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by tingley 16y ago
I'm not sure I buy this argument, because Wired consistently ignores it regards to men. Like in 2005, when they put Blake Ross on the cover (issue 13.02). Or 2006, when Will Wright was on the cover (14.04). Or 2008, when they featured Ra
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by tingley 16y ago
Like most MT engines, Google Translate quality varies wildly by language pair. When MT is used for pre-translation in professional translation settings, it's pretty common to cherry-pick particular engines for particular source and target
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by tingley 16y ago
Reason #2 ("they make you sign the contributor agreement") is basically a declaration that the author doesn't understand US copyright law. If you are serious about keeping your code free, up to and including the ability to enforce its lice
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by tingley 16y ago
RSS is not dead, but as a technology it is fairly stagnant. There were a solid five years when little was accomplished other than repeated version forks based on the dumbest sort of squabbling imaginable. I don't think it's dead, because a
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by tingley 16y ago
It's quite possible that Google already owns some. We will find out when and if they find a counter-suit. Counterclaims of patent infringement are a standard tactic. I assume Oracle is angling for a settlement here. I can't imagine they
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by tingley 16y ago
I am more of a builder than a pure entrepreneur, so YMMV. I quit my job when my son was seven months old, took a month off, then went back to work three days a week. I'm a stay at home dad the other two. Eight months later, this seems very
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by tingley 16y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red/Blue/Green) has this sort of development as a backdrop. Nothing good comes of it.
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by tingley 16y ago
It makes me happy to see how much success Dropbox is having. It's a great product.
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by tingley 16y ago
I'm breaking my own personal rule of the internet by saying this, but I went to Harvard in the late 90s, and I was friends with a bunch of math/physics types while I was there. A good number of them went to Wall Street. I think a lot of wha
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by tingley 16y ago
In high school, I remember learned this from reading James Gleick's book about Feynman. Feynman had written in one of his notebooks, as a fifteen year-old: THE MOST REMARKABLE FORMULA IN MATH: e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0 I marched in to my
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by tingley 16y ago
From what I've seen, it's mandatory in that you are no longer able to edit your 'Info' page without linking everything on it to pages. Also, it seems this is being rolled out to different people at different times -- I saw it a couple days
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by tingley 16y ago
This is wonderful. I've "been thinking" forever about trying to write a book to teach children (in particular) how to program in python. But among other problems, I had never come up with an approach that made sense. (That is, one that d
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by tingley 17y ago
Jesse Ruderman's zap colors bookmarklet ( https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html ) cleans it up nicely as well.