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   by msy 16y ago

   Looks like someone accidentally let MSFT Legal out of the kennel again. That said Spoon looks pretty damn ropey from a legal perspective, there's very, very little information but I wonder if the developers of things like World of Goo know
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   by msy 16y ago

   While there may be a new language that deals with some of the deficiencies of R at an unspecified point in the future, R is here today. It works, it works very well for the tasks it was designed for and is both well written and well support
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   by msy 16y ago

   They're not discontinuing OSX Server, just the rackmount hardware. I'm guessing the market for people that have outgrown a couple of decked out Mac Pros (seriously, those things are beasts) but still want OSX on their servers is pretty tiny
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   by msy 16y ago

   I'm familiar with MIPS, I'm was referring more to the specific implementation and fabrication technology.
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   by msy 16y ago

   Given China's proclivity for stealing tech and previous history of stolen processors I'll believe this is evidence of China's R&D capability when an independent 3rd party tears the chip down.
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   by msy 16y ago

   To me he represents the best of the meritocracy in action: incredible success without the gifts of money, power or connections at birth, survival and achievement though skill, intelligence, hard work and refusing to ever give up. I have so
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   by msy 16y ago

   Murdoch gave identical promises when he took over the Times of London, they lasted all of about 6 months. The Times went from the most respected UK paper to a downmarket broadsheet that toes the Murdoch line without fault in about 3 years.
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   by msy 16y ago

   I'm at the Visualising London event that's being held by the GLA on wednesday, I'll see if I can get anything out of any TfL reps that are there.
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   by msy 16y ago

   That's some incredibly refreshing brutal honesty, makes me incalculably more tempted to invest with them than the usual 30 pages of financial-marketing bumph about said firms unblemished perfection, mathematically perfect risk system and st
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    by msy 16y ago

    Web developers don't hate Microsoft because they destroyed Netscape, they hate Microsoft because their proprietary standards and er...unqiue take on w3 standards has and continues to waste a measurable percentages of people's lives and reta
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    by msy 16y ago

    I wonder if putting the boot into the most straightforward cross-platform solution for desktop apps has anything to do with the proliferation of OSX Java apps with shoddy/un-maclike UX/UI or whether it's something to do with Oracle's recent
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    by msy 16y ago

    That depends entirely on the cost of maintaining two very different codebases, keeping track of two different APIs....
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    by msy 16y ago

    I do this system-wide on OSX via Glimmer Blocker ( http://glimmerblocker.org/ ) using a modified version of the Facebook Like filter on their wiki ( http://glimmerblocker.org/wiki/Filters ). Has a nice bonus of speeding up page load as well
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    by msy 16y ago

    Mobile is a different ball game. To start with, while hardware is more varied it's also got far more standardised input hardware - there's a keyboard and there's a mouse and you can rely on that being the primary input. On Android there wil
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    by msy 16y ago

    "Abelow's independent inventions emerged from conceiving a new self-determined, worldwide content, communications and operating environment for individuals, corporations and societies, for self-guided improvements in their quality of life."
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    by msy 16y ago

    Or get rid of them early, if someone's only value is exposure and they're going to try and hold you hostage over every perceived outrage it's a matter of time until they turn on you.
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    by msy 16y ago

    Can we correctly label datasets please? Visualization: Guy-to-girl ratio of foursquare/gowalla/facebook checkins for every bar, restaurant and other random location in SF/NYC frequented by foursquare/gowalla/facebook places users who rememb
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    by msy 16y ago

    Paypal. Trying to find anything is a 10 minute exercise in spelunking through at least 10 different pages.
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    by msy 16y ago

    No, what I am doing is merely looking at recent data points and suggesting where the trend is going and the motivations of the players involved. Is the G2 less open than the iPhone? I'm having trouble finding much difference, both are locke
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    by msy 16y ago

    So given the relaxing of the iPhone development guidelines and the increasingly locked down nature of Android phones and impending fragmentation of the app store as every big player tries to grab a slice of the pie how far are we from the p
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    by msy 16y ago

    An SSD in my Macbook pro is without question the most noticeable hardware upgrade I've had in years. Absolutely wonderful.
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    by msy 16y ago

    A distributed data exchange system with everyone running their own servers will never get anywhere, look at what a terrible failure email was. </sarcasm> Far, far too early to tell frankly. The pace of development at the moment is f
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    by msy 16y ago

    Ironically it's more grief to get access to a download for the slides than it is to sign up for Dropbox.
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    by msy 16y ago

    I don't think it's anything to do with control and lockin, it's to do with the fact that Debian feel they have a far superior package management system and allowing other, inferior (from their perspective) systems is a Bad Idea which they'l
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    by msy 16y ago

    Wage war on teh intarwebs and teh intarwebs will wage war on you. And it's their home turf.
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    by msy 16y ago

    I'm genuinely looking forward to watching this but to me it also demonstrates something about startups and silicon valley - who you are and who you're friends with matters almost as much as what you do. There's no way in hell he'd be launch
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    Unwanted emergent behaviour in complex systems: Ant Death Spirals(theantroom.blogspot.com)

    60 points by msy 16y ago|11 comments
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    by msy 16y ago

    Your idea of a fresh perspective is build a straw man to imply that the poor are all lazy?
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    by msy 16y ago

    I thought this was a place for Hacker News, not recycled hokum trickle down homilies.
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    by msy 16y ago

    Interesting. Are you just providing graphed data or how far are you taking this for your users? Moving averages and derivatives? Regression analysis?