litewulf

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by litewulf 17y ago
There is a Techcrunch article where AT&T disavows any actions in this regard. (As always, take with grain of salt. Gruber says its AT&T's fault, etc etc) http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/29/att-dont-blame-us-for-t...
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by litewulf 17y ago
I find this view disappointing. RMS (famously) remarked that he uses open source software, even if there is a superior closed source version because by using it, he can contribute to an open ecosystem. When I look at the mobile phone market
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by litewulf 17y ago
The better touchscreen may actually just be a better corrective dictionary... It seems reasonable to me that some Googler got to write a mapreduce for thumb-type correction.
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by litewulf 17y ago
(Do you not find this completely unsatisfying though?)
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by litewulf 17y ago
What you're saying may be/probably is true. But I don't think it does much to detract from my point. Facebook probably wishes they could target ads given all their demographic information. They probably want to be able to help users make de
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by litewulf 17y ago
I guess though similar arguments could be made for many academic journals, pay-walled sites and things like the deep web. I don't think facebook is really something that is to be worried about except as an example of a broader problem.
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by litewulf 17y ago
You can actually open a new emacs window in a different screen. So the cool use is to have someone login to their machine on their laptop, open emacs, then have them spawn a new window in the running X server. Yay emacs.
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by litewulf 17y ago
I use both because apparently I like to waste money. I have dual 20" and 24" hooked up on my desktop (which has a totally sweet humanscale keyboard tray) as well as a 12" thinkpad tablet. When I'm sitting at my desk, I feel pretty awesome,
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by litewulf 17y ago
Anecdote time: I have a friend at Google who started there as basically a glorified tech while he was attending a community college (so, no degree at all). Google has been paying for large chunks of his tuition, enabling him to scrape toget
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by litewulf 17y ago
Are m3u files enough? Or do you actually want things like smart playlists? Because I think everyone supports m3us as well. I recognize other people use their computers differently. I'm just kind of disappointed that so many things are bound
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by litewulf 17y ago
(Consider using the Google collections library if possible. It already has that in the form of classes like Lists, Maps, etc that provide builders and factory methods.)
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by litewulf 17y ago
(This intrigues me. I had imagined the long tail queries were really hard. I mean, the places where Google succeeds and Bing fails, or vice-versa seem to me the "gaps" where for whatever reason its difficult to get things right, be they for
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by litewulf 17y ago
(You don't necessarily always have access to console.log though...)
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by litewulf 17y ago
I...don't? I have a now playing queue that repeats and shuffles. (I actually use windows media player to listen to music. Because it er, lets me queue up a few hours of music and then plays it. I've used winamp, foobar and itunes, but I rea
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by litewulf 17y ago
(though to be honest, I would much prefer my music player to require NO software. I love that my iriver is just USB storage when hooked up. If I wanted to sync music, I'd like the choice to do whatever I want.)
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by litewulf 17y ago
(In general, people notice response time not throughput. I think thats a bit difficult to capture in benchmarks.)
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by litewulf 17y ago
Similar things actually work on babies. That is, if you respond immediately when a baby starts crying it will learn to cry when it needs attention. If you let it cry for a bit, the baby will learn not to do that. (This is actually not as un
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by litewulf 17y ago
I think that the idea was basically shelved, but theres a "demo" store somewhere on the Microsoft campus...
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by litewulf 17y ago
Yes. I believe you can get a second battery in the drive bay, but that'd kind of hurt the whole portability aspect.
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by litewulf 17y ago
Mine has both stylus and touch. The touch is really so-so, but mostly because normal desktop UIs aren't so good with such a large "pointer". I think you have your answer for power consumption, but I think my tablet is in the same general ra
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by litewulf 17y ago
I own a tablet and I think that Vista really shines there. The tablet input id amazingly well integrated and the overall user experience is great. (I have the X61t, which I think is quite possibly the nicest piece of kit ever. Silly mac use
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by litewulf 17y ago
Hm, actually I said that because the first time I read Cyberdyne I just thought it was something Orwellian, and used the powers of Google to realize it was from Terminator. (And I'm too young to have seen any movies with HAL in them ;))
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by litewulf 17y ago
(I love that they're called cyberdyne. Though I doubt they're so named because of the movie)
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by litewulf 17y ago
Long long ago, gzip would cause some browsers to barf. Some browsers would lie about what they could handle, and you had to check the UA as well as the accept-encoding header. JS/CSS concatenation, at least from the last time I had to roll
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by litewulf 17y ago
I wish I could do something with some sort of like button (or even with the addition of the omnipresent up/down arrows) Even better, I wish there was some way to automatically separate "boring life-y bits" and "interesting hobbies" out. I c
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by litewulf 17y ago
(Do you ever see much US coverage of the anniversary of the internment of Japanese-Americans?)
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by litewulf 17y ago
Even better: you can potentially take a desktop application that you've already written, and run it via NaCl. No need to rewrite into Flash.
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by litewulf 17y ago
I have friends and family... (really, all you need are a few collaborators.)
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by litewulf 17y ago
It has poor searchability. I worked on it and I still wish grievous bodily harm on those who use it for FAQs. If I had my way, we'd throw away the current GWT implementation for a version that used unobtrusive JS and was a good netizen. Of
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by litewulf 17y ago
No, the problem is really that information disclosure is very tricky. The very fact that you get the notice "you were domain squatting on X" is actually useful for exploits. Whats the line where Google considers something domain squatting?

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