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by mvzink 15y ago
That's not the inconsistency; Earth and Moon are in English, all the other celestial bodies are labeled in Latin.
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by mvzink 15y ago
I appreciate the illustrating the scale difference between the outer planets and the inner four, but then why is Sol soooo tiny? Made me chuckle, actually.
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by mvzink 15y ago
My hypothesis is in part that people use the arrow buttons more readily in answer to their emotions. Hence secure microkernels receiving a handful of upvotes, despite massive potential impact, and "SICP is Under Attack" having many times mo
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by mvzink 15y ago
Imagine how much safer you would feel about Native Client if the phrase "theorem prover" was anywhere on the Google Code page.
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by mvzink 15y ago
The confusing part is (here in the states), all the kids do actually learn the Metric system in their grade school science classes, starting in elementary school (primary, I think they call it elsewhere). Everyone I know knows the Metric
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by mvzink 15y ago
As someone born and raised in the States I agree that YYYY-MM-DD is the only format that really makes sense. Furthermore, I don't understand why we are not on the Metric system...
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by mvzink 15y ago
Thank you, these criteria just saved me from tearing down a building.
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by mvzink 15y ago
Not that it will necessarily matter in the end, but for your client's sake I hope the people who are going to care that you are the best provider are the same people who might actually pay for it :P
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by mvzink 15y ago
A few months ago, I was at a talk at Google Chicago with two of the original creators of Subversion (Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick). After profuse apologies, they said everyone in the room should switch from git to hg, and that
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by mvzink 15y ago
I love how all of that stuff is legal, and yet inaction could lead to a totally illegal violation of the 14th amendment. Irony at it's most expensive.
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by mvzink 15y ago
tl;dr "Maybe, but somewhat homomorphic encryption definitely can be!"
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by mvzink 15y ago
You know he's looking toward the future when he calls the Khan Academy videos "archaic" :P
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by mvzink 15y ago
I don't see how this makes Google's lack of openness perplexing at all. On the contrary, I would be surprised (and pleased) if they were at least as "open" (which I don't think is the right word anyway) as to include a "Try it anyway" link
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by mvzink 15y ago
Your comment is full of ridiculousness. Please stop. I wasn't making the claim that "Google is about open standards at all", or that they are "some benevolent open source company". I would argue that they are not. I was in fact pointing out
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by mvzink 15y ago
I can't bring myself to think of C as being fragile. Fragile is exactly the word I use for Perl, Python, Ruby, and Javascript. Lisp and Haskell, and maybe Java, are the only ones on your list I would say are more robust than C or Objective-
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by mvzink 15y ago
Thank you! I read this thinking, "I wish more scientists would blog about their research like this!" Very approachable, very informative, and with citations! Astounding! There are a lot of people that would love to read this sort of fascina
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by mvzink 15y ago
Useless article. This has nothing to do with "openness", just marketing: what is Google's incentive to building the site in the first place if they can't make people download Chrome to view it? That said, they could at least add a "Try it a
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by mvzink 15y ago
Fragile? Compared to what? Not going to argue with verbose though, and I also wouldn't choose it for web apps.
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by mvzink 15y ago
Having never been really involved with the Dwarf Fortress community/cult, but having played the game quite a bit, this exposé on the creator is extremely interesting. I always thought it must have taken a certain level of cleverness to buil
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by mvzink 15y ago
The income bit is the only interesting part.
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by mvzink 15y ago
I have never heard any convincing argument (other than "we're already doing it") to use timezones or DSTs in the modern world. Can someone offer some articles or arguments?
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by mvzink 15y ago
No, you seem to be with the majority. But I really don't want to use web software any more. I might be the only one, but hopefully not.
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by mvzink 15y ago
Oops, missed that whole discussion. I guess interpreted it wrong: Google has tons of tricks, but only one makes money.
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by mvzink 15y ago
It would take much more than parentheses to render English "devoid of all ambiguity and shade". Even then, any such stylistic changes couldn't be mandatory (that's not how languages work). You already have the choice of fully explicating a
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by mvzink 15y ago
When was Google ever called a "one-trick pony"?
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by mvzink 15y ago
I haven't really been following the Dropbox fiasco(s), mostly because I've been so happy over the last year with SpiderOak ( https://spideroak.com/ ). They go out of their way to put you in control of your data. They don't store any passwor
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by mvzink 15y ago
Couldn't this be accomplished on the level of web browsers (and lower), just by rearranging the domain name before asking the DNS? It does seem very abritrary convention-y, you know.
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by mvzink 15y ago
I agree. But on the other hand, lightbox style advertisements are just popups that you have to actually click to close, instead of command-W.
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by mvzink 15y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite features of Stainless ( http://www.stainlessapp.com/ ): You could have one tab with a session in which you are only logged into Google, and use that tab only on Google websites, with a bookmark to acces
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by mvzink 15y ago
Yes, but a link to this discussion is showing up on HN, where much of the population is not paid to do so.

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