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by mwexler 15y ago
And price, weight, ports, and thickness, among many other features. Of all the factors, I don't think 2 vs. 4 cores is the "main" factor.
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Tracking the Trackers: Where Everybody Knows Your Username(cyberlaw.stanford.edu)
7 points by mwexler 15y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 15y ago
Can't help but to contrast it with the Netflix "apology" note, which basically said "we're sorry... that you're mad, suck it, we did nothing wrong". This one accepts full blame for mistakes, and that's a welcome thing. Time will tell if Ne
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by mwexler 15y ago
Using User Agent Switcher on Firefox, I set my UA to iPad and went to Google. The link for the "Classic" version was: http://www.google.com/?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&#38... However, when I set my UA back to Default (Firefox), th
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by mwexler 15y ago
The iPad "Tablet" Google results experience has removed them completely, no instant preview, no "hidden" swipe-to-expose (that I could find). You have to go to the "classic" version, via a link on the bottom of the page, to get them back.
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by mwexler 15y ago
I am underwhelmed with this post that shows that, metaphorically, when using a hammer vs. a screwdriver to insert a nail into wood, the hammer tends to perform better. Perhaps I missed some big discussion on how great MySQL performs on g
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by mwexler 15y ago
That is a good start, but the original poster appeared to want graphical apps to run in the VM; JeOS is console only (as one would expect for a server/appliance distro). It would be interesting if there was something between "full Ubuntu w
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Appsfire proposes open source IOS UDID replacement (and later Android)(openudid.com)
1 points by mwexler 15y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 15y ago
Most infographics delight in providing info and some insight in a visually appealing way. This provides very little info and even less insight. Very disappointing, esp. from Column Five, which usually does superior work. The infographic t
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by mwexler 15y ago
I remember my Odyssey much better now; I haven't thought of it in years. Thanks for this post.
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by mwexler 15y ago
Ok, I've been a procedural programmer for years. I struggle even with OO. Where's my easy bridge to Functional? Where's the killer "here's the trick, the secret, the leap"? Because I have to say, for all the "functional will save you" m
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by mwexler 15y ago
They were dropped for not adhering to the App Store guidelines. They are appealing, but it's unclear which star violated which guideline, so they are probably out of luck.
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by mwexler 15y ago
>A lot of low-end websites are still in that quagmire, but the meat of it is that you don't need to visit the website for most of these businesses but for restaurants the web has become critical, so you notice it more. Ummm... isn't tha
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by mwexler 15y ago
Umm... this whole conversation is about GPS tracked devices, almost all of which have strongly linked identifiers. If it's money, then it is a lot harder... not that we were even talking about that, but true statement. A harder question be
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by mwexler 15y ago
You raise 3 points: 1) I would think that a cabby keeping a phone that they did not purchase or have reason to believe was unintentionally left in their vehicle, and trying to convert it for their own use or selling it, is called theft, not
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by mwexler 15y ago
I speak from total ignorance; I've just read a few of these stories, so take my comments in that context, please. It seems to me that these "locate your device" companies would all do themselves a world of good if they found a way to work w
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by mwexler 15y ago
This was a clever use of unit tests to help you "pass" each lesson. I've read a bunch of tutorials on closures, but this one really helped me "get" it. Sure, it takes liberties and glosses over things... but seeing it grow right before my
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by mwexler 15y ago
Can you compare to MVT (Multi-Variate Testing)? From an admittedly surface reading of the post, this sounds like the somewhat common "A/B sucks, MVT is more accurate at optimizing and showing impact" with a newer optimization approach.
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by mwexler 15y ago
Accd to the article, Hulu didn't know that the ID was the same between sites, and (imho) probably didn't care. The fact that it's the same was revealed by Wired, and users of KissMetrics appear to have not known. It sounds like KissMetri
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by mwexler 15y ago
Really? I've mentioned MapReduce for years without mentioning Coherence or Tangosol. Or was I missing a joke?
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by mwexler 15y ago
Did you test this? It indeed changes the UserAgent in my test: Ipad setting sends "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5" for example.
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by mwexler 15y ago
We miss the issues that Maps folks really deal with: from shifting borders due to political machinations to geologic shifts in actual coastlines to roads being renamed/converted/shut down to transit stations and public places which are iden
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by mwexler 15y ago
Can't help but compare to Apple's recent Final Cut Pro update: screw one segment over (hard core niche users) for greater riches in others (larger prosumer market). Whether it turns out to be genius or the death of a great product, only ti
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Wakanda: open source platform for business web apps solely with JS(wakanda.org)
4 points by mwexler 15y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 15y ago
Actually, this is a problem with most entry level tools. Professional level tools like Omniture Test and Target or Optimost with Autonomy Segments handle MVT testing per segment, segment defined by external variables (appended data or data
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by mwexler 16y ago
Not to pike too much, since measuring is a big step from not measuring... but IMHO, this isn't analytics. Graphing and looking at things going up and down is just tracking and reporting. Looking at causes, looking for correlations (when y
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by mwexler 16y ago
I am very surprised that after all this time, they really don't have a way for someone to say "freelance" or "consultant" without giving yourself a company name. They literally pollute their database by forcing users to make up company n
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by mwexler 16y ago
Most scrapers seem to break down on heavy dynamic/ajax pages. For example, anything made with GWT appears to provide little for the average scraper to grab (say, for automated daily tracking of android app downloads, for example). Short o
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by mwexler 16y ago
Wow... who knew that JJ Allaire, maker of (among other things) the ColdFusion web development system, also liked playing with R? http://www.rstudio.org/docs/about
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by mwexler 16y ago
For those who have lost count of the zillions of languages out there, this is a Scheme interpreter/vm that was supposed to become the "official" extension language for GNU projects. It had some publicity in the 90s, but slowed down until r

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