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by pflats 13y ago
Music.app has a few streaming options. You can stream songs you've bought on iTunes. You can listen to iTunes Radio. You can pay $25/year and stream any MP3 you possess on your home computer and also then get iTunes Radio commerci
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Yup. We'll have an overblown followup the first time a car is incorrectly e-repossessed. Errors like that happen whether the company need to push a button on a web app to send a kill signal or push a button on a web app to send a ticke
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Oh, I understand. I just have a personal quixotic crusade about the distinction between the two. Computer programming and computer science are parallel fields that complement each other. Too many students who want to learn to program major
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I'm being completely twitchy and pedantic and missing the point entirely but I'm still compelled to say, as a Mathematics and Computer Science teacher: Computer Science is a branch of mathematics. It consists of axiomatic systems.
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> Many of the Japanese coders I've met have put in the effort to learn English. I put a longer response addressing this point in a different thread, but you're interacting with the cohort that has already chosen to be a compu
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by pflats 13y ago
While I agree with the vast majority of your criticisms, I wouldn't be surprised if you're underestimating the language barrier issue. > Is the claim that the Japanese are technologically behind the rest of the world? Why would
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by pflats 13y ago
Independent developers are doing a pretty decent job of this on their own with x-callback-url. Without Apple's buy-in, of course, it's not quite the same thing. http://x-callback-url.com/ has the info.
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Probably when the iOS market share approaches 97.5%, like Microsoft's did right before the EU issued its decision[1]. So long as Google continues to offer Android as a $0 OS I honestly don't see that happening. [1] http:/&#x
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"Finally, we excluded trials that were registered with ClinicalTrials.gov more than one month after beginning enrolment, in order to ensure that the decision to register a study occurred separately from the decision to publish the stu
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>"The only ECC-supporting motherboard I could find compatible with the CPU has no USB3, only supports 1600MHz RAM and only offers 3 PCIe slots."
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If you're offering encryption as a service, you need to consider technological and legal best practices[1]. If, at any point, you have the technological ability to see a client's plaintext, that's something you need to stro
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Unfortunately, precedent holds that intercepting stuff broadcast over the wires is not a search . "In Smith v. Maryland, the Supreme Court held that a pen register is not a search because the "petitioner voluntarily conveyed nume
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I agree that the current status of the pen register (it doesn't constitute a search and thus doesn't require probable cause, only that it's "likely" the data will be relevant) is a bar too low. If it had the same re
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by pflats 13y ago
The more I think on this, the more I actually start to side with the government's argument. I hate it, but I think they're justified. Lavabit intentionally structured their service such that there were only two ways to get at a cr
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I'll attempt a layman's explanation of a Riemann sphere for anyone who has no idea what this is about: The Riemann sphere lets you deal with dividing by 0 by adding one more point to the complex plane: ∞[1]. Imagine putting it in
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I agree, but do realize this is written for a mathematical audience, not a CS audience. It's reductive, but it's not that reductive to your average math major/grad student. Code by/for mathematicians is particularly ug
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If he had done the deal in a foreign currency, in gold, or for modern art, they'd still seize all of that, regardless of its current value. Bitcoins are no different, even if you're considering them a proxy for real dollars.
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Yeah, I was specifically addressing "The contents of the phone usually aren't encrypted". If you have a passcode (which is required for TouchID) then your iPhone is encrypted. You can definitely brute force it. I saw an artic
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I'm pretty sure that iPhones have encrypted their data since the 3GS. That's how they "remote wipe" it. They send a message to the phone to delete the encryption key.
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I'm sure the intention was something like, "Hey, we should send them a thank you package. T-shirts? But wait, we don't know their size. Oh, hang on, I have an idea!" And then they end up looking like jerks.
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Eyeballing the graph, if Finland has a 563 and Lichtenstein a 522, that's 7.9% higher. The point of a graph is to convey information in a concise and useful manner. The pencil graph does no such thing; it obfuscates. It's objectiv
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10 minutes per grade level is actually the rule of thumb that's taught in many education programs and is advocated by the NEA (a national teachers' union). Some longitudinal research has borne this out. Whether it actually happens
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According to the article, 7% of Finnish children don't graduate high school, compared to 25% of US children. 22% of US children live in poverty. 4% of Finnish children live in poverty.[1] Strange. Furthermore, it's my personal pol
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I imagine VB classes came for the most part in the mid to late 90s where it made GUI applications nice and easy. Compared to console applications and Logo, it was a nice way to give a first-time programmer a more fulfilling experience. I ta
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C++ was a short run, something like '99-'03. It was Pascal beforehand and Java afterwards. There's no AB course any more either. It's just one course, the equivalent of the old A.
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Believe it or not, most teachers can't do this in the real world anymore. Grades are supposed to be objective and based on a student's demonstrated work. In the schools where I've worked, a teacher would find him/herself
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What? It says directly that all purchases will count. "Available for thousands of great print books purchased new from Amazon, going all the way back to 1995 when Amazon first opened its online bookstore."
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My favorite way to define "algebra" to my students is to go back to its etymology, from the Persian textbook "Al-kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa’l-muqābala", or "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Compl
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The best place to look at what is being taught as "Algebra" at the high school level is to go to the (new) source: the Common Core State Standards Initiative[1]. 45 states (and DC) are using the standards. The best places to start

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