rossjudson

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by rossjudson 14y ago
Agreed. I don't even remember the last time I bought an app in the iOS store. Who has time to wade through all that shit, trying to find the one in a thousand that's worth looking at? Amazon stocks vastly greater numbers of products, yet I
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by rossjudson 14y ago
You might see a change if one of Zuck's friends adds him to the "I LIKE SMASHING KITTENS" group. And another adds him to the "Fuck you, I'm rich." group.
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by rossjudson 14y ago
See http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/64410/files/techlists.pdf for one of Phil's most influential papers. Surprising (and saddening) to hear of his passing. See also http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~prokopec/ctries-snapshot.pdf for a more recen
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by rossjudson 14y ago
Unless a company schedules and recognizes time and content that an employee puts into something like Yammer, it's useless. It's yet another informal communication method that won't be used.
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by rossjudson 14y ago
It's a good thing Microsoft has patented non-rounded rectangles. They should get right after Apple as soon as they can find any on Apple's site.
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by rossjudson 14y ago
Or you could check out his site and notice "tangle - explorable explanations made easy", which is a Javascript library that implements the very sorts of interactions he's talking about. http://worrydream.com/#!/Tangle
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by rossjudson 14y ago
I'm waiting for Musk to take the first Tesla car ride on the moon. Solar powered.
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by rossjudson 14y ago
I went through this a lot later in life, and what worked for me was "going academic". I hit Lambda the Ultimate and started challenging myself to learn a lot of really advanced stuff. I'd pick out papers that were hard to understand and go
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by rossjudson 14y ago
Document and image management systems have been doing this sort of thing for decades. Form a unique identifier for an image by hashing, split the bytes out into a path name by hex converting, and you have a file system path. I'd say that th
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by rossjudson 14y ago
I get annoyed when I go looking for the answer to a particular technical question and find that the most precise related question has been closed as "too specific", whatever the hell that is. Well, yeah -- after questions about geometric me
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by rossjudson 14y ago
Seems to me the missing element from your analysis is simple: Users don't need to have exactly the same experience. Picture a graph where each user is a node. When I freshly arrive at the site, it tells me to pick out a few users to place i
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by rossjudson 14y ago
You can believe that, but legal realities dictate otherwise. There are certain classes of information that you are not permitted to keep beyond a defined horizon, either temporal or event-based. Legal compliance with records management proc
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by rossjudson 14y ago
I'm not going to defend removing some of the math. What I will say is that improving understanding of statistics, generally, is something that most democratic countries desperately need.
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by rossjudson 14y ago
You're making the silly mistake of believing the the TC author actually read the paper he linked to. Sigh. I guess that's another article for why real names don't matter. The TC author didn't care about his name being attached to this artic
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by rossjudson 14y ago
This is where Slashdot's "anonymous coward" really starts to shine. Sure, you can post anonymously, but ac can get filtered out very quickly. Anonymous should mean anonymous, not pseudonym-anonymous.
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by rossjudson 14y ago
Freedom of speech means that they're able to post crap like that. It also means that the poster will deal with the consequences.
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by rossjudson 14y ago
I think you blatantly overstate the importance of the anonymous web for everyday use. Yes, there are some corner cases where anonymity is an important part of the political process. These are exceedingly rare. Anonymity is used, in virtuall
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by rossjudson 14y ago
The App Store sells millions of cookies. You eat the cookie. You don't upgrade the cookie. You're absolutely right about the lack of upgrade path. Wonder how Apple will deal with this when their Keynote/Pages/Numbers sales taper off? At som
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by rossjudson 14y ago
I'd like to see a breakdown of the money flow in the traditional taxi industry. With a medallion system, how much of the cash flow goes to the medallion owner, and how much to the driver?
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by rossjudson 14y ago
In other words, web servers can cheat and look good, so we should just ignore TTFB. If you're not a web server developer, TTFB is quite useful. It tells you how quickly request processing happened. Progressive images can get started quickly
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by rossjudson 14y ago
The interesting part of this is the resemblance of hierarchical operations to Erlang supervisor hierarchies, without explicitly pointing that out. In fact, the whole thing feels kind of Actor-like.
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by rossjudson 14y ago
Hmm. Sounds like something straight out of http://www.amazon.com/Poorly-Made-China-Insiders-Production/... .
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by rossjudson 14y ago
Very good overview. I've built lock-free hash maps, and this article covers the areas you need to be aware of. I'd also suggest looking up false sharing, and also making sure that you really understand exactly how the memory barriers are op
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by rossjudson 16y ago
I don't think Google is evil. I do think they exhibit (or have exhibited in the past) a pretty callous disregard for the devastating effects their careless customer service can have on small businesses. If "don't be evil" means anything, it
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by rossjudson 16y ago
"Zero-tolerance" is often code-speak for "too lazy to bother to check". Your recall analogy fails because, after the recall, the supplier is never permitted to transact again. A conventional recall is an opportunity for a company to fix a m
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by rossjudson 16y ago
It's a peculiarity of AdSense that turns what would normally be helpful behavior (please check out my advertisers -- they have really good stuff I personally recommend) into "fraudulent" behavior. The reason is, of course, that the site aut
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by rossjudson 16y ago
The AdSense agreement specifically prohibits you from doing this. Of course, you might not get caught, but from a legal standpoint it's a Prohibited Use.
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by rossjudson 16y ago
It's not _entirely_ clear that asking users to click on ads is prohibited. That phrase is in section 11 a) ii, in the _Payment_ area, not in section 5, which lists Prohibited Uses. Perhaps it should be. Of interest is section 11's withholdi
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by rossjudson 16y ago
Interactions with Google go something like this: GOOG: Dear $Client: our automated algorithm says you are engaged in click fraud. We are reversing payments made to you and confiscating what is in "your" account. Thanks. $Client: Whaaa? (Fur