mkelly

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by mkelly 16y ago
All comments about English dialects aside, I also found the reporter unbearable. (Full disclosure: I stopped watching after "A good day to invade?") It wasn't that she asked difficult questions -- that's wonderful. It's that she asked vapid
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by mkelly 16y ago
I don't know how they did, specifically, but I could easily imagine it being like Google Maps. You need only load the tiles you see (and a few surrounding ones for good measure).
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by mkelly 16y ago
There's definitely a business model, but it's short lived: you have to skip the country before the first person tries to restore his data and realizes you were throwing it all away to begin with. :)
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Time Warner Cable tries to put brakes on massive piracy case(arstechnica.com)
22 points by mkelly 16y ago|18 comments
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by mkelly 16y ago
How is this unprofessional? Is it inappropriate in some way?
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by mkelly 17y ago
This article seems poorly thought-out and borderline incoherent. Now Matt Cuts started to direct humans to the Google Spam report page, “help us maintain the quality of Google search results”. If this is not an admission that a Go
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by mkelly 17y ago
The article never said that; just that they use Perforce.
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by mkelly 17y ago
I wish you great success. FYI, on Chrome with a window size of 1280x800, the t-shirt image covers up the last word of your title. ("Cheap college textbook rentals just got [t-shirt]").
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by mkelly 17y ago
I really hope someone, someday, can successfully cut the legs out from under the racket that is the textbook market. Forced bundles, superfluous editions that do little but change the page numbering, etc. I suspect a healthy enough used-tex
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by mkelly 17y ago
I agree. A large-scale web company should care very much about power. Designing your own hardware also, incidentally, lets you control power consumption.
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by mkelly 17y ago
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the author's point, but I thought there was a push to move away from lots of special-case tags like <q>, <dl>, etc. For such a general-purpose SGML, it seems silly to assume that HTML wil
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by mkelly 17y ago
Linguistically, there's no agreed-upon rule for what makes a "dialect"[1]. What I heard from Linguistics people is that they're all just separate languages, some with and some without a written form. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialec
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by mkelly 17y ago
When I saw the same page in the development journal he posted, I assumed that code got removed from the game after he printed out that page -- not something that was redacted, per se. :) [edit: attempting to use something resembling Englis
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by mkelly 17y ago
Stories like this trigger the wanderlust.
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by mkelly 17y ago
This inspires me to keep closer logs of my progress on personal projects -- particularly the "soft" stuff (how I'm feeling about it, etc). It's terrific motivation.
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by mkelly 17y ago
I'm no statistician, but based on their "web poll"-style methodology, I'm not sure their results mean anything at all. They seem like they're at least one step above a CNN.com "do you like Obama?" poll, because users apparently have less id
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by mkelly 17y ago
No. Next question?
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by mkelly 17y ago
This is a good point that I don't see repeated often enough. To expand, and rant a little (okay, really just rant...): People whine about Google or Facebook's apparent inability to permanently delete data, yet simultaneously expect their da
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by mkelly 17y ago
On that note, I've just started using ion3 ( http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/ ), which is a similarly-focused tiling, keyboard-friendly window manager. I'm still unsure about how useful it is on my laptop, but at work where I have huge mo
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by mkelly 17y ago
Agreed. screen is one of the single most useful tools I use.
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by mkelly 17y ago
I already thought "zenith" was a fun word, and this just makes me like it even more. Yay!
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by mkelly 17y ago
Or hook Groups up directly to whatever spam filtering mechanism Gmail already uses. No idea if the architecture makes that easy or not.
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by mkelly 17y ago
The types of comments I've found useful are ones that explain "why". Either summarizing a function or class at a high level (why I should use this thing, why it exists), or explaining a single line iff it's highly counter-intuitive. e.g.,
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by mkelly 17y ago
The relationship between a teacher and student is an interpersonal relationship. It's like a friendship. The effect of a good teacher, as I see it, is not that you get more knowledgeable about a field. You can do that from a book or the int
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by mkelly 17y ago
"Commercial flights already take the better part of a day, even for short jumps. I can't imagine having to arrive at the ferry terminal 4-5 hours before my flight so that I can get to the terminal in time to spend 2 more hours waiting for t
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by mkelly 17y ago
http://sup.rubyforge.org/
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by mkelly 17y ago
I'm waiting for governments to realize that export laws as they currently exist just don't apply to software. The way software crosses borders is different (i.e. it's irrelevant whether it does or not; there's no border with border guards t
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by mkelly 17y ago
I wonder these cells do when they detect an object approaching. Is this the reflex for closing the eyelids, or something else?
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by mkelly 17y ago
Agreed. A lot of the "defiant" behaviors of the prisoners seemed to be efforts to exert some control over their environment. Also, the newer British system allowed more control in addition to less confinement. I wonder if there's much overl
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by mkelly 17y ago
I'm unsure how this "kernel" isn't socially created too. Whether we decide to act like those around us, or different than them, is irrelevant. The article is saying that just having someone around us to interact with in some way is vita

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