litewulf

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by litewulf 18y ago
...it works...? (I believe the system is not being expanded due to time/money/whatever constraints though.)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Another good argument in favor of doing so is that establishing a connection has a non-zero time cost. Further, your server may not have the workers to spare (so that extra connection is going to sit until the server's queue isn't backed up
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by litewulf 18y ago
Meeting rooms can change, but if you have a regularly scheduled meeting you will go there out of habit. Another thing is I've had my meetings bumped to a different room (particularly if I reserve a large room but have few attendees) (Not al
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by litewulf 18y ago
In my experience, Googlebot crawls all the freaking time if your site changes "all the freaking time". So basically theres the possibility that you'll be crawled before your daily cron runs...
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by litewulf 18y ago
Thankfully there is this concept of mixins (and, gasp, multiple inheritance), to solve some of these issues.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Because this frees up the ctrl key to be an extra backspace!
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by litewulf 18y ago
Small side comment: Google is just about the least affirming place I've worked. I've never been lauded for doing anything "clever", since (I assume), that should be taken as a matter of course. One place I worked at my boss would occasional
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by litewulf 18y ago
Note that a "small sample" does not mean the same thing as a "represntative sample". You really care about the latter, and the former will only sometimes skew the latter. "Sample size is too small, so I don't want to consider X paper" alway
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by litewulf 18y ago
(Just wanted to say that Chrome for Linux/Mac is still definitely in the pre-alpha stage, and that current appearance/flakiness is hopefully not indicative of the final product. I switched to Chrome for most of my regular web browsing, and
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by litewulf 18y ago
I use virtual desktops and use multiple screens. I find it much easier to glance back and forth between two screens (or three, or four) than to switch virtual desktops and locate something. (This may be a training effect though)
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by litewulf 18y ago
The cheaper option would be to run a compile and open any of the many different programs in Windows that tells you whether you're using lots of CPU, RAM or IO-waiting. Then you go AHA! I'll spend money on CPUs or making my compiler/build pa
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by litewulf 18y ago
Does Azureus count? It uses SWT...
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by litewulf 18y ago
I believe that bartenders are not allowed to serve drinks to people that are too intoxicated. I think one could simply apply a similar thing, perhaps with subtle social pressures to smoke marijuana in public places?
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by litewulf 18y ago
Dodgeball ended up becoming Latitude didn't it? It seems most products are really transformed post-acquisition (which is probably hard on the founders)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Its pretty interesting that Google seems to acquire several companies, and then awhile later mix them all together and launch something else. I imagine infrastructure and code can rarely be reused from company to company, so I'm not quite s
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by litewulf 18y ago
I'm going to assume since they mention getting dugg on that form that they will respond to that form quickly. But you know what they say about assumptions.
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by litewulf 18y ago
I remember reading about a study where people who are below average at a task tended to rate themselves as competent (or better than average) for that task, while more competent people wold under-rate themselves. There are all sorts of poss
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by litewulf 18y ago
You know that if you started off with metric, metric would feel intuitive too right? (Aza Raskin has a video where he basically says that what most people call intuitive they really mean "familiar".)
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by litewulf 18y ago
(Agree with most of your points) Yahoo and Google have both posted things before to the effect of "web authors: it'd really help us out if you did X", and often times the other will adopt the convention. The spec only describes some uses of
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by litewulf 18y ago
Maybe I'm crazy, but a canonical URL is different from an hAtom permalink. Besides, its a canonical URL for the whole document and not just a portion of a page. How does Google know what the scope of a given rel=bookmark is? What if people
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by litewulf 18y ago
RAII is pretty old isn't it? What changed in 2005?
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by litewulf 18y ago
I think he's talking about the style of the buttons and not their functionality. (I disagree, I think the buttons are good because they allow both fast keyboard access in addition to mouse friendliness. This behaviour differs from regular b
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by litewulf 18y ago
Other things to worry about with tables. Positioning of tables is sometimes problematic, and I'm not sure how fast a browser can render a 9-cell table as opposed to multiple nested elements, as the browser does something akin to constraint-
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by litewulf 18y ago
Basically it'd be nice if you could distinguish between instances where iteration order is important and not important. A separate datatype would do that (at the expense of other things, obviously)
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by litewulf 18y ago
I'm curious why they don't do some sort of cost-estimation when doing the regex compile. Oftentimes you use a regex only a few times in the life of the application, and it'd be nice if maybe it would build the regex automaton with some time
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by litewulf 18y ago
On the flip side, I imagine failure is much more common than success. So even if there is less to learn and its harder, there's many more opportunities to be had.
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by litewulf 18y ago
(What do you mean by bringing back the search API? Isn't http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/ what you want?)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Its easy to train students to perform better on tests by teaching them things orthogonal to the actual material. Further, you can "teach to the test" by giving students only classes of problems that will appear on the test and drilling them
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by litewulf 18y ago
I worry that the criteria for successful teachers will instead be teachers that are easy or social instead of effective teachers. I have definitely taken languages classes where I hated the teachers (the class was hard!) but I learned a gre
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by litewulf 18y ago
Literacy rates and speaking proficiency are slightly different problems. Speaking proficiency is a combination of existing dialects carrying social and linguistic prestige in addition to their historical existence. (Can you imagine forcing

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