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by nas 16y ago
They need to learn a lesson about wantonly pushing proprietary technology when perfectly fine standardized solutions already exist. I suspect they haven't learned anything though. I was going to write something about hoping those developer
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by nas 16y ago
Yeah, and I'm really don't like the special treatment for "enemy combatants" as well. Does the right to life, liberty and happiness apply to all mankind or just to people the US government is not currently scared of?
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by nas 16y ago
I'm not sure if it mature enough yet but this freezing of a accounts is a reason why I'm interested in bitcoin.
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by nas 16y ago
As an aside, AFAIK douban.com is still using Python and Quixote[1]. Back in 2007 they were doing 2 million pageviews per day[2,3]. According to Alexa they are busier yet now. They use the SCGI protocol as well. 1. http://quixote.ca/ 2.
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by nas 16y ago
Yeah, what are the chances they would come out with a compelling smartphone software platform in the next few months? It's hard to do good work with flames around you. ;-) Maybe MeeGo would be great but that's certainly unclear at this poi
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by nas 16y ago
Emulation is a good idea. HP spent a huge amount of resources to try to ensure their calculators return the best possible numeric results. It is an issue many people forget about, for example, compare the statistical function accuracy of
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by nas 16y ago
This may not be the device you are looking for but the idea is not totally crazy. Powerful ARM devices can be had for a few hundred dollars. IMHO, the real trick is to implement the communications. With VoIP instead of voice, instant mes
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by nas 16y ago
> Indeed, if you start from a closed position where strategy dominates and tactics are of relatively little use, top human players can still trounce computers I haven't been following computer chess as much as I used to be I suspect thi
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by nas 16y ago
Most cable modems and wireless routers have similar problems. You can easily test your cable connection. Upload a large file to a fast server while watching ping times.
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by nas 16y ago
Are people aware of Python object databases like ZODB and Durus? I'm not very familiar with Redis. However, the model used by ZODB and Durus (on disk durable storage, in memory client caches) can be extremely efficient depending on worklo
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by nas 16y ago
So why would people want to be Facebook users? What value are they getting besides targeted ads? I find it amusing to see people trying to imagine theoretical ways Facebook could earn income to justify their insane valuation. It is essent
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by nas 16y ago
> People are afraid to miss the next Google, Microsoft, etc Yup, and they don't realize that it's not a winning strategy. Of course I would love to get in on the "ground floor" of the next Microsoft or Intel. Unfortunately it's like tr
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by nas 16y ago
Games like Farmville are a fad, like Rubix cube and Cabbage Patch Kids. That's not to say that casual games won't continue to an important segment of gaming, just that they will not provide an income stream that justifies a 50 billion comp
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by nas 16y ago
I think the LG Optimus One and LG Optimus T are similar hardware. The price of the Optimus One is pretty attractive, about 200 CAD without contract. Edit: oops, I guess they are fairly different. The 7 has a larger screen, and faster CPU,
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by nas 16y ago
The decision to use "j" was made quite a long time ago by Guido. There as a fairly short discussion about it and he made his decision. As other people have said, this is a bike shed issue. BTW, Guido's MSc is in math.
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by nas 16y ago
I do some work for a company has appends a ~140 word privacy statement to every message (without a sig marker, of course). It includes the phrase "return the original to us by courier collect". sigh
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by nas 16y ago
That's a pretty poor price-to-sales ratio, based on stock valuation theory. I guess people (again) believe that traditional metrics don't apply to dot-com companies.
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by nas 16y ago
Slightly offtopic, but sometimes I wonder about the number of man-years wasted because Microsoft decided to use "Program Files" instead of "Programs". "Yes, you can finally put spaces in your file names. Well done. That doesn't make it a
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by nas 16y ago
I've seen Telus ads for Android phones. See: < http://www.telusmobility.com/en/ON/htc_desire/index.shtml?IN... ; I get the impression that carriers like Android devices better than iPhones. Analogies are fraught with danger but this lo
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by nas 16y ago
No, I don't think so. Closures in Python are very similar to Scheme (or modern Lisps). Python doesn't have an equivalent to set!. Instead assignment both defines a local variable (if it doesn't already exist) and sets it. You can use "g
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by nas 16y ago
Reminds me of Dr Popsicle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH29uzBvR1s
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by nas 16y ago
In 2.6 you can use: "from __future__ import unicode_literals". Use b'...' to get a str() instance instead of a unicode() object after that.
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by nas 16y ago
I'm not sure we should turn this thread into a farming lesson but I'm happy to explain. ;-) Burning straw causes a lot of nutrients to end up in the atmosphere (see http://www.topcropmanager.com/index.php?option=com_content&#... ). It re
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by nas 16y ago
Not to be rude but I don't think you are comprehending the scale of the problem. Where would the compost come from? A rough calculation (10 million ha, assume a thin 80 mm layer of topsoil is lost, 1 mm of soil over 1 ha is 13 tons) esti
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by nas 16y ago
How about peak arable land? http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March06/soil.erosion.thr... It is estimated that about 10 million hectares a year is lost (the size of the state of Indiana), 30% of the arable land in the last 40 years. 1m
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by nas 16y ago
How about more concrete? It could be applied to a pattern recognition problem. For example, classifying email messages as spam and not-spam. The dots in 2-D space represent some characteristics of the message (a poor example would be num
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by nas 17y ago
Seriously, add a "set -e -u" to the top of the script and close the bug already. He wasted more time arguing about it then it would take to fix it.
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by nas 17y ago
I had no idea there was so many. There are almost as many as there are web frameworks. ;-) unittest is standard but it always feels klunky to me (perhaps that's the lingering stench of Java ... I kid). nose is my favorite at the moment.
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by nas 17y ago
Mass media sucks. Hooray for Internet and "amateurs".
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by nas 17y ago
That doesn't explain why HFCS should be worse that sucrose. It contains about the same about of fructose and according to Dr. Lustig the bound is very easy for the body to break. Regarding "The Bitter Truth", it's amazing to me that the fac

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