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by route66 15y ago
> That's a powerful thing. I have been working with people who know relational databases and OO. And I have been working with people who could only do one of these things. I know with which group I prefer to work. If a technology is us
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by route66 15y ago
Careful, you are arguing progress for the sake of it. If it does not serve a lowest common denominator it's probably not worth it and only fancy. Slightly interesting in this context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9_6G8J6VJg (applicatio
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by route66 15y ago
/rant starts > Why would the music industry (or any artistic endeavor) be any different in this regard? "why would" indicates you did not think about it but you just want to fit the arguments to your position. Answer is: why should it?
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by route66 15y ago
The phone number exchange protocol you describe seems to demand that at least one of the persons is spelling out his/her phone number out loud ... What I would expect is a protocol where both just should be able to connect their phones on s
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by route66 15y ago
> that's why the music on CDs is sampled at 44.1kHz (40kHz with some safety margin) A nice explanation of the 44.1kHz is here: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/audio/44.1.html Initially digital video tracks were used and as such they
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by route66 15y ago
> It seems pretty hard to have any operation be blocking in node ... To my knowledge everything I can do in node is asynch As soon as you code an endless loop in a function it blocks the server forever. Do a long calculation: it blocks
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by route66 15y ago
Which reminds me: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom... I quote it, because it resonates with a lot of people. Especially those who abhor the factoryfactories. Why are the nouns undisputed when it comes to REST?
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by route66 15y ago
You just describe the complete and utter failure of Nerdistan: While the nerds solve their problems by writing software that caters for their nerd-needs (version control, editors, fluffy frameworks just yo name a few) , the rest of the worl
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by route66 15y ago
Yes I want a static list of procedures to call. GET, PUT POST and DELETE are to coarse grained. Method missing is in my book completely differrent from Page Not Found. Method != Resource.
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by route66 15y ago
> REST works when you're dealing with objects that respond to messages You mean GET PUT, POST, DELETE ? This is my criticism of REST. If we transform all our processing objectives into nouns which we can address with these verbs, we wil
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by route66 15y ago
> why would you want to steal from him in the first place Read your own answer here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3453379
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by route66 15y ago
So, I'm a musician. What "physical manifestation" are you talking about? Compressed air? Because as soon as I make a record I have to "guard that physical manifestation" ... how? with SOPA? preventing CD'd from being sold? And in short you
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by route66 15y ago
I see that you are the maker of FinalTouch. Where do you offer the free downloads?
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by route66 15y ago
The problems specifically concerning works of art were put onto paper 75 years ago (probably not only then). While this touches the discussion on HN only on certain aspects it makes for an interesting read when you have the time. And are no
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by route66 15y ago
> My overall point vis-a-vis the article is that it's wrong in its premises and conclusions Ah, that makes your reaction clearer to me. Thanks for responding.
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by route66 15y ago
> My point is: while ... theoretically nice idea, the practical realities are ... not a real problem for the vast majority of people. ... philosophical objection ... best. Which is not enough to instill enough urgency in those whose sup
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by route66 15y ago
The people in your network and their habits might tell more about you than you think. http://www.google.nl/search?q=social+network+graph+analysis . Not to forget the images tagged with your name ...
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by route66 15y ago
Link to study: http://www.ams.org/staff/jackson/fea-mertz.pdf
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Gender and math performance(news.wisc.edu)
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by route66 15y ago
Just some comments: > She probably would have sold a few copies before you'd be able to do that; and maybe you could produce a slightly modified version that would be better. I don't even know what "better" means in the context of works
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by route66 15y ago
> that you (as employee) need to force feed status to your employer That's what I experienced also. Make yourself heard: a simple mail at the end of the day to your team/manager will do. Ask for feedback. This is important when you are
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by route66 15y ago
Disclaimer: I did not dive into their mathematical adventures, but am rather fascinated by their underlying economical foundation: If a market offers choice (the "monopolistically competitive market") it will not deliver profit in the long
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by route66 15y ago
While it's not firsthand, this is a good summary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3276466 In short, it boils down to problems around authentication while sharing by means of replication.
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by route66 15y ago
No. It's not even an article, it's slashdot. In the post someone links to an article on some website which again links to the canonical mailing list. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-Novemb... There John Lenton lays o
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by route66 15y ago
http://www.erawatch-network.com/en/Members/founder/technopol... seems to be the epicenter of this research, at least two of their employees come up as responsible in the report. The blurb behind this link reveals them or as lobbyists "on
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by route66 15y ago
OT, just as a remark on that muscled but empty one-liner: I noticed that people who can't teach what they are doing mostly suck at it.
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by route66 15y ago
In a galaxy far away there was once conceived the idea of a machine readable privacy policy ... checking the interwebs reveals that http://www.w3.org/P3P/ was updated for the last time in 2007. After some more searching: http://www.cdt.o
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by route66 15y ago
All these are predated by the 1987 video "Der Lauf der Dinge" (The way things go) by Fischli and Weiss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgGhVsMmkAM . I think that also before youtube these type of things were done and people found out abou
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by route66 15y ago
http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0077/ seems to have been the original article anyway.
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by route66 15y ago
The situation you describe seems very recognizable througout a lot of european caitals or bigger agglomerations. During my last searches I encountered all the points you mention in Utrecht/NL, I hear comparable things about Amsterdam , Colo

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