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by sherwin 15y ago
Very cool! And if you paste it an ASCII only text editor (notepad) and you'll see a huge blob at the end. You can actually left arrow through the entire stack of diacritics.
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by sherwin 15y ago
I think we are talking about different meanings of "understand". You seem to be using the general meaning -- any expert in a field, given enough time and dedication, can gain understand both the high level complexity and the individual comp
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by sherwin 15y ago
Yes, the author's observation is true, but I don't think it's particularly interesting for two reasons: 1) This isn't anything new. A complete understanding is not only no longer possible, it was never possible. What level of detail cou
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by sherwin 15y ago
I agree. I think I take the reverse approach -- I maintain a list of project ideas that I would actually use were I to build it -- and when I get the free time, I can see what new languages / libraries / techniques I can apply to implement
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by sherwin 15y ago
You can also click the left hand side or right hand side (on mouse over, you'll see a button fade in) to turn the page.
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by sherwin 15y ago
These are really cool! Can someone explain to me how the icons are done in CSS only?
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by sherwin 15y ago
I would argue just the opposite actually. Eclipse has a very intimidating interface intended for experienced developers -- I remember when I was learning Java I used Eclipse and it was not user friendly at all. Also, my first intro CS cours
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by sherwin 15y ago
What about a competitor with comparable resources? Not really challenging your claim, I'm actually just curious. Why don't Google's competitors just use Google's own OSS against them? Say Facebook acquires Rockmelt, which is based on Chromi
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by sherwin 15y ago
To be fair, MG does concede that Android as a product has gotten much better in recent years: """ So that, ladies and gentleman, is why I hate Android. It has nothing to do with the actual product (which continues to improve every year and
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by sherwin 15y ago
This is something I've wondered quite a bit also. ChromeOS already has this feature -- it's the idea of the device simply acting as a terminal, with all user data stored in the cloud. Also, I'm a bit afraid implementing full-featured multi
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by sherwin 15y ago
And indeed, Google is moving in this direction: they are increasingly returning inline results for factual (less subjective) data. E.g., https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...
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by sherwin 15y ago
While I think that's true, my point is that product quality in the long run isn't best represented by engagement now because Facebook is already soaking up all the engagement. Engagement is not going to grow quickly when you have two very s
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by sherwin 15y ago
But there's another factor at play here. Many of Facebook's early users didn't have anything else to engage with -- facebook filled a hole. That's not the case with G+: most users already have facebook so they're trying to So like Kylekrame
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Facebook vs Google: The battle for the future of the web(money.cnn.com)
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by sherwin 15y ago
I seriously doubt google would persist any parts of passwords in plain text.
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by sherwin 15y ago
Related: http://madebymany.com/blog/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy . This writer brings up an excellent question: for whatever reason Apple seems to think having skeuomorphic interfaces is a good idea.... so why isn't this reflected in the har