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by rpedroso 12y ago
BuzzFeed definitely still publishes Mashable-like "top-n" list pieces and similar entertainment pieces, but their news section[1] has improved significantly over the years. [1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/news
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by rpedroso 12y ago
The leap to blame the Chinese government for this attack reminds me of the leap to attribute the Sony attack to North Korea. It's possible that North Korea was responsible, but the primary evidence the FBI held up was that the malware
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by rpedroso 12y ago
The idea that an employee does not deserve a major payday for being an early employee at a startup misses the entire point of the practice: by substituting options for cash, the employer shifts a quantifiable risk from itself to the employe
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by rpedroso 12y ago
Last published elo was 2199 [1]. In comparison, Magnus Carlsen is currently at 2863 [2]. [1] http://en.chessbase.com/post/busine-insider-24-executives-wh... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of
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by rpedroso 12y ago
That is a fair point which I had not considered.
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by rpedroso 12y ago
This line really struck me: "They say you shouldn’t be allowed to modify the code in your car because you might defraud a used car purchaser by changing the mileage." All you would need to do is checksum to know if the consumer ha
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by rpedroso 12y ago
I think the example of falling milk prices downplays the theory that deflation is harmful unfairly. Surely, if we were facing deflation, I would continue to buy milk. However, I would be seriously hesitant about borrowing money to purchase
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by rpedroso 12y ago
I don't believe this article was implying that Apple owed anything in particular to developers, but rather, laying out all the issues on the table for Apple developers to digest. Self-censorship of criticism against Apple really only c
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by rpedroso 12y ago
My issue was more about his opposition to recursion than the preference for iteration. That being said, this is one of the better explanations/arguments for why iterations are more 'Pythonic' that I've heard. Thanks!
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by rpedroso 12y ago
This article really got me in the mood to play around with Racket again. Incidentally, I find it hard to square with Guido's belief that recursion isn't the basis of all programming. Sure, Python has some powerful iterators, but m
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by rpedroso 12y ago
I'm not an anthropological linguist, so I can't say with any authority. I only listed two figures there, but there are many more disputed figures.[1] There are a lot of difficulties classifying languages in India because the line
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by rpedroso 12y ago
"The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit corporation devoted to developing, maintaining, and promoting software internationalization standards and data, particularly the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in al
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by rpedroso 12y ago
I don't purport to know what the Technology Development for Indian Languages Departments is doing with its time, but perhaps its inefficacy is a signal that speakers of such languages should not need to depend on them for techno-lingui
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by rpedroso 12y ago
I think the numbers are somewhat disputed. The People's Linguistic Survey of India says there are at least 780, with ~220 having died out in the last half century.[1] The Anthropological Survey of India reported 325 languages.[2] The d
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by rpedroso 12y ago
There are over 100 languages spoken in India, many of which are not even Hindustani in origin. The Indian government primarily recognizes two languages: Hindi and Urdu. Additionally, Urdu is the official national language of Pakistan. Are s
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by rpedroso 12y ago
This is an important point. I wonder if they're going to have hardware standards for the fingerprint readers. Low-quality finger print readers can be spoofed with prints lifted from everyday sources.
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by rpedroso 12y ago
At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, the utility of some means of surveillance in apprehending criminals is not itself a good enough criterion for justifying any means of surveillance. If it were, so the hyperbolic argument goes, we could mi
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by rpedroso 12y ago
I don't really have time to respond to your comments right now, but I did want to make one tangential remark. Mathematics is absolute, but it's only valid within the abstract context of that branch of mathematics. Mathemati
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by rpedroso 12y ago
I don't see how he gets from A to B There is only so much I can do to summarize his argument in an online forum without replicating the entire book. I recognize that I'm not doing the full-text justice, but it's hard
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by rpedroso 12y ago
That doesn't invalidate the scientific method You're right, but neither I nor Kuhn ever said that it did. In fact, he echoes your thoughts about how models replace one another: First, the new candidate must seem to res
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by rpedroso 12y ago
Yeah, I realized that in retrospect. Thanks for not being harsh about it!
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by rpedroso 12y ago
The wikipedia definition isn't the clearest definition of logical positivism. If I had to define logical positivism in one sentence (which, in philosophy, is almost universally a bad idea), I would say something like this: Logical posi
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by rpedroso 12y ago
This is a fairly uncharitable interpretation of Kuhn's thought. Please read my above explanation of Kuhn's thought or, better yet, skip the middleman and read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" and get it from the
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by rpedroso 12y ago
Kuhn never denies that there are facts about the universe that we can observe. And I agree with you about this general class of example: no number of scientific discoveries or paradigm shifts will ever make the photoelectric effect cease oc
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by rpedroso 12y ago
One thing the parent didn't bring up was there was a philosophical movement called "rationalism" that preceded the contemporary movement that refers itself by the same name. These so-called "Continental Rationalists&quot
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by rpedroso 12y ago
The paper you linked is the one I was able to read -- I linked the full text in my previous post. The paper I was unable to access was "Development and Validation of an International English Big-Five Mini-Markers" which I was inte
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by rpedroso 12y ago
The first source is a press release from what appears to be an HR company which attempts to debunk the claim that agreeableness correlates with lower income based on a survey they contracted through a polling agency. That survey portends to
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by rpedroso 12y ago
Agreed. In fact, to build on 'Erwin's example, jquery makes note of the potential for XSS when calling .html(), .append(), .after(), etc.[1] > Do not use these methods to insert strings obtained from untrusted sources such as U
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by rpedroso 12y ago
I won't deny that I'm old-fashioned :) The environmental impact of paper vs e-books is something I had not considered, but the effects of producing e-readers is still non-zero. I'd believe someone if they told me the impact w
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by rpedroso 12y ago
Typesetting differences between different devices is a problem that needs to be solved for e-books to become feasible in classroom settings, book club settings, etc. If a group wants to discuss a particular scene, argument, metaphor, etc.,

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