ago
It isn't about US vs. India immigration. It is about US immigration vs. the cost/effort of starting up a company in India (by an Indian citizen). No one's competing at this point to make it easier for "young people from African countries...
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by kulkarnic 16y ago
Well, you are confusing "complicated" with "difficult". While this is true in general, automation reduces the difficulty of working with a complicated system. For instance, the build system is extremely "complicated". But all you really nee
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by kulkarnic 16y ago
It certainly looks like the industry is run with a bunch of shell scripts. Buddy scripts, of course. [Edit: Or maybe they're "features", not bugs.]
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by kulkarnic 16y ago
What are you talking about? And how does it matter to the story? The guy found a way to stick it to the man, with no prior training in law. I think a demonstration that you can do today what was unthinkable a little more than a decade ago i
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by kulkarnic 16y ago
I wonder how exactly these results figure into the ranking algorithm. How authoritative does a link shared by a "friend" on twitter have to be in the page-rank sense, for instance? Depending on this threshold, it might suddenly become even
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by kulkarnic 16y ago
I have no idea why the first question is actually relevant. Still, to answer the second question: common sense. .co.in is the .com equivalent of India; and Facebook should have bought it long ago if it has any decent domain strategy (heck M
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by kulkarnic 16y ago
I don't think this is as unethical as you say. I sincerely believe all Bing is doing is using the toolbar to get (long) search trails. Using search trails is a near-standard practice--to guess intent, find deep links, yada yada. Does Google
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by kulkarnic 16y ago
Some people still think that software is a handicraft industry and you can get by all the time playing it by the ear. I hope "the author" doesn't believe that his "weird preferences" are gospel enough to make funding decisions. At the very

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