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by tygorius 16y ago
Two aspects spring to mind. First, we don't know how long ago this course was, so it's quite possible some of the story is either dated or a slightly misremembered anecdote for a physicist who was brought up with slide rules for his calcula
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by tygorius 16y ago
At the beginning the author says his experience is based in 1997 -- which triggered a bit of a WTF response from me. If the language hadn't been updated in that time the "review" might make sense, but as your details point out it's woefully
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by tygorius 16y ago
I understand the logic. I found browsing faster and more pleasant when I added a Flash blocker, for example. JS on the other hand is only occasionally a pain. It might all boil down to differences in the sites we regularly visit.
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by tygorius 16y ago
I know I'll burn in programmer's hell for this, but I like it!
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by tygorius 16y ago
I've never said that Taubes has all the answers and neither has he. Indeed, on his blog Taubes himself has identified areas where he has a hunch about mechanisms but admits we simply won't know until better research is done. Throughout this
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by tygorius 16y ago
It's just personal preference. I like getting updates to applications and kernels with the six-month release cycle, but their new interface release cycle seems rushed. With Arch I have even faster access to app and kernel upgrades without t
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by tygorius 16y ago
Yes, FWIW I took it as a request for information, not as an invitation to a Klingon death match because I'd insulted your family's honor. I celebrate diversity! ... even as I remember Philip K. Dick's liberal translation of de gustibus non
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by tygorius 16y ago
Well, it's just my personal opinion, but it seems to me that the 6-month release cycle has practically guaranteed they would add new features before they were ready and consequently screw up something that seemed to work just fine before (e
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by tygorius 16y ago
Well c) isn't really the case in Mr. WhinyUser's second request, to add SHA256 hashes. He originally claimed it was "really easy" to do, but balked at actually providing any code unless the maintainers promised to accept it. A couple of day
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by tygorius 16y ago
Agreed on the thumbs up for Arch; I'm not thrilled with the direction Ubuntu has been taking recently (at least in the desktop version) and so have been migrating my non-server Linux boxes to Arch. Sad to see LWN publish an attack without m
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by tygorius 16y ago
I mentioned Taubes' earlier bona fides because it was presumably his track record with articles and books on cold fusion and particle physics research that convinced the editors of _Science_ to give him the go-ahead on his 2001 journal arti
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by tygorius 16y ago
As you can tell from your own reading, it's not the "fad diet" book that SwellJoe claims. The science is pretty clear on how insulin works, for instance. Most of Taubes' critics mistake his case for restricting carb intake as being synonymo
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by tygorius 16y ago
I think it was a reference to the color scheme in the screen shot, not to the site itself. I find choices like dark blue and brown against black to be hard to read.
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by tygorius 16y ago
I'm not sure how relevant Gary Taubes is to the subject of carrots. In his latest book, "Why We Get Fat", carrots aren't mentioned in the text at all, only in an appendix which spells out a Duke University Medical Center diet. For those who
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by tygorius 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand this. Are you saying that iPads are easier to connect to projectors than MacBooks, or that with iPads you don't need a projector?
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by tygorius 16y ago
My comment was about the exaggerated claim that people have to lug around power bricks for their laptops. Let me put it to you this way: would the meeting scene you witnessed have been any better if they'd had iPads instead of MacBook Air
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by tygorius 16y ago
The last three "offices" I've been to have been an oral surgeon, a dentist, and the pet hospital. In all cases light boxes have been replaced with electronic storage and big LCD displays. The oral surgeon worked with printouts of the x-rays
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by tygorius 16y ago
His work is in Supply Chain/Management Well, his research and work have been in the area of risk management -- so I find it quite plausible he has access to detailed assessments of nuclear power plant liabilities.
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by tygorius 16y ago
I think your examples hit on a key point -- iPad use cases are decided by individuals, not by organizations. I occasionally watch a CNBC trading show ("Fast Money"). The four traders at the desk used to have live market feeds delivered to l
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by tygorius 16y ago
Funny thing about the market, it gets to tell you where the sweet spot is, not the other way around. Your scenarios presume that the iPad's mobility will trump the disadvantages of the small screen size to the point it will replace existing
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by tygorius 16y ago
Read the study, it's not dismissive at all. According to the authors, roughly 1 in 3 kids don't respond to changes in diet. As someone who recently abandoned methylphenidate for my new BFF bupropion, I understand the sensitivity to common c
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by tygorius 16y ago
It seems to me that pointing to Mondragon[1] and Semco is misleading, as neither are sovereign nations with all the pesky little details that entails. It's great that Mondragon is (per Wikipedia): "the seventh largest Spanish company in ter
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by tygorius 16y ago
After some supplemental reading, the hypothesis of ADD/ADHD symptoms as a reaction to food allergies has been tested before[1], the authors had done a previous experiment published back in 2009, and it appears this experiment was designed t
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by tygorius 16y ago
Yeah, I raised an eyebrow on that point as well. Funny how the doctor can state authoritatively that 64% of kids' ADHD symptoms can be traced to diet, but there are no specific details on what the relevant diet elements are. It's as if she
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by tygorius 16y ago
Hmm... Calxeda and Dell are at the prototype stage and haven't shipped yet. In the Register article, ARM admits they have "0%" market share in PCs and servers. So the data for ARM in those markets essentially boils down to "boy, those mark
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by tygorius 16y ago
Interesting. That says to me that their reasons for leaving were more over hurt feelings than reganwald's distinction between knowledge compendium and community. Do you agree, or do you think something else is going on?
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by tygorius 16y ago
This is one of the author's better posts. Some of it seems reminiscent of Paul & Moynihan's "What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars", particularly the point of confusing rapid success in one area (stocks or poker) with the necessary ex
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by tygorius 16y ago
I wonder if "disruptive" is really the right term here. As you point out, Intel dominates in market applications such as servers, desktop PCs, and netbooks -- and it's not at all clear to me that Intel's business there is threatened in any
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by tygorius 16y ago
The two explanations (low price point, new distribution model) are not mutually exclusive. Baen Books, for example, has offered free sample books for a dozen years now, with good results for some authors. But there's obviously a difference
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by tygorius 16y ago
Thanks for posting those links. That explains a lot about where he's coming from -- I hadn't caught the Racket and HTDP connection when I posted my previous comment.

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