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by pak 15y ago
If the derivatives market expects the value of the stock to settle downward post-IPO rush, then anybody selling you a put option would charge that expected difference and you still don't make any money.
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One Millionth Tower, a WebGL environment built with popcorn.js(highrise.nfb.ca)
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by pak 15y ago
> That is a very euro-centric, post-modernist way of thinking. You're right, even the way I defined "social" is too limited. But that irony only helps my point. You cannot define social, but this is precisely what the "social graph"
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by pak 15y ago
I think you're missing his bigger insight, that is, building a social graph is a fundamentally asocial act. And that extends to creating taxonomies, even if they are localized to my concept of socializing. Nobody goes to a party to create
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by pak 15y ago
This is a superb post. Social networks, starting especially from the era of the Facebook era, have foisted increasing amounts of doublethink on their users, and it's often difficult to make people realize this and explain the reasons for i
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by pak 15y ago
Heh, they must have smelled the current anti-bank sentiment (switch day, etc.) and decided to brand themselves as non-bank as possible. "Are we a bank? No." I wonder how much the domain cost?
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by pak 15y ago
It's more funny with TPDSAA because the images look like the fake testimonials you would find in actual advertisements. So there's a meta-ness to it.
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by pak 15y ago
For those trying to use the arrow keys to walk around the 3D environment, and finding their browser window tries to scroll instead, WASD seems to also better for me on Chrome.
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One Millionth Tower, an interactive documentary in HTML5(wired.com)
3 points by pak 15y ago|1 comments
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by pak 15y ago
Thank you. Sometimes I wish journalists writing about scientists were subject to the same peer-review process that scientists are. E.g., "One binds to viral double-stranded ribonucleic acid, a type of molecule found in all viruses." Godd
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by pak 15y ago
IDK about you, but I generally have >30 or so windows open at a time. Listing them all in [modifier]-tab would be hard to navigate (by window title?) but having the icons of all the apps is actually kinda manageable. It goes in circles
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by pak 15y ago
As soon as I see "available on all major operating systems" I groan, because of course it seems to be a Java app. The user experience for Cocoa apps on OS X blows away that of a Java app. The reason Sequel Pro is great is because it feels
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by pak 15y ago
Exactly. I think the statement "Linux users are power users," which is the premise underlying most of the OP, is too narrow-minded. The whole spirit of GNU/Linux is that anybody who wants to use it, can do so without restriction--power us
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RSA hack affected 760 companies(money.cnn.com)
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by pak 15y ago
I wouldn't try to make any comment on the overall value of his research, and I am sure his academic writing is much more rigorous. But I really think these "universal secrets of the mind" books, written for a general audience, go too far
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by pak 15y ago
Yet another entry in the long list of pop psychology books. It seems like they all gear up on one or two navel-gazing insights that just about anybody can intuitively identify with (You have a slow, rational side and a fast, emotional side
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by pak 15y ago
Anybody just get a severe jolt of the Uncanny Valley effect?
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by pak 15y ago
If you believe in the Peter Principle, you might be interested in the Gervais Principle ( http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/ ) which uses characters from The Office to wax philosophical about organizational structure. At th
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by pak 15y ago
Very cool game spec. One thought: your ants are basically telepathic, so they are able to share information instantly--e.g., the squares they see flow back to your "master bot" which can instantly use this information in the current turn f
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by pak 15y ago
Of course, these are all examples of piping the body of an HTTP GET response. There is no parsing going on. You'd need to parse the HTML to translate the links, if this is being served from your own webserver. If you're trying to mirror
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by pak 15y ago
arguably, in PHP echo file_get_contents('http://www.gun.io') you lose even more of the line noise of the other languages. For a language that claims to be "batteries included" it amazes me how many Python tutorials begin with "go g
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by pak 15y ago
Putting aside the whole issue of delegating trust via certificates, the simpler answer is that encryption is hard, and thereby expensive. For many purposes, both service provider and client continue to consider it an unnecessary expense. O
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GateOne, an open source HTML5 SSH client/terminal emulator(vimeo.com)
1 points by pak 15y ago|0 comments
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by pak 15y ago
OK, I get your point, but transcribing e.e. cummings poems is kind of a corner case for voice recognition, no? What Siri is going to test is whether the 80/20 rule applies to a voice recognition based personal assistant. By constraining it
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by pak 15y ago
You are absolutely correct. The dozen or so hackers in this thread that expect that "security vulnerability" is some magic keyword that gets you talking to the head technical honcho of the security group have probably never answered phone c
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by pak 15y ago
Exactly, it's not a native part of the language, which reinforces my point that the beginner doesn't need to think as much about data structures with PHP. The built-in array() usually can handle the task well enough. They never are left m
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by pak 15y ago
Perl hashes don't preserve order. PHP's almost always do. i.e., the order you insert keys is the order in which you will receive them back when you iterate over the array. It's similar to a LinkedHashMap in Java. CS types might recoil at
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by pak 15y ago
You're right, both things that the author claimed are lacking are in fact very much available. PHP >5.3 has lambdas: http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php PHP >5 can support easy method chaining if you return $this
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by pak 15y ago
Are you joking? 1. Define "porn" 2. Get every other TLD operator, including all the international ones, on board with your definition and rules (e.g. are we only banning websites on port 80, or would FTP sites also be verboten? password-pr
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by pak 15y ago
Not a Lakers fan eh? NY's complementary sports colors of choice seem to be orange blue, pretty close to the palette the OP hates (Knicks, Mets).

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