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by litewulf 18y ago
I think its one of those "if you have to ask... you can't afford it" kind of situations.
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by litewulf 18y ago
(am I allowed to say I touched some of the code involved? Because I did. And I'm really happy it launched.)
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by litewulf 18y ago
I use putty on vista, so your statement worries me. What exactly didn't work? Should I be afraid that my SSH IS SUBTLY BROKEN?!
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by litewulf 18y ago
Sorry, I think I came across too aggressively. I honestly read your comments as "wouldn't it be nice if Knol did X", and when I went to look at the site it already was doing X, so I had assumed that you were just throwing out comments witho
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by litewulf 18y ago
What I was saying is that for regular Google search I'm pretty sure they use regular web search algorithms. Also, I really think the fixation on Pagerank is quite a devious thing Google has done, because it completely obscures all the other
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by litewulf 18y ago
Er rather, I meant a different selection bias. The one where you selectively remember friends that fit your hypothesis. Also, the thing with quite a few statistics is that the risk is say 1/1000, and I honestly have closer to 50 people who
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by litewulf 18y ago
All well and good, but your sample is usually very small and you as a human being can't handle confounding factors very well. Add on the fact that you are also prone to selection bias...
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by litewulf 18y ago
How about we pretend for a moment that Knol is actually publicly visible. Now what are the ways that you would find a Knol article? I imagine you find pages via searching on Google or on the site. Searching on Google probably is just the re
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by litewulf 18y ago
I think you are misunderstanding me. Not every hour in the day is worth $30/hr. In fact, I am paid a salary and thus the more I work the less my hourly wage! What I'm saying is that on the weekends for example, it is unlikely I would be abl
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by litewulf 18y ago
I would actually say Django has a very poor HTML escaping facility. (Though, better than Rails, for what that's worth.) I feel like I've used template languages that actually understand XML (or HTML) and thus have context sensitive escape
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by litewulf 18y ago
Yes. Anyone can create an article about anything. The hope is that over time the better article about something will rise to the top and somehow become the article. I swear sometimes Google is run by geeks who read Ayn Rand one day and th
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by litewulf 18y ago
So I asked a Mac user once where his delete key was... and he told me he preferred it as a key combo. This story relates because I think Apple hates people who type. And it also used to hate people who moused too...
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by litewulf 18y ago
That sounds like alot of work ;) I might as well just have unfriendly signups!
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by litewulf 18y ago
I think a mashup is a more accurate description than steal. FWIW.
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by litewulf 18y ago
I honestly hope that Android will be notable for the kind of ecosystem an open platform provides. I could care less about web browsing on my mobile, the only use I've managed to come up with is reading my RSS feeds while on the toilet, whic
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by litewulf 18y ago
I would like to point out that not all hours of the day are spent "generating value".
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by litewulf 18y ago
I actually think its more a reinforcement of the "Windows can do anything" manta. All those "regular" people do all sorts of different and constructive things. One thing that really amused me is how charity-friendly the ads seemed. It reall
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by litewulf 18y ago
I'm really curious why this is cast as a "Japanese girls are lonely". My girlfriend also watches those horrible Asian romance dramas and (jokes notwithstanding) I'm pretty sure the reason is more to fulfill her sappiness quota and not to cu
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by litewulf 18y ago
(you do know about ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab right? Its pretty standard in tabbed windows apps, so I guess people just keep using it for consistencies sake.)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Actually, I think as company's get bigger, they don't hear the "I am frustrated by X", they see "ohhh we made HOW MUCH this year?" I'm sure that Apple is peopled with nice guys and all, but seriously developers are a drop in the bucket (and
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by litewulf 18y ago
Ah okay fair enough. Its kind of early to say at this point, but yes, I would like cross-domain scripting too. That and a pony.
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by litewulf 18y ago
I think this is more a case of certain things being trendy for other reasons and ignoring success rates because until recently it was difficult to quantify one method as better than another. It boggles my mind to imagine how much more aweso
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by litewulf 18y ago
True. I would say the events are not surprising given the way Apple works as a company, but sure, I guess they have a right to complain. I also think they should vote with their dollars too though.
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by litewulf 18y ago
One thing is that often times you also care about the POST vars that got you to that page, so you need to somehow persist that as well, which is harder since you can't get a redirect to POST easily. So the problem is (sometimes) harder than
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by litewulf 18y ago
I think chrome is marginally better (har har) because it saves like 10 horizontal pixels. One of my computers is a tiny netbook, and let me tell you, saving 10 pixels is what I worry about all day long.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Again, if this is something that bothers you, please understand the solution is to NOT BUY AN IPHONE, and not "whine online and continue to use your iphone". RMS once agreed that OSS tools were inferior, but he only used OSS tools because b
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by litewulf 18y ago
On an interesting sidenote this actually means the value of PR0 site links may be worth more than from PR1, because the PR0 site may simply be a site with good PR that just hasn't shown up in the latest update. pinky to finger
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by litewulf 18y ago
Wait what? How do tabs in different processes preclude cross-domain user scripting? You can already do that! In addition if you use the task manager you'll notice that child tabs are within the same process as well.
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by litewulf 18y ago
They use CMD-# for switching tabs. I think bookmarks are better because they're less likely to shift... but I guess its kind of handy if you always keep say gmail on your first tab.
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by litewulf 18y ago
I'm pretty sure toolbar PR is basically the PR that Google uses for ranking, just lagging by a bit. In addition, I have no idea why people care about PR, because there is quite a bit more to ranking than PR (or else all those PR10 sites wou

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