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by mwexler 15y ago
This was such the obvious, vim vs. emacs, automatic and expected response... and yet I still laughed. Well played, sir.
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by mwexler 15y ago
IMHO, no. Centralized is where I go to get more than one type or source of content. Hence, the rise of aggregators, which are now the most popular sites online. Netflix is also an aggregator; we just don't normally think of it that way be
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by mwexler 15y ago
Any suggestions for a good cheap digital microscope? The author doesn't mention what she or he uses...
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by mwexler 15y ago
Impressive article by a current high school senior; I wish I wrote at this level in high school! Note that it is from 2008.
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by mwexler 15y ago
The online version is free for one week beginning March 13, 2012
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by mwexler 15y ago
Putting that in Chrome gets me to a page that was new to me, chrome://memory-redirect/
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by mwexler 15y ago
I keep my Firefox up to date with release versions, have few plugins, and still find it absorbing memory at a tremendous rate. Chrome can also use memory, but somehow manages to let it go sometimes, as well as not drag my entire (Windows)
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by mwexler 15y ago
While this is nice, all of the demos are pretty impressive. http://js1k.com/2012-love/demos
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by mwexler 15y ago
firefoxatemyram.com is still available. Perhaps we can put a site up there as well.
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by mwexler 15y ago
I like Time.gov, personally; it was the first site I ever found around this concept and so it has a soft spot. I keep finding all my physical atomic clock synced clocks (yes, I have more than one, they are cheap these days) disagreeing, som
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Yahoo EOL on Konfabulator Desktop Widgets(widgets.yahoo.com)
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by mwexler 15y ago
You mean this Lunatic Fringe? http://fringe.jamescarnley.com/ and code at http://code.google.com/p/lunatic-fringe/ .
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by mwexler 15y ago
Yeah, not everyone opens the mail, so the recipient shouldn't have to deal with the larger download (and the sender doesn't have to send a larger mail), and also, the opens are more distributed over time (for the most part, depending on whe
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by mwexler 15y ago
The problem with attachments is that you increase the bandwidth on the sender. So, instead of, say, the sender spending 2k bandwidth per mail and each recpient another 60k on bandwidth to get images when opened, the sender pays for all tha
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by mwexler 15y ago
You don't list a source, but I'll propose a different stat. A survey in 2010 implied that only 33% of folks kept images on... but that's a wide jump from 100%. http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1716214/disabled-images-... Your point is
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by mwexler 15y ago
I too miss WebSQL. Every time I have to spend time changing my code to simulate what would be a simple SQL join, I wonder if we didn't adhere a bit too much to dogma. The complaints about WebSQL being tied to a a specific library remind me
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by mwexler 15y ago
While I admit the form reset is annoying, I don't see where the author shows any evidence that this usage pattern happens enough to make a difference. Sure, when N gets large, every little bit helps. But if that behavior pattern only happe
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by mwexler 15y ago
I can imagine this back in the day. "Though almost every scholar agrees that the earth (though flat) is the center of the universe, some people do persist in saying that the earth is not only in orbit around the sun, but is also round. Mo
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by mwexler 15y ago
I think no mention of debunking psychics is complete without a nod to James Randi http://www.randi.org/site/ and of course, Houdini, who debunked countless mystics by explaning their "magical" techniques. Sure, we can all point to Mythbu
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by mwexler 15y ago
Note that these programs are often rebadged "aggregators". For example, AAA's "auto sale" program is Zag (Truecar). Costco's is Affinity Development, http://www.affinitydev.com/index.html Not saying that anything is wrong with these, b
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by mwexler 15y ago
This seems like a pretty general statement. In most every survey I've seen, Google is a top ranked brand around the world, either by enduring value or consumer sentiment. It may indeed be that how they treat certain customers is problemat
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by mwexler 15y ago
It's Drew Conway. The guy is good, and he makes complex things very accessible. Sometimes, you need to understand the matrices behind the process, and that's great, lots and lots of books out there about the math. But sometimes you need
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by mwexler 15y ago
Does this become a question of conspicuous notice? That is, ads are kind of obvious, so you as a user understand the monetization model, and can even block it (to your metaphor, I can shield my gaze from your annoying pictures). But the af
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by mwexler 15y ago
Ah, a demo! This is pretty fun to use. While I wish it weren't flash, I now see more of the power of the tool... You should have shots and movies of these setups on the site to show the power; every screenshot and demo movie I saw shows m
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by mwexler 15y ago
Great name, but I kind of wish folks would recognize that visualization is more than just overlaying geodata on a map. That's an important and huge step, and one that used to cost real bucks to do on a computer... but this project seems to
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by mwexler 15y ago
You certainly have a different definition of "beginner" than I do.
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by mwexler 15y ago
To be fair, it was done by http://www.periscopic.com/ and not Y! internal. Y! probably didn't specify any specific technologies. Perhaps a missed opportunity, but still, cool stuff.
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by mwexler 15y ago
A better explanation for this language is at http://claylabs.com/clay/ . The language focuses on improving generic programming by reducing template verbosity via "whole program type propagation".
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by mwexler 15y ago
The tutorial is an nice rapid summary on how to use this to drive some models and understand modern bayesian inference. Worth taking a look at, if you don't want to read the ".rtf" info... http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge
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by mwexler 15y ago
Fantastic. I am very much looking forward to the book!

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