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by sid0 16y ago
You mean "browser skin", just like the IE skins of the early 2000s.
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by sid0 16y ago
Interesting that people are building on top of gmail just as I'm getting ready to ditch my 6.5 year old gmail account entirely. I got fed up with the web-based interface a couple of years ago, the IMAP interface is really slow and broken, a
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by sid0 16y ago
Nit: the blog post said "fastest selling", not "most revenue". It's been out on PC and Wii for over two years, so it's probably earned much more money on both the platforms by now.
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by sid0 16y ago
0. Reformatting takes all of fifteen minutes.
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by sid0 16y ago
Whatever environments jumped on Unicode early, before it was realized that 2 bytes wouldn't be enough, all chose to use UCS-2 for obvious reasons. In particular, that includes Windows and Java.
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by sid0 16y ago
Google's hypothesis was "Does Bing use Google data in its rankings?" I see. I would contend that that hypothesis is misleading at best, in bad faith at worst.
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by sid0 16y ago
It's called an existential proof. If you want to prove that a black swan exists, all you need is 1 example of a black swan. Strictly speaking, yes, non-controlled experiments exist. However without a control you cannot eliminate alternate
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by sid0 16y ago
Google proved it with the bing sting They didn't prove anything. Every experiment needs a control. Where's Google's?
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by sid0 16y ago
If you're going to have a review process at all, you should at least add something of value. Either ask for source code (and deal with the backlash) or don't have a review process at all. A two-level review system (one with source code, one
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by sid0 16y ago
But that's independent of the review process. They could do the same thing without a review. For comparison, the Mozilla Addons review process requires you to provide them a copy of the (unobfuscated) source code. You always have the opti
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by sid0 16y ago
But then all the app store gives people is a false sense of security. The willingness of people to trust arbitrary App Store apps should be condemned, not celebrated.
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by sid0 16y ago
How can the app review ensure that, say, you don't have a timebomb in your program after which you start sending off private data? Apple doesn't ask for the source code, does it?
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by sid0 16y ago
"safari 5 or chrome 9 on a mac" Thank you for embracing the spirit of HTML5 and the Web.
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by sid0 16y ago
My networks prof said in his first lecture that if you don't care about latency, shipping a hard drive is always cheaper.
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by sid0 16y ago
I know they think that I can't code worth a crap because I'm use Windows as my OS. ... what sort of person thinks that? That's just insane.
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by sid0 16y ago
Philosophy is what you do when you don't know something and don't know how to actually discover anything about it but you are not wise enough to let it go and find something you could actually discover something about. That sounds like a
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by sid0 16y ago
It seems like it has a roughly 50-50 CS/philosophy focus. While I'm majoring in CS, I'm also a philosophy minor in all but name (my university doesn't offer minors), and I really would have liked more philosophy in the mix.
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by sid0 16y ago
Pretty sure Firefox disables hardware acceleration if run inside a VM. In general, benchmarks run inside VMs are worthless.
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by sid0 16y ago
Yes, 3DS and "3D" 3D games have the same problems as 3D movies. What I was saying was that what is generally meant by 3D gaming (3D games projected on a 2D plane, with no intention to create an illusion) doesn't.
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by sid0 16y ago
It also doesn't work well for articles outside CS. Stab stab stab -- the journal model is hopelessly outdated in the digital age, and the sooner it disappears, the better.
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by sid0 16y ago
Well, you were referring to games from the early '00s, which didn't have "3D" 3D. (God, that's awful. Anyone know of a better way to express that?) In any case, it remains to be seen how accepted "3D" 3D gaming is by the public.
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by sid0 16y ago
The way you put it really reminded me of the sorites paradox.
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by sid0 16y ago
What is generally known as 3D gaming is completely different from 3D movies. 3D games are still projected onto the 2D plane of your monitor or TV (though a couple of "3D" 3D games have been released recently, and the 3DS is coming out soon)
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by sid0 16y ago
And you really think that going to continue once Firefox 4 and Firefox for Android are released? Firefox is going to be relevant for a long while, so comparing it to IE6 is pretty disingenuous.
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by sid0 16y ago
By "as easy as each other" I meant reducible to each other with a polynomial factor, as is standard in complexity theory.
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by sid0 16y ago
Though it's probably inaccurate, that's how I intuit the matter. It's actually quite accurate, but you can do even better: any other NP problem can be "compiled down" to one 3-SAT statement.
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by sid0 16y ago
From what I understand they a 'thought to be' the toughest but this isn't proven. Yes, it is. Any NP problem can be many-one reduced to SAT, which means that there's a function that transforms an instance of the NP problem to an instance
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by sid0 16y ago
Dropping?
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by sid0 16y ago
The sort of people who take issue when CSS3 is included in HTML5 are the same sort of people who'd whine about less vs fewer, or pounce on someone for not using the subjunctive case for a counterfactual. There is no place for dogmatic presc
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by sid0 16y ago
Portal 2 doesn't have competitive multiplayer at all -- it only has co-operative multiplayer, which makes it ideal for cross-platform play.

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