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by voyou 13y ago
Are these really that obscure? Well, the 3[array] thing is unexpected and also not something you would use in real code, so it reasonably counts as obscure (although it's such a hoary example of "obscure C" that it's alm
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by voyou 13y ago
AIUI, this was the original genesis of Lisp - the S-expressions were supposed to be an internal abstract representation, and programmers would write "M-expressions" in a language a bit like Fortran. But everyone involved in Lisp r
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by voyou 13y ago
"These posts are entirely the result of authors who didn't buy bitcoins when they were cheap." That's nonsense. The post is a result of applying a particular economic theory of how money works to something that is appare
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by voyou 13y ago
So what can you make out of your bitcoins when you melt them down? The argument of the post is that gold-as-money is worth more than gold-as-commodity, and, if gold doesn't have an issuer, its value falls to that of the physical commod
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by voyou 13y ago
Thanks, that's really useful. It answers a lot of the irritating little questions that Scala's flexible syntax gives you, like whether or not to use dots for method invocation. I see that Twitter has a document on the best ways to
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by voyou 13y ago
Scala reminds me of C++ too, but it's impressive that, in a mere 10 years, Scala has achieved all the multi-paradigm incoherence it took C++ 30 years and tortuous backwards compatibility constraints to attain. Actually, I spent some ti
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by voyou 13y ago
"Never pull out your phone unless you politely excuse yourself from the people you are with." Among people I know, that is the standard practice; it's not something I've ever heard anyone advocate, it's just what ev
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by voyou 13y ago
But do you often find people around you checking their phones while in the middle of doing something else? It seems to me that people mostly use smartphones to kill time, when they're not doing anything else; on public transport or w
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by voyou 13y ago
The dash itself is written in C++. It gets some of its data from python plugins, but a) not when it's searching for local files or applications, for which it uses services compiled to native code and b) there's no reason python sh
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by voyou 13y ago
Why is the Unity dash so slow, and why does Canonical not seem to have any interest in speeding it up? Is it faster on their testing machines? Is it significantly faster on new hardware, if you're using an SSD, or if you have more th
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by voyou 13y ago
I'm surprised this article doesn't mention Franco Moretti[1], who is probably the foremost literary scholar using algorithms to analyse texts. Moretti advocates what he calls "distant reading" (the opposite of close read
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by voyou 13y ago
"That's how technology works" because that's how the specific bits of technology we're talking about have been implemented. We make the technology, and we could make it work differently. There are cases where un-und
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by voyou 13y ago
So Ghostery has an option to remove chunks of the DOM that it thinks have been added by Disqus, in an attempt to stop Disqus from tracking you. It's not clear to me that this would actually stop Disqus from tracking you, because by thi
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by voyou 13y ago
I think you underestimate how much Google knows about people. It seems to me that what you say is much less relevant to marketers than what you do , and in what you do, it's not obvious to me that Facebook has a big advantage. On Fa
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by voyou 13y ago
"They want real personal information from real human." I don't understand why they would want that. The kind of analytics data you can get from a Google profile is much more useful to advertisers than vague demographic cate
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by voyou 13y ago
Could you explain the brilliance of prototypes? Prototypes in JavaScript are pretty awful, but I've never been sure if that's just the JavaScript implementation (for instance, the lack of a good way to clone an object makes using
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by voyou 13y ago
And how right you were to stick with COBOL; even the Ruby community are re-inventing it now: http://cukes.info/
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by voyou 13y ago
Or possibly: http://xkcd.com/606/
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by voyou 13y ago
Web Intents[1] would have helped with this, but they don't seem to have got much traction (Wikipedia says Google have stopped working on the idea). 1: http://webintents.org/
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by voyou 13y ago
I think the key thing isn't so much "built-in to Firefox" as "supported and promoted by Mozilla." Some kind of federated chat web app would be cool and, if you could use WebRTC to make the main functions of it peer-
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by voyou 13y ago
Yes, particularly given that the spec explicitly says that for "lower-resolution devices" (i.e., normal computer monitors) the px unit should "refer to the whole number of device pixels that best approximates the reference pi
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by voyou 13y ago
Sigh. A 2005 parody of new-media bro idiocy, come to life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06AS8SiY3rw#t=54
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by voyou 13y ago
Excellent illustration of the fact that anyone who claims to be neither left nor right wing, is actually right wing.
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by voyou 13y ago
I still don't really get Medium. My current mental picture is that it's something like Pastebin with nice formatting - if you want to post something but you don't want to go to the trouble of setting up somewhere to host it,
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by voyou 13y ago
Nice try, but I think this is a little bit too obvious to really work as a parody of Silicon Valley vacuousness.
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by voyou 13y ago
: I like the "block" abstraction. It seems like a good way to visually work with structured content. Hmm, IDK. I can see that it could be a good way to represent and manipulate the chunks of text once you've got them, but hav
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by voyou 13y ago
I have in front of me a system that uses electromagnetic signals to interface between my computer and my brain; part of it even works wirelessly - it's a high-tech system called "a screen and my eyes." In what way is your pre
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by voyou 13y ago
If her doctor says her health is good, why should she listen to the "advice" of some random person on the internet?
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by voyou 13y ago
I love it when someone using a complicated network of computers acts as if something being an abstraction means that it doesn't have real effects.
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by voyou 13y ago
You've misunderstood this decision. They've delayed XMir and Mir . Ubuntu 13.10 will ship with X as its display server, just like all previous versions of Ubuntu.

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