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They probably spawn several python processes
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Can we please not hijack this article's comments for another vehement argument about climate change? Nowhere in its brief content does it mention climate change, and it has become obvious that such discussions are both unhealthy and unbecom
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But how much does the Ph.D. glut argument apply to computer science? I've never found a solid answer, and that information is especially relevant to my future career path (and I'm sure many others on HN)
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I never claimed I agreed or disagreed with OP's assertions, I was merely trying to clarify the argument.
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Not really. underover was suggesting these new accounts should be discredited because their newness and pro-Andrew bias suggests they were perhaps created by Andrew. That criticism cannot apply to him, because why would Andrew create an acc
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I don't disagree with the premise. But the phase-out of Gears is because it wasn't a revenue stream, but rather a means of enabling new scenarios on the web that weren't otherwise possible. Its standardization is a win for everyone, includi
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Perhaps you should be taking Lanier's anti-troll sentiments to heart :)
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FTA: "It must be emphasized that the results are valid for the phone code problem only; generalizing to different application domains would be haphazard"
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Regardless of your opinion on climate change, The Times is not a reliable source for such matters: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2009/12/14/how-the-times-distor... The Times, by the way, is owned by News Corp (Rupert Murdoch). Depending on
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"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning." - George Orwell ( http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.h
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HTML5 is a debatable chicken-and-egg; one could argue that the standard came first even though a few parts were implemented by browsers prior. And what about XML? SVG? Most of the examples you give are early innovations made by browsers bec
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That's a good analogy, but I think the OP is arguing it shouldn't be like that, and I'm inclined to agree (although I'm hazy on the standardization process). The W3C wields enough influence that they should be able to strong-arm standards
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Python and Ruby largely continue the class-based object oriented model and are thus easy to pick up if you come from a C++/Java background. While JavaScript is prototype-based, and thus somewhat exotic, it at least maintains the syntactic h
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by m0th87 17y ago
I wish one of the HN rules were "no Paul Krugman". His writings are occasionally interesting, but he's a flamebait and it has no place here. This article marks two posts in two days.
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For the PageRank chunk of their search algorithm? If so, that is fascinating, because that means I could work with a graph subset and get good results. Could you link me?
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One example I'm interested in exploring: eigenvector centrality analysis on the social graph. It would be like a PageRank algorithm for people, quantifying how influential individuals are. This necessitates a full social graph. Having only
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I can't say I understand your analogy. For me, developing a site that renders correctly in WebKit, Firefox and Opera takes X amount of time, whereas adding just IE6 support takes something like 2*X additional time. WebKit plays nice with
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IBM was on the precipice of destruction in the 90s; it nearly broke up into several smaller companies in an act of desperation. I think this is what the author is referring to. It was only through an awkward shift from software/hardware dev
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Surface uses giant infrared cameras and a projector for display (the medium has to be permeable to IR, so traditional screens don't work). You couldn't put that technology on a WinMo device. Their mobile division is basically dead in the wa
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I respect the ambition, but doesn't it seem like a waste of time and money for a brand new startup to focus on the creation of a brand new language (+compiler +debugging facilities +documentation for new employees +libraries +...) before ma
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I didn't say I idealistically agreed, but that's the theory anyway. I sort of like Lysander Spooner's argument in No Treason* that social contracts are false justifications because there's no opt-out program. The practicality of such an ide
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To be fair, I think there are a lot more use cases than that. My last project and my current one both used NoSQL solutions. The former because graph walking is painful in SQL and the latter because schemaless documents enable so many new sc
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You did implicitly via the social contract.
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You have to click one of the links below the search box after you run a query. The fact that people are confused means that is certainly a usability issue though.
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Apple did the same thing with the iPhone, which Cisco owned: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/update_on_ciscos_iphone... They were obviously aware that iPad was trademarked, so if they went ahead with the name, they must feel confiden
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I'm not convinced anything is phenomenal on this. Between my desktop, macbook and iPhone, I can't think of any use cases for it. Is it just a bigger, faster iPhone? I don't get it.
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Strange, I had to refresh the page twice to get the effect to work correctly in Chrome. Each time it worked progressively better!
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Source on American charitable contributions: "Americans gave, per capita, three and a half times as much to causes and charities as the French, seven times as much as the Germans, and 14 times as much as the Italians. Similarly, in 1998, Am
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I think its usefulness (or lack thereof) can't accurately be critiqued by anecdotes from technical users, but rather needs to be quantified through usability testing. It's easy to blow this idea off, but the "solve something your users didn
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Their example is a bit juvenile. Even so, keep in mind that it is a one-line ifconfig invocation for those that understand the terminal and know about ifconfig , which does not hold for the vast majority of users. This is about making auto

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