neurobro

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User Interface Algorithms(youtube.com)
2 points by neurobro 12y ago|0 comments
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by neurobro 12y ago
What was gold's inherent value to industry prior to 1930 or so? The fact that gold now has industrial uses makes it less suitable as money or a store of wealth than it had been for thousands of years, because saving/hoarding&#x2
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by neurobro 12y ago
I can't say for sure. My only experience with a browser OS was an early Chromebook. There it was possible to develop an app in an online IDE, then download and install it. (I had to do this to build a rudimentary text editor that could
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by neurobro 12y ago
The people who buy the devices will create their own apps if nobody else does. The "ecosystem" won't buy houses and cars for high-buck Western commercial developers, but that doesn't mean there will be no ecosystem.
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by neurobro 12y ago
Reading numerical data has its own drawbacks. E.g. your mind may perceive too much significance between 389 and 412. Even worse if any kind of error bars are involved.
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by neurobro 12y ago
Possible, but it doesn't take many people trading on a signal to wipe out any correlation that may have been there.
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by neurobro 12y ago
I define "patent troll" as anyone who has and defends patents that should have never been issued. So, everyone who has and defends software patents is a troll, and I have no sympathy if they get sued into oblivion by other trolls.
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by neurobro 12y ago
When someone now says doing something was a mistake, I sure hope the statement is in stark contrast with their sentiments at the time they were doing it. Otherwise, why do it?
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by neurobro 12y ago
It does sound like a viable business opportunity, but the only way to know for sure is to survey the literature.
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by neurobro 12y ago
Someone probably should still carve instructions on how to build a Blu-Ray reader into a few traditional stone tablets. Hopefully whoever reads it in 1,000 years won't assume "Laser" is the name of our fertility goddess.
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by neurobro 12y ago
Is that really how Google gauges interest? Raw number of searches? I would think it's more useful to normalize in some way (perhaps by searches across all countries) for the very reason you state. If so, maybe what's happening is
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by neurobro 12y ago
It reduces code redundancy, especially when 'i' is something more descriptive. Though if someone were to claim that the redundancy of i=i+1 is a trivial price for settling on one consistent multipurpose construct, I wouldn't
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by neurobro 12y ago
I do, only because I've never seen a convincing case where unary increment/decrement improves the code in any way (and I've searched).
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by neurobro 12y ago
"The problem is that dropping a pacemaker 0day is so horrific that most people would readily agree it should be outlawed. But, at the same time, without the threat of 0day, vendors will ignore the problem." If this is the case, th
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by neurobro 12y ago
Too many people are treating this technical problem like it's a political problem. Our communications infrastructure is vulnerable to eavesdropping; hence, eavesdropping occurs. That's not going to change unless the war you desire
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by neurobro 12y ago
Just don't neglect people's right to store some antibiotics in their preparedness kit without wasting a doctor's scarce time and engaging in medical fraud.
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by neurobro 12y ago
"We could just make it upload all the secret goodies to us for safe keeping." "Hey, who are you and how did you get in this meeting?" "I'm the new intern. From the CIA." "Oh, okay, yeah, let's do
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by neurobro 12y ago
Maybe the sudden, big, red "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure" from someone who is in the best position to know and who has been trusted for 10 years to make decisions about what is and is not secure? Without anything else to
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by neurobro 12y ago
Apparently I've never cooked any of those properly! Anyway, I'm sure everyone has a few least-favorite veggies that would clear up that sentence (unless they really dislike pancake batter).
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by neurobro 12y ago
At this point I'm skeptical that Soylent fulfills B, as healthy diets include a lot more than 30-40 ingredients in the form of enzymes and nutrients that aren't "essential" but aid metabolism. But I appreciate the fact t
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by neurobro 12y ago
It's a state-sized region with close to 100 cities, so it kind of does make sense (to the extent that "one of the top cities" is meaningful anywhere).
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by neurobro 12y ago
I think flying drone explorers would make more sense on Venus instead of Mars. They could spend most of the time connected to solar-cell-covered balloons 50km above the surface and occasionally dip down into the oven for a brief look.
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by neurobro 12y ago
What's the point of redaction if you keep enough of the data intact to trivially reconstruct it?
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by neurobro 12y ago
If there is a better way to evaluate educational systems and educators, then it should become the minimum standard. I.e., it would still be "standardized testing". I don't know why that phrase became a thought-terminating cli
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by neurobro 12y ago
I presume you're directing this at all of the domestic enemies of the Constitution working for various levels of government, who treat the highest law of the land as an inconvenience that must be circumvented and eroded away.
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by neurobro 12y ago
I'm not sure whether some drugs have the effect of turning users into skilled liars or not, but that does sound like it would be yet another harmful (though logical) side-effect of prohibition.
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by neurobro 12y ago
I worked in an office that did perform background checks and wouldn't hire ex-convicts. Curiously, the drug addicts who worked there tended to be highly functional and even successful. Crap, our anecdotes paint different pictures. Coul
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by neurobro 12y ago
I can't help but wonder why Google thinks links from OP's site are "unnatural" (assuming they're all natural). E.g. is this a consequence of allowing do-follow links in comments - and if so, does vigilant moderation
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by neurobro 12y ago
It sounds like each test involved the same person both giving injections and sitting in the room. I wonder if they can somehow mechanically inject the irritant without human involvement. Then they could have male/female participants si
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by neurobro 12y ago
"With other people" is the part of that quote that stands out the most to me. Usually that part would be clear from context.

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