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by spoondan 17y ago
The note doesn't do it for me. The issue is not just Hughes's lack of proper attribution on stage, but his assumption of credit. The interview doesn't absolve him, it implicates him, when he says ARToolkit is unbelievably awesome and th
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by spoondan 17y ago
It looks like the talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_hughes_demos_easy_augmented_r... ) has been removed from TED's website. It's advertised on the front page, but goes to a 404. I think its removal is a good decision, although I wish TE
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by spoondan 17y ago
How does Jobs being well-known imply that we don't have to respect his desire for privacy? I simply cannot see how our interest legitimates our prying. And make no mistake: This is prying. You said that attention can't be turned off like a
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by spoondan 17y ago
Put yourself in Jobs's shoes; would you so blithely assume that it's OK for the public to dig into your medical history? The only reasonable obligation on Jobs is to announce that he won't be performing his duties for some period. He did
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by spoondan 17y ago
Bury this. Jobs's medical condition, whatever it is or was, is a private matter about which he has elected to not speak. He's met all reasonable obligations by announcing when he was going to be out and when he expected to return. The rest
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by spoondan 17y ago
There's no justifying the cost for this project. However, UW has 27 institutions and a central office that this software is supposed to cover. Dealing with all of the campuses is an astonishingly difficult task. University systems in genera
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by spoondan 17y ago
Elite schools have renowned faculty, great facilities, lots of money, and a focus on research. Consequently, the curricula are better; the research opportunities more numerous and varied; the expectations greater. These institutions have th
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by spoondan 17y ago
It's possible that you just have sharper eyes than I do; I have been getting older (a deadly habit I keep meaning to break, but the withdrawals seem prohibitive). However, just to clarify, my point is not that these glyphs are indistinguish
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by spoondan 17y ago
Thanks for taking the time to put that together. Please note, however, that I complained about Profont's lowercase L looking like a one, not about its zero. Also, the original article's rendering of Droid Sans Mono does not have a slashed z
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by spoondan 17y ago
A few cases that have occurred over the years: 1. Working with inherited code, one of the original programmers had an identifier I believed was "el" (short for "element") but that was actually "e1" (presumably short for "element 1"). You
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by spoondan 17y ago
By my reckoning, six of the ten have major flaws that make them completely unacceptable for use as a programming font. Courier, Profont, Consolas, and Incosolata all have insufficient distinctions between 'l' (lowercase L) and '1' (one). Dr
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by spoondan 17y ago
If I had to pick just one thing that Scratch gets right that other programming languages should strive for, it would be the immediacy with which a beginning programmer can get compelling results through trying things. I've seen many would-b
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by spoondan 17y ago
Humanity is already deeply divided by the ownership of technology; it has been for all of recorded history. Those that have the technology have won the wars, grown the food, and built the shelters to survive and propagate in greater numbers
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by spoondan 17y ago
If you're a Photoshop user, would a brand new PSD alternative offer tangible benefits--faster read/write performance, smaller files? That's unlikely. Being easier to code has nothing to do with offering better performance. This could not
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by spoondan 17y ago
This is addressed in the LA Times article; it jives almost exactly with Wikipedia's rendition. Hillebrand hit upon the idea of using the control channel. His team found room for 160 characters. There was a question about whether this was su
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by spoondan 17y ago
Focus on being efficient rather than quick. Charging off in the wrong direction will slow you down. Paralyzing yourself by over-complicating decisions will slow you down. Move forward at a steady rate and you will get things done faster.
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by spoondan 18y ago
Is sending a forged e-mail accusing your roommate of being gay illegal? It sounds juvenile and malicious. But I don't see how it's a crime. Anyway, you've misread the warrant application. The forged e-mails were tracked to a dynamic IP addr
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by spoondan 18y ago
Employers with a significant number of employees working under stressful conditions should consider voluntary furlough programs, regardless of the state of the economy. Vacation, as it is currently implemented, can increase stress on these
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by spoondan 18y ago
Amazon's stated intent is to bury all so-called "adult" materials. What do they have to gain by that? If the idea is to protect the dainty sensibilities of some prudish souls who might be offended by finding a naughty book for sale? Such pe
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by spoondan 18y ago
I think your point can be summarized most plainly by saying PHP is cheap to host. I don't doubt that is a large part of its continuing popularity. But it is begging the question: Hosting providers didn't force PHP on the world, they met a d
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by spoondan 18y ago
There's something I find morally and intellectually dishonest about this article. Although Joel ultimately decided Noah deserved a bonus in this case, he never outright rejects the argument that bonuses aren't deserved for such cases in gen
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by spoondan 18y ago
It's true: People don't keep their contact information up to date, don't make backups (or do so infrequently), and don't always read (or act on) that super important e-mail until too late. To me, that's precisely what makes AOL's actions in
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by spoondan 18y ago
Simpler for whom? The user who has to manage N passwords for N services, instead of one password? I'd rather Twitter's staff suffer a moderate amount of pain once than have every user suffer lesser pains continuously. Programmers (myself in
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by spoondan 18y ago
The only problem with this approach is that you cannot de-provision individual bad actors. It's an all or nothing approach. There's a lot of work involved in re-provisioning the good guys, and where there's work, there's psychological resis
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by spoondan 18y ago
Yes, yes, a million times, yes. It's stupid to give any service any credentials except those created specifically for that service. (This dictum includes the common practice of using the same password for multiple services.) This is not an
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by spoondan 18y ago
It is absolutely false that "scientists were freaking out about Global Cooling". In fact, thirty years ago, the scientific consensus was for warming, and there was grave and growing concern about the effect of greenhouse gases. Any review o
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by spoondan 18y ago
He's reviewing Ender's Game; he has evaluated its message and merits on its own. It'd be better to disagree with his opinions than to complain he doesn't cover material he hasn't set out to review. Anyway, why would you expect the reviewer