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Google's Search Cleanup Has Big Effect (online.wsj.com)
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IBM's Watson Boosts Global Supercomputing Effort (informationweek.com)
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by nickolai 16y ago
> the true threat to our livelihood comes not from those working to change our society but from those [...] who define the correct view to be equivalent to the view of the majority. Take care with that. Political implications could be h
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by nickolai 16y ago
And yet another case of " Am I free to impede the freedom of others? " type of conflict.
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by nickolai 16y ago
Totally agreed. I used to be annoyed by the absence of SMS support in one of the previous versions. I havent bothered checking whether it is present now, since I no longer need that feature anyway.
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by nickolai 16y ago
For once, i am rather happy with skype devs not putting too much effort in the linux version. Hope it stays that way...
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by nickolai 16y ago
Ropes, pulleys and frost are a good recipe for frustration. You'd need these ropes to be some sort of non-freezing rubber tubes you could run some hot water through to unfreeze the whole thing before starting the operation above. Or you cou
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by nickolai 16y ago
I read throught it full of hope and expectations, Then saw the date. 2007. the NBL was said to show up within two years. Another lesson to a) check the sources. b) remember to be wary of the "I see the future" types of article.
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by nickolai 16y ago
same on my xperia X10. thought that's "the old breed" since it runs android 2.1 only.
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by nickolai 16y ago
As long as the beleifs do not obviously express a lack of common sense, yes beleifs should not be important. Sure we can get in a fight about how obvious should the obviousness be, and what exactly is common sense. However disregard for evi
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by nickolai 16y ago
Well, much as I dislike java, This is more of a developper problem with inexperienced people overabusing the lasagna antipattern. ->"Having a problem? Thinking you might have one in the future? Just add an abstraction layer! Abstract yo
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by nickolai 16y ago
Missing : Controversial - used a goto statement Ultimate question - nested 10 if statements
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by nickolai 16y ago
How exactly NOT installing windows is a manufacturing challenge?
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by nickolai 16y ago
Obligatory XKCD http://xkcd.com/509/
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by nickolai 16y ago
is the concept of "Using legal action to enforce nonsensical patents" patentable ?
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by nickolai 16y ago
I am not sure how this could work out for the people who live with the player. Video images are pretty non-intrusive - if they annoy you, just dont look at the screen. For sound/music, the player could put headphones and annoy no one but hi
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by nickolai 16y ago
I would've been more impressed if you did this ONLY using GUIs. Clickies, checkboxes, buttons - shiny stuff. Command line tools are best and most efficient for reverse engineering IMHO. So if you were looking for an "I built the statue of l
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by nickolai 16y ago
This totally matches my experience on the issue. It is a bit of a pity to see the effort split between two huge projects with roughly the same goal. Anyone has any ideas why it is so? or is it like a vim vs emacs(i.e. quasi religious) issue
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by nickolai 16y ago
Speaking of figures, I wonder how this would compare to what can be gathered from ambient radiowaves with a device of a similar size. I remember a posting from somewhere where Nokia claimed to reach in the miliwatt range only using ambient
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by nickolai 16y ago
I'm not sure that beyond 1 minute or so it actually matters whether it is 2 minutes or 2 hours. The system is down. Period. The average user will acknowledge that the system is down and will try again in several hours. From this perspective
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by nickolai 16y ago
Cool project! Currently, I am a bit doubtful concerning whether drawing extra power from an already very battery lifetime-constrained smartphone is a good idea. On the other hand, the batteries shold improve in the future, so with a bit of
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by nickolai 16y ago
Thought so. Double-checking still left me with some (tiny bit of) hope : http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/virusscan-enterprise-for-l...
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by nickolai 16y ago
First thought : if only the shop I work at did this .. I could use a linux laptop. I wonder if people get to chose their OS under this scheme?
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by nickolai 16y ago
Now I feel stupid for feeling bad about being a spelling nazi. This is just so much more sophisticated :)
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by nickolai 16y ago
there is a C++ port of Lucene (named CLucene iirc) Not sure if there is such thing for Hadoop though.
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by nickolai 16y ago
He said he used PageRank algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank It is what google ranking is said ot be based upon. though they keep their exact algorithm secret afaik. In a nutshell, you give each page a base score, and have it
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by nickolai 16y ago
Totally agreed : had the presenter replaced the "bikini-clad girl" by a tough looking dark-haired muscular-type guy in boxer short holding an iphone, i wonder how many men would've found this offensive? Rethorical question : None. They woul
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by nickolai 16y ago
To be fair, this letter followed soon afterwards : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7677819 Tai's formula is the trapezoidal rule. Monaco JH, Anderson RL. Comment on: * Diabetes Care. 1994 Feb;17(2):152-4.
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It does look polished, and having not tried the new Opera i would not argue about usability. As a general consideration, having nice window previews sure looks cool(except if they are too small, in which case they look really messy), but i
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by nickolai 16y ago
Isnt this pretty much the same as what firefox "tree style tab" addon has been doing for some time already? Except for the preview option, but im not a big fan of that anyway. And tree style tab was putting the tabs on the side, which imho

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