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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Out of the box, it might not be the most intuitive text parsing tool indeed. It's trivial, but not immediately intuitive. That said: strings are lists of chars, and Haskell is strong at pattern matching (esp within lists) in a bunch of diff
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Financial consultant here. I use Haskell for this kind of thing. In the event that I need a visual prototype to work with, together with a client or business partner, I don't think it's all that horrible to prototype something in Excel, and
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
I suppose this is what Apple had in mind with their object-oriented, drag-and-drop philosophy for the Mac: a GUI which would allow people to pipe things visually with as much ease as possible, reaching a compromise between the UNIX philosop
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“Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power(zephoria.org)
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Awesome has been working very nicely for me [1], but I wouldn't use it as an example of a {usable, intuitive, user friendly, magical} user interface. If a friend of mine shows the slightest interest for Linux and I want to show them just ho
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
They become memorial pages. The media found out about that some time ago, there were a bunch of posts, newspieces and whatnot. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/27/facebook-us... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
You're right! Same text, same URL even. :| http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1427976
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
> So why does humor exist? Because it’s our checksum on reality. Dan Dennett would call it "debugging" [1]. It is interesting to see that in our society we're so inundated with humour that sometimes pointing at something mundane or do
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
> Because your definition depends on the reader's expectations, and different readers will have different expectations [...] then we still can't reach true objectivity in "interesting" content. I took a course in Classical Rhetoric a
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
There seems to be an implied trade-off between a usable system and a distributed system. Most users and most developers at this point will go for usable. But then, Google, Facebook and Twitter have reduced the friction for identifying all o
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
> 4. Was surprised to see that everybody dropped trying to sound clever as soon as chat is realtime. AND now we have a troll in the main chat. What concerns me a bit is that a lot of people are actually logged in with their facebook a
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
> 1. Simple mathematical question Best CAPTCHA ever: http://random.irb.hr/signup.php
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
A good way of avoiding this problem is to get rid of pronouns altogether. Case in point (drumroll): Facebook's interface! You can count on one hand how many times they use pronouns, and those could be actually be removed as well.
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
IRC and anonymous or pseudonimous fora are still out there, and there is no trend in forcing gender choice in them. Those of us who have been here for long enough to play with online personas and to enjoy intelligent use of anonymity are bo
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
As has been asserted in fragmented bits all over the place (here and in the original Google+ thread), the problem is that there is an enormous hiatus between personal and social ways of approaching gender. On an individual scale you can see
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
On your front, you have leverage because you have options. (Well, assuming there is a reasonable number of carriers in your region.) In terms of demand, by default, they want you more than you want them, especially if you're switching c
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Relavant: Diaspora does (or did) exactly that. http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/11/26/disalienation/ HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1944628 Slightly less relevant: gender done right by, of all things, a social networkin
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
I remember arguing extensively with a friend about this. Whenever I switch plans, I demand free, unlimited SMS (local and international), and it doesn't take much bargaining to get it. This friend of mine from another country had to pay to
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Fair enough: at least they're trying to add some usability to their privacy policy [1], but for Zynga that was a game designing underachievement. I actually felt a bit lectured there! :-) [1] If you haven't yet, check out http://www.azaras
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
So there was I, thinking "God, this has got to be the world's lamest point'n'click," and then they threw a multiple choice test in my direction. (My hands down favourite part is when they tell you that you're a privacy jedi, so please head
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Scroll to the right. Some exotic CSS thing that happens when your data URL is simply way too long. Fixed in Chrome with: .dataurl { word-wrap: break-word; white-space: inherit !important; } But that removes the scrollin
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Of course, some elite will outgrow any community save for the few right, private channels in IRC (as with reading the newspaper, anyone will frown at the oft-jornalistic reporting of whatever they know too well). Conversely, some newcomers
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
(DISCLAIMER: not terribly relevant, may contain nostalgia.) It's not that big a deal that a big company is rebranding its products. I certainly won't rant or protest that. But since I no longer have a blog, I thought I should leave an in m
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
IANAL, but I thought this might bring some light: > The most important principle for Facebook is that every person owns and controls her information. Each person owns her friends list, but not her friends’ information. A person has no
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Thankfully, Yahoo! now lets you create an account via Facebook Connect, which makes the whole exporting contacts ordeal super easy.
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Brazil. Without trial or hard evidence, you're not supposed to associate people of being that criminal persona. That'd be vexatious litigation and libel (or slander, or defamation — English is not my first language, I'm not sure which word
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
What you just did, in my country, is a rather serious fellony, and I'm struggling to see your point. (EDIT: though I'm still struggling to see the point of the parent comment, the above was in response to a slightly different phrasing that
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
No. Facebook's explanation is that because they respect your privacy, they think you should be able to withdraw access to contact information whenever you see fit. In order for that to work, it goes, your friends should only be able to acce
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
This is actually a fair question. I expected more from Google. Right now, the only better thing about Google's data liberation is that you get to export your contact information from it like any sane platform should let you. But I expected
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
s/deep/overtly biased/ I'm not really a big fan of Facebook; it's gotten to a point where I resent it for how locked into it I am right now [1]. I'm very much rooting for someone to come up with a product good enough to reduce the Facebook

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