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by luke_s 14y ago
"If you want to hide the image behind a thumbnail or a black/white outlide and require an explicit click, fine." Fortunately, that is exactly what is being proposed [1] I belive SOPA, PIPA, et al, were more about online piracy. However her
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by luke_s 14y ago
If I can decompose your response, your position seems to be that since I have not drawn a clear line between what I consider suitable and un-suitable, then my argument is invalid? Or are you are saying that since there will inevitably be th
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by luke_s 14y ago
You must have misunderstood my comment - I don't think anywhere I mentioned that I was trying to stop my children from seeing naked parts of people's bodies. I did however say right up the top that the violence was far far worse. My son do
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by luke_s 14y ago
Apart from the fact that the violence is far, far worse than pornography, I totally disagree. But first: my credentials. I'm a father of two, and I've recently been visiting a number of schools seaching for a primary school for my eldest.
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The killer app of Google's knowledge graph is mobile(plus.google.com)
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by luke_s 14y ago
As an Android user, I can assure you the android facebook app is just as bad, if not worse. It seems the cross platfom support allows the same horrible issues to exist on all devices. For example I see the same buggy timeline [1] that he
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by luke_s 14y ago
I have two kids, and the youngest is just starting on the 'why?' phase. Its great fun! I treat it as a game to try and see how long I can keep on answering. As soon as I don't know the answer, I explain that I don't know (or perhaps that
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by luke_s 14y ago
Can LibreOffice use the improvements to OpenOffice? If so, it seems like the relationship could become quite one sided with LO able to pull in all the fixes to OO and use that to move further ahead, but with OO unable to re-use any of the
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by luke_s 15y ago
Actually, as a parent, with a small child, who has experimented with giving him my phone to play with, I feel sorry for any young kid who doesn't use it. The default android environment, provides all sorts of complexities that land up just
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by luke_s 15y ago
I was actually looking for something like this recently - this look great! I'll definitely try it out with my son when he gets a little older. One feature I would love to see is the ability to set time limits on gaming - like you can have
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by luke_s 15y ago
Its a bit off topic, but I am curious about a bit of slang used. John Perry said "... sounds rather like Project Xanadu emerging from the Matrix ... ". I'm familiar with project Xanadu and for a moment I just presumed "the matrix" was a re
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by luke_s 15y ago
Why? Because not everybody is a human with 20/20 vision sitting in front of a monitor. Before I go off on to much of a rant, I do want to clarify - having the javascript be the content is fine for a special 'once off' page like the one in
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by luke_s 15y ago
Hmmm, well its a very interesting question. I'm not entirely sure what I would do in your shoes, but some places start looking may be: Why are Fourier series on the curriculum? There must be a reason why they are so important that a whole
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by luke_s 15y ago
Hmmm ... It is entirely possible that the EE's went straight out of that maths tutorial and into an electronics class that used complex numbers for a practical application. To be honest all us software engineers understood that we didn't ma
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by luke_s 15y ago
Slowpoke's comment really resonated with me, so perhaps I can provide some concrete examples. 8 years ago, I graduated from my Software Engineering degree at Swinburne University in Australia. As part of my degree I had to sit through 3 ye
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Damian Conway presents - Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming(yow.eventer.com)
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by luke_s 15y ago
I got really excited for a moment, as I have been looking for something like this for a long time. Unfortunately it turns out to be an old April fools joke.
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by luke_s 15y ago
Aussie here - while we do have our various lobby groups, they certainly do not seem to be as rampant as in the US system. Because the rules around donations are stricter, issues seem to get fought out in the public sphere a bit more. So f
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by luke_s 15y ago
All I see when I visit that URL is "We're sorry, the document you requested is not available in your country." Frankly, I am so sick of this kind of crap. 95% of the world seems to be perpetually treated as some kind of digital ghetto. Th
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by luke_s 15y ago
I managed to have a play with a friends N9 on the weekend. Frankly I wasn't expecting very much, but the N9 and MeeGo really impressed me. Everything responded quickly and easily to touch, the hardware was nice and the OS very slick. The
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by luke_s 15y ago
No, no, you English is fine. However, its highly ironic that you never managed to finish and launch your event. An event who's entire purpose is to help people finish and launch things ...
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by luke_s 15y ago
I have just completed an R&D project for my company on using JQuery Mobile, with knockout.js, so perhaps I am qualified to answer this. As another commenter pointed out JQuery Mobile (JQM) is following on from JQuery UI, not from straig
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by luke_s 15y ago
How so? I took a (very) quick look through the lecture notes and exercises and they seemed to relate mainly to the art of taking photos. The first exercise seems to be about learning to use aperture, focus, and shutter speed to produce di
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by luke_s 15y ago
As somebody interested in photography, this is really useful. I'm wondering if anybody else is interested in working through the 'course'. We could do a lecture and an exercise each week, then setup some kind of discussion forum? I know i
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by luke_s 15y ago
Unfortunately I'm learning Chinese, which is not yet supported. But as I am very interested in using verbling, I thought I would provide some feedback: Firstly - Why do I have to register to use? It would be nice to specify your language
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by luke_s 15y ago
Well what the article is advocating is "management by exception" - basically a callback system. Where as what you seem to be arguing is a polling system. It sounds like you want to regularly poll each of the developers, asking; "How's it g
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by luke_s 15y ago
Just a further point, often the both you and the customer agree that there is a problem that needs addressing, but the customer is not sure how it should be solved. Alice from accounting wants the system to do X, while Bob from compliance
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by luke_s 15y ago
Wow, that's actually so much more comfortable to look at than the original. Because this ones a cartoon, it doesn't fall into the uncanny valley.
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by luke_s 15y ago
Funny I should see this today. I was just reading the wikipedia page on "Simulacra and Simulation": "Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of images, signs, and how they relate to contemporaneity. Baudrillard claims tha
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by luke_s 15y ago
Its a good idea in some cases, but unfortunately I don't have two weeks to create a prototype. I'm actually trying to get together a minimum viable product, and launch in a few months of long weekends I have free, while my family is overse

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