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by serhei 9y ago
Spoiler: 12 acres is about the size of two city blocks, and much smaller than a typical college campus or suburban mall. This page has a map of the area they were bidding over: http://waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/portal&#x2F
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by serhei 9y ago
This academic paper has some interesting insights about what distributed systems (e.g. Hadoop) log in order to be able to reconstruct what happened after a problem occurs. http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~yuan/papers/z
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by serhei 16y ago
If we're talking about hypothetical, mostly unenforceable principles, maybe it's the corporations that should follow the Three Laws of Robotics and not the standards?
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by serhei 16y ago
Hey, are you insinuating that I use tacky handwriting on tacky yellow paper, with a tacky felt marker?
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by serhei 16y ago
"I believe the on-screen typography on the next-gen iPhones will be indistinguishable, or nearly so, from high-quality print." ... except that high-quality print doesn't use Marker Felt...
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by serhei 17y ago
"The incumbents said the personal computer was inadequate and underpowered. It couldn't even multitask, unlike their glorious, room-filling computers. The personal computer would never catch on, they cried. They were wrong." Notice how the
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by serhei 17y ago
"As a rule, I don't think governments should be out to make money on behalf of the public. They should be out to convert money into public benefits." Nailing it. This makes the difference between a proper government and a sovereign corpor
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by serhei 17y ago
Oh dear... time to get news.yc to render international URLs properly.
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by serhei 17y ago
The real horror is how much thicker the C++ standard is than any of the thick documents mentioned in the speech. If people like Knuth, Hoare, etc. were working towards a dream where programming has the rigor of physics, the modern situation
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by serhei 17y ago
The App Store is very similar to US immigration control. People are justifying the maddening complexity and the casualties of the system by analogous arguments in both cases. And building a startup around an iPhone application and then havi
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by serhei 17y ago
Paul Graham criticizes the App Store, which is significant because it's a rare instance of a person with such major hacker street cred and no vested interest in the platform putting in their two cents... ... then he gives a really insane
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by serhei 17y ago
If it did, you would be forced to classify spam and old Valleywag articles as "interesting".
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by serhei 17y ago
Wait, how is this "benefit"? Based on the above, App Store rejections are still bad for indie developers, but not as bad as for other people, so that for an indie developer the risk of getting rejected is supposedly more like a "pain in the
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by serhei 17y ago
That would be patent trolling on the part of Apple. Patent trolling is a serious absurdity in how the patent system is used. If you think about it, why should Apple have the right to demand money from Google because they predicted that Go
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by serhei 17y ago
Sort of reminds me of the Info Pad idea from a couple years back: http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2006/05/desperately-se...
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by serhei 17y ago
I can't wait for the publicity catfight that will ensue when Mac OS X 10.7 Lynx comes out and there's already an Ubuntu version with the same name. And a version number of the form 10.xx - this is just too good to be true. Here's the status
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by serhei 17y ago
How did sign language get on there? It's like learning any other foreign language AND it's harder to find materials to study alone AND there's an entire shift in mindset from expressing things in sound to expressing things by position and m
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by serhei 17y ago
More enlightening conversation with Google: (picking up where we left off) Me: What do you think? Google: What do you think? Me: I'm thinking I want to know what you're thinking. Google: Do you know how when you click? Me: I think it goes t
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by serhei 17y ago
Actually, this is apparently the back door for accessing Google's still-in-beta top-secret artificial intelligence: Me: Can't we talk this over? Google: What should I do? Me: I don't know, what should you do? Google: Do you know what to do?
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by serhei 17y ago
One thing people are missing is that using bikes doubles as escalation in the arms race between Google and locals who don't want their neighborhoods to be photographed with Street View. Considering that extreme cases of the conflict include
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by serhei 17y ago
I wish there was a standard protocol for collaborative text editing, so that SubEthaEdit and Etherpad (for instance) could talk to one another. (Google Wave doesn't count, since it's trying to do much more than text editing.)
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by serhei 17y ago
> What he did here was the equivalent of say, farting in your face because it is "within the rules" (i.e. not illegal) and then act surprised when this made him socially excluded. I am pretty sure I could obtain a legally binding restra
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by serhei 17y ago
> But since Slashdot posters ran the term 'FUD' into the ground ten years ago, you can't use it anymore without being derided. Quite important. These days 'FUD' tends to gets used more for 'anything which threatens to evict me from my s
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by serhei 17y ago
> One media market that never caved to idiotic lawyering (w.r.t US vs. Canada issues anyway) is video games. Maybe because a reasonable chunk of the game industry is in Canada, and an even more reasonable chunk is outside North Americ
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by serhei 17y ago
> ... with a nauseating mix of hubris and ignorance. That, and the pointing out of quite natural questions which Twitter has failed to address in its explanation of how it is acting. I mean, once you know what you are doing, being able
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by serhei 17y ago
This article is a good example of the use of Ridiculous Reasoning: "We should decide that occupation becomes automatically legitimate after 50 years because that is how I resolve awkward moments at dinner parties."
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by serhei 17y ago
> So rather than fixing broken behavior of existing apps, we should instead bloat the platform with new features ripe for abuse? That seems... unwise. Who, exactly, in that sentence is 'we'? Such sloppy wording does not give credit to y
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by serhei 17y ago
Well, you could of course change the context. If we glom "We didn't give the rhinoceroces anything because they weren't ripe for a feeding, but ..." onto the front of your sentence then "ripe" starts to apply to the monkeys.
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by serhei 17y ago
As such, you may find examples of "brokenness" in the YouTube app (doesn't remember your position in a video), in the Calendar app (if you quit while typing a note for a calendar event the note gets obliterated) and, to give an example of a
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by serhei 17y ago
If you ignore the fact that anything is the name of an Emacs plug in, the blog post becomes a masterpiece of surrealism.

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