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by romaniv 12y ago
I think you are confusing history with archeology. They are obviously related, but they are not the same thing. Preserving history requires keeping it alive. Those books you speak about were endlessly copied and read. I am willing to bet th
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by romaniv 12y ago
You would be surprised, but there are already standards for automation of almost anything you can think of. The problem is not with the lack of standards or network-enabled devices. The problem is with them being proprietary and tied to sof
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by romaniv 12y ago
I don't know about digital dark ages, but before GOG this was a serious problem. It's not that games were not accessible at all, it's that it was so hard to access them that most people would not bother. Are you really "
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by romaniv 12y ago
Open standards are a real issues in the industry. I find it ridiculous that you often have to pay thousands of dollars for software that simply understands those protocols. Not only that, it requires you to jump through ridiculous hoops to
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by romaniv 12y ago
"A company would have to provide the service, and I suggested to Mr Cerf that few companies have lasted for hundreds of years. So how could we guarantee that both our personal memories and all human history would be safeguarded in the
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by romaniv 12y ago
If the new trend (towards old companies collapsing) is described correctly, it is pretty sad. I think that a large part of why people open businesses as opposed to just doing 9-to-5 is the desire to make a long-term impact. Something that l
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by romaniv 12y ago
It's probably because there are many people who say "this is a mental process" when they really mean "this does not exist".
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by romaniv 12y ago
Classifying my position is not the same as answering it. Classifying your position shows that there is no point in answering it. In other words, the important thing here is not whether you're being classified, but why and how. You an
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by romaniv 12y ago
I could reply point-by-point, but it's pointless (pun intended). Here is one thing I learned over the years. There are people of type A who believe there actually are meaningful things in life. This belief requires to acknowledge that
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by romaniv 12y ago
It's easy to do interesting things in software. It's much harder to do them and get paid enough to lead a reasonable life.
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by romaniv 12y ago
If you're using MS stack, their web app hosting is really easy to use. One-click publish from VS and auto-running migrations are pretty handy if you want to focus on delivering some prototype fast , rather than mucking around with var
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by romaniv 12y ago
While the notion that "stand and loose" was important in war seems sensible to me, the implication that mobility and shooting speed were irrelevant does not. Being able too shoot fast seems like an immensely useful skill when conf
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by romaniv 12y ago
I want a proper E-Inc smartphone, damn it! With no OLED screen. The number of times I used my cellphone to watch videos: 0, as far as I remember. Number of times I wished my phone had longer battery life and didn't auto-dim after 30 se
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by romaniv 12y ago
They should make single-window the default. Many new people do not know about it and quit Gimp before finding out about it. But more importantly, the worst thing I have to face in GIMP is layer/selection management. I understand how it
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by romaniv 12y ago
Rendering on the server has little actual value in 2015 There is life outside of Google, you know. There are other search engines, other crawlers that are not search engines, other programs people use on your website that are neither brow
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by romaniv 12y ago
IMO, just having something of the quality of FreeBSD's handbook ( https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ ) is a significant point to consider. It is the best piece of documentation for a system I have ever rea
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by romaniv 12y ago
I'm glad that it worked for him, but my community college was a complete waste of time with the exception of two (just two!) courses and the internship program. I think the true way forward is in replacing community colleges with certi
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by romaniv 12y ago
FAFSA documents are not complicated to fill out, but the overall process require you to spend some amount of time on jumping through various hoops. Also, it has prerequisites and conditions you need to keep track of. For people who are sh
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by romaniv 12y ago
Think about the some of the implications of that statement for a while. Hm, people with 6-digit salaries and doctoral degrees whose main job is to figure out diseases perform worse than some random dude? That's the first thing that c
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by romaniv 12y ago
I happen to trust AWS with my data. Yeah, so let's host everything in the world on the servers of a single company. What could possibly go wrong?
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Reconstructing narratives: transparency in the service of justice [video](media.ccc.de)
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by romaniv 12y ago
I have noticed the same thing in a different context. When I was still in college, many art classes were essentially about historic trivia, paying absolutely no attention to the intent of the artists, the ideas they tried to express, and wh
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by romaniv 12y ago
I wish there was something using DNNs that users could train and use without writing code or connecting to some centralized service. It would help to get the "feel" for how good these algorithms are. Something moderately general-
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by romaniv 12y ago
You're making a comment in response to a specific research paper. Therefore, I interpret the comment within the context of that paper. So you're implying that the paper is "focusing on a narrow weakness which may not actually
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by romaniv 12y ago
Yes, of course, what constitutes sensible image recognition is just a matter of opinion, and opinions of some algorithm are as valid as yours. In fact, my pseudo-random number generator seeded with image binary accurately recognizes 100% o
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by romaniv 12y ago
The whole point of this paper is that these 'illusions' look like noise to humans and make no sense in relation to real-life objects, and you're hand-waving it away as if it was some insignificant, tangential technicality.
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by romaniv 12y ago
I see that some people are slowly redefining the word "simple" as applied to programming languages. A 4-point bullet list that still requires knowing about typical caller behavior is hardly "simple".
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by romaniv 12y ago
You develop a language that is sent to the client in plain text. Then you write a lot of code in it. Then you realize that with so much code, file transfers take too long. You write a utility to strip out spaces and comments, as well as cha
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by romaniv 12y ago
You do not have to re-draw the canvas during transitions. Believe it or not, it is possible to do AJAX declaratively and with progressive enhancement. My approach is to develop forms normally, then add a directive that intercepts them via A
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by romaniv 12y ago
Highly debatable. I've had great success developing highly dynamic websites using progressive enhancement and directive/web component like approach. People often smirk when I mention progressive enhancement these days. But the sam

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