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by voyou 12y ago
Perhaps The Republic would have been even better in tweet form, because all the bits where someone says "yes, Socrates" could have been replaced by simply favouriting a tweet.
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by voyou 12y ago
"My guess is that these people are Facebook employees" Why do you guess that? Facebook could get a very accurate assessment of user opinion by surveying 10000 users. If Facebook has over a billion users and surveys 10000 of them,
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by voyou 12y ago
"Amazon is the biggest competitor brick-and-mortar shops have ever seen" Is it? The sorts of brick and mortar shop Amazon is a competitor to are things like Walmart or Best Buy, or other shops that compete on price or range of sto
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by voyou 12y ago
"the user-agent switch involves adding a Safari identifier" Well, the default user agent string for Chrome already has a Safari identifier in it, but I don't think Safari user agents have a Chrome identifier. The change being
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Police arrest operator of torrent site proxies(torrentfreak.com)
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by voyou 12y ago
The difference in price between hardback and paperback books is not due to the difference in production costs (which is minimal). The difference in price is because it provides a way to capture consumer surplus. Some people are willing to p
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by voyou 12y ago
But as I said, MVC already has unidirectional data flow. An MVC View doesn't make changes to the Model, so can't lead to cascading updates of other Views.
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by voyou 12y ago
A lot of this seems like it's just MVC, except what they call the "View" is a traditional MVC Controller (the UI element that handles user interactions and sends these to the Model), what they call the "Controller-View&q
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by voyou 12y ago
That's a good idea. And as that's a common pattern, you could allow the programmer to specify that the compiler should automatically implement this delegation. You could call this feature something like, I don't know, "m
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by voyou 12y ago
I think the main difficulty in converting your example to a functional style is how to express the idea of a for loop which builds up a result as it goes along, without using a mutable variable to store this result. Here's an attempt t
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by voyou 12y ago
"It just will eventually get removed, years afterwards" I'm fairly sympathetic to the "right to be forgotten", but this Guardian article does raise some troubling questions about exactly how it is going to work. Two
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by voyou 12y ago
Who cares if it's being "faked", though? The code should just check directly for the existence of process.nextTick, not use a bunch of obfuscatory nonsense to check that the string representation of some object matches some a
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by voyou 12y ago
I can imagine supporters of homeopathy would have a great time drawing unfounded conclusions from the bit in that article that talks about fluids exhibiting a "path memory".
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by voyou 12y ago
From Graeber: "Instead of people selling us or renting us out we rent out ourselves." Graeber is suggesting that renting someone's labour-capacity is fundamentally the same whether the person is renting out their own labour c
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by voyou 12y ago
Those are all messaging apps, for sending messages to an individual or to a specified, small group. Twitter is a microblogging system, for sending messages to an indefinite, large, group. They have very little in common.
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by voyou 12y ago
Tell us more! Where do you work? Do you think they are unusual in having someone on staff to pay attention to academic work?
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by voyou 12y ago
I think "ampersat" was first coined in the 90s (when email suddenly made the @ sign more common), presumably by analogy with "ampersand". The earliest reference I can find is a suggestion from a viewer writing in to CBS
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by voyou 12y ago
Did you mean to post a different link? That appears to be discussing the same case.
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by voyou 12y ago
Researchers create bot that poses as Twitter user and automatically follows other users at random, are surprised that other Twitter users automatically follow their bot at random. (I've only skimmed the paper, so I may have missed it,
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by voyou 12y ago
The proposals mentioned in the article (replacing regular public schools with charter schools, performance-related pay for teachers, a new "transformational" superintendent) are similar to the policies proposed in Waiting For Sup
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by voyou 12y ago
"I would rather have the comment jump out at me." Really? The only time you need to know that removing that line will cause a segfault is if you are going to remove that line; but, if you're going to remove the line, you&#x27
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by voyou 12y ago
Fullscreen mode has been a standard feature of Linux window managers for a long time - it was certainly available in the metacity WM (used by Gnome 2) 10 years ago.
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by voyou 13y ago
The standard Ubuntu install includes Deja Dup, which does encrypted backups to Ubuntu One. I don't remember ever seeing much marketing of this feature from Canonical, though.
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by voyou 13y ago
Exactly. Eat24 is mad that Facebook won't carry their ads for free, and I can't say that that's a position I have much sympathy for.
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by voyou 13y ago
This might well be right. VR proponents like to present people who disagree with them as conservatives, but is it not in fact the case that the VR proponents are the real conservatives? That is, the ubiquity of computing devices that you ge
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by voyou 13y ago
It's true that when Marx talks about abolishing private property, he has in mind means of production, but I think it's a mistake to try and explain that by making a distinction between "private" and "personal"
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by voyou 13y ago
Facebook's purchase of Instagram was big news because a lot of people thought of Instagram as an app that lets people post cheesy filtered selfies, and it seemed surprising that that was worth a billion dollars. Google buying Nest has
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by voyou 13y ago
Just realised I may have missed your point; anyway, you're right that "monoid" is harder to find an easily-understood counterpart for than "container". There are examples of monoids which everyone is probably fami
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by voyou 13y ago
It's good to use precise, specialised language to communicate with other people who are familiar with that specialised language. Using specialised language to "explain" another piece of terminology from the same specialised v
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by voyou 13y ago
"the problem is that there's no good real-world equivalent of a "monoid" that basically everybody is familiar with." But that isn't really true. Addition and multiplication are both real-world examples of monoi

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