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by podperson 13y ago
This suggests that its userbase is EXACTLY complementary for Facebook.
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by podperson 13y ago
> Do not underestimate this. Absolutely. But don't overestimate it either! Most serious bugs compile perfectly well -- and so you're trading quick detection of simple errors for more difficulty dealing with the hard stuff.
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by podperson 13y ago
I ended up writing one app (and making significant headway on a second) using node-webkit yesterday, so many thanks for bringing it to my attention. In general, a web app has to get pretty ridiculously bloated for javascript minification an
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by podperson 13y ago
The physical keyboard refers to claim 2, basically implying that the system for responding to suggestions (with gestures) applies whether the initial typing was done on the glass or virtual keyboard. So it's not making such a sweeping
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by podperson 13y ago
The underlying runtime technology -- node-webkit -- seems pretty interesting. This particular workflow would be more interesting to me if it was clearer that you could pick and choose your tools. I don't want to use Angular, Jade, or C
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by podperson 13y ago
You can't program away edge cases, but the current standard behavior fails in the bog standard common case.
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by podperson 13y ago
OK I didn't know Apple had made that a standard -- so I agree with the GP that it's dumb. If I can't easily type a shortcut with one hand, it shouldn't be a standard shortcut. I'm suggesting the standard paste shoul
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by podperson 13y ago
"Paste and match formatting" shouldn't be necessary for most programs, and isn't a platform standard. Paste is command-V. A sensible application should do the most likely thing the user wants with paste and overload the
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by podperson 13y ago
He could configure sharepoint AND backup systems. May not seem like much but in a federal government department that's like being Jesus and, I don't know, Buddha at the same time.
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by podperson 13y ago
Probably why he has been compared pretty frequently to Daniel Ellsberg -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
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by podperson 13y ago
Let's make a reasonably fair comparison: Android runs on all kinds of devices from different manufacturers. Windows runs on all kinds of devices from different manufacturers. I can write a program that runs nicely on pretty much any Wi
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by podperson 13y ago
I recently encountered this cultural difference (I grew up in Australia) with my wife (we live and she grew up in the US). My daughters vastly prefer my sandwiches to hers because I butter the bread (on the inside, the way God intended), us
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by podperson 13y ago
The key thing is that javascript is built into emacs, which is a good argument for javascript to be built into any serious programmer's editor (since (a) chances are good the programmer knows javascript, (b) you can get a good javascri
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by podperson 13y ago
We're not actually measuring educational attainment (whatever that is) but admission into a 4 year college program. This is like measuring the effectiveness of the speed of your network by how many feet of cable you bought. Measuring
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by podperson 13y ago
"This is a dangerous idea." Ideas are dangerous. I think you mean "this is a flawed article because it starts out to buttress a preconception rather than examine the data and then find a conclusion." "we don't
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by podperson 13y ago
When I was in college in the 80s there was an explosion of creativity in the calculator market (kind of like the TV and camera markets today -- they're all going broke and trying to come up with new killer products). One of the things
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by podperson 13y ago
If the definition uses "complexity" in this way then it's not using it in the "plain English" sense, but in a specialized sense. Quantity isn't complexity.
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by podperson 13y ago
Sure, but again not complexity.
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by podperson 13y ago
shrug if you want to communicate one-on-one covertly there are simply too many options to cover.
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by podperson 13y ago
This is a fine example of Stack* giving huge rankings to very bad answers. Big O is about execution time not complexity. (And describing execution time as "time complexity" as some comments do is ridiculous. A lot of something is
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by podperson 13y ago
It's plausible if they simply subvert the servers. If you take World of Warcraft, say, the options are basically text chat and voice chat. (Sure, you can send morse code or whatever, but that kind of sophistication generally assumes a
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by podperson 13y ago
No. But when journalism, art, and science intersect, expect casualties.
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by podperson 13y ago
Hockney does not argue that every painter of realistic paintings used the techniques he describes. He in fact goes through a series of painters and discusses who probably did and didn't. Basic clue: if the painter seems more interested
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by podperson 13y ago
The book is great and I'd say the case he makes is pretty water tight (and I say that as someone who wasn't much of a Hockney fan going in, and was very resistant to the idea that some of my favorite artists "cheated" ..
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by podperson 13y ago
I've read Hockney's book, and it is completely convincing to anyone who (to paraphrase P. G. Wodehouse) isn't being paid to be unconvinced by it. In his book he finds geometric errors (mismatches in the textures and folds of
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by podperson 13y ago
OK so let's assume we need to pay $200 per person and a typical household is a family of 4. Currently the difference between a broadband internet connection and a typical monthly cable TV with internet bundle is in the $50/month r
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by podperson 13y ago
Actually in the US we have freedom of speech, which includes the right to make ridiculous claims about what other people think.
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by podperson 13y ago
They also thoroughly reviewed the PS4, and the review was also pretty mixed. Overall, I'm not tempted to buy either device (10+s to wake from sleep seems infuriating; my AppleTV takes about that long and it drives me bonkers). My take
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by podperson 13y ago
Actually the review seemed kind of negative on balance. Indeed, the PS4 review they did was also kind of hot and cold.
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by podperson 13y ago
Stock is priced like anything else: what people are willing to pay. In theory a stock represents a share of a business, and so its price is a bet on the lifetime return of the stock at the time of purchase -- if you pay $100 for a stock tod

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