neolefty

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by neolefty 12y ago
Zuse's independent development of ideas that paralleled other early computer scientists' makes me wonder how much of our modern computer science (Von Neumann, Lambdas, clocks, registers, and all) was inevitable discoveries and how
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by neolefty 12y ago
Except when a company dies, no people actually die. They can go on and create new games and new companies.
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by neolefty 12y ago
You have achieved wisdom! Everything in this "contingent world" is sandcastles. What will endure?
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by neolefty 12y ago
Hi Evgeny! I put things like that on my Google calendar at the time they are due, set up with an email reminder. It has worked pretty well, although it doesn't put all the reminders together in one place. Speaking of which, I have a pa
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by neolefty 12y ago
I just had a radical thought (it seems radical to me anyway) -- many of the people I meet not only don't chafe at the laws, they even see them as limiting morality. They wish they enforced a better society. These people aren't act
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by neolefty 12y ago
Is the thesis that nature is so efficient that it is near the limit of what is physically possible? I don't quite believe that thesis. While nature is vastly more efficient than our current technology in things like storage density of
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by neolefty 12y ago
Every Chinese programmer I know, and also all the technical people such as network admins, use a VPN routinely and openly now. That was not the case two years ago, when more Google services worked.
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by neolefty 12y ago
Doesn't YouTube have a mechanism to divert the revenue to the copyright holder, but still keep the video up? Some overlap in functionality -- sharing potentially copyrighted material -- but the attitude of the two companies seems prett
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by neolefty 12y ago
Ends justify the means?
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It has become substantially more difficult over the last year or so, in my experience, with periodic blockages and slowdowns.
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by neolefty 12y ago
From their Q4 results, as analyzed by AnandTech, about 11% of their revenue is from "iTunes/Software/Services". The rest is hardware. http://www.anandtech.com/show/8633/apple-q4-fy-2014-fiscal-r
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by neolefty 12y ago
> Let's all hope the best technology wins. I'd settle for a coherent community using adequate technology. There's always a better solution.
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by neolefty 12y ago
I think you're right that an open attitude towards security breaches is essential for a healthy security ecosystem. However, in practice, fessing up in public during an investigation will rarely happen. Security incident responses a
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by neolefty 12y ago
For sure. I'm thankful that my children and students will not have to spend my decade in the lab. If I manage to tell them in a way that they can hear.
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by neolefty 12y ago
I agree, and I wonder in practical terms what I could do. I agree that it's everyone's responsibility. Here are the options I see: 1. Talk to the asshole. Fits well with the ideal "take care of it yourself" ethic, but in
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by neolefty 12y ago
> The best job I ever had, the manager ... during down times ... had us actively work on infrastructure and self-improvement. It sounds like there was some coordination & direction going on -- it didn't just happen automatically
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by neolefty 12y ago
The article is advocating for a framework that does both -- it renders the initial impression on the server (yes, including a few DB reads), snapshots it as an SPA, sends it to the browser, and then lets the user continue the interaction
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by neolefty 12y ago
By principle 1, "Server rendered pages are not optional", I think GWT is missing a big piece: it doesn't let you choose between server-side & client-side rendering -- instead it's designed to make client-side renderi
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by neolefty 12y ago
Overall, I think English is harder to learn to speak & hear, but Chinese is harder to read & write. The Chinese students I know who are learning English have to work incredibly hard at it. I don't think it's any easier for
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What do you do when you don't want to be a foreign fighter anymore?(aljazeera.com)
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by neolefty 12y ago
I keep hearing that Syncthing (Pulse) is just like BTSync, except you set it up manually, and that the developers don't have any plans to add peer discovery. But peer discovery is the whole point of BTSync. Sure, Syncthing/Pulse
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by neolefty 12y ago
I haven't used Talko, but it sounds like a converged communication app, kind of Wave-ish, combining real-time (talk, chat) asynchronous (like email) and an archive organized by conversation. Plus convenient and easy? Is that right?
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by neolefty 12y ago
Definitely. The only instance I can think of would be if you were at a high latitude and wanted lots of light in the winter. Some sort of solar concentrator mirror seems more practical though.
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by neolefty 12y ago
Probably can control position more easily, to stay over your service area. Balloons relying on air currents for position may not be as reliable.
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by neolefty 12y ago
Yes, it's something new that we've never done before, but circumstances are forcing us to learn how to.
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by neolefty 12y ago
Yes, self driving cars make more sense as a service than as a possession. And knowing their limitations helps us see where they might be useful today , so that they can be gradually incorporated into traffic.
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by neolefty 12y ago
From paragraph #4: > A 2011 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives found that almost all of the 455 commercially available plastics that were tested leached estrogenic chemicals. There are other endocrine disruptors out the
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by neolefty 12y ago
It's complicated. The overall effect on the country -- significantly contributing to raising it out of poverty -- has all kinds of good effects. You also have to see it in connection with certain disastrous policies that came before it
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by neolefty 12y ago
If Facebook were de-blocked today, you might very well see a mass migration. All my students (Chinese high schoolers and college transfers) going abroad immediately send me friend requests as soon as they get out from behind the Great Firew
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by neolefty 12y ago
Question: Is a typical adjunct professor qualified to teach in a public school? And related, would they want to if they could? I teach overseas, and I would never qualify to teach in an American school -- I have a college degree, and some t

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