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by mquander 16y ago
Three points: 1) There's no proprietary Motorola UI layer on top of Honeycomb in this instance, in contrast to their Android 2.X phones. So one might expect updates to be more prompt if updating said UI layer is a big bottleneck for their
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by mquander 16y ago
I think there's a real disconnect between HN and Metafilter. Metafilter is about making good posts. There are tens of thousands of active members and only a few dozen posts per day because you are supposed to make good posts. The motto
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by mquander 16y ago
That's a very optimistic error message! error: conversion from std::_Rb_tree_const_iterator<std::pair< const std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::basic_string&#
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by mquander 16y ago
Yeah, I initially wrote a comment insulting him for not being able to figure out how to fold a list in C#, but the fact is, that wasn't in the standard library until late 2007, so I can sympathize.
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by mquander 16y ago
Honestly, it works fine for me, and although I find the actions described in this story to be a hilarious and unethical waste of resources, they certainly aren't making my Internet any worse in a general sense. What do I give a crap about s
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by mquander 16y ago
Can I take it, then, that you like the idea of federal contractors spending taxpayer dollars on semi-automated sockpuppets in order to spam propaganda on their behalf, as long as it's not liberal propaganda?
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by mquander 16y ago
Yes, it's called HTML5 and Javascript. (Seriously.)
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by mquander 16y ago
That's true, but to someone who isn't steeped in Wikipedia-lore, saying that a language's page should be removed from Wikipedia, for whatever reason, is a statement about the language's fans, users or authors, because why would you remove a
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by mquander 16y ago
That's true, so maybe it shouldn't really be said that people are "voting" after all. But at least an administrator has to actually agree and delete it; I guess that's what passes for oversight.
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by mquander 16y ago
Let's put aside the insanely weird idea that one person has the ability to derail the creation of information unilaterally, without a vote, and without any oversight to focus on the real problem... Jesus, does Zed Shaw live on another pla
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by mquander 16y ago
Sure, but the font and size are exactly what you are free to control as you please with your browser.
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by mquander 16y ago
"I deny that the human brain IS algorithms. It is neurons connected by dendrons/synapses. Right?" "I deny that Watson IS algorithms. It is transistors assembled into logic gates. Right?" My statement is obviously a silly thing to say. Wa
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by mquander 16y ago
Oh, is that so? Last I checked, people frequently install browser plugins just to turn modern pages back into single-column plain text pages.
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by mquander 16y ago
Well, the last laptop or two I've bought have come with Windows licenses such that I found it easy to install from scratch. Although I know some manufacturers won't ship a real Windows install DVD (I may have grabbed one from my workplace
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by mquander 16y ago
An Open Letter To PC Makers: No matter what you do, I will never trust the software you put on my machine, so I couldn't care less what bloatware you package or don't package; I'm reformatting first thing anyway. Thanks for finding this
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by mquander 16y ago
If their event sells out in 59 minutes, why don't they raise the price dramatically?
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by mquander 16y ago
Well, I'm sure we can argue all day about whether there's a net positive gain, but the gain is clear: By committing to make security issues public, you're giving manufacturers a reason to continue support for products that they sell, so
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by mquander 16y ago
Not really, since you can come up with lots of ways to express 2.2250738585072012e-308 as a string: 0.22250738585072012e-307, 0000000.22250738585072012e-307, 0.222507385850720120000000e-307, and so on. As long as it's the same double, it s
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by mquander 16y ago
The grandparent post wasn't asking what would happen if you woke up at 3 AM and shot a policeman mistakenly. He was asking whether it would be legal to rig a booby trap to do it! Those are extremely different situations, to say the least!
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by mquander 16y ago
Of course you couldn't legally set that up, are you insane? On what planet would that be justifiable? Even in Texas, you need to demonstrate a reasonable belief that you were in imminent danger of being robbed or attacked before you are p
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by mquander 16y ago
Well, knowing Richard Dawkins, he thinks more or less any religious person is "barking mad." It sounds to me like he is just advocating for discrimination against people with stupid beliefs (where "stupid" is up to the employer to decide,
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by mquander 16y ago
You must have read a completely different article than I did, because as far as I can tell you are entirely mistaken about the content. "A senior colleague at Oxford told me of an astronomer who, on religious grounds, believes the universe
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by mquander 16y ago
Relevant ads might offer a better user experience than irrelevant ads. You know what offers an even better experience? No ads. I'm in favor of anything that makes an free-with-advertising business model less practical. Make me pay five b
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by mquander 16y ago
Well, you could use the same argument against any feature at all! Besides, I can point at zillions of Java applications that are not written by huge mystery corporations with legions of slaving programmers. There's no point holding back o
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't see how that graph is interpreted as a "crushing" -- you may as well make a graph of the sales of Techcrunch's print edition, and see who wins then. The New Yorker could have flat zero web presence and I doubt it would make very mu
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by mquander 16y ago
Sure, if you consider a million* subscriptions paying cash money every month "niche." I certainly wouldn't call a blog with a million paying customers "niche!" You could have a tenth of that and run a profitable website, with plenty of
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by mquander 16y ago
Their reaction is a blog post and a four-minute video. No matter what Apple does, a blog post and a four-minute video is probably not a "MASSIVELY" disproportionate response. Also, if you bought a phone with some ordinary Phillips screws,
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't really understand the crisis with which he opens this essay. It seems to me that the problem is trivial; when we use "A implies B" or "if A then B" in common conversation, we intend to mean that A causes B. Why? Because it's not
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by mquander 16y ago
Well, actually, the idea behind doing science, like the studies cited in the article, is to find actual evidence for things rather than just guessing what the answer is.
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by mquander 16y ago
Sure, it's not unheard of, but it's still huge! It's extremely hard to become six or eight stones better from that level, and by all appearances, it represents an enormous gap in ability. The most talented and smartest humans take years

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