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by saulrh 15y ago
Add adblocker detection. Bonus points because that means you also get to sell ads.
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by saulrh 15y ago
Devil's advocate: brain boosters wouldn't widen the gap significantly because socioeconomic status is not primarily determined by intelligence. That's the entire point of lack of socioeconomic mobility. Instead, the benefits of brain booste
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by saulrh 15y ago
On the other hand, Apple gives Steve Jobs $200million+ to make an iPad, and Microsoft certainly gives someone 200 million dollars to make Windows.next. Google gave someone $200 million to develop Android. We just don't see it as much becaus
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by saulrh 15y ago
Two small notes. First, this is a serious problem. People don't seem to realize that "sixteen scientists" don't matter . Sixteen thousand would have; just sixteen is a drop in the bucket. The problem is that headlines like that sell ad imp
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by saulrh 15y ago
Sixteen Thousand Concerned Scientists: Get These Posers Out of Our Hair and Let Us Save Your Food Crops
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by saulrh 15y ago
I doubt we'll see them, but it would be pretty cool to see some support stats, split up by user OS. Number of support requests per copy, average emails and time taken per request, successful closure rate, most common cause of problems, that
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by saulrh 15y ago
There's an interesting piece of advice at the bottom of this post - the author symlinks /bin, /sbin, and /lib to /usr/whatever. Anybody else have an opinion on that practice? It's kind of unnecessary, but it also doesn't break anything.
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by saulrh 15y ago
There are plenty of complex systems with complex problems but deceptively simple solutions. Those solutions might be difficult to implement, and might have nasty little details, but they're still simple enough to sum up in one sentence. For
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by saulrh 15y ago
For last couple of centuries or so, each generation grows up with unprecedented change in their lifetime. I'd argue that this generation's changes aren't just unprecedented, but in an entirely different category. Not just in size,
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Don't visit Iran: if a porn site has ever used your code, you will be executed(gizmodo.com)
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by saulrh 15y ago
In the paper, they state that they compared their implementation to FFTW and beat it handily.
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by saulrh 15y ago
Ah, I forgot to post the tutorial link! http://stenoknight.com/wiki/Quick_References
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by saulrh 15y ago
http://stenoknight.com/plover/ploverdemo/ploverdemo.html In-browser demo of the software.
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by saulrh 15y ago
It becomes even more obvious when you consider more and more talented workers. I've met people that were easily five or ten times better than their peers, and they were the difference between a tightly-coordinated three-person team and a fi
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by saulrh 15y ago
Exactly - no matter now badwrong the patent, it still takes time and money to go to court, and the kind of people that IBM will be using this patent against don't have that time or that money.
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by saulrh 15y ago
I'll paste from my last post on this topic. There was an article that went over exactly this in Discover magazine a month or two ago. Summary is that it's harder than you might think. "You would need more than a garage; you would need a
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by saulrh 15y ago
Mines are just as detectable as anything else. Problem: how does your mine know when to go off? If it has sensors, it has electronics; if it has electronics, those electronics are running at something above 3 Kelvin; if you're running anywh
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by saulrh 15y ago
A slight amendment to your statements: in some fields of research , we've exhausted the low-hanging fruit, and "low-hanging" is defined differently for every field. In mathematics, for example, we ran out of obvious things in the 1700s, bu
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by saulrh 15y ago
Seems like Embrace, Extend, Exterminate is in full swing here. At the very least, I see custom additions to OAuth, plus a requirement for client IDs and access tokens. In other words, you can't talk to their servers unless you ask nicely, a
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by saulrh 15y ago
I was thinking of linking particular events (post made by Jimbo, major news story) with features in the data, something like what Google Trends does. I always find that information interesting.
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by saulrh 15y ago
Feature request: Any chance of getting a graph to show support over time? Might be able to scan through the edit history to get the stuff you've already missed.
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by saulrh 15y ago
I already exempt some small sites that I want to support, mostly webcomics. Looking at their current list of exemptions, this change won't make me see any more ads than I already do. I have no real problem with it.
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by saulrh 15y ago
Last time an article about this came up, it was argued that we should be assuming that the justices know what they're doing. They are the supreme court, after all, so they probably understand the patents they're ruling on and the results of
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by saulrh 15y ago
How do you go from being a "normal" to being an expert? Learning. It's much, much harder to do that on one of today's macs. Of course, if you're suggesting that we don't need experts, that's something else entirely.
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by saulrh 15y ago
This is the foundation of my primary complaint with Apple's interfaces: by constantly assuming that you don't know how to use a computer, they make it impossible to learn. We here are all fine with our OSX boxes, because we already know how
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by saulrh 15y ago
It's worth noting that the guy that wrote the corresponding law for the State of Washington explicitly blames obsolete laws for the nonapplicability of the shield law: "Oregon's law was probably written before blogging was accounted for." [
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by saulrh 15y ago
Keepass2 also has a "synchronize" feature that can merge edits made in memory to a stored file on disk; just throw your keys into dropbox, and when you need to change anything just hit "synchronize with file" and it will merge your keys. Wo
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by saulrh 15y ago
The trick is that they've observed the dolphins doing the same thing. We've just demonstrated that they can coherently transfer nouns. That's a big deal.
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by saulrh 15y ago
keepasss is a better solution; it does the same auto-entry thing, but stages part of your password through the clipboard and part through direct keyboard entry. Works everywhere (even on mac and linux) and is far more usable.
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by saulrh 15y ago
Misparse; you're reading "artwork that (doesn't include horned creatures) [and] (that might offend)", but it's intended as "artwork that (doesn't include (horned creatures that might offend))".

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