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by redler 14y ago
The key for the everyday user probably won't be better AI, but rather the achievement of more natural interaction rhythms. People cajole, beg and bargain with their cars, computers, baseball teams; with no response expected, the rhythms are
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by redler 14y ago
These are good points, and as the creator of SE you've undoubtedly put a lot of thought into this. I just wonder, from the perspective of an occasional answerer and moderator, whether there's some way to maximize the value of the questions
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by redler 14y ago
It's interesting to consider the difference between categorization by tagging within a single Stack Exchange site, and the shunting of questions into the various subsites. Is the form of a menagerie of sites of greater value to the Stack Ex
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by redler 14y ago
This can be mitigated a bit by the fact that you can type any portion of the path to shrink the result set. So if you have abc/def/ghi/foo.py jkl/mno/pqr/foo.py stu/vwx/yzz/foo.py ...you can type command-P, then "kfo", and you'd
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by redler 14y ago
The Quark/Adobe dance is fascinating. Quark became more and more user-hostile through the 90s, basking in the dominant market share of their (essentially) single product. Prices went up, the feature set stagnated, anti-piracy measures punis
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by redler 14y ago
For some companies, the "lean philosophy" is a post hoc justification for stripping the workforce to the bare functional minimum, or even below. I think it's due to a combination of various pathological factors: the popular dogma that the r
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by redler 14y ago
There's an API[1], so this is something one could throw together pretty easily, assuming there are no limits to prevent it. [1] http://viewdns.info/api/
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by redler 14y ago
In the press, it seems like Apple went from years of being unmentionable without the term "beleaguered" straight to being a manipulative, dominant monopolist. The company has certainly undergone a striking and highly unlikely reversal, and
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by redler 15y ago
The help page for "Google Storage Plans"[1] is muddled. It now states that a base Gmail account provides 10GB of space, full stop. Unless they're rounding up from the old up-ticking 7+GB, this seems to be a policy change. But a little furth
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by redler 15y ago
"nearly full" Expectations are certainly a big part of the perceptual speed equation. But with OS X, don't underestimate the benefits of keeping your disk less than 90% full. With all the caches, iPhone and iPad backups (over 40 GB in my
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by redler 15y ago
There's an interesting story behind Arial; it was developed as part of a PostScript clone back in the days of Adobe's tight control over the Type 1 specification. Microsoft then threw gasoline on the Arial fire by bundling it into Windows 3
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by redler 15y ago
Nothing yet; it still has some pretty ugly parts. As soon as it's ready, though.
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by redler 15y ago
I've been working on a UI control with some similarities to these, but built specifically for skimming long lists. The general idea is that the faster you scroll, the more "zoomed out" the view becomes. As the scrolling speed slows, the zoo
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by redler 15y ago
Imagine you're looking to hire a top tier developer, or perhaps a "product person." After a strong interview, he or she is walking through the door, pauses, turns back, and says, "oh, one more thing." And hands you something like this.
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by redler 15y ago
As to your fourth point: if you're able to figure out what a poorly written question is asking and post a good answer, it's probably worth taking a couple of minutes to edit the question to improve its clarity.
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by redler 15y ago
In theory, the system's "economics" encourage askers to accept an answer, as askers with low acceptance rates will receive fewer quality responses (and often comments reiterating the phenomenon). But there's little incentive for drive-by as
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by redler 15y ago
“A healthy, 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides: You know what? I'm not going to spend 200 or 300 dollars a month for health insurance, because I'm healthy; I don't need it,” Blitzer said. “But you know, s
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by redler 15y ago
On Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), there is now multiple user screen sharing. http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html#screensh...
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by redler 15y ago
I'm so accustomed to seeing my own big city festooned with advertisements on almost every feasible surface, from stickers on lightpoles to 20,000 square foot billboards, that this almost looks fake. It's like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotles
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by redler 15y ago
> no cached pages are available Actually the cached pages are still there. Hover to see the "mini-view" you mention. Right next to the URL above the preview is the "cached" link.
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by redler 15y ago
> Changing the value of inputs doesn't change the state of the object in the world until you press the save button This is key. If the UI is linked, checkbox by checkbox, field by field, to the model, then we've created the brittle sit
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by redler 15y ago
A useful one I somehow missed early on is cd - to change back to whichever directory you were just in. Every once in a while most of us find ourselves facing someone's "how could you not know that?" look.
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by redler 15y ago
We always try to wrap documentation, procedure and ceremony around the occasionally necessary direct bulk update. Test in dev. Test in staging. All good. But inevitably there's that one-off special case; it's critical, there are immediate b
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by redler 15y ago
It's unlikely there will be a breakthrough that allows adversaries (in the cryptography sense) to crack properly implemented strong encryption. Faced with this dilemma, the only other options for the government are varying degrees of black-
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by redler 15y ago
Yes, and of course that works fine. It's just the ease of using an inline prefix to modify the term, rather than enclosing it in quotes. We're mourning the loss of the +.
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by redler 15y ago
Matt, do you know if there are any plans to once again allow the mixing of exact match with the regular fuzzier search functionality? It's great to have exact matching back, but I often found it a useful strategy to build the search loosely
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by redler 15y ago
You're being snarky about Siri for some reason. But what you describe is in fact similar to the Ground Proximity Warning System, a feature of modern aircraft. When the computer announces "pull up! pull up! terrain!" you can be certain the p
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by redler 15y ago
I hadn't heard this. Can you describe what they do in more detail?
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by redler 15y ago
Through this idea, Google turns brick-and-mortar stores into the equivalent of an Amazon distribution warehouse. The result could be a highly decentralized Amazon alternative with Google's imprimatur, grown from the bottom up.
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by redler 15y ago
It's not clear that it still works, but there's also the AROUND(n) operator. oauth AROUND(3) authorization would reduce the set to results that include "oauth" and "authorization", in any order, separated at most by three words.

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