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I disagree. Google gained popularity not just for search results, but because their clean search page was a breath of fresh air compared to the busy portal sites of the day. Gmail became popular because its UI was so much more refined than
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I likewise feel that this type of list of data sources fits a data collecting/hoarding mentality, rather than a problem solving one. It doesn't help me think of interesting things to do with the data.
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Reading the post and responses, I noted that screen curvature was important at higher screen sizes. I use a 27" iMac at home (2560×1440, 109ppi), and find the extra screen real-estate very useful. My only gripe is that a screen this large n
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Looks a bit different from Sendoid ( http://sendoid.com/ ), but still, are they in competition?
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Agreed, autojump seems far more principled too than the method described in OP.
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Well, the advanced languages often compile through low level languages like C anyhow, to get the performance they have. In terms of productivity, I remember running into this comparison including Haskell and C++ from '94. http://www.nt.ntn
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"I've found that any feature branch that lives longer than a week becomes essentially impossible to integrate - in the time necessary to bring it up to head, head has changed enough that you then need to integrate it again, and so on." DCVS
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The article comes across as either boastful or gushing about memristors, and hand-waves over as many hard unsolved problems as old AI predictions ever did. This makes it quite hard to take seriously. Prefix all these bold statements with: "
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In short: the article bashes Windows 7 because of the terrible experience of managing security, OS updates and software updates. The main thing Windows lacks is nice package management for external non-MS software and updates. Linux has bee
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Absolutely -- a total rewrite is only necessary if broad architectural decisions are all wrong. Otherwise, working to decouple the monolithic system is the crucial step which will allow the chunk-by-chunk rewrites.
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Well, by attending a traditional institution you're really paying firstly for experts to take partial responsibility for your learning, enough to stake some of their reputation on it, and secondly for entrance to a club of peers of similar
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If working remotely and video calling become that pervasive, I have no doubt that various filters on your appearance will become commonplace. You could answer a call in your pjs and appear to be in a suit for a business call, or in jeans an
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There's a tradeoff between speed of lookup and ability to find things when you only partially recall the name. For those situations (the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon), I'd pick either the first and final letters as the easiest to recall,
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The TIOBE index instead suggests that Python is getting more use: it just won their award for most market share growth in 2010, putting it now at 3.5x Ruby's market share. Rails has been (and still is) incredibly influential in the web dev
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Offices are cheaper per person to run and provision than individual dwellings due to the extra density of workers, so this trend depends on the tradeoff between the energy saved by reducing travel and the energy spent heating/cooling/runnin
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There's also a big difference between asking a child to navigate public transport and putting them in a trusted taxi to school, which is all an automated car is. If the trusted taxi is cheap enough, you'd only have to be confident that the
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The git manuals aren't fun because the git porcelain isn't fun. A better command-line interface would be simpler to explain.
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You do realize that you too are using Occam's Razor in your religious beliefs, since you implicitly believe in only a single "capital-G God". There might be numerous gods, but really, that's too complicated an explanation. One would be enou
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There might not be tenure in it, but there's certainly a lot of citations around for well written tools. The license to use them often requires citation in related work.
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If it becomes popular enough, maybe in ten years it will have a unicode code point, and will be found in common fonts ;)
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Fonts have been getting better, but the first thing I do is to load up a new install with fonts imported from OS X and Windows. I find these improve the attractiveness of the desktop greatly.
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What a fantastic resource, and what a waste that it's in dead paper form (or even web page form). An automatic style checker would be far more useful, and I bet with some machine learning you could crank out useful but conservative warnings
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It was a large reason I didn't choose GitHub. Who wants to manage and prune their minor projects to fit into arbitrary limits?
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If you read the post and substitute "design pattern" for "algorithm", it sounds quite reasonable. Design patterns are not algorithms though, they're more like language-specific templates. I don't think they deserve the crowning glory of bei
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No doubt New York's a very different beast, but in Melbourne it seems cafes are still bursting out everywhere (and have been for years). This is even more amazing given how many still serve bad coffee. It seems to remain profitable here, wh
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I imagine the price difference also relates to licensing costs for Windows instances. Also, TCO is more than just compute efficiency, although the latter is important in its own right.
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Can you provide a concrete example of DAG editing which you had trouble doing with Mercurial?
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Let's agree that Git has more momentum, and GitHub the best hosting interface available. The main reason to choose Mercurial in the face of this is that it's command line interface seems far more well thought out than Git's. Given how much
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Bingo. She didn't have the formal education, and was basically rote-memorizing everying: "What she was essentially doing while studying alone was memorizing as many questions — with their answers — as possible without always knowing what th
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I shouldn't get drawn by this stuff but I do. Here's the line of thinking that gets me: current scientific theory suggests the universe started with the big bang. It doesn't suggest how or why the big bang started, but let's assume a cause.

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