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by mquander 16y ago
+1 on this. If I were to make a list of reasons that a FOSS mobile OS is great, then "porting it to devices which it was not originally designed for" would be at the very top of the list! Restricting what people can do with Android becaus
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by mquander 16y ago
That's right, and I suppose you don't give a lick of credit to the Chief Artist inside your television sifting through that data and drawing the picture on your screen, do you.
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by mquander 16y ago
The courses claim to teach programming, not entrepreneurship.
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by mquander 16y ago
I suppose I must have a blind spot in my web programming knowledge. I see sentences like this: The problem that prevented us from using the HTML5 parser for about:blank is that a bunch of test cases assume that when about:blank is parsed
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by mquander 16y ago
I guess I am skeptical that a "star" rating could ever be meaningful for Github projects. Frankly, the whole thing seems like a bust regardless if you have a thousand reviews; what kind of meaningful information could you get from a thousa
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by mquander 16y ago
Why? Just let the project owner hit a button that says "This issue has been addressed" or "This issue is being worked on", adding an optional note, which marks the review accordingly somehow. Then you can look and see how proactive the pr
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by mquander 16y ago
True, but if you're counting that, there must surely be many other equally bad externalities worth counting; e.g. environmental damage due to oil spills and incidence of lung cancer due to air pollution from coal mining. You have to draw th
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by mquander 16y ago
You can set the "nobootwait" option on that device in /etc/fstab to indicate that it shouldn't ask you on boot when it's not there.
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by mquander 16y ago
My laptop runs hot on Ubuntu, and I don't know how to fix it. I have an HP Envy 15, and just idling at the desktop leaves the thing at 50 deg C with the fans on medium. It's pretty frustrating. On Windows, I'm 10 degrees cooler with litt
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by mquander 16y ago
This post is so trivial as to be flagworthy. If the author's coworkers ask him about design decisions, invariants, or other minutiae regarding a piece of code, does he explain it to them by writing more code? No? He uses natural language
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by mquander 16y ago
Just putting myself on the list as yet another person who would be trying this out right now, but it requires a Facebook login, so I'm writing this comment instead. I don't use Facebook or Twitter, and I would not be pleased with creating
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by mquander 16y ago
If it doesn't do any good this time, will the global contingent of people who continually and arbitrarily divide the world into static, irreconcilably opposed groups of people do it again anyway in the next discussion?
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by mquander 16y ago
Please don't do this. This is worthless, especially without the diagrams. If you felt like it made sense to copy and paste the article because the server was down, then you are wrong; that's why Google's cache and Coral exist.
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by mquander 16y ago
Fox also aired the X-Files! Talk about an agenda!
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by mquander 16y ago
Coming from Fox News certainly doesn't make it much more credible. But I don't think it makes it less credible, either. You should figure out whether it's credible based on other evidence. If you think that coming from Fox News "kills
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by mquander 16y ago
I downvoted it because coming through Fox News or The Sun has no impact on its credibility, since Fox News is not the primary source. Fox News is just parroting and simplifying something scientific-sounding, like they would do for any simi
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't agree that it would be better served, and I don't like the poster's equivocation of "I don't think these are equivalent to this issue at hand." His examples are perfectly analogous to the issue at hand, which are instances of an ou
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by mquander 16y ago
Well, I'm not sufficiently satisfied with my historical knowledge to hang around and argue this point with you, but I would point out that Moldbug defends it vigorously. If you can't be arsed to wade through his lengthy mumblings, you can
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by mquander 16y ago
Related: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-cr... I agree with the upshot of Moldbug's argument: "Thus the practical problem with 'charter cities' is that no one wants them: not the host regime, not the internatio
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by mquander 16y ago
That does seem surprising to me. I can pretty much divide up my social circle into people who don't read, people who have print subscriptions to stuff like the New Yorker and Harper's and think that the Internet is mostly good for shopping
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't think that the set of people who A) want to read long form writing online, rather than in print, B) but they don't use RSS, they don't use Readability, they're not using a mobile app, and they use the default website layout instead
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by mquander 16y ago
Yeah, I was rather astonished the first time I tried it. I expected it to be unconvincing, but nope, that is definitely a brand new shade of cyan.
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by mquander 16y ago
Also note imaginary colors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_colors You can see some imaginary colors here: http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/ipage-et.html
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by mquander 16y ago
Well, suit yourself. I'll take the former. Hopefully RSA will publish their own summary of this attack ;)
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by mquander 16y ago
Can't you find a real link next time, instead of this content-free blogspam? Here, I did it for you: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~valeria/research/publications/DAT... By the way, this is from a year ago.
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by mquander 16y ago
I am so happy that I have helped make this post leave the front page.
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by mquander 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money "The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, occasionally, a standard of deferred payment."
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by mquander 16y ago
Try TopCoder. Three problems in an hour. The easy problems are sufficiently easy that I guarantee you'll be able to do at least one or two of them, so you won't feel like an idiot, and spending time thinking about the harder problems will
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by mquander 16y ago
Really, so what should you use a ton of in hopes of making code easy to understand for a programmer that doesn't understand first-class functions? What makes you think they understand polymorphism? What about exceptions? Do you think the
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by mquander 16y ago
I have been pretty satisfied with my HP Envy 15 purchased last March, for roughly the same price that a MBP would have cost me. Differences between it and a MBP: Slightly lighter. No cool magnetic charger thing; instead, power brick. Batte

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