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by pak 16y ago
I think it's a overflow issue. The print preview flows the text in some box on a page, and if you have lots of wide characters it gets cut off because they didn't anticipate the max y-height 150 words can consume. The Times was a bit imprec
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by pak 16y ago
I appreciate that the Times calls this what it is: an arms race , and it got me wondering, has there ever been an arms race that has benefited humanity? Competition over tangible consumer technology, I understand. An arms race (what this
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by pak 16y ago
If you're writing an article about an API and show example input like that, people will think it's JSON, but it's not.
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by pak 16y ago
will never cause problems since we're not evaluating those as Javascript anyway A lot of JSON libraries, e.g. json_decode in PHP, refuse to parse JSON without double-quoted keys. I'm actually curious what you are using to parse it (that
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by pak 16y ago
Ahhh! Invalid JSON in your examples! Please double quote all string values in your JSON, both keys and values, otherwise one day you will use a reserved word in JavaScript as an unquoted key and some client out there is going to be very s
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by pak 16y ago
No, SOAP is for businesses that need a clear data contract in place when doing inter-business data integration with real money on the table. That's why it's been used in business APIs for nearly a decade. REST has nothing that parallels t
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by pak 16y ago
What the heck is an "iTouch"? Using correct brand names conveys trustworthiness.
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by pak 16y ago
I apologize for the snark. It was directed at Gruber, not your post. I'm actually glad you pointed out the incompleteness of his example, and the frustration of my post stemmed from how most forget to look for this in every other line of
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by pak 16y ago
No, thank you, I was indeed being imprecise, you are correct that double colon doesn't exist as punctuation in English or Hebrew grammar so it's not a "punctuation symbol". I guess I meant "programming symbol", but it is also used in other
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by pak 16y ago
MG Seigler: the trollmaster at work. Add this man to your "banned from my internet" list. More bare assertions than anything else you will read today. Best comment from Bamd: The article makes a lot more sense coming from MG if you know t
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by pak 16y ago
If anybody wants to know the punctuation symbol that "::" is, it's called Paamayim Nekudotayim, better known in programming as the scope resolution operator. PHP (because of its Israeli roots) calls it by the Hebrew name. http://en.wikipe
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by pak 16y ago
What, Gruber used an overly selective example from Apple to prove some point while subtly asserting their superiority? No way!
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by pak 16y ago
Chrome tabs are some of the best-behaving and best-looking tabs on any OS, though. See TotalFinder for a Finder mod that applies Chrome tabbing to all Finder windows. Makes D&D a snap. http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/
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by pak 16y ago
I agree with you. While other people above have bantered above about how absolute a "law" is supposed to be, in my opinion if you are going to call something a scientific "law" you had better be prepared to explain or at least enumerate al
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by pak 16y ago
This is not a revolutionary idea. Economists have studied the productivity curves of businesses for decades. "Diminishing marginal returns" is part of most basic microeconomics courses. Here's the page where Mankiw describes it using the
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by pak 16y ago
Exactly. They just want some publicity so that people use Chrome. What better way than encouraging people to open lots of Chrome tabs?
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by pak 16y ago
Most researchers already agree that it will be soon possible to cure HIV. Antiviral therapies, while not yet well known, are becoming mainstream. I wouldn't call this a "cure", but rather evidence that one person's immunity to a specific
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by pak 16y ago
Nitpick: Viruses don't consume food for energy, they feed off of the energy metabolism of their host cell. CCR5 is a receptor that HIV binds to while entering human cells. If it is mutated in a certain rare way, HIV has a hard time enter
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by pak 16y ago
Viral diseases most definitely can be cured with current research techniques. If anything, they present a much easier target than cancer or other end-of-life diseases, because viruses are comparatively simple little infectious agents and c
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by pak 16y ago
No, he is using it in exactly the sense the article goes to great lengths to illustrate: approaching any situation by thinking outside of usual conventions. As far as clothing goes, you can't argue Lady GaGa doesn't think outside of the bo
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by pak 16y ago
You bring up a good point, actually: since Chrome OS is almost entirely open source as Chromium OS, couldn't just about anybody step in and provide a reasonable level of support for a fee, in the unlikely event the Google decides to quit?
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by pak 16y ago
I don't think other world powers would be totally cool with us putting superweapons into low polar orbit right over their heads... you should totally expect those satellites to be shot down as soon as you put them up there.
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by pak 16y ago
Yeah, it seems that prototype-based programming fits his needs better. With prototypal inheritance you make no assumption that what you inherit from is a strict superset of the class. It's more like saying "This object is like so-and-so
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by pak 16y ago
Lego gears only come in specific sizes (and therefore are limited to certain ratios).
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by pak 16y ago
Maybe they cache it to improve performance :-P
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by pak 16y ago
It seems they are also open-sourcing a web client, maybe not exactly the same UI as the official client, but I can't see why they would go to the trouble of changing it. Kudos to them for calling it "Wave in a Box", J Tim would be pleased.
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by pak 16y ago
I think he meant that if you consider yourself invisible as a motorcycle you can drive safer, not that driving an invisible vehicle is safer than driving a visible one.
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by pak 16y ago
Hasn't Google been producing some very Microsoft-esque news as of late--they join some product space late, with a product that doesn't really differentiate itself except by having Google scale from the beginning? I'm just seeing this as a
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Google now hosts email for 17,000 federal employees(news.cnet.com)
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by pak 16y ago
IP address blocks are allocated by IANA, which is managed by, you guessed it, ICANN. Just sayin'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Autho... It all is top-down at the core. (And it kind of has to be, because as much

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