qwzybug

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by qwzybug 16y ago
Of course, data synchronization is never automagic—the dirty little secret of all distributed systems. Merging is hard!
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Usually you'd be right, but roughlydrafted is an exception. I hate to apply the "fanboy" sobriquet, but he has earned it. The guy has never written a measured, well-considered sentence in his life. Once this ceases to be the case, there wil
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Ha, fail. That was supposed to be a reply to another reply. Wups!
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Entrenched in what? What's the compelling reason not to just walk away from your Facebook account? The scrabble game you're right in the middle of? Photo metadata? Messages about important parties? Try just quitting Facebook cold-turkey. Yo
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Yes, and that's why it's dumb to call articles about exercise and nutrition "hacks". When all of human endeavor falls under the rubric of the "hack" the word ceases to mean anything. Hack your commute, take public transit! Hack your next di
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Amorphous, highly elastic materials (glass comes to mind) are often not great for long-wearing designs like bicycles. At least to present, amorphous metals wear more like glass or carbon fibre than steel: invisible structural damage leads t
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Interesting article, and some really nifty graphs, but stay away from the comments section. More seriously, could someone with a bit of experience in this sort of thing speak to the actual import of these patterns? It's not entirely obvious
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by qwzybug 16y ago
blink blink Walter Benjamin? Is that you? Your aura looks pink today. http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/g...
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Sure, but that's not to discount the main point, which is that singularitarians arbitrarily privilege the importance of computational advancement over the real world. This is probably because computers are the easiest to draw the exponentia
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Anyone who thinks the technological singularity is a viable idea ought to listen to Bruce Sterling's Long Now talk, "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole". http://longnow.org/seminars/02004/jun/11/the-singularity-you... The whole
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by qwzybug 16y ago
The recent rewording of the interpreted languages clause of the App Store agreement ought to allow CouchDB to run embedded in an application. I hacked on it a bit at Open-Source Bridge last month; didn't even finish getting Erlang compiled.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I was totally agreeing with your description of the end of the video, and then I actually got to the end of the video. Absolutely mind-boggling.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
SA also wields the banhammer with wild abandon. For people who don't toe the line, the $10 turns into a subscription. The army of mods needed to keep the revolving door going is large, but I think they like their jobs. Unfortunately the las
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I can't help but feel that this would be a really beneficial innovation in the way content is provided on the Internet. Every other video distribution site (except Netflix, whose online business model I still can't comprehend) has gone back
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by qwzybug 16y ago
By and large an excellent rundown, though I had a few issues with the details in places—e.g., totalistic CAs aren't anything special, they're just a restriction of the generalized rules, and happen to be used more often in many-state/many-d
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by qwzybug 16y ago
That's just while Congress is physically in session (another use for the filibuster...?). Search "Larry Craig" or "Luis Gutierrez" for some recent arrests of American representatives.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Bucky Fuller would disagree. Money stands for something—the real wealth of technology and information. As we continue to create and improve quality of life the real amount of capital in the world increases. I always liked to imagine that, i
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Not quite. Apple's HIG recommends allotting 44pts for hit targets (about 90px on the new screen) for usability's sake, but you can hit much smaller targets if you're careful about it.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
That's the thing, though, it really depends. $9.99 is a good price for a display adapter, a pretty spendy price for a wine key, and an absoludicrous price for a crappy Japanese hand fan. Among iPad apps, $9.99 is top-shelf.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Sure, that's true as far as it goes, but it gets a little strained when you see the similarly-priced competition. Pricing isn't a function of absolute utility and value, it's also a function of economic environment. Take Apple display adapt
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Have you used Adobe Ideas? Its featureset is much closer to Draft than MSPaint. Your "features" scarequotes make it sound like you have no idea what you're talking about. It has two more colors and you can change the marker size. Oh, and yo
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by qwzybug 16y ago
He was also one of the first to articulate the notion of the computable world. Wolfram and crew owe Zuse an intellectual debt (though as far as I know he doesn't appear in the footnotes to A New Kind of Science, big surprise). Zuse should b
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by qwzybug 16y ago
It's unusual for web drag-drop stuff to work well on mobile Safari. It takes care to do it right. E.g., worldoftext is unusable on an iPad (weep!) for drag related reasons.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I heard a rumor that there's going to be cake in Portal 2.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Wait—but items 2-4 are also implied by item 1. "Tweet" is just a jargon-word for "Twitter message" or "Twitter post", conveying no extra significance or connotation, and the Times standards editor is correct that journalists should avoid ar
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by qwzybug 16y ago
At my school, they said "one-to-one" and "onto" for "injective" and "surjective". But then, the linear professor started teaching the subject in 1952, so he was quirky.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
This is why apple exhorts devs not use UUIDs in public-facing services. Too bad they didn't let AT&T in on the secret...
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Not quite what the article is talking about, but one of my greatest "aha!" moments in math/code was when I realized how handy the seemingly redundant atan2 function is.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I don't find the iPad speaker is quite loud enough to be heard over my shower. I have to crank the volume on Maddow in VLC to get my morning news.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Which netbooks have better battery life? I have trouble getting 2 hours out of my Eee. I guess you can lug around a 9-cell battery, but damn.

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