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by othermaciej 14y ago
Why are people so much more willing to give Google a pass for this kind of stuff than Apple? Whenever the Apple app rejection story du jour makes the rounds, I rarely see anyone taking the "two sides to every story" angle. At least with App
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by othermaciej 14y ago
They are usually being tossed to the pagefile (except in the case of read-write non-anonymous file mappings, which are not super common on OS X and which are functionally equivalent to paging to the page file anyway).
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by othermaciej 14y ago
That's not what pageouts as reported by OS X refer to. Try the following experiment: 1) Open two Terminal windows. 2) Run top in one of them. 3) Note the pageout number. 4) In the other, type echo foo > bar.txt 5) Refer agai
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by othermaciej 14y ago
What do you mean by "hiding habits"?
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I don't think anything about her actions here is irresponsible or immature. Resisting an unconstitutional prior restraint on free speech is a worthy and responsible action. As is publicly shaming the perpetrators of a crime who try to hide
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by othermaciej 14y ago
One of the nation's top First Amendment scholars thinks the court order is unconstitutional, likely to the point of being "transparently invalid": http://www.volokh.com/2012/07/22/the-dark-side-of-privacy/ While it would have been better
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by othermaciej 14y ago
It's nothing like affirmative action. He's not saying "investors should invest more in women-founded startups". He's saying "more women should invest in startups". It's self-help, not affirmative action.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
His lengthy post doesn't mention asking permission to install the app or explaining what it was for to a store employee. Where does your understanding come from?
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by othermaciej 14y ago
The "actual malice" standard for libel against public figures does not require that something be said for the purpose of causing harm. It has nothing to do with the ordinary dictionary definition of the word "malice". Rather, it requires
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I'd say that Turing's accomplishments as a whole were somewhat more notable, though of course Church is also a giant of the field.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
It's hard to tell if the author's explanation is reasonable, because he doesn't explain what part the code was found on, who found it, what other markings might be on that or other parts, etc. I wonder why he doesn't tell us any of these th
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Cato isn't right wing, it is libertarian, which to a first order approximation means conservative on economic issues and liberal on social issues. Among other things, they took a strongly anti-war stance during the Bush administration and h
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Julian Sanchez, the author of this particular piece, threatened to quit the Cato Institute if the Koch brothers took control: http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/03/05/cato-and-the-kochs-a... So yes, it is completely 100% fallacious to try
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by othermaciej 14y ago
"Actually, when placing a piece in greater context, mentioning the source and the tendencies of a source, is not an ad hominem fallacy. (It is ad hominem, just not fallaciously so)." I hope you will agree with me that saying false things ab
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by othermaciej 14y ago
First of all, your argument is pure ad hominem. You didn't give any explanation to how Koch funding Second, Cato is not controlled by the Koch brothers. They were involved with the founding of the organization and recently attempted a takeo
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by othermaciej 14y ago
It's not a mainstream position in linguistics that Sanskrit is a direct ancestor language of Latin. The overwhelmingly most popular theory is that both are ultimately descended from different branches of proto-European. Latin is from th cen
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I wouldn't recommend using the WebGL enabling hack at present, for security reasons. But then, people who are jailbreaking their phones in the first place are probably making a different security vs. features tradeoff.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I don't think that's right. If you have enough data points, your prior gradually gets more relevant. And Bayesian statistics has the concept of an "ignorance prior", which mathematically represents the position where all possibilities are e
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Try doing the rest of the math. 33mpg -> ~1.52 gallons 50mpg -> 1 gallon for a 50 mile trip So going from 33mpg to 50mpg saves half a gallon. 13mpg -> 3.84 gallons for a 50 mile trip 17mpg -> 2.94 gallons for a 50 mile trip
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Most of the browser vendors care about standards groups and are highly influenced by what they say. Certainly that's true for WebKit-based browsers, where I have some first-hand knowledge. One dysfunction in this case is that the <pictu
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by othermaciej 14y ago
There's lots of ways to track you. Here's a sampling: < http://samy.pl/evercookie/&#62 ; Turning off cookies and JavaScript will stop many, but not all. It also makes many popular websites nearly unusable. Browsing with JS and cookies o
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Why not? Specs can change, and the WHATWG HTML spec in particular has a history of changing initially poorly designed features based on additional feedback.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
In this case, the community group that was created did not include browser implementors or people who actively contribute to mainline HTML standards, and was not advertised on forums that they frequent. In light of this, their expectation t
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by othermaciej 14y ago
What it's representing is not necessarily an intrinsic property of the image but rather the intended pixel density for presentation. Say I have a 600x200 PNG which fits my design for normal resolution displays where 1 CSS pixel = 1 device p
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by othermaciej 14y ago
There are certainly other ways to do it, but this particular way won't work. <img> was historically a "void element" in past versions of HTML, and past browsers, so it can never have child elements.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Screen PPI (in physical pixels per physical inch) is not the relevant consideration - device pixels per CSS pixel being something other than 1 is the case you care about. And the browser needs to know the intended resolution of the image so
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by othermaciej 14y ago
The <picture> approach also has a sort of solution for degrading gracefully in older browsers. You can nest an <img> in your <picture>. Newer browsers are supposed to ignore it, older browsers would ignore the surrou
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by othermaciej 14y ago
And the obligatory alternate viewpoint (likely less popular, but useful if you want balanced perspective in combination): http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/05/oracle-and-google-make-co...
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Doesn't the GPL rely on copyrightability of APIs, in that it claims even code linking to a GPL library is subject to the GPL? That's one reason this might be surprising; a finding against API copyrightability might be taken as undermining t
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The absurdity heuristic is not a good way to decide what is true. People once thought that the idea of humans being descended from monkeys was absurd. Or that the earth going round the sun, rather than vice versa, was absurd. Occam's razor

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