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by ricree 17y ago
I don't know. I jumped into Rails without a good understanding of Ruby, and there were a lot of things in it that just felt too "magical" to me. I never got that feeling with Django, but I was already somewhat familiar with Python before
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by ricree 17y ago
It might be. I'm reminded of a story I read about Palm designing their early PDFs. At that point, they had only experienced marginal success interpreting written text. There were a lot of ambiguities, and the actual style varied a lot fr
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by ricree 18y ago
Agreed, although the code examples in python ( http://code.google.com/p/aima-python/ ) and lisp ( http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/lisp/doc/overview.html ) are worth pointing out.
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by ricree 18y ago
Or perhaps it was the part where they stole his passport and forbid him leaving or looking for other means of making a living.
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by ricree 18y ago
How far does this extend, though? It's all well and great to say that they can monitor any one third party support site, but Get Satisfaction isn't the only one out there. Should companies really be expected to go monitor every third part
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by ricree 18y ago
They were hardly the only ones. I remember a lot of companies at the time pushing cheap low end machines designed around internet access, but none really took off that I can recall. I imagine that the idea might work better now. For one t
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by ricree 18y ago
"If there are tons of people using GS's unofficial support forums instead of your own, that tells you that your system is broken, and needs to be repaired." Or it means that they have good placement on google results. When I search for "37
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by ricree 18y ago
I personally preferred Virgle from last year ( http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html ).
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by ricree 18y ago
I don't really prefer one way or the other. If digg's content was at the level that HN's is, it wouldn't be that bad.
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by ricree 18y ago
Agreed. One of the things I like about this site is that most people avoid the inflammatory titles in favor of simple descriptive ones. That is not a trend I want to see fall out of favor.
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by ricree 18y ago
One hint. If you ever find yourself using a $ instead of an S, there's a good chance you need to rethink your title.
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by ricree 18y ago
It's probably not the best way to go about it, but couldn't you implement that by just cutting the delay to zero and drawing from the beginning until the requested frame? It probably wouldn't work well if you wanted to step through the pag
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by ricree 18y ago
Garageband.com ended up taking over a large portion of their database and has fairly similar capabilities. I've found a number of artists I like from that site.
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by ricree 18y ago
Has anyone read the book they talk about in the article ( http://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happi... )? It has decent reviews and seems like it might be interesting, but I never seem to have as much reading time as I'
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by ricree 18y ago
Maybe, in the end that's still the same advertising based revenue that NYT is having problems with, except that the problem of making money off of ads is farmed off to the smaller blogs instead the paper itself. It may be that the smaller,
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by ricree 18y ago
True enough, but I do think there might be a lot of validity in the comparison with hurd. After all, Hurd is still under development, but there is little question that it has been eclipsed by Linux. While many have certainly become aware
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by ricree 18y ago
That's great to hear. Freedom of speech has always been under attack around the edges where unpopular speech is being considered, so it is good to see a victory come down from the supreme court. Neil Gaiman wrote an excellent article on t
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by ricree 18y ago
I think that ought to be communicated a little better. It was immediately obvious from the site that you were selling something related to jellyfish tanks, but it was somewhat unclear who you were actually targeting with this. After a clo
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by ricree 18y ago
Not to mention that many who are in the right place and could profitably use new people are not sure of that fact, so they lack the confidence to bring in as many new people as they might otherwise.
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by ricree 18y ago
I wouldn't mind a .net version, but other than that I agree that clojure loses a lot of its benefit over other lisps if it isn't tied to an existing runtime and library set.
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by ricree 18y ago
Someone really ought to organize one of these for somewhere along the lines of Chicago of St Louis. I'd love to make it to one of these meetups, but all the ones I've seen so far have been too far for me to travel at the moment.
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by ricree 18y ago
"Multiple IBM staffers have written in to SAI to claim the company has a program in place of demanding deliberately difficult relocations, with the company saying anyone who refuses to move will be considered a "voluntary departure" and den
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by ricree 18y ago
The bureaucracy needed to enforce it would be stifling. Think about the number of teachers one is going to have from elementary school to college graduation. Even if the portion was really small, you'd be talking about having well over a
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by ricree 18y ago
This closely matches the way I mod comments as well.
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by ricree 18y ago
Yes, I was surprised that it got no mention in the article. Still, it isn't a great idea to rely too much on any one source for all of this information. I do think that there is a very real problem caused by the lack of hard copies for mo
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by ricree 18y ago
In addition to SGU and Astronomy Cast, both of which are excellent, you might want to check out the Nature Podcast ( http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/ ). It's gives a good overview of new science news, and often includes interviews w
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by ricree 18y ago
The difference is the ability to duplicate that information. For normal face to face recognition, it is reliable because it is impossible to totally duplicate another person even if you are given complete knowledge of every identifiable fe
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by ricree 18y ago
Agreed. Unless phishing somehow becomes a solved problem which I don't see happening, then biometric authentication should never become mainstream. As it stands now, successful phishing attacks range in severity from mild annoyances to so
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by ricree 18y ago
As far as I know, there is no problem at all issuing code under a new license provided that everything in the code is yours. The only tricky issue I can think of is that you can't really revoke an earlier license, so if you are moving to a
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by ricree 18y ago
Interesting, but I was hoping to get more information on the actual internals of the signs rather than just an overview of the normal controller.

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