nanairo

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by nanairo 16y ago
I may be wrong but I think that: list => are basically hash, or an array that can have mixed objects inside vector, matrix, array => are all the same thing. They are what in most computer languages are called arrays, and can have on
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by nanairo 16y ago
How does Incanter work on HPC? R is pretty awful from that point of view, and if there ever will be room for a specialised statistical language it's got to be able to do massive number crunching. I've heard bad things of JVM for tightly cou
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by nanairo 16y ago
Let's make a distinction: I found it a bit of an overkill and I still do. That's not a fact, it's my opinion, but if you read other people replying to my post, they agree (that is that it is an overkill for my situation). I'm not sure what
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by nanairo 16y ago
My pet theory about this is that 10.0's look was as much as about setting a clear distance between itself and the old Classic as it was about real innovation. (I'm talking only of the UI look). When Aqua was presented people loved it people
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by nanairo 16y ago
Yes, please! It seems nowadays one of the most important feature in a name is to be unique from the point of view of Google. :) (incidentally, if you are a mpaa operative, call your blockbusters with just one very generic name... a lot easi
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by nanairo 16y ago
To be honest I've been using R a bit lately for my work and while I like it I don't find it at all innovative. That's not a criticism of R: the libraries it has are amazing, as well as the mindshare among people who care of statistics. But
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by nanairo 16y ago
Exactly. My fear actually started when I realised exactly that. Now, maybe it works beautifully... dunno, and if someone does please enlighten me. :) I can see the appeal of something like RVM. But despite using Ruby a lot, it's mostly stuf
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by nanairo 16y ago
Geesh... you couldn't spent two secs to actually reply? I wasn't trying to throw FUD: I very clearly stated where I was coming from, and that it was only a doubt. I also asked for some information, from people who knew more. You seem to, bu
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by nanairo 16y ago
Personally I find it a bit of an overkill for me, and I doubt that it plays nice with other package managers... (if anyone knows more I'd like to hear more about it). That said I understand people doing a lot of work on other people's compu
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by nanairo 16y ago
But Apple cannot sell your credit card number to other people, they still need to get you to pay for it. Advertisement is different. Advertisers pay the newspaper immediately in order to appear on the newspaper/magazine. And because they pa
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by nanairo 16y ago
Very true. As I've been studying this topic lately I can even provide you some hard data. A financially stable newspaper gets around 75-80% of its gross revenue from advertisements. That's why advertisers have so much power over content, ev
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by nanairo 16y ago
Laurent tends to work on new features on his own branch, often experimenting new ideas, and once it "stands on its own" it merges it for everyone to improve/change it together with him.
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by nanairo 16y ago
That is true. But Lauren Sansonetti has really done a lot of work: he is the main developer and every now and then he would merge his own branch which is full of the kind of features and improvement that take a while to develop and cannot b
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by nanairo 16y ago
I agree, and I think MacRuby is a great idea. Ruby in particular is very close to Objective-C in practice, and some of the latest Apple's changes to Objective-C have made it even more so. But as much as I love Ruby, MacRuby is still not tha
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by nanairo 16y ago
I understand your point, but I think it's an exaggerate view. I am happy to admit that if there's a good reason a rule should be broken, then it's ok too: but you need to know what to do. Like all rules, once you understand them and know wh
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by nanairo 16y ago
Well, they also had 3 bad CEO, they tried to sell too many computer models, were spread too thin, had terrible stock management, almost killed themselves with the cloning program, attempted a rewrite that got them stuck in an old OS for age
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by nanairo 16y ago
How was this first-to-market advantage???
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by nanairo 16y ago
But you see you are comparing oranges to apples. HTML 5 is open, and it is a standard... _because_ people want it to look the same everywhere. Remember though what happened when Apple told developers that they could only use web app for the
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by nanairo 16y ago
Lol... sorry, but that sounds desperation. :D If that were the case then we already got the Year of Unix on the desktop and the Year of Unix on the smartphone. Yep, I am talking of OS X. Funnily enough Linux people (and others) laughed at t
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by nanairo 16y ago
Many differences here... 1) Apple had a large advantage over Microsoft too... they just wasted it. Those were the dark days of Apple: MacOS 7 was alright but less than brilliant and then they got stuck with the Copland project (the Mac vers
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by nanairo 16y ago
Gosh, I can feel my perfectionist side in big pain right now. Adobe could have tried to pull a more subtle way than: "Welcome to lazy town!". So much for all those thinking the UI is important, and that maintaining the look-and-feel of the
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think the coherent plan is simply: Meego+Qt for the smartphone, Symbian+Qt for the lower end. Transitions are hard though, so I am not surprised they are still in the middle of it. Such big changes take time. But from all I've heard the Q
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by nanairo 16y ago
You are changing your stance now. A lot of iPhones are kept in a case? Sure (and not even a huge amount: here (UK) I see around 20% with a cases and 80% without... maybe in the USA is the opposite). Is the fact that they use a case evidence
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by nanairo 16y ago
NOOOOOooooo... I actually knew Olilla (we went to sister schools those a few decades apart, and listen to some presentation he gave). And I thought that Nokia was on the right foot finally. They seemed to have a coherent plan and vision. Fr
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by nanairo 16y ago
I notice similar trends in other countries too: e.g. UK and recently Italy. My pet theory is that people are becoming more and more selfish: countries are a lot more xenophobic than before, everyone bitches about the government one day whil
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by nanairo 16y ago
But it so happen that Apple can do something about that, but can't do anything if Flash ruins the user experience. Case in point on the Mac side Flash was (and is?) horrible but Adobe couldn't seem to give it a second thought.
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by nanairo 16y ago
The processors are similar, true. Although even that is not completely right. I believe Apple managed to get Intel to produce a couple of CPUs spec they way they wanted... but a few months later Intel was free to sell it to others too. (I a
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by nanairo 16y ago
I like the way he confuses the Android/Windows market with the manufacturer market. As the head of Acer I'd imagine he is looking after the company Acer and how much money they make, not about the whole Android/Windows market. And does Appl
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by nanairo 16y ago
This is trolling of the highest form. Think of other goods, maybe even other goods that people really really like. Do they not protect them? What about computers? Do we not put them in protective cases? Cars and motorbike? Ever seen one of
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by nanairo 16y ago
raises small hand sheepishly :) I didn't like the old system at all: I'm very happy that Apple has finally deemed a good idea to release the review policies. However I would have much rather seen Apple giving users another way to install

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