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by mustpax 17y ago
Just ask anyone who conducts taste studies for food companies: there's a surprisingly large discrepancy between what people think they enjoy and what they actually enjoy. This study seems pretty well done, and there were some interesting fi
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by mustpax 17y ago
I agree with you that this casts doubt on the verdict, which doesn't do anybody any good. Still, the appellate court's contention is that being affiliated with a copyright law related professional organization is different than being affili
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by mustpax 17y ago
It already does, but not overtly. The current iPhone YouTube app doesn't read FLV, YouTube re-encoded its whole video library to get on the iPhone.
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by mustpax 17y ago
This passage caught my eye: "I eyeballed the Wyse terminal in the office behind her. "I thought you said you had Microsoft Word running on that?" I asked. "My handwriting's not very good ... mind if I use it?" I'm just wondering, do you, fe
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by mustpax 17y ago
Honestly, it's not a stretch to say computer science that most of us practice day in and day out, and the way most of us study it in college, is heavy on practice and light on theoretical rigor.
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by mustpax 17y ago
Personally, I kinda like watching physicists get slightly peeved when you point out that their models could stand being a little bit more rigorous. I mean check out this paragraph: """I think a little background on the author is in order. I
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by mustpax 17y ago
I read an enjoyed Lyons' article on Kurzweil last week. Despite its critical bent, found it to be quite even-handed and informative. I did not, however, notice that the author was Dan Lyons of Fake Steve Jobs fame. Lyons clearly has a knack
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by mustpax 17y ago
I think the distinction between a lambda and a closure is especially important. Closures maintain references to the local stack and I shudder to think the kind of bugs and unsafe memory operations that can result to writing to bad places in
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by mustpax 17y ago
I once signed up to XBox Live with my credit card. Soon afterwards, I realized that the online gaming "community" left much to be desired and that they didn't even provide dedicated servers for my games. So I decided to quit. But they purpo
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by mustpax 17y ago
A CNet article quoting the New York Post quoting an anonymous source who says "Bing seems to be of particular interest to Sergey" (emphasis mine). Quite a dubious chain of trust to back up such a mundane point. On the other hand, I don't
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by mustpax 17y ago
It's also worth noting: component output is downsampled for DRM-sake. HDMI devices are actually authenticated before full resolution content is supplied to them. As far as I know, it is not possible to authenticate devices over component, h
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by mustpax 17y ago
OK let's take a step back and examine the core issue here: are minors capable enough of making sound decisions to be held legally liable for the outcomes? If they are, then they should also be allowed to "sext" similar peers. If not they ar
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by mustpax 17y ago
Depends what sort of impact we are talking about. Lower level staff cannot make decisions on what stories to follow, where and when the stories are run and under which headlines, or the general editorial bent of the paper. The tone and the
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by mustpax 17y ago
Can we please stop pretending that the new WSJ bears any resemblance to the old one? The top WSJ editor already "resigned" shortly after the acquisition and the shift in content is completely unmistakable. http://www.reuters.com/article/ou
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by mustpax 17y ago
It also speaks volumes when a company would rather direct resources towards litigation instead of innovation. Engineers tend to be cheaper than lawyers and legal maneuvering will only delay the demise of an inferior product temporarily.
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by mustpax 17y ago
As a wiser man once said, "the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." California has big problems, but remember that it is also the 10th largest economy in the world (at least it was in 2007 according to the CIA factbook). These prob
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by mustpax 17y ago
To be honest I can't imagine the Marlboro man undergoing chemo for lung cancer. Or standing outside a bar smoking in the cold with all the middle aged office workers. What I'm trying to say is that he's a pretty two dimensional fictional ch
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by mustpax 17y ago
Let's rephrase the question: can you copyright aphorisms? Because Tweets are no different than other bodies of written work except for their length. The author seems to pick out a bunch of straw-men, or, ahem, straw-tweets if you like, to p
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by mustpax 17y ago
The need for such a website also points to a larger problem: a lot of people in the US, including most insured people, do not have access to timely primary care for non-life threatening problems. Say your daughter has an ear infection, the
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by mustpax 17y ago
I think a regex might suffice: /(\W|^)bush\s*\(&|and)?\s*co/i Similarly, we could build a Slashdot detector: /(\W|^)m\$(\W|$)/i Save tons of trouble. Worse is better :)
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by mustpax 17y ago
I don't want to sound callous, but just duplicating your data once does not constitute a sound backup strategy. You need snapshots and failover redundancy. It's good to have RAID 1 style redundancy for high availability, but if you or someo
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by mustpax 17y ago
Don't wanna get all Unix-macho here, but the regular command line is also pretty safe when you're just launching applications and doing things equivalent to the location bar. It gets dangerous for only a specific subset of administrative co
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by mustpax 17y ago
This is a very tough call on Facebook's part. Their primary purpose is to serve as a facilitator, not as a moderator of people's opinions. At the same time, this is a pretty clear case of religious/racial hate speech. Leave it to TechCrunch
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by mustpax 17y ago
Unfortunately for Google, Android is, and will be, crippled at every step by manufacturers and carriers. Apple at least has the luxury of making sure that the iPhone will be crippled in a way that it still remains very useful for most peopl
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by mustpax 17y ago
I'm not saying the terminology is wrong or anything like that. I'm just saying 'deceleration' is a more concise and comprehensible way of talking about changes in the second derivative. You might be surprised how little high school calculus
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by mustpax 17y ago
Using the term second derivative obscures the meaning here somewhat. 'Deceleration' would be a more accessible concept to use to describe what's happening. It doesn't mean we're going backwards yet (i.e. net employment gains), but the rate
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by mustpax 17y ago
I like Kara Swisher's take on these latest rumors, namely that they are full of it: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090505/ignore-the-twitter-buyou... I mean, when is Valleywag going to stop printing variations of the "X is in late stage ta
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by mustpax 17y ago
Reasonable hypothesis. If you reduce distribution costs for academic materials the price should follow. There's even a diagram in there that shows 32.2% of textbooks prices come from printing costs. But here's the thing: the full "printing
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by mustpax 17y ago
Maybe news outlets ought to list numbers in scientific notation a la 1e6 instead of million and 1e12 instead of a trillion. That way you can just add the exponents without all that pesky multiplication and division. But we'll need to ch
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by mustpax 17y ago
That might be true but I can't see Apple developing a device to sell primarily from someone else's marketplace. They are leaving a huge portions of the profits on the table. Granted Amazon has a stellar relationship with publishers, and App

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