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by voyou 13y ago
RAII is great, and should be used where appropriate. I'm not sure what it has to do with reference counting, though. Reference counting is just a particularly slow and unreliable form of garbage collection; I don't see why you wou
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by voyou 13y ago
And now you have to debug your log files (don't worry, though, the log files log their operation so any bugs will be easy to track down).
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by voyou 13y ago
Is this a good thing? What the development process in this post appears to involve is a mostly-mechanical filling in of function definitions to match a pre-given type signature; but, if it's mechanical, shouldn't the compiler be a
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by voyou 13y ago
"better demographic targeting for ad sales" Does Facebook really produce better demographic targetting? Facebook has more explicit knowledge about me, in that I've filled in stuff like my age and gender on my Facebook profile
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by voyou 13y ago
Odd that Winer doesn't mention Google's actual attempt to do what he suggests here, which was called OpenSocial (and had buy-in from MySpace, back in 2007 when that might have mattered): https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by voyou 13y ago
"Pick a bunch of AI problems and see how well it does on all of them." The problem is, you have infinite potential algorithms and a finite number of tests. This means you'll necessarily get algorithms that pass all your tests
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by voyou 13y ago
Exactly. Saying that with infinite CPU power you could brute-force a solution is like saying the Library of Babel[1] contains every book ever written. True, in a sense, but not as useful as you might think. [1]: http://jubal.west
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by voyou 13y ago
YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by voyou 13y ago
Yeah, I think the animation as "move-from-previous-place" is a mistake, in that I don't think it matches our mental model (or my mental model) - I don't think of the toolbar as something that remains tied to the place I
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by voyou 13y ago
"Paying for "legitimate" facebook exposure will expose you to the click farms as well, and that will be the absolute majority of your gained likes." Does that matter? I mean, obviously if you're trying to work out w
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by voyou 13y ago
> nobody has found any evidence of the law being enforced And yet: "A Russian court has fined a newspaper editor for publishing an interview with a gay school teacher who was quoted as saying 'homosexuality is normal.'&quo
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by voyou 13y ago
"If I was in charge of Windows that is likely what I would do. Make Windows for Desktop and Windows for Touch, with starkly different UIs and designs, but with some emulation layer so people can run a touch app on the desktop (in like
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by voyou 13y ago
Wait, you're saying Medium is the new http://adequacy.org/ ? Finally, I understand!
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by voyou 13y ago
Yale seems to be claiming that this website uses Yale's data in violation of their terms of service or their copyrights, that is to say, that such use was not within the law. I don't see how this law would prevent a UK university
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by voyou 13y ago
Which poem (as you may well know) provided the title for Adam Curtis's interesting documentary about what happened when this cybernetic pastoral utopianism began to interact with politics and industry: http://vimeo.com/
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by voyou 13y ago
"they don't know that all the blue-eyed people know that the blue-eyed people know" Yes, they do. In the three-person case, a blue-eyed person can see two other blue-eyed people, A and B, and they know that A can see B, and v
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by voyou 13y ago
"what they don't know (until the 2nd) day) is that all the other blue-eyed islanders know that all the other blue-eyed islanders know that there are 99 other blue-eyed islanders." I don't see how they know that on the se
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by voyou 13y ago
"These parents want more help doing so" There are parents who feel so strongly about filtering their children's access to the internet they were willing to put pressure on politicians to strongarm ISPs into implementing opt-i
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by voyou 13y ago
Domain names are a low-level technical detail. Their purpose is to provide a level of indirection, so that you can retain a consistent reference to a server while changing the IP address (which is more tightly connected to how the network i
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by voyou 13y ago
My favourite alternative domain name startup is "Bango," which back in the early days of the mobile internet wanted to make domain names easier to type on phones by replacing them with numbers: http://www.theregister.co
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by voyou 13y ago
"here have been multiple bombing attempts on aircraft by would be suicide bombers" Yes, and they've all failed . That means we have at least enough security, and we should start thinking about scaling it back.
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by voyou 13y ago
"they didn't file for (or were denied) an exemption" That's nonsense. Every ISP is implementing its own system, and none of these systems include a way to check if your own site is blocked. So, even leaving aside the que
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by voyou 13y ago
"company are now choosing to, by default, have sexually explicit content blocked" But that's not what they're doing. They are choosing to block a wide range of material, some of it pornographic, some of it educational,
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by voyou 13y ago
Where were you in the US that didn't put butter and mayo on sandwiches? Both seemed to be standard on sandwiches I bought in the Bay Area.
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by voyou 13y ago
"Twitter requires clients to ask for the DM permission before they can send DMs" Perhaps it should, but it doesn't - apps can use the normal API to send DMs without asking for the special DM permission. So the use of the &quo
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by voyou 13y ago
"The question that needs answered though is who is liable for non working software?" Valve are. As a matter of law, any seller is responsible for selling a working product. If Valve claim otherwise, they're lying, and probabl
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by voyou 13y ago
It's going to suck for all those scientists when they realise their "evidence" is just false data fed to their brains in vats, though. (Or, more generally, this "quack philosophy" is trying to get us to think about
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by voyou 13y ago
The question is more like "We usually think we know X, but it looks like it's impossible to know X; what's going on?" That is, the real question is, what is it about our understanding of "knowledge" that leads
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by voyou 13y ago
Bostrom's simulation "argument" is really embarrassingly stupid. "The real world might be a simulation" is not only not probably true; it's false by definition , because the real world is definitionally not a
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by voyou 13y ago
The problem with Torment is that it's a great piece of interactive fiction trapped within the RTS-turned-RPG engine they inherited from Baldur's Gate . Torment 's strength is the writing, which you have to read through th

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