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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
This isn't "Evil". Google is doing what they can to provide "a more secure and private search experience" [1]. Sure, it may be unfortunate for web sites relying on organic keywords, but this is hardly a malicious act. [1] http://support.go
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
It's not clear to me why the value of sociology would need to be defended. A good deal of the social graph analysis that's so popular now is built directly on the methods and works of sociologists and social psychologists (Stanley Milgram's
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
I found myself agreeing with a lot of the sentiment expressed in Mark's post but ultimately, I lack faith that Shuttleworth and Canonical have what it takes to pull off the stated goal of creating "an experience that could challenge the exi
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
I'm confused, I thought 2D acceleration was introduced with 10.4. I'm not a Mac user, so I'm not sure, but Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_%28graphics_layer%29 ) seems to agree.
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
It's not intuitive, but it's straightforward once you understand the semantics. There are basically two cases. Case 1: x <- monadicFunctionA monadicFunctionB is rewritten as: monadicFunctionA >>= \x -> mon
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
> Gnome3 is familiar, but very dated. Have you used Gnome 3? Familiar and dated are not words I would use to describe it. The Gnome team is clearly focused on user experience and without rendering judgment as to whether or not they've s
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
> he should encouraged and cheered. Is that not happening already? From the article: "Tesla's current market value is 250 times higher than it would be if it were being valued as a car manufacturer rather than an idea whose time is abou
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
It's not clear to me what Python the language offers over the Lisp family, other than improved readability for some class of users and translation to and from pseudocode (see Peter Norvig's comment in 2010: http://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
Completely agree that learning functional programming has improved my thinking and code. The one difficulty I continue to encounter is switching back and forth between recursive and iterative thinking. From a computational perspective they
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Comonads are objects(haskellforall.com)
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
I really like the interaction and flexibility, but I failed to generate a set of colors as nice as those provided by Color Brewer ( http://colorbrewer2.org/ ). Sure, Color Brewer doesn't dynamically generate color schemes, but the set of co
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
These "monad tutorials" drive me nuts. I wasted a week trying to understand monads from random "You can do monads in Python, JavaScript and Brainfuck!" tutorials that all had different (and sometimes inconsistent) perspectives on what they
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
It appears the instructor is employed as an "instructional designer" in Georgia Tech's distance learning program. Superficially, traditional distance learning programs have something in common with MOOCs, but there are a number of important
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
As excited as this makes me, I am way more excited to hear about the "full blown Haskell IDE" they mention. Is this a cloud service?
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
I think the ribbon is great. Prior to the ribbon, Word, for example, had all of these different components, each with its own UI, all fighting among themselves for screen real estate (the UI version of how this article describes MS, I suppo
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
Regarding FTC action, it's worth noting that MS's page on the Surface Pro ( http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-... ) includes this small print: System software uses significant storage space; your storage capacity
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
Here you go: http://shiftedfrequency.net/ I agree that we need to know who he is and what he's done, but it was linked at the bottom of the post, so...
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
> Throw away your sexy idea While I doubt very much that this advice is bad per se, it does seem to run counter to the spirit of HN. It's true that there's no inherent tension between pushing the envelope and being successful (read: mak
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
Neither a college education nor continued employment in the field is a requirement to ask a stackoverflow question. In fact, I'd venture to say that a version of stackoverflow where the default answer to everything was "you should have lear
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
This is an interesting look at the data but some of the inference isn't quite there. The author uses the relative prevalence of the pattern 2468 over 1357 to justify the conclusion that people prefer even numbers to odd, completely ignoring
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
Can someone who understood this post all the way through tell me what m refers to? It first shows up in this sentence > Therefore we're faced with a series of decisions, at each number of conversions n , m more turned up A than
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
I found this article helpful. I was very surprised by the quality of the code in the replace.js repo given the vitriol that surrounded it. I'm not a big contributor to open source, but I've recently made some modifications (improvements?) t
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
It's a bit disingenuous to make straight comparisons between the neighborhood designs in the US and Germany given that the latter has something like 4% of the area of the former and almost 7x the population density. That said, Americans did
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
Graph Search seems like strange branding to me. I almost didn't click the link because I thought "Graph Search" was a new API and not a user-facing product (to be fair, the context was a posting on HN so I was predisposed to think API). Gra
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
Out of curiosity, have you tried using cabal-dev? It's far from a panacea, but it does mitigate library version issues. And, AFAIK, it's getting rolled into cabal proper Real Soon Now (see: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/Sand
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
I've also been using a Nexus 7 as my primary (though not exclusive) connectivity device. Instead of GrooveIP, I use Spare Phone, which has a nicer icon (and yes, that is why I chose it). The biggest drawback I've encountered is that talking
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
I am no psychologist, but this sounds very much like impostor syndrome, which is by no means the exclusive domain of the startup world. When I was in grad school, the school offered seminars and workshops on it. I never went, but I'm not su
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
I don't know anything about these sites other than what's described in the article, but how can they possibly guarantee that the exploited "subjects" are not minors? Shouldn't this be a legal problem for them?
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
> And don't give me the BS that Gnome cares about UX, they don't. I don't know why I'm bothering to respond to such a ridiculous and unsubstantiable claim, but there's actual evidence in the form of work product that GNOME cares about U
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by monkeyfacebag 14y ago
Hopefully this starts the ball rolling on Android tablet apps. I really love my Nexus 7, but the app selection is definitely inferior to what's available for iOS.

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