micheljansen

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   by micheljansen 16y ago

   I am both surprised and delighted.
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   by micheljansen 16y ago

   Exactly, the only winning move is not to play.
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   by micheljansen 16y ago

   With the risk of sounding redundant: I would never wish to reverse the job seeking process for myself. I prefer to keep my destiny in my own hands and seek out the job I feel best fits my skills and interests. I don't trust potential employ
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   by micheljansen 16y ago

   Do you want to get into a philosophical discussion on what constitutes technology? :P I believe patents should be used to protect inventions of new technology (e.g. things like light bulbs, telephones (ouch) or cars), not "methods for illum
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   by micheljansen 16y ago

   "een gegeven paard"... (sorry couldn't resist after noticing a fellow Dutchie) :D vie.ww.com is awesome too :)
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   by micheljansen 16y ago

   That is so cool :) I would really love to have bre.ww.com -> micheljansen.org (94.142.245.117) It is taken but does not look very active. If not, you would make me very happy with vie.ww.com too :)
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   by micheljansen 16y ago

   I am not saying it does not make sense for Microsoft to pursue a patent like this; I am saying that the fact that it does illustrates how out-of-touch the patent system has become. Patents were meant to protect Patents have by themselves be
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   by micheljansen 16y ago

   How can this be worthy of a patent? This has been the example of GPGPU from day one. It is not even a technological invention, it is an application of existing technology. It is like IBM patenting "using a computer for business administra
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   by micheljansen 16y ago

   I think raising these concerns is fair in a world where nearly all Unix-related source code and binaries is distributed in (g/bzipped) TAR format. Unfortunately, the author does not really explain why this is and what is wrong with ZIP (e.g
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    So true. I did some research on video retrieval a few years ago, where I wanted to make a user interface to see how we can benefit from all the cool segmenting and clustering techniques other people were researching. It turned out it was ne
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    Keen observation. Correlation does not imply causation. Do keep in mind though that this is an old article (2008). Followup studies have been conducted, such as "Treatment of childhood obesity by retraining eating behaviour: randomised cont
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    Although this is a pretty old article, I think it's still pretty relevant. Interestingly, a colleague of mine has graduated on the subject by designing an augmented dinner plate to help people adjust their speed of eating: http://www.lissa
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    Exactly, quoting the article: > We applied our model to a corpus of Ugaritic, an ancient Semitic language discovered in 1928. Ugaritic was manually deciphered in 1932, us- ing knowledge of Hebrew, a related language. They specifically u
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    I agree, although I meant my comment to be taken in general (there are so many of these apps, for so many different websites). In the case of HN there actually has been another reader that fixed the mobile experience for free (as mentioned
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    With the risk of sounding like a sour guy, I'm just going to say it: why do people pay money for apps that are essentially web browsers in a shiny package? I am not against people making money by providing better access to content that is a
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    I think calling these these kinds of practices "Search Engine Optimisation" is a little perverse. "Search Engine Deception" would be a better term. This is precisely the sort of thing that makes SEO such as shady business nowadays. It might
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    Even better, they don't charge for "products" such as wildcard certificates, but for the service of validation that is required to get them. This means you pay once for the validation (much less than a single wildcard certificate costs else
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    Although not a direct answer to your question, I do think Qt's Kinetic ( http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Graphics/Kinetic ) might be a good source for inspiration. It contains a declarative UI markup and scripting language called QM
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    For those who enjoyed reading this post, I have some recommendations: * Anything by Hervé This ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervé_This#Bibliography ) * Nicholas Kurti's "But the Crackling is Superb: An Anthology on Food and Drink by Fello
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    I am pretty curious about what the effect would be on flavour. Animal fat is pretty bad for you though, and probably much cheaper to come by so I imagine those are just a few reasons to go with vegetable oil over animal fat.
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    I feel confident finding so many books I own for my studies are getting rave reviews by Norvig. Then again, we do use a book he wrote with Stuart Russell as well in one of the courses :)
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    The funniest thing is that people have actually tried to graph all the different timelines. Some examples: * http://i.imgur.com/kqja1.jpg * http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/PrimerTimeline.gif
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    Exactly. I'm surprised this link got upvoted this much. Everyone should have already seen this movie ;)
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    by micheljansen 16y ago

    This will change my life :) (sounds more dramatic than I mean it, but seriously: this is really going to save me time)