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by themarkn 8y ago
I don't consider it a tall order, it's exactly what I'd expect advertisers to do with these tools, if there was no specific process to prevent them from doing so.
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by themarkn 8y ago
I think this is key. Used to do it, then didn't need it!
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by themarkn 8y ago
Thanks for expanding! Yes with the spec being in draft who knows what will change. I'm really interested in seeing what the Firefox implementation turns out to be. Hopefully close enough to Chrome's that everything still works. Ar
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by themarkn 8y ago
Here's a video demo of what we are working on: https://youtu.be/xcUxd9sOkaM There are a few features not listed (like exporting a correctly-formatted subtitle file) but you'll get the general idea. There's a
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by themarkn 8y ago
Could you tell me some more about this? I have used the web speech recognition API in Chrome (coming soon to Firefox also) to create a free project for real-time, editable, transcriptions in the browser that could be projected on a screen o
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by themarkn 8y ago
Not sure who downvoted you because yes I should have used commas not only in the above comment but also in this one.
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by themarkn 8y ago
Man if we shampooed our hair before eating our hands would be extremely clean.
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by themarkn 8y ago
> My first intuition when facing unexpected billing would be to figure out what the major contributor to the bill is (in this case, massive reads from FireStore), not update my frontend packages. They didn’t upgrade packages to solve th
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by themarkn 8y ago
Your points about these things are right in that you can’t just randomly apply a quota anywhere in the process and expect a good result. Eg the solution to discrimination in the justice system is probably not to put more white people in j
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by themarkn 8y ago
You are right - I should have written more carefully. I strongly disagree with the statement, but you are still a person and the fact that we don't currently agree on this doesn't mean I should insult you. It was bad writing. I di
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by themarkn 8y ago
> Give people freedom and the opportunity to do what they want, and then the result will naturally be the fairest possible. If we all started with the same options, this would be true. Our limits would only be reflections of our preferen
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by themarkn 8y ago
> Banks lend out money based on it. Courts make judgement based on it. Government gives out social support based on it. Insurance rates and medical care is all about individual assessment. ... these are all examples of places where bia
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by themarkn 8y ago
I guess quotas is such a vague term maybe it’s pointless to argue this. There can me more or less effective/fair implementations of a quota system. I’m not sure what better ideas are out there that don’t involve measuring the result in
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by themarkn 8y ago
Thank you for this perspective. I’m not going to argue. It sounds like this experience sucks mightily and I need to give it some thought.
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by themarkn 8y ago
We are very far away from the inherent limitations of measurement in this case though. Eventually we will hit those limits and have to throw up our hands and say “we’ve done our best”, but there are lots of big, well-documented effects of i
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by themarkn 8y ago
I disagree that this was well said. I think the underlying is point that blind tests of skill reduce bias and lead to increased diversity is a good one. As is the idea that we need to measure diversity on more than one axis. (My wife is not
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by themarkn 8y ago
I agree we should follow the preference. That's what I'm saying to do. My understanding from the link I posted is that EE Cummings did not want to always have his name lowercased: he chose to do it in certain contexts for specific
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by themarkn 8y ago
I like the poem. I also like this take on what we should do about capitalizing his name, it feels like it's as close as we can get to a rule: http://eecpoem.pbworks.com/w/page/9068325/Decapitalization ..
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by themarkn 8y ago
I was a vegetarian for years and it fell apart when I spent 6 months as a music tour manager. When you are on the road you need to work with what's available. I support being vegetarian and even encouraging this among employees somehow
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by themarkn 8y ago
The article seems to suggest that religious needs etc would be met.
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by themarkn 8y ago
Not inherently, but in this case all positives are matched to the same wording, and that wording expresses 100% certainty to the user that something in the file will harm their computer. That's a lie, because that is not what has bee
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by themarkn 8y ago
I agree that finer classification is needed. However: if you decide to declare to a user that every individual file that might contain a virus does contain a virus, that's intentionally deceiving them. It's deciding "X% o
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by themarkn 8y ago
I really love free code camp, but I had watched all of CS50 a year before and found it to be incredibly useful context. I didn't feel the need to dig in and do the exercises but just to take the time to understand what the CS people mi
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by themarkn 8y ago
I completely disagree with this sentiment. Everything in a UI that you can do with a mouse should be tolerant of disabilities that people who use a mouse might be going throug (tremors etc). A user shouldn't have to try to do somethi
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by themarkn 8y ago
For me I'm ok with this in certain situations. If the time taken increases the clarity about what is going on or what has just happened (in the case of the ripple effect confirming a button was clicked or tapped), I don't find it
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by themarkn 8y ago
I usually say this to my direct reports- "we have to do the review, but I promise there won't be any surprises!" And then I focus the review on how I value their contribution, how they positively influence their coworkers and
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by themarkn 8y ago
It's fair to say that, because it's true, but it's not in and of itself a reason to write somebody off as a nut, or assume they have not found any other way to gain expertise on the thing they are talking about. I think OP&#x
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by themarkn 8y ago
> In a discussion of 'native apps vs web apps' it absolutely makes a difference that Electron apps are rendered by a browser's web view - they're basically a web page rendered by a local source not remote, but without
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by themarkn 8y ago
> I can’t believe I had to explain that. You didn't really have to. I guess I made my point badly. The fact that a "web browser" is somewhere in the chain of what is reading an application does not mean that the applicatio
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by themarkn 8y ago
This is a simple definition but I think it lacks a couple important things: 1. It doesn't match the words. If that defines a "web app" then where does the web come in? I would think part of being a web app is that you can acc

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