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by nikster 16y ago
If it's non-deterministic, you're not doing it right.
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by nikster 16y ago
This is why smokers have a huge advantage. They go out for a smoke break every hour. Doing _nothing_ but smoking. I will try this, sans the smoking, starting now. Goodbye.
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by nikster 16y ago
Longtime Java dev here, I'd say taking Java, and the JVM, and creating a NEW set of libraries would be awesome. As you said the Java libraries are total crap. Sun was for a while hell-bent on throwing out everything that's good while puttin
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by nikster 16y ago
"The only PC laptop that were not crap in my experience were lenovo, but surprise, those were expensive as well" It's a mystery! At least it seems a mystery to many people here. Correlation between price and quality - who'd have thought!
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by nikster 16y ago
Let me tell you a story about my 17" unibody MacBook Pro. It's nearly 2 years old now. I used this thing constantly, I use it about 12 hours a day, every day, and carry it around in my backpack every single day. Most weekends, too, even. Th
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by nikster 16y ago
There's usually a lot of selective perception involved in things like this. When you say "X may not be as nice" - that may be irrelevant to you, or hugely relevant to the next person. The point is, it's not the same. Last time I had a forum
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by nikster 16y ago
Not doing this again now, but in my experience over the past few years the "Apple tax" on notebooks based on specs alone was about $100 - $200. Apple doesn't sell cheap laptops but when you compare a $800 machine to a $1200 Mac, I dare say
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by nikster 16y ago
Yes, that's exactly the difference between the PC market, and the mobile phone / gadget market. The number one thing about a phone is looks. Then comes status. Then comes usability. Though I might say the iPhone has turned the focus on usab
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by nikster 16y ago
Wow!! Live already. That didn't take very long ;)
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As incompetent as the wireless players are technologically, I don't think they're in any danger. Whether they're just the dumb pipes they should be or the vertically integrated content providers they dream of being - the fact is that they'r
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by nikster 16y ago
This sounds interesting but the main challenge here seems to be to define the question: What is a semantically related word. I can think of three classes - variations (singular/plural), synonyms (thesaurus), contextual (occur in the same se
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by nikster 16y ago
One queue minimizes the average wait time - it's the fairest and fastest system. Any CS person should know this, it's pretty basic. Say we have 100 people and 10 servers. Everyone takes 1 minute to process, except one guy who needs 10 minut
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by nikster 16y ago
While it's funny to write a bot, at the same time you're right. It's not worth arguing with those people who just want to be mislead, and probably not worth writing a bot for it either. The problem is, arguments don't lead to insight. If th
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by nikster 16y ago
Innovation may be down in the USA, but it's definitely better than in other places. The potential is there - the same cannot be said for anywhere else in the world. Europeans take their ideas to the U.S. because in Europe there's no money f
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by nikster 16y ago
Yeah I would have said the same thing before Facebook had 500m users and before people spent more time on FB than on any other place on the internet. Something is going on here, and IMO what is happening is most difficult to understand for
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by nikster 16y ago
It depends on your goals and this isn't just true for TV writing - it's true for everything. I just watched The Social Network, and it's a perfect example - slaving away as somebody's assistant, pumping your connections, doing something on
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by nikster 16y ago
The new discovery here is that the drug kills creativity - that's a pretty big deal for me. It's also quite different from meditation, which fosters creativity.
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by nikster 16y ago
I find it a little boring. It's like a thief got into my house and is now able to open the front door. So what?
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by nikster 16y ago
I admire your stamina, but I do like the OPs approach better. Time is relative. I know I can't work 16 hours a day - I can perhaps sit at a desk that long - or in an emergency production server fix meeting, which has happened - but not get
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by nikster 16y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I have two little ones - I've been a freelance programmer for a long time but only recently have I realized that I am actually a creative. Like a musician or writer, I don't get paid for typing away on my keyb
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by nikster 16y ago
It's not that they can't imagine it in Hollywood - they can, but it would just make for a much more boring movie. I think the fact they made a good movie is much more important than accurately portraying how facebook came to be. That's for
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by nikster 16y ago
I don't know Mark Zuckerberg and I haven't been following any gossip magazines or seen the social network. But he's just earned my respect. Great answer right there. Then the whole facebook thing - he's been getting decisions right for year
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by nikster 16y ago
I must say the problem bores me to death. I don't think I'd want to work where they ask me to solve this. However, I am confident I'd design a solution that's near perfect in the two weeks given, it just would require some experimentation o
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by nikster 16y ago
It doesn't surprise me people think Google is the internet. But it's still scary!
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by nikster 16y ago
> Seriously, how the hell would anyone discover this feature on his own? That's exactly how I expected it to work. Only goes to show I've been working in close mental proximity to the people who made this feature for a long time. Someti
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by nikster 16y ago
As Einstein said: Make it as simple as possible. But not simpler. This is an art, and it applies to every form of user interface design.
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by nikster 16y ago
Apple is all about rapid iteration. With the iOS, they're moving at lightning speed. Perhaps they want to achieve the same on Mac OS. Steve Jobs has called Java a "ball and a chain" years ago, so this is not too surprising. Strategically,
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by nikster 16y ago
Very good point there! Speaking of exploits - both Java and Flash run in the browser and are therefore susceptible to web based drive by attacks. None of the other technologies are exposed to the outside world.
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by nikster 16y ago
Clicktoflash is the first thing I install on any new Mac - my own, or friend's. I find the internet unusable without Flash blocker. Flash uses are as follows: - Ads. Nobody needs those, and I actually dread the day Flash dies, because then
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by nikster 16y ago
This is spot on, IdeaHamster. I think the main question Apple asked itself is "why do we ship Flash with every Mac?". The answer is that back in the day when Flash was added, Adobe was a very good partner, and Flash was cool. These days, Ad

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