lkozma

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   by lkozma 16y ago

   Also, tiny grammar nitpick: "all the times" I think it should be "all the time" or "at all times". I might be wrong though, English is my 4th language :)
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   I did and found it somewhat worse than Pendulum and Rose which were both excellent.
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   I disagree somewhat, there is revelation in these cables. There is a huge difference between "I know x is true" and "I know that you know that I know ...". To use an example from Pinker's talk on language, in a dictatorship everyone knows t
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   I wish PG would write more about painting and hacking and education and lisp and history and psychology and philosophy and literature and politics and a bit less about investments. Seriously, quite a dry topic..
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   No worries, me neither..
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   He forgot the data synchronization system, except that Dropbox pulled that off. Also the "social browsing", "see who else is visiting this webpage", except that Facebook is after that one already. Also the "alert me if a website has changed
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   "people who doesn't know" is funny also, I wonder if it is intentional.
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   Adblock Plus can also block most widgets if configured, as far as I know.
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   Something's fishy here: everyone comments that it is a crappy article, still it has 54 upvotes.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    I had one of these: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=632 then later this: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=629 The second one mentions a Brasilian connection :) Yes, the resolution was the same.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    I used to have a Romanian ZX 81 clone in the early 90s, on which I could somehow boot CP/M which was really not meant to run on that machine in which there was an editor called tword that rendered characters in 4x7 pixels to have double col
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    This holds for everyone, not just elderly scientists. Impossibility proofs are by their nature more difficult than existence proofs.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    And an analysis of Wolfram Alpha from a viewpoint similar to Dijkstra's: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram...
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    If I recall correctly from high school, we used to call 1/cos "secant", or sec(A).
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    I think Mathematica is more useful for symbolic processing. For crunching large matrices of numbers and making some plots, R is probably best and/or Matlab (or the free Octave). It depends mostly on which programming paradigm you are more c
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    I wonder if it is common strategy to have an export feature but willingly leave it broken. Some users will think they made a mistake and stay with the service out of inertia (?). I have seen broken exports in suspiciously many online servic
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Another tool I've found very useful, that I don't see on either lists is http://www.webpagetest.org/ More comprehensive than YSlow.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Take any agglutinative language (Hungarian, Finnish, etc.) or one with propensity for constructing words by gluing other words together (German) and you will find thousands of "words" that have no single word English equivalent. Some of the
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Nice idea but looks pretty random .. perhaps too little data ?
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    same here, I started on a ZX clone and really regret selling it for the equivalent of $15 when it was still working but I got a 386.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Joel must have got this idea from Peopleware.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    "nothing I have used in my career was learned from my computer science classes." It must have still been useful, at least as exercise for the mind - I'm sure most people who go to the gym don't need to bench-press 200 pounds in real life to
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Also it says "those who merely think they are fit enjoy the same lower risk". How fit I see myself has a lot to do with how often I fall ill.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Fantastic ... there is also the "minority game" in which in each round each participant decides (at the same time) "up" or "down" and those who guessed the minority opinion get a point, the majority lose one. People have tried to model the
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    That's fascinating. If someone as accomplished as Fuller has done it and most people haven't heard of it, let alone read the archives themselves... it shows how vain it is to hope that anyone will be interested in the marks we leave behind.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    "if a system is well understood or works then it is no longer called artificial intelligence." This was also observed already by von Neumann.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    When you mentioned reddit, it got me thinking. When I first saw it, I didn't just think "I will use this". I actually thought: "man, I want this to succeed, it would be awesome if they could pull it off, it is obvious that such a thing will
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Lenovo SL510 here: picked it up for ~ 400 euros with FreeDOS, installed Ubuntu, everything worked out of the box. I use it for all development.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Here's a nice public list of ideas from one person: http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/ Here's another one: http://stealchoofsideas.blogspot.com/
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Also, the integration will require only the copy/pasting of a line of code into a website.