prof_hobart

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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Until you discover the issues, you don't know which bits aren't robust enough. And rewriting them, along with modifying the rest of the application to use them, takes time and can lead to further unexpected behaviour.
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
There's less feature-rich versions of Linux out there that will run comfortably in less than 2GB. If that's what you're after, use one of them. Of course all software could be faster. It could also be more secure, more featur
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Apart from the OS (which isn't where the problem lies), there's no open source in it. The reason there's lots of moving parts is because modern computers, OSs, languages, application servers, libraries, databases etc are buil
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Or higher priority things to work on. Optimisation doesn't come for free.
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
By news stories? Given the amount of media attention there was when the early proof of concept hacks emerged, I'd be amazed if they wouldn't be all over any story that had even the slightest suggestion that someone might have lost
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
It's not laziness or stupidity (well, it might be sometimes, but certainly not always). It's using your time to do something else, such as improving security, or adding a new feature. Some people seem to be talking as if it automa
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
The Word I used 10 years ago was nowhere near as responsive as the one I use today. Maybe yours was faster, but I think a lot of people have rose-tinted memories of the speed of applications in the old days.
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
How often do you need to edit a doc using a word processor that's running on a floppy? I'm guessing that it's not very often. If you really need a lightweight word processor, there's plenty out there. They just probably
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
>The usual counter to this is that the actual (as opposed to imagined) bottlenecks will only become apparent after intense usage. The usual counter is that "optimising" takes time. And all of the time that you're spending
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
In the two years since that article was written, how many cases have there been of iPhones actually hacked in the wild through TouchID?
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
That doesn't stop it being potentially degrading though. When people, and even entire communities, define themselves by the job they do, they often end up feeling degraded and worthless as the jobs are replaced. Doesn't mean that
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
I'm in the middle of reading Thinking, Fast And Slow and at least some of the research that he talks about in there suggests that this isn't always how the brain actually works. By forcing people to concentrate on one thing, it ca
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
>A child's brain develops rapidly during these first years, and young children learn best by interacting with people, not screens Whilst probably true in isolation, this is rather a false dichotomy. You could equally say that kids l
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
It's only degrading to your profession if it's actually true. I was a software developer for many years, and I've seen hundreds of claims for software to automate (in one guise or other) that job, replacing the need for coder
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
>If anything, my game-theory background convinced me that it would be pure folly to think of the current deliberations between Greece and our partners as a bargaining game to be won or lost via bluffs and tactical subterfuge. Nice bluff.
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
If upvotes are what float your boat, and others are interested in the article, then why not? As for the "it's been done before" bit - hacking is often about applying an idea from one area into another area.
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
I read it as meaning "escalating to give you universal privilege".
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Yes there are other solutions that don't require Google to know who your favourite team is, but needing to have your device run a specific background process to constantly poll a remote server for each of the things you're interes
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
>When it understands that I like sport team X, it's my data It is, but that's pretty useless unless Google also knows so that it can send you the relevant updates. >When it knows where I work and live to ask Google servers t
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
"based this prediction on the number of times Facebook is typed into Google as a search term". If that's their only set of data, then I'm guessing this is equally likely to indicate that Google is losing users, or at lea
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
>Even if they managed to do that, they would not strictly have a majority at 49.5% They would have also almost certainly got the DUP, who had 0.6%, taking them to 50.1%, and the opposition would need to take off Sinn Fein's 0.6% as
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
The TV show Crowd Control did something about this last year ( http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/crowd-control/videos/e... )
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by prof_hobart 12y ago
Interesting. There certainly seems to be a bit of cherry-picking in the author's quotes. From the abstract of the first article "Thirty-two poor readers were then tested with the same material arranged in longer lines averaging 12
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by prof_hobart 12y ago
What impact is that?
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by prof_hobart 12y ago
Is anything? I've recently decided to start learning Python and started with the assumption that Python 3 would self-evidently be the sensible thing to do. I tried that for about a week before discovering that about 90% of the librarie
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by prof_hobart 12y ago
That's something they are already presumably doing (it's what "fair usage" equates to), and isn't the problem. The problem is making the marketing claim that this is "unlimited" when it's not. Call it
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by prof_hobart 12y ago
As it's coming from Radio Free Europe - an organisation who's founding purpose was pretty much to provide pro-Western information/propaganda (delete as applicable) to Eastern Europe, it's not exactly improbable that this
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by prof_hobart 12y ago
If you need to put a limit, then don't claim it's unlimited. The problem is with the marketing, not the cap itself.
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by prof_hobart 12y ago
You can easily distribute Scratch apps via their web site, but it's not really designed as a language to build full iPad apps etc. Its main purpose is to make learning the basics (control blocks, variables etc) easy and fun. By the tim
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by prof_hobart 12y ago
Spectrums is plural of Spectrum, as in Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the computer that 90% of British kids had in the 80s ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum ).

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