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by vph 12y ago
Sign. This is why we can't have good things.
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by vph 12y ago
> The dependency on Google had started to annoy me. Either Chrome or Firefox or something else. Choose your poison. One's life has to be depended on something.
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by vph 12y ago
It's not the language of choice for introducing CS to college students at all. The author should do some research first before making such a statement. No sensible CS departments would do something like this. For some reason, I see
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by vph 12y ago
Products like this do not have the burden of a trailblazer like the Chromecast. When the Chromecast was introduced, they must explain elaborately what it does. For this Amazon product, simply saying "4x storage 2x memory more than Ch
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by vph 12y ago
>Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies. People volunteer all their social information. Yes. It's about social networks, not Facebook in particular. The alternative is choosing not to participate. This is an intrinsic proble
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by vph 12y ago
The reason that Yosemite/Mavericks stall for a long time (although they inform users wrongly that there would be few minutes left, causing panic) is due to the copying and moving things in /usr/local/. If you have a hug
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by vph 12y ago
protip: delete /usr/local/Cellars and posibbly LiveTex before upgrade OSX.
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by vph 12y ago
he proposed progressive tax on consumption. His argument makes sense.
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by vph 12y ago
If done properly, multimedia can convey information that text cannot possibly do. Text just lack the dimensions that multimedia have. An example includes the RSA Animate series, which take really good books written by really good authors
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by vph 12y ago
I failed to understand this line of criticism. Open Source is a software development model. It's not a model of society and does not guarantee to consists of only well-mannered people. There are ugly, difficult people everywhere, n
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by vph 12y ago
>As people, we do great things. We make babies laugh. We conquer mountains. We volunteer at soup kitchens. We do things that entertain, inspire, and comfort one another. In return, these things make us happy, awestruck, and loved As peop
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by vph 12y ago
Well, there are several. I am not sure where to start. But I guess the most fundamental problem (to me) is this: at the core of the app are "implemented algorithms". Right? What is exactly "implemented algorithms"?
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by vph 12y ago
I am predicting this thing will die a horrible death.
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by vph 12y ago
> Rumours have been circulating that the Chinese search engine is developing a bike that could drive itself through packed city streets. I will believe it when I see it.
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by vph 12y ago
It's suspicious if it is not done frequently, and it is a sensitive location (e.g. a huge gas tank). Cops aren't stopping you if you take pictures of the Washington monument or the Statue of Liberty. But if something that doesn&
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by vph 12y ago
I don't get the overreaction. If some stranger is walking around the neighborhood, doing something legal but suspicious or out-of-the-ordinary, a cop should have the right to stop him and ask questions. Cops should have the power to
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by vph 12y ago
Not to defend Wolfram, but to understand this you'll have to understand that "The Wolfram Language" is not like the traditional "programming languages". Traditional programming languages consist of a set of grammar
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by vph 13y ago
I completely disagree with this point of view. I often feel that many blog articles intentionally leave out dates because they want to feel "fresh" or they pretend that they came up with some great ideas first or they want the co
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by vph 13y ago
I hate blogs without dates. A good blog article is dated properly when it was created and revised. If you want to promote a new blog platform, better date your blogs properly.
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by vph 13y ago
A white guy, tall, decent looking, math professor, rock climber, guitarist. He didn't need to hack OKCupid to end up with an Asian girl of his dream.
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by vph 13y ago
The mathematics that programming -- program verification -- requires is unlike traditional mathematics. All programmers do this; all programmers will go through a process to reason why his programs are correct. This process might be forma
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by vph 13y ago
Throughout the course of our lives, we have to make decisions based on "rules of thumbs". Cops have to make decisions based on "profiles" determined by such rules of thumbs based on statistics, experience and sometime
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by vph 13y ago
>How'd I do? You are wrong.
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by vph 13y ago
Surely, the color of skin is part of looks . How much is it? I don't know. But it is naive to say that skin color is the only thing.
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by vph 13y ago
The author hypothesis is that criminal profiling is based on race. A simpler hypothesis is that such profiling is based on looks. Now, instead of wearing suits, if he wears baggy jeans that almost fall off his butt, puts on a few tatoos,
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by vph 13y ago
What about the prosecutors who have been asking her to tamper with evidence? Are they going to jail?
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by vph 13y ago
One has to take a grain of salt with Stephen Wolfram's claims of superiority. Nevertheless, it appears that people have to pay to use "the Wolfram language" (although there might be scenarios that allow "free usage"
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by vph 13y ago
As someone who likes photography, I have to disagree about your reasoning. The clarity of your subject is as much about how much it is in focus as how much irrelevant things are out of focus. Portrait photos are often beautiful when the
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by vph 13y ago
This is nice, but I don't think it is refactoring.
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by vph 13y ago
>> NP-complete is essentially shorthand for belonging to a class of problems that are computationally very hard That is actually incorrect, and is a common and serious misunderstanding of beginners. NP-complete problems are not hard

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