minor_nitwit

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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Free trade is a misleading euphemism, it's a set of new rules for trade.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Of course not, the big government contracts did all that work, and they just sip it off from the top of healthcare.gov. That said, they definitely did improve upon the government's front-end/implementation.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
In the Future of Programming, Bret Victor talks about how computers should be able to distinguish the API/language of one another using goal directed programming. Is anyone at work on that? It's nice but API documentation isn&#x
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
so I take it you're for facebook documenting as much of everyone's lives as possible - for historical reasons?
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
it's an opportunity for someone to start their own, a big hole just opened up.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Poor DHH eating lunch alone.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
*Perhaps 1 or 2. Perhaps not.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
I'm not sure he's a HOF'er. He's definitely a star, but not a superstar, to be a super-star you have to be a top 5 player, and known by most non-sports fans. Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Dwight Howard, Kevin Durant, all
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
FF 24 on 13.10 works.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
I'm disappointed that there's no penguin.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Here's a good article on disfluency and why it causes resistance to new things. http://www.edge.org/conversation/disfluency
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Not exactly, you could be doing this on a chrome-book.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Ex. You have a test that detects cancer with 99% certainty, and a prevalence of cancer of 1 in 1 million people. In a sample size of 100 million people: People with cancer correctly identified: 99%*100=99 people People with can
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
'Finding' a file has been solved by search tools. If you want to get the app experience, you can just drop everything into the same folder, and access files through the search index on your computer. Music, Movies, Photos, Docum
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Like a giant browser history?
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Most sites have segregated data from presentation. The problem would be your second point - that it's not exposed as being user controllable. It is in fact user controllable through scripting in most cases, but it's not surfaced
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Use the responsive design view built into firefox and try the different screen sizes. You still are going to care 'how it looks' on all of the devices you expect to see it. I understand that it's nearly impossible to control
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
My work made me carry a pedometer. It really surprised me some days, when I would just stay home at my apartment how little I walked. Sub 500 steps in a day. Basically, being at home is being on your ass all day, but I would think I would
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Should have gone PDF. The comments in pdfs are some what manageable.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Excellent standard: Contains not a single example of what actual JSON looks like in text.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
They do keep previous names, so that if you search for someone who was married, you'll still get their result.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
People can tag non-facebook users in photos. You can't 'block' it unless you have an account.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Usually, companies have to get your permission to use your likeness. If we extend existing law, facebook would be completely hosed.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
I saw someone post that apparently, the display resolution is too high which creates scaling problems with most DEs. I don't really understand the gimped ChromeOS approach, they should just give it a real terminal, and a Debian based &
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Australia, UK, New Zealand, Canada, and the US are all part of the 5-eyes, which have a broad agreement on sharing intelligence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes While they may not share information with say - Ch
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
I'd be surprised if somebody hasn't already developed a software keyboard specifically for use in a shell.
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
But from a developer's perspective, what matters is where the customers are. I still think in the near term, paid apps are a bigger market on the ipad but if your application is free, then android may be a better bet for initial deploy
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Steve Jobs drew his own red-line over 7 inches being too small for tablet, due to the size of hands. I've heard that parroted back at me by apple fans a few times. This is why the ipad-mini is decidedly not a 7" screen, but an 8
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
REPL's aren't really interactive programming. In Bret Victor's demo, he makes a infinite loop and as he is typing, the mistake is immediately clear. Pry is awesome though, it's just not really close to the things that B
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by minor_nitwit 13y ago
Incidentally, they did go with the frosted glass look.

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