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by sketerpot 16y ago
They seem to be focusing a lot on infrastructure and APIs, so even if nothing comes of this directly, their efforts can still be useful.
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by sketerpot 16y ago
They already have some working code, and they're cheerfully hacking away on it as we speak. So I'd say the Diaspora guys are doing well at this "Get to work" thing. (Diaspora guys, if you're reading this: good luck!)
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by sketerpot 16y ago
If you're programming for an embedded system with severe memory constraints and a simple pipeline, this could be worth doing.
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by sketerpot 16y ago
I can't believe nobody has mentioned naive Bayesian text classification yet. It sounds like it could work wonders for Twitter. I'm much more likely to be interested in tweets with words like "hylomorphism" than tweets with words like "omglo
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by sketerpot 16y ago
That actually sounds like it would be fairly easy to add to the wiki software, and practical as well. You could even just add a cookie to remember people's preferences about adult images, the way Google Image Search remembers your "SafeSear
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by sketerpot 16y ago
One can learn how non-religion-related facts are attained and evaluated, while compartmentalizing this so it doesn't affect religious ideas. It's awkward, and I couldn't pull it off for long, but lots of religious scientists presumably mana
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by sketerpot 16y ago
I've always thought that Wikipedia needed a way to move articles to a non-notable fringe instead of deleting them. The porn-star listing could go there, and the deletionist controversy would lose a lot of its urgency. In other words, lazy e
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by sketerpot 16y ago
In general, if you're not sure if someone is a philosopher or not, just add a prefix to "philosopher". If you call someone, for example, an "urban philosopher", nobody really knows what that means, and therefore they're going to have a hard
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by sketerpot 16y ago
VHDL can model delays for operations, so that any events which they trigger are not triggered until after a delay. This is useful for modeling things like logic gates, which have a propagation delay associated with them. If you're using VHD
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by sketerpot 16y ago
Part of it is that the manga which achieves the most popularity tends to be shounen fighting stuff. I mean, look at the top four: Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, and Fairy Tail. They all use much the same formula, but with the details changed. (
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by sketerpot 16y ago
So, they're censoring anything with blood or nudity? Just for fun, let's look at the most popular manga on One Manga: http://www.onemanga.com/directory/top/ 1-4: Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Fairy Tail. These all have blood and violence. Th
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by sketerpot 16y ago
Or Verilog, or any hardware description language that runs events on an event queue while explicitly keeping track of time.
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by sketerpot 16y ago
This needs repeating: > This is how it is possible to write modular, scalable applications today: you need a very fast "global state" (the DB side), caching, ways to create queues of jobs as soon or later you need to process things in t
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by sketerpot 16y ago
Whenever I reflect on this fact, I feel like something H.P. Lovecraft might have written about.
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by sketerpot 16y ago
You're probably right about their desire to get rid of the x86 dependency. Distributing LLVM bytecode really is a better way; it'll allow NaCl pages to be viewable on ARM-using devices as well as x86-using PCs without needing to provide sep
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by sketerpot 16y ago
The NaCl code itself should ideally be part of the browser, though there will be plugins available. As for code that is to run with Native Client, why should there even be a plugin installation process, any more than you have to install J
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by sketerpot 16y ago
Indeed, the point of NaCl is that it's not going to be another ActiveX-style security nightmare, so people might actually use it. That will be great.
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by sketerpot 16y ago
That has changed. Native Client now supports ARM: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/native-client-and-web-porta... They're also working on what they consider the Right Thing: instead of sending instructions for a particular processor, send
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by sketerpot 16y ago
Oddly enough, that did make me feel better. It's strange how encapsulating the side-effects in a state monad can be so soothing.
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by sketerpot 16y ago
This is a nice article and a really cool library, but damn it, why do people persist in using such maddeningly tiny font sizes? Pressing Ctrl-+ made the whole page vastly more readable, and did not adversely affect the page in any way. I
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by sketerpot 16y ago
Occasionally I'll use an unusual word without even thinking about it, and then later realize that I've never uttered that word aloud before. Ever. It's a pretty weird feeling.
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by sketerpot 16y ago
Ouch, so many side-effects. My scheme instincts are wincing.
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by sketerpot 16y ago
I don't know what a "trans-borehole magnetic imaging rhubarb" is, but I want one. It's in the recipe, too, but for some reason the rhubarbs were not transcribed on that page.
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by sketerpot 16y ago
This is a fully-general scornful response to any UI changes that Google could possibly have made. Or could ever make in the future. Congratulations?
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by sketerpot 16y ago
One of the reasons that people are so excited about memristors is that they're supposed to be able to scale better than Flash. When you shrink Flash down too far, you run into problems like having the electrons tunnel out through defects in
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by sketerpot 16y ago
If I'm reading the CSS file correctly, it takes whatever font-size your browser thinks is a reasonable default for easy reading, and divides that by two. Good grief.
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by sketerpot 16y ago
Be careful if you try using actual mushrooms, though; the species that the Mario mushrooms are based on is hallucinogenic and mildly poisonous. If you want to eat it, parboil it first. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
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by sketerpot 16y ago
There are five comments on this thread right now, and all of them are personal attacks on the author. What the hell, people?
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by sketerpot 16y ago
I'm not sure how someone can claim to be a web site designer if they neglect the basics of usability in favor of making the font stylishly tiny. It's like claiming to be a chef but overcooking everything. I looked at the source code for tha
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by sketerpot 16y ago
I apologize for being That Guy, and your comment's content was very nice, but hyphens should not be used to separate words -- for that, you should use longer dashes. You can imitate this in plain text with the string " -- ". This makes your

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