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by pflats 13y ago
Very cool, but on the website version, it's hard to get the appropriate charts for smaller waterways. I thought I'd check out the local bay. At zoom levels to see anything, it shows the larger chart[1]. If I zoom in enough, it wil
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by pflats 13y ago
Retarded is really the best word you could come up with? Most mentally retarded people I've met are quite aware that they're significantly less smart than the average person, and have internalized it quite well. Have you ever seen
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by pflats 13y ago
I agree entirely that Apple's NDA is barely enforced. They don't put anything really special in the previews. They know anyone with $100 can see it, and that the rumor sites will get "emails from anonymous developers" wi
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by pflats 13y ago
I'm not denying that this is interesting information, but it seems a little foolish to post, given that Mavericks is: 1. Only in developer preview and subject to change (for better and for worse). 2. Under NDA.
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by pflats 13y ago
I'd argue that the biggest issue is simply that the App Store interface is terrible, and that results load far too slowly. The prominence of the Top List is only a symptom of that. Suppose you were at at a new bookstore, and each table
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by pflats 13y ago
I know it's 2013 and the state of the art has changed (as have trends) but I'm kinda weirded out to not see CVS or SVN on here.
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by pflats 13y ago
Still, bear in mind that it's a pocket computer, built in 2009, with a 600 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM. Modern pocket computers have at least twice the processing power, two (or more) cores, and 4 times the RAM. They can also offlo
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by pflats 13y ago
The next sentence says: "The EPD extension board supports driving PDI’s 1.44, 2.0, and 2.7 inch E-Paper display (EPD) modules." "PDI's" links to: http://www.pervasivedisplays.com/products/panels
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by pflats 13y ago
It was. Windows has since improved its security by a large amount. Windows XP and Windows 7 are two completely different beasts, and even XP is far more hardened than it was at release. (I'm not an expert, but I'd point to the ASLR in Vista
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by pflats 13y ago
Gatekeeper really can't do much against a spear phishing attack. If someone's running a scam specifically to target a single person or a small group of people, and has spent the time and energy figuring out how to get them to open a malicio
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by pflats 13y ago
Having never done an MS in CS... So long as they know the fundamentals of programming (through, say, the equivalent a Data Structures class) I think a mathematician could take a go at it without much issue. An EE probably wouldn't have too
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by pflats 13y ago
Using Alice 2.2 (which also doesn't allow cloning/instantiation) my students had a similar issue, and solved it by using what they called "Megaman logic". Megaman could apparently only shoot N bullets at once (3 or 5, I forget). Thus, they
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by pflats 13y ago
Thank you!
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by pflats 13y ago
I'd love it if anyone could give a good head to head on Scratch 2.0 vs. Snap! 4.0[1] (the new name for BYOB, Berkley's Scratch spin-off). I realize that Snap is aimed more teaching high school/college CS, but they're seeming to converge a b
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Quit & Analyze (podcast episode)(5by5.tv)
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by pflats 13y ago
That's a good insight, and Star Wars is a good parallel. Not knowing a Hermes bag is probably akin to not knowing who George Lucas is. You're aware there are big name designer handbags out there, but never cared about the details. They're e
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by pflats 14y ago
That's an open-and-shut case (provided they catch the bootleggers). This was meant more to (theoretically) stymie something like Tengen's 3rd party NES carts. Nintendo wants a cut on all the games that play on its consoles.
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by pflats 14y ago
Is there someone I could contact for a quick question about the Academic Content Expert position? Very interested.
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by pflats 14y ago
I misread your post when I re-skimmed it, and ignored the 2 shoes thing. Whoops. Thanks!
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by pflats 14y ago
n = 85 and p < 0.01. What's inherently wrong with that? (I have my own personal crusade against the 5% p-value, but this is under 1%.) I agree that the sample size is far too small to criticize individual states, but 85 seems plenty lar
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by pflats 14y ago
Statistically, someone in her age category is significantly less likely to require the insurance than someone in yours. Car rental shops don't want to do big background checks on every single customer every day, so their economic incentive
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by pflats 14y ago
I'm not a huge international policy wonk, but I don't get how these suits (this one and Omega vs. Costco) reconcile with the rules of the WTO (of which the US and Thailand are charter members). Doesn't the National Treatment Policy state th
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by pflats 14y ago
I don't know enough about how things went to agree or disagree. I'm still amazed at how many "aqui-hires" there are in the industry. How many companies that have made it to a solid Series A round have fallen flat on their face? Formspring s
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by pflats 14y ago
http://netnewswireapp.com is wonderful for the Mac users out there that aren't tied to an HTML solution. Pretty sure you can sync with your Google Reader account and then delete it from the app, and it'll remember your subscriptions. Just
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by pflats 14y ago
Gotcha. I guess that time was the submission time, not the posting time.
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by pflats 14y ago
>Here's the comment that I wrote for Stephen's blog, but which he did not publish: From what I can see, he did publish it (yesterday), and responded to it as well. I don't see an easy way to link to it, so search for "By Tim O’Reilly. M
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by pflats 14y ago
But the Hobbit just made a billion dollars in the box office alone. (And it cost around 200 million to make.) Peter Jackson has no reason to buck the system.
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by pflats 14y ago
No. It's their content; they make the rules. It's the industry's job to use whatever distribution channels make them and their clients the most money. That's it. If you don't like it, you don't have to buy their content, but it doesn't give
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by pflats 14y ago
It's dated, slow, ugly, and poorly-supported, but in my experience, Alice is the easiest introduction and call to action for a 7-10th grade proto-programmer. You create 3d animations using an OO syntax. Like Karel, you build up from basic m
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by pflats 14y ago
>But how would you know? How much less credible can you get than anonymous staffers sourcing HuffPo, regurgitated by Techdirt? It sounds very credible to me. I don't doubt that, out of all the staffers involved, two would head to one of

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