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by vogonj 15y ago
hm, OK. in that case, I'll give Apple the benefit of the doubt and say that if 10.1 and 10.7 could possibly run on the same computer (since 10.1 was PPC-only, and 10.6 and 10.7 are x86-only), they'd let you upgrade directly for $30. thank
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by vogonj 15y ago
Incidentally, the total upgrade price from Windows XP to Windows 7 Home Premium is $109 at Amazon right now, and to Windows 7 Ultimate it's $171.( http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap... ) By comparison, OS X 10.1 wa
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by vogonj 15y ago
When Windows XP was released, the newest Mac computers were the Power Mac G4, the PowerBook G4, and the white iBook G3. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh#History ) The iBook shipped in only one model, with 128MB of RAM. The PowerBoo
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by vogonj 15y ago
unless Siri has undergone a lot of changes since the last time I looked at it, there is a sharp line between speech recognition and determining user intent/question answering; it was founded as CALO ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO ), a
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by vogonj 15y ago
nerds haven't been all-about-the-Windows-ecosystem for a decade or more, if indeed they ever were. Microsoft has had dominance over personal computing for so long because people aren't by and large nerds, and computers weren't fashion state
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by vogonj 15y ago
it's not an apples-to-apples (heh.) comparison, because Google builds their own speech recognition engine and Siri/Apple licenses the engine of a company called Nuance (at least, last I checked), and so their language scaling is limited by
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by vogonj 15y ago
as someone who works a lot with speech recognition: speech recognition demos differently from how it works in the field. the demoer gets to remove all of the semantic noise from the system (people who aren't Phil Schiller or their wife, ch
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by vogonj 15y ago
I interpreted the parent's comment as being about things like "great Greek restaurant in Cupertino", which are essentially instant search. but yeah, the reminders stuff in particular is a cool new realm for voice control.
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by vogonj 15y ago
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/basics... and Kinect voice commands are of equal sophistication.
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by vogonj 15y ago
yeah. I'm just saying that the magic in the system is that it's a well-designed system with attention to detail, not that it's capable of leveraging anything approaching human intuition.
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by vogonj 15y ago
this is exactly the same as voice search + "instant actions." there's no line between the two.
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by vogonj 15y ago
the standard is 8kHz-16kHz, 8-bit PCM. higher frequencies are of limited utility in recognizing human speech.
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by vogonj 15y ago
"my wife" is Almost Certainly* explicitly flagged in his address book, either as an alias or through a "relationship" field. he didn't show you that part. (the same is likely true of the geofence, though a location-aware algorithm could p
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by vogonj 15y ago
educated guesses: a) Siri won't work at all, or will degrade to something like Voice Control, if the server is unreachable or you're out of coverage; b) all of your dynamic data (address book, calendar, etc.) needs to be synced to iCloud fo
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by vogonj 15y ago
agreed -- for what it's worth, I've looked into node.js for some of my projects, then thrown it out because I already know other technologies which serve the same purpose. the problem isn't with the technology, the problem is with the mark
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by vogonj 15y ago
<derail> I find the notion of sharing libraries between the client and server kind of odd, in that people who talk about the "open web" think it's a desirable quality. it allows you to rev a protocol faster, but at the cost of not b
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by vogonj 15y ago
disclaimer: I'm not a node.js expert by any means, and most of my day's work is on client code written in system programming languages (C and C++.) that which isn't, is in C#. I don't know of anything in particular that they're doing wrong
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by vogonj 15y ago
ARM has a second instruction set built into it called Thumb, which performs a subset of ARM operations in smaller instruction sizes. ARM is also an incredibly complex architecture which -- as someone who can effectively write x86 assembly
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by vogonj 15y ago
nice strawman. my point isn't that you shouldn't build up buzz. it's that, when buzz exists around something, your job as a platform implementor includes making people aware of the things your product can't do well, and pitfalls the end-us
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by vogonj 15y ago
buzz is omnidirectional -- when people start talking about a technology, platform, or stack, people of all shapes and colors will show up and use it. and when your product pitches itself as having super amazing performance due to this pro
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by vogonj 15y ago
to expand upon this, here are some other representative Ted Dziuba posts: http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html http://teddziuba.com/2011/02/the-case-against-queues.html http://teddziuba.com/2011/03/osx-unsuitable-web
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by vogonj 15y ago
you realize that you're just making Ted's point for him from the opposite direction, right? his point, when you look behind the trolling, is that node.js is not magical special sauce and that shitty coders who write poorly-scaling code will
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by vogonj 15y ago
this is Google's actual legal reasoning as to why they shouldn't be held liable for contributory patent infringement in Oracle v. Google: "[S]ection 271(c) applies only to offers for sale, sales, and importation, but Google does not sell, o
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by vogonj 15y ago
one thing I'd like to scream from the rooftops about Web fonts in IE, though: IE respects the TrueType/OpenType embedding level, but at least some other browsers (last I checked) don't. if your Web fonts are set to an embedding level below
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by vogonj 15y ago
both of your choices are wrong. Microsoft is doing this because there is already malware that patches the NT kernel and boot manager, and Microsoft gets blamed when it happens: see things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alureon , a ro
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by vogonj 15y ago
I'm an employee of Microsoft in the Valley. when I leave work at 6:15, there are maybe 15 people left at their desks in the section of the floor I work on (which has about 150 desks in it.) I know multiple people who show up around 11 and
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by vogonj 15y ago
except perhaps at great effort and expense, you can't gain a monopoly over books on a given topic, and once someone has transferred all of the information out of your book into their mind by reading it, the book has no enduring value to the
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by vogonj 15y ago
http://www.yelp.com/developers/getting_started/api_terms http://www.yelp.com/developers/getting_started/display_requi... http://www.yelp.com/static?p=tos "5. Restrictions You agree that you will not, and will not assist or enable othe
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by vogonj 15y ago
it's anti-competitive. the question is not whether it's hurting consumers directly, but whether it is stifling competition in the spaces that Google enters, which then indirectly hurts consumers -- a lack of competition, the theory goes, s
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by vogonj 15y ago
you can either use Courgette or bsdiff or some other binary diff algorithm for compressing code updates, or punt and choose to fully replace all of your code every time you rev. update verification is a < 100-line block of code using sy

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