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by v21 15y ago
That's the best web demo I've ever seen. I'm a jaded person, but I clicked on all the things and did all the stuff and felt pride at using their (impressively easy) interface. Serious unexpected design chops from Google!
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by v21 15y ago
The difference between things that came true, and things that are still as far off as ever seems to come down to how much energy they take to do, and (which is much the same) whether the advance depends on Moore's law or not. Tiny computers
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by v21 15y ago
Not necessarily: the Gömböc-shape could be a envelope of similar shapes. Any object within that envelope is a Gömböc, and ones just outside it are "almost Gömböcs"
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by v21 15y ago
But on the other hand, I can do it (I think) quicker than entering a PIN code, and without looking at my phone. Always a tradeoff...
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by v21 15y ago
The thing is, the blog format is a pretty lightweight format. It works for a large variety of purposes. More to the point, it works well as a searchable archive of essays. I agree that a ordering that de-emphasized time would be preferable,
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by v21 15y ago
I'm not suggesting that you offer management tools, but an addition to your API that allows for specifying multiple recipients for a single message would probably be quite popular. It would also reduce your server load, as you would receive
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by v21 15y ago
I wish there was a name for this law. It runs something like this: If there is a reasonable proxy measure for a desirable behaviour, and you reward the reasonable proxy measure, it ceases to be a reasonable proxy measure.
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by v21 15y ago
"Long-term"? The ones rioting in the Parisian banlieues were typically second or third generation (if they were not native). And those riots were caused by a lack of opportunity, not a bleeding dry of the state. And I live in the UK, and co
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by v21 15y ago
And when I search for UK connections, that cheap quoted price is via Manx Telecom, not direct-to-carrier (which is, as they say, more reliable). I'd assume their inbound VMNs are, too (which means some networks would get hit with Internatio
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by v21 15y ago
I agree. Watching this, I start thinking of all the exciting shit I could do with it. But I'm not a company with a contract with Ninty. So i won't. Hopefully the protocol is easy enough to decipher, and I can start using it as a remote cont
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by v21 15y ago
Hm. I don't know that this is a defense either - but this design decision was at least made deliberately, with awareness of the trade-offs involved. " The find bar is presented as an overlay in order to prevent page relayout when the bar is
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by v21 15y ago
Well, these folks at Google have been working on something along those lines...
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by v21 15y ago
Where did he call them unbiased? (I would call them reliable, though they certainly have an agenda. But they've always struck me as working hard to present facts, or at least label opinion as such. Certainly I can't think of another site ab
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by v21 15y ago
Fuck, I cried at work, just as a son who loves his father.
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by v21 15y ago
The best example I can think for online, executable wikis is http://scraperwiki.com - it allows you to create web scrapers, then periodically runs the scrapers and offers up the data in a nicer feed. As it's a wiki, anyone can reuse the s
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by v21 15y ago
A lovely interview with Gabe Newell, touching on their hiring processes, and studio management: http://www.develop-online.net/features/1192/Gabe-Newell-on-V... I think what it comes down to, is if you're Valve, you get to have your cake a
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by v21 15y ago
But from a business point of view, looking at an anticipated total cost of ownership, it might be a pretty good deal.
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by v21 15y ago
Or, if you do, hand over the data in a nicely archivable form, and prevent the need for crawlers.
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by v21 15y ago
No idea why you were being downvoted. I was just curious, as people were using the terms interchangably and they aren't always used that way.
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by v21 15y ago
Is capitalism the same as the free market?
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by v21 16y ago
I live in the UK, and have gotten good feedback from jobs I didn't get. Even though they were rejections, I often agreed with their points and choices. I liked the companies more as a result. If I had solicited, and then received this email
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by v21 16y ago
What's frustrating is trying to Google a question, finding forum threads telling the original questioner to use Google, and refusing to answer the question.
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by v21 16y ago
_The_ Abe Froman? The Sausage King of Chicago?
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by v21 16y ago
I have friends still who use CVS (and don't see why it's so bad). In fact, we still have CVS repos around. Change is slooow.
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by v21 16y ago
But on the other hand unit testing isn't the same as testing. Integration tests, regression tests, stress tests, "miscellaneous automated tests" are all valid sets of tests.
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by v21 16y ago
To people too cheap to get a new iPad, like me.
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by v21 16y ago
Wish I'd thought of this. And that I'd made it. And that it doesn't catch on.
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by v21 16y ago
Who'd pay $2 to use a reskinned Craigslist on the web?
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by v21 16y ago
No, my point is that disruptive students will drag down all the scores of the entire class. In addition, you have to assume for your corrections that the level of disruption is consistent across subjects and time - ie a disruptive class mig
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by v21 16y ago
The only component of student behavior the predictor will not account for is whatever component of behavioral factors which are uncorrelated with SES, but are correlated with the distribution of students between classes. I.e., there will n

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