mistercow

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by mistercow 14y ago
My bad on flipping kun and on, but that doesn't change my point. >Those readings are not used to count by native Japanese speakers (I speak Japanese and have lived in Japan) ... They do not. Have you asked a native speaker? Speaking Jap
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by mistercow 14y ago
> "hachi, ni, yon, roku, shichi, go, ichi" isn't faster than "eight, two, four, six, seven, five, one" Japanese has two sets of numbers. One is the one you gave, which is based on Japanese, and the other got imported along with kanji fr
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by mistercow 14y ago
Based on this concept, I've created a base-100 number system that encodes each digit into a single simple syllable which is designed so that they can be strung into unambiguous sequences. So if your mental phonological loop can hold 10 fast
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by mistercow 14y ago
>Interesting, but your ability to memorize sequences of numbers is almost completely irrelevant to your ability to do higher-level math Your digit span does affect your ability to do mental arithmetic, and mental arithmetic is an indi
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by mistercow 14y ago
>Once a website reaches a certain scale (especially with rich web apps), global DOM id's become an almost impossible headache to deal with (because of multiple views which duplicate id's, coordination of global names across hundreds of
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by mistercow 14y ago
>You may argue that it's simpler (I'd argue it's not) I would argue that when you're creating dynamic content, dealing with IDs is inelegant. If I already have a reference to a DOM node, I shouldn't have to assign it a unique ID just so
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by mistercow 14y ago
If you take careful note of my wording, I said that every crackpot makes this sort of claim, not that only crackpots make this sort of claim. The reason I know this is crackpottery is that, as others have pointed out, the physics just d
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by mistercow 14y ago
I don't think they ever said how bright the light is, so it might "work" in a very technical sense.
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by mistercow 14y ago
>It takes only 3 seconds to lift the weight which powers GravityLight, creating 30 minutes of light on its descent. Why does every crackpot "revolutionary" energy gizmo make this same kind of nonsense claim? "Minute" is not a unit of en
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by mistercow 14y ago
Yeah, but beeping when a car is about to T-bone you is pretty bad-ass. More features like this that make the car feel like a fighter jet, please.
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by mistercow 14y ago
It's a pretty big stretch to call this "spyware". It's an ill-advised feature, sure, but "spying" indicates secrecy and subterfuge. If I came up behind you while you were typing, and started reading aloud your words as you typed them, would
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by mistercow 14y ago
I would think people would learn pretty quickly not to do that, since google truncates queries to 32 words and tells you so when they do.
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by mistercow 14y ago
Yeah, but that only makes sense when there is a connection. Requiring ISPs to keep more detailed records of internet usage, while terrible, does at least make sense as an anti-CP measure, even if the real purpose is to make it easier to sue
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by mistercow 14y ago
I was certainly aware of the connection between anti-CP and copyright, but I have never heard of a connection to DRM specifically. I thought the connections were limited to the shared interests of fighting CP and fighting copyright infringe
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by mistercow 14y ago
WebDAV in Nautilus works very well, but it is by no means the same level of convenience as syncing a la box.com or Dropbox. I mean hell, I can mount an FTP server in Nautilus too, but I'm not going to trade my Dropbox for FTP.
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by mistercow 14y ago
I don't think you can avoid entering passwords into software that can connect to the internet. And once you start using a desktop or laptop, anything and everything can both listen to your keystrokes and also connect to the internet.
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by mistercow 14y ago
It doesn't really sound too good to be true to me. A file hosting service is able to buy large hard drives and then commoditize their space. A dollar currently buys about 20GB. So if one of these 25GB users decides to upgrade, then each mon
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by mistercow 14y ago
Another big limitation is no Linux sync. Even if you don't currently have a Linux machine, do you really want your choices limited in the future by your file hosting service?
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by mistercow 14y ago
>"Digital rights management" because oh god won't somebody think of the children with child pornography and music downloads! I don't understand what connection you're drawing between CP and DRM.
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by mistercow 14y ago
example.com also exists specifically for this purpose.
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by mistercow 14y ago
It is a good argument against creating a native iOS app, certainly. If Apple decides to drop you, your app's code is virtually worthless.
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by mistercow 14y ago
I'm glad the word is getting out about this. Google's abuse of content creators on AdSense has been going on since before they acquired YouTube. As usual, the only way to make any headway with them is to get some media attention. For anyone
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by mistercow 14y ago
The HN title is incorrect; instantmotivation.com is a squatter. It should be instamotivation.com
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by mistercow 14y ago
I think it's fine to hijack the default scrollbars so long as all you change is their appearance. If you can't do it without changing the way scrolling via the wheel feels in any way, you need to trash it and use the default scroll bars.
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by mistercow 14y ago
Headlines like this make my brain hurt. I mean, seriously, what would even be an alternative hypothesis? That aliens intentionally modified our genes to make us smarter? That is all I can come up with.
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by mistercow 14y ago
>abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given a scientific-sounding diagnosis called DMDD Wow, I would not have expected such anti-science nonsense from WaPo. Just because you read the symptoms and thought "everybody has so
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by mistercow 14y ago
GZIP + minify is better than GZIP alone.
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by mistercow 14y ago
I think you didn't understand the parent post. TazeTSchnitzel is saying that when the template is initially compiled, it can be minified. Then you'd get that minification for free forever after.
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by mistercow 14y ago
None of your first three points are really a problem. No, you won't be able to do a simple regex based solution, but the rules for where whitespace matters in HTML are rigorously standardized. Obey them, and your minifier will work just fin
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by mistercow 14y ago
Minifiers don't just remove whitespace. Eliminating comments, for example, can save a lot (although it seems that most HTML out there is poorly commented in the first place). A smart minifier can also drop optional closing tags like </l

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