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by mikedouglas 16y ago
That doesn't make any sense. If P(whatever Lamos wrote | whether Wikileaks aided Manning) = P(whatever Lamos wrote), then your posterior probability always equals your prior probability, and you haven't learned anything. If you don't trust
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Greenwald doesn't seem to think that Lamos is a credible witness because statements he has made in the press aren't corroborated in the released sections of the chat log. But, (1) isn't it likely that the chat logs aren't the full extent of
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
`defn' is a mnemonic for "define function". `cons' is a mnemonic for "construct". `car', and `cdr' and replaced in clojure with `first' and `rest'. Once you've spent ten minutes with the language, these names aren't going to trip you up.
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Many of the commenters in the last thread admitted to this, which made it all the more irrational. There was even a debate about whether, in general, 'conspiracy theories' were more or less common than the public perception. As if that had
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Although Venkat doesn't mention them, reddit seems like the perfect example of a community that started out as a plaza, and with the introduction of user-created subreddits, evolved into a warren-like structure. The article predicts that th
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Oracle's JRockit is older than the OpenJDK. All they have announced is that their merging the two codebases, and that the next version of Oracle's proprietary JVM will be based off the result. In no way does that resemble a bait and switch.
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
You'd be surprised. Worldwide mobile phone ownership is up to 5 billion[0]. Meanwhile, much of the first world has already transitioned to smartphones. If you wanted to jump on the cheap phone trend, you're ten years late. Whatever margins
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
OED, 2nd Ed. freedom, n. 8. Of action, activity, etc.: Ease, facility, absence of encumbrance. You may have political beliefs about the utility of positive liberty, but that doesn't mean he's misusing the word.
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Isn't that the exact strategy followed by Sun? Being open and fostering a community sure didn't translate into sales for them. The message Oracle wants to send is pretty clear: if you want to use Java in the mobile and enterprise space, you
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
It's quite likely these type of agreements will become common place among large companies and VC-funded startups ("Today, Sequoia announced a deal with AT&T, giving its partners special access to..."). Microsoft and Apple aren't going t
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Google has supported net neutrality legislation, but I don't think they've ever ruled out playing along with the carriers, had the regulatory efforts failed. I'm not so sure what is so hard to believe; fast response times are crucial to Goo
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
There is nothing wrong with trying and failing; instead, the problem a lot of us saw with Kin was focus. From the limited samples we've seen, Windows Phone 7 seemed like a fairly competent response to the iPhone and Android. Whether MS can
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
That's unfair. You have no way of knowing if the ten minutes they spent filming this demo were completely fungible with time spent solving their manufacturing problems. Personally, I welcome any increase in communication from the WakeMate t
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Actually, transform is in the CSS3 working spec[0]. Until the standard reaches the "Candidate Recommendation" stage, the W3C encourages browser vendors to use prefixes (-webkit, -moz, etc). DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha, on the other han
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
California Penal Code, Section 485. One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person no
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
It should be noted that Amazon's one-click patent was just reaffirmed[0] by the USPTO. [0]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/controversia...
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
This sounds like a bad idea. TCO is not just a perf difference. Once you add it to a language, you've changed the semantics. The same piece of code will throw a StackOverflowException in DEBUG mode, yet functional perfectly in RELEASE. Sche
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
The passage of the internet sales tax means that any sales by Amazon associates inside the state would need to charge sales tax, so if they wanted to avoid the tax, they didn't have much choice but kill the program. A similar law passed in
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Branding. Ars Technica is respected among a certain subset of the population and IBM, ScienceNews and GQ want their products associated with that brand. There's far more to marketing than just informing customers about your products.
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Ads are annoying, and many people I know never click on internet ads. Addressed at the start of the second paragraph: "There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads, then blocking them won't hurt a site financial
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
I'm sure the blatant misreading of his tweet by techcrunch last week had something to do with it. http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/27/new-twitter-features/
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Is there any evidence of that programmers avoid working at startups? Is there any evidence that disproportionate returns (as opposed to risk avoidance) is the major reason? I'm not saying increased compensation wouldn't increase interest (t
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
As if there's no secure way to allow it access? Of course there is, and it should have that access if it means the difference between being able to stream video from the web well or not. A safe, high level API exists: QTKit. Adobe wants d
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Gmail uses SSL by default. Makes it a hassle to listen in on dissidents.
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
They don't need to ban third party ad networks to undercut their prices, but I agree at least one is likely to happen.
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Why won't Apple want WebKit everywhere? The value of a html rendering engine is proportional to the number of clients running it (especially in 2003 when the project was announced). The fact that WebKit has become large enough that it can't
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
The underlying mechanism doesn't matter if it's wrong. Those familiar with the mathematical notation would think: 1. '1 < 2 < 3' parses to '(1 < 2) and (2 < 3)'. 2. '3 - 4 - 5' parses to '(3 - 4) - 5'. 3. '3
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Considering the immaturity of the ebooks market, price variability seems like a good thing. Increased margins (whether the result of higher or lower prices) will let publishers experiment with better typography, lesser known authors and mor
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Museo Sans. Looks like some of the weights are free-as-in-beer, too. http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/exljbris/museo-sans/
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Unless you patch the Cocoa display logic, the fullscreen function won't work for those using Cocoa Emacs. You can still get 90% there using maxframe.el[0]. ;; psuedo-fullscreen (require 'maxframe) (setq mf-max-width 1440)

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