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by thurn 14y ago
The fact that somebody would even consider comparing 10 years of progress to several thousand years implies that some pretty good stuff must have happened in the last decade.
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by thurn 14y ago
This is actually an important lesson for game designers. Real randomness is very frustrating for players! Games should be designed to not be random. For example, there's an expansion to The Settlers of Catan that lets you use cards inst
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by thurn 14y ago
One approach to this would be to just ban extensions that are caught installing themselves without the user's permission. If the banned list is kept up to date it would make life hard for people abusing the system.
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by thurn 14y ago
Wizards of the Coast often puts up videos of celebrity D&D games: http://www.youtube.com/user/DNDWizards . There's a televised game at PAX every year, for example.
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by thurn 14y ago
The wikipedia article on browser share does a good job of illustrating the fact that nobody really has any idea what's going on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum... At least we can conclude Chrome is probably s
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by thurn 14y ago
Up there with other one-trick ponies like Exxon Mobil, I guess.
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by thurn 14y ago
I liked SkyDrive, but its Windows bias is pretty apparent. It won't sync Unix files that would be illegal on Windows (due to e.g. the filename) and the sync algorithm is pretty bad on OSX (frequently running my CPU up to 100%). These are so
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by thurn 14y ago
I wish flightfox.com would let us (regular users) run cool contests like this. The options for running a contest are much more limited than this.
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by thurn 14y ago
ChromeOS is years before its time. It's an aspirational operating system where Android is a realistic one. That also means that it's a little early to pass judgment.
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by thurn 14y ago
I'm not sure what motivates this comment... the issue at hand is certainly not a vulnerability in the SPDY protocol.
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by thurn 14y ago
> Amazon is, to my eyes, the only company playing in the same league as Apple I think it's a bit premature to write off all other Android tablets entirely. In 2009, Android phones also seemed like they weren't in the same league, and no
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by thurn 14y ago
Emacs versions to check out: Surround: wrap-region ( https://github.com/rejeep/wrap-region ) Command-T: ido-mode with ido-find-file snipMate: YASnippet Syntastic: flymake Buffer Explorer: ibuffer
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Google to Cut 20% of Motorola's Staff(online.wsj.com)
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by thurn 14y ago
Amazon has had, what, five years to expand its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service? The fact that they have chosen not to implies that they haven't managed to make it cost effective. I think this speaks volumes about the feasibility of gr
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by thurn 14y ago
Walk into a Walmart and you can find tons of knockoff products like "Honey Nut Oatie Os". The breakfast cereal industry doesn't appear to have collapsed, though. In fact, you can buy a generic brand version of almost anything .
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by thurn 14y ago
What resolution? It seems fine on my 11 inch Air @ 1366x768.
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by thurn 14y ago
When I search for "Eclipse Java", I want results about the IDE. When my girlfriend searches, she's probably interested in Twilight-themed coffee or something. That's what personalization is all about.
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by thurn 14y ago
I really don't understand what advantage they provide over regular static methods...
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by thurn 14y ago
It doesn't seem unreasonable to think that "purely functional" means "consisting of pure functions". Why not just say "functional" if that's what is meant?
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by thurn 14y ago
> I've no complaint with this, but it leads to the mistaken impression that great applications are written in dynamic languages Right, except for Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Wikipedia (yes, Facebook has a different PHP runtime which u
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by thurn 15y ago
Cool, but I'd have preferred some commentary and explanation, or at least a conclusion. What's the optimal play strategy?
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by thurn 15y ago
I suspect the author decided to emulate Steve Jobs and create some sort theatrical aura-of-mystery kind of thing to generate hype. People seem think that, for example, Apple products succeed because of their hype and secrecy, instead of r
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by thurn 15y ago
Doesn't the fact that Python won the "Favorite Language" poll kind of show that it's not just about hating on mainstream languages? Python's pretty mainstream, I'd say... definitely top 10.
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by thurn 15y ago
Didn't know Clojure 1.4 was going to have reader macros. That's awesome, one of the last features I was really missing from Common Lisp.
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by thurn 15y ago
The Galaxy Nexus extended battery does exactly this... I guess the device couldn't just ship with the good battery because god forbid you add any thickness to the device.
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by thurn 15y ago
This doesn't exactly help their credibility with me as a user. Why should I invest time in their next "experiment" if they're just going to give up a few months after launch?
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by thurn 15y ago
Awesome. There's no question that this is what the future of mobile development looks like.
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by thurn 15y ago
Isn't bgsound IE only? That's what a quick search lead me to believe...
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by thurn 15y ago
Anecdotally, I loved my iPad and used it daily until I got an 11-inch Macbook Air. Now it sits on a shelf for a month at a time without being used. I don't even really understand the appeal any more, I'm positive that most of my daily tasks
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by thurn 15y ago
I don't agree at all that this phenomenon is restricted to database programming. Thinking in terms of higher-level operations is always more readable and often more efficient (the logical conclusion being things like Haksell and Prolog wher

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