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by rauljara 17y ago
I wouldn't be too scared about the presentation. Mr. Schell is a super smart guy, no doubt, but his sense of what will be popular in the future is way off. He admits to being blindsided by the wii, almost all the games he mentions in his
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by rauljara 17y ago
11 minutes 7 seconds to run 107 steps. 667 seconds to run 107 steps. That machine is about a 0.16 hz processor. And yet still I want one so badly...
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by rauljara 17y ago
The post seems mistitled. It is not a set of instructions on how to defend your reputation. Rather, it is a single example of someone actively defending their reputation online. That is, the only real content in the post is an example of
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by rauljara 17y ago
Quite awesome, though I have to wonder how much computing power goes into reading the zero's and one's, controlling the servos, powering the led display, programs, etc. relative to the amount of computing power of the turing machine itself.
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by rauljara 17y ago
Shrinking your ambitions isn't the same thing as shrinking your brain. Living inside the valley means your surrounded by people whose insane ambitions are much more likely to have paid off. You only see the successful ones, because the fa
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by rauljara 17y ago
"some describe cold fusion as the 'Fleishmann-Pons Effect' in honor of the pioneers, Marwan noted." Really? In honor of the possibly-crazy-but-much-more-likely-liars-and-con men whose experiments couldn't even come close to being replicate
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by rauljara 17y ago
No kidding. I'm at 5.1 kb/s. This is exactly the [legal] sort of thing that torrents were designed for. Once my download is complete (~8 hours from now), I'll make a torrent of it.
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Researcher plans to announce 20 new security holes for OSX(h-online.com)
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by rauljara 17y ago
This is a great resource, but I suspect it will soon become overwhelming. There are an infinite number of anti-patterns. There may also be an infinite number of good design patterns as well. But just as y = x, and y = x^2 both approach in
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It really needs a message board so that you can brag about how far you've gotten, and so that the old timers can give advice to the noobs.
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I can't see how anyone who really likes their nexus would be phased by this. Droid's success will ensure there's a steady stream of software for the nexus, and handset sales don't affect user experience. It's possible that google might no
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by rauljara 17y ago
'In his most recent writings, Ehman [the discoverer of the signal] resists "drawing vast conclusions from half-vast data."'
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This is only true of the iPad/iPhone ecosystem. For OSX, they give away development tools better than the ones microsoft charges ridiculous amounts of money for. Almost all apple-made software (even the kind they sell) doesn't even make y
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by rauljara 17y ago
His beef is that the iPhone's built in recorder only records in aac, and aac can only be opened by iTunes. In iTunes (which is free software), under the advanced menu, there is an option called "create mp3 version". This man doesn't know
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by rauljara 17y ago
I agree with the conclusion, but there's a little bit of disconnect between the that and the evidence the author's citing. The economics statistics are all regarding a 1% increase in price. The astute may notice that the difference in pri
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by rauljara 17y ago
Anyone want to explain that diagram of the while loop to me? The author apparently believes it is so self evident that he doesn't have to explain what any of the symbols or colors mean.
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"If that's the case, why can't they drop OS X and iPhone and simply make clones, just clones with polish and attention to detail?" I don't think you understand what it takes to reach apple's level of polish and attention to detail. They si
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by rauljara 17y ago
I love that apple drives innovation in hardware and interface design. I hate that the patent system we have now actively hinders the adoption of apple's innovations. Apple complains that competitors are stealing apple's technology, as thou
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by rauljara 17y ago
Thanks. Not sure how I missed it.
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by rauljara 17y ago
I looked for, but couldn't find a fallacy that seems like it would fit this - Fallacy of fallacy: Because someone is making a fallacious argument their conclusion is automatically incorrect. E.g., Arguer 1: "My opponent is a rapist, there
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by rauljara 17y ago
Curious definition of smart. Sort of like saying a compass is better at finding magnetic north than I am, ergo it is smarter. The oil droplet is just a tool, like the compass, which always reacts the same way given external stimuli. Now,
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by rauljara 17y ago
I kept the original title, but the pedant in me can't help but point out that there are very few people who are skeptical that climate exists. There are many more who are skeptical that global warming is caused by humans, which is what the
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by rauljara 17y ago
The substance of the article is a lot more reasonable than the headline. Clearly there are people who honestly believe that global warming is real and argue it in good faith. Calling all climate change skeptics liars is simply wrong, and
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by rauljara 17y ago
Running tests is definitely good advice. But execution definitely matters in these things. Just looking at the two forms tested side by side, the original looks more well spaced out and balanced. The madlibs has the two text fields actual
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by rauljara 17y ago
Apple never should have allowed this stuff in the first place, but if other companies see Apple making a change for the better, and then only getting pummeled for it, what incentive will they have to change?
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by rauljara 17y ago
The talk is a really good one: thought provoking, and worth the watch. I really don't think he's right about his grand vision of where the technology is headed, though. The point system attracts a certain percentage of the population, its
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by rauljara 17y ago
That would be pretty crazy if out of 150436 names, J came somewhere in the two thousands. 26 goes into 150436 almost 6,000 times. The file is definitely descending order of occurrence. Look for yourself. It's kind of cool to skim through
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by rauljara 17y ago
Why the estimate? If you follow the links on the wikipedia page to the US census site, they have the data just sitting there. There is a big CSV file with the 150436 most common names. They even have a field with cumulative number of occ
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by rauljara 17y ago
My general complaint about journalism regarding these sorts of studies: Normally the study did in fact find the effect the journalist reports on, and the effect was indeed statistically significant, however, 9 times out of 10, the effect is
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by rauljara 17y ago
The BBC's common practice is to put quotes around headline elements that are, in fact, quotes. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee are the ones making the claim that said the money is wasted, and the headline title is quo

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