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by rictic 15y ago
Some folks will tell you that death is merely a transition to an alternate form of living. Some folks will tell you that if your cells are cryogenically frozen can get defrosted later. Both ideas are taken on faith, they may both be true,
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by rictic 15y ago
It still sounds like the mental bias of post-hoc justification. The malnourished value food more and those who have an imminent terminal condition feel every moment more intensely, but that doesn't mean it is better to be so. None of sound
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by rictic 15y ago
If you click or hover over the `Limited` then you can see who it's shared with. disclosure: I work for Google, but not on Google+
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by rictic 15y ago
My guess is that I'm close very close to your ideal intended reader. I'm a javascript programmer looking for better ways to handle and persist state in my apps. I think you might be dismissing the above criticism too quickly. Arriving at
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by rictic 16y ago
True, but "fast" is a crowded concept in people's minds. If you look around the web you'll read that Firefox 4 is fast, Chrome is fast, Opera is fast. IE is "native" which is then connected with performance claims. It's a new name for an
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by rictic 16y ago
That's silly, LLVM bitcode is as portable as you like. Hell, you can translate it to javascript if you're truly worried about absolute browser portability: http://code.google.com/p/emscripten/
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by rictic 16y ago
From personal experience, you can not (unless maybe you come across an especially small podcast episode; there might be a maximum data limit like you get with apps)
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by rictic 16y ago
Freebase was seeded with Wikipedia, but we're always loading data from new license compatible sources. We've got books from Stanford Library, music from MusicBrainz, films from Netflix, and a lot more. We don't have good coverage of produc
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by rictic 16y ago
There is a great article to be written on this topic. I lost all confidence in the author however, when they repeatedly compared prices with a contract to those without. For context, a new iPhone 4 without contract is $700.
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by rictic 16y ago
I think that your final point has the most explanatory power. Everyone knows that a sufficiently geeky person can make a computer do magical things. However, apps (in the general sense) become much more exciting when they gain wide appeal,
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by rictic 16y ago
ajuc's argument isn't that theft is more evil than piracy, it's that it is dishonest to call piracy theft. I would say that piracy is, in general, less evil than theft. Imagine that you are a master forger, and can make a perfect copy of a
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by rictic 16y ago
There's a word for a substitute that's more compelling than what it copies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_Stimuli
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by rictic 16y ago
Could you be a bit clearer about what's going on in your third example?
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by rictic 16y ago
Agreed. I've also found that going without sleep for >24 hours has some similar effects. It's worth doing every once in a while just to experience the altered state.
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by rictic 16y ago
Could you expand on this point? I don't see the relationship between the parent's assertion and Costco (even after reading the wikipedia article on Costco).
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by rictic 16y ago
It's remarkable if we can observe these differences directly given our currently rather course scanning mechanisms. That may or may not be what the author was saying though.
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by rictic 16y ago
My understanding is that the free optical network they'll be giving out is intended to showcase the effect of high-quality internet service on a community. Google seems to be committed to the idea that what's good for the internet is good f
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by rictic 16y ago
"cute little games to show off to his friends" Just you, javascript, and a canvas tag. No CSS, PHP, or further HTML required. The biggest impetus to my programming excitement as a kid was how hard it was to share what I'd done with my frien
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by rictic 16y ago
You also need to go to chrome://plugins and enable the experimental PDF plugin.
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by rictic 16y ago
Shortly after moving to the bay area – knowing exactly zero people for a hundred miles – someone linked to freebase on reddit. I found what they were doing so compelling that I volunteered on their message board[1]. They saw that I was lo
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by rictic 16y ago
ActiveRecord, like much of Rails, is all about context. ActiveRecord is designed to create a domain specific language for interacting with a relational database. By Linus' reasoning, if you had a project where interacting with a relationa
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by rictic 16y ago
On a technical level you couldn't be more correct. However, for various reasons – a mix of cultural and economic I suspect – ridiculous hidden installations and other software showing a coldly calculated contempt for the user are a fact of
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by rictic 16y ago
True, but actually calling someone a fanboy is a very reliable way to end a productive conversation and debate (or prevent one from starting). It's an indication that you're not going to listen to anything the other person is going to say
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by rictic 16y ago
Have you checked out the Web Inspector, built into Chrome and Safari? In my experience so far the only place it falls behind Firebug is in CSS editing, in every other way it seems superior. I'd be interested if you disagree. More info: htt
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by rictic 16y ago
It is ridiculous. Java often completely ignores the design guideline of making the easy things easy and the hard things possible, preferring just to make the hard things possible. Anonymous inner classes with many methods are far less comm
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by rictic 16y ago
It is my understanding that very few of those devices are developer devices, where the user is allowed to install their own OS. Otherwise you have to root the phone, which is a violation of the increasingly international DMCA-style anti-ci
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by rictic 16y ago
I think that Facebook has failed in two clear ways. They do not do a good job of indicating how public an action will be. This is true across the internet, but it's a real problem on Facebook due to the strong ties to your real identity th
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by rictic 16y ago
We briefly added these measures, but after thinking it over we've decided to disable them. From a technical standpoint they're a fig leaf. This isn't a complex server-side app, it's a minimal UI on top of the JSON results Facebook returns
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by rictic 16y ago
Inspired by http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341236 (Why in the world does Facebook let me do this?)
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Searching Facebook drives home the privacy degradation problem(willmoffat.github.com)
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