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by locopati 16y ago
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that Watson is going to be consistent for the whole match. A human is going to vary in response time if their attention drifts just a little or their hand slows (maybe an itch, maybe a cramp).
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by locopati 16y ago
If MS tried something like this, would you be ok with it too?
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by locopati 16y ago
The real questions are: will users respond to technical superiority or are we looking at another NeXTStep/BeOS? will it undercut the iPad price (necessary to entice users to the unproven)? (I say this as a Palm/WebOS fan hoping that the Tou
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Opera quenches the thirst for better web compatibility(opera.com)
1 points by locopati 16y ago|0 comments
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by locopati 16y ago
He's also demonstrating that 'your job' is getting done what needs to get done regardless of 'your title/position'
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by locopati 16y ago
25-54 is a huge range. These days, 25-35 or 40 could very well mean no family obligations (and thus greater flexibility wrt pay, location, travel). 35-54 likely means family. The splits there would be interesting to see (not having looked a
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Minecraft And The Question Of Luck(gamasutra.com)
4 points by locopati 16y ago|0 comments
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The Paradox of Corporate Taxes(nytimes.com)
28 points by locopati 16y ago|36 comments
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Author Iain Banks in converstion with The Open University(audioboo.fm)
1 points by locopati 16y ago|0 comments
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by locopati 16y ago
One could probably make a case that there's a large subset of the US population that would distrust CNN, MSNBC, and/or Fox.
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by locopati 16y ago
It's amazing what US funding can do for a government, isn't it?
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by locopati 16y ago
That's pretty easy to say. What happens when jobs are not available? Or when people cannot relocate to where jobs are? Do we cast off a large body of people to sink on their own? And when they are sinking, will that be good for society?
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by locopati 16y ago
While those people may not be immediately helped by not buying, we are only directly in control of our own actions. Do we want to participate in a process that supports slave labor? If not, the first responsible action is to stop buying the
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by locopati 16y ago
The Rose main reading room of the NYPL Schwarzman building (that's the one with the lions) is quiet, has wifi and outlets, and is inspirational. http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/general-research-di...
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by locopati 16y ago
That's improved my ability to get up early - if I want to get something done in the morning or just get some quiet time to myself, I have to do it before the boy wakes.
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by locopati 16y ago
Thank you for a good laugh on a Friday afternoon in cubicle-land
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by locopati 16y ago
Also, this is a 3yo talk. At what point do we say, no, no it's not (and I'm a Java guy who really likes Erlang).
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by locopati 16y ago
Short version: only Apple should make tablets (to which I say thpth!)
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Hacking for Health(radar.oreilly.com)
1 points by locopati 16y ago|0 comments
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by locopati 16y ago
Is there a reason that events don't work in the situation? The async result handler fires an event 'getXFinished' and any function that needs to respond does so. When they are finished, they fire events. And additional functions are called.
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by locopati 16y ago
I highly recommend Pema Chodron's 'Taking the Leap' http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Leap-Freeing-Ourselves-Habits/d... Having been there wrt depression, part of being with the moment is to not let habit take hold. This book is the clearest I
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by locopati 16y ago
Actually, I did give the article a quick read. He's raising intersting points around the problems of localization and showing how to solve those problems in Perl using logic to do something that Java lets you manage somewhat easily. What's
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by locopati 16y ago
For just this situation, Java offers the MessageFormat (and the ChoiceFormat refinement) form.applyPattern( "There {0,choice,0#are no files|1#is one file|1<are {0,number,integer} files}."); http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/
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by locopati 16y ago
As a former AT&T customer, even AT&T doesn't achieve Ma Bell's reliability.
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Google Wave Morphs Itself into New Offerings(blog.programmableweb.com)
9 points by locopati 16y ago|2 comments
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by locopati 16y ago
There was the 1934 Business Plot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
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by locopati 16y ago
Maybe ask, 'would I want this done to me or someone I loved?'
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by locopati 16y ago
To me, sending a thank you email does two things: reiterates interest and keeps you in their short-term memory (consider that the company may have interviewed several candidates in a few days).
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by locopati 16y ago
Worth reading, but not as good as the Sparrow.
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by locopati 16y ago
I agree with you that in the end, it comes back to individuals and their decisions. However, many of those individuals were working in an environment afforded them by a government institution, either directly (working for DARPA) or indirect

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