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by neild 16y ago
The number-one point I take away from this isn't about ethics or what is "right". It's that Microsoft has no confidence in Bing. They aren't willing to trust their algorithms to produce the best search results. They've decided that, some
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by neild 16y ago
Is this malicious site detection by any chance, or does that use a different mechanism?
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by neild 16y ago
Macs are a small minority of the total computer market. They're a huge percentage of the trailing edge, however--the tech-savvy people who are willing to try a new service like Dropbox or Syncplicity. Leaving out Mac support in this case
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by neild 16y ago
And why should I be so passionately concerned about whether someone collecting unemployment plays with an XBox? Being unemployed sucks . It's a horrible situation. While there are, of course, some slackers out there, it's almost always i
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by neild 16y ago
That's like answering, "How do I write a good book?" with "Start typing." That's the best answer I can imagine to, "How do I write a good book?" The difference between writers and everyone else? Writers write . Want to write a book? S
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by neild 16y ago
This is entirely true, but I would like to point out the existence of a Periodic Table of Desserts that does not omit the periodic nature of the table: http://eblong.com/zarf/periodic/
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by neild 16y ago
If you have a model trained on 2009, and it also does a great job the first time you run it on the Q1 2010 data that you've never looked at before, I'm now interested, even though every data point is in the past. So, you have a model trai
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by neild 16y ago
I'm replying here, since the threading has gone deep enough on your last response that I can't reply to it. Normally, I'd give up at this point, but I finally see where the misunderstanding is so I'd like to make one last comment. You sai
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by neild 16y ago
But, again, everything you say hinges on browsers (namely, IE and Safari) adding support for WebM, not Chrome dropping support for H.264. If everyone supports WebM, then WebM wrapped in a <video> element is a viable choice. Not ev
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by neild 16y ago
Because given a sufficient timescale, WebM support in <video> might become ubiquitous. I've made it very clear I'm talking long-term, not tomorrow. I feel like we're talking in circles here. How does dropping support for H.264 ma
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by neild 16y ago
That doesn't explain how dropping support for H.264 drives adoption of <video>, however. Why would someone choose to use the <video> element because Chrome dropped support for H.264? What would aid adoption of <video&
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by neild 16y ago
So is this debate about what's best for the future of open standards on the web, or is it about what's best for iOS? Neither. The debate is about what's best for the web, period. Some people consider open standards to be a priori super
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by neild 16y ago
I was discussing this with some people yesterday. I find it incredibly frustrating that the Grubers of the world have spent months attacking Google for supporting the evil, closed Flash, but then manage to spin Google dropping a closed for
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by neild 16y ago
Flash does not play WebM. How would "the fallback to Flash" work in this case?
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by neild 16y ago
Apple supporting only h.264 and deliberately not supporting flash in order to force uptake is a good thing. Google supporting only WebM and deliberately not supporting h.264 in order to force uptake is a bad thing. That's a very poor re
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by neild 16y ago
What you appear to be aggressively declining to understand, despite two prior commenters clearly explaining it--including the one that you're responding to here--is that Taubes does not argue that 20 extra calories a day makes a person fat.
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by neild 16y ago
There's one article in particular that I'd like to link to, but I'm having difficulty digging it up. If you'd like some data to play with, however: https://www.cms.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/05_NationalHeal... http://www.census.gov/com
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by neild 16y ago
We have had "part time doctors" in the US for a while, not to mention a movement toward "girl specialties" (read: gyno/derm/few others). It's a significant contributor to our rising medical costs. Actually, an increase in the number of do
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by neild 16y ago
The problem with Tor, as I see it, is that it can easily make you more vulnerable rather than less so. When I access some random website from home, my traffic is vulnerable to capture and analysis by my ISP, the intervening backbones, and t
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by neild 16y ago
I am typing this response on my iPhone. I'm sitting in the living room of my mother's house in backwoods Connecticut. There is no network access here, aside from my phone. So there you go: a use case that doesn't involve maps or directions.
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by neild 16y ago
I never, ever upvote anything that says "I'm going to get downvoted for saying this..." If you're expecting downvotes, who am I to disagree with you?
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by neild 16y ago
I grew up in a small town in the Connecticut countryside. I now life in the SFBA. Why? Because there are no software companies in my hometown. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. I briefly had a computer-related summer job in my hometown, changin
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by neild 16y ago
It's astonishingly easy to convince yourself that you "wouldn't have bought the thing anyway". The best way to be sure that you aren't lying to yourself is to not pirate things.
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by neild 16y ago
Instead of wasting more energy on improving the (overused) linked list, write a little resizable array library that doubles size on each fill-up. It's easy and much faster. Don't do this. Doubling the size of your allocation whenever you
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by neild 16y ago
The best Western children's TV show in the 2000s that I can think of is Avatar: The Last Airbender. Which isn't just a great TV show for kids, but a great TV show in general.
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by neild 16y ago
Perhaps I've just worked with linked lists too much at this point, but I find it nigh impossible to understand how reversing one could be considered even minimally difficult. "Pop the head of the source list and prepend it to the target un
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by neild 16y ago
Macs accounted for 27% of Apple's net sales in FY '10. Mac sales were up 26% over the previous year. In comparison, iPods accounted for 13% of net sales and, and grew only 2% over the previous year. Why, precisely, do you expect Apple to
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by neild 16y ago
My understanding is that the reason WebKit does not use the TeX layout algorithm is performance. WebKit has a zero-tolerance policy on performance regressions; the only way the TeX layout algorithm will make it in is if it can do so withou
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by neild 16y ago
You complain that Python has acquired bloat in the past decade, and appear to be citing the presence of tuples, dicts, and lists as an example of this. Since tuples, dicts, and lists have existed in Python for well over a decade, I don't q
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by neild 16y ago
It is my understanding that severity of punishment is not strongly correlated with reduced incidence of the behavior being punished. Consistency of punishment is strongly correlated. That is, a minor punishment consistently applied is f

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