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by xtho 16y ago
> "cost to society" would be more directly attributed to the increased time of travel That's probably what he meant but it's not necessarily how you have to read the quote in the parent comment. I'm still not convinced that a speed limi
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by xtho 16y ago
You like the analogy because a speed limit of 50 would result in a decrease of fatalities due to car accidents? I guess that's what he meant with "cost to society" since IIRC more fatalities result in a higher gross national product.
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by xtho 16y ago
The category existed long before (take a look at, e.g., win ce-based tablets/pads that were released from 2000 on). They were the first though that used an OS that is truly optimized for a capacitive touch screen (those pads had resistive s
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by xtho 16y ago
It's okay to use it for templates only (and the same is true for php if you use a sane framework). If you use erb files to quickly hack together a dynamic web-page I'd be wary though.
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by xtho 16y ago
Since this is a prominent argument may I humbly ask, why would you want to take a library with you? You can only read one book at once. The only use-case for a portable library would be writing a scientific paper at the restaurant or coffe
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by xtho 16y ago
> "<? echo "Hello World"; ?>" That's actually a good example for why it should die (embedding code in html).
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by xtho 16y ago
Since you seem to compare terminal vim vs gedit: How do you run gedit in a terminal? I gvim you could have used the mouse too.
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by xtho 16y ago
"For a few years now, people have been expecting electronic textbooks to take off in a big way: They're cheaper than traditional textbooks" Somebody never tried to get a site license for something that is worth its money. Electronic media a
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by xtho 16y ago
How would a rss reader for people look like? Would it be able to rate/rank items accordingly to the probability that I'm going to like it? The main problem with rss feeds is the same as with many other media formats: people try to meet the
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by xtho 16y ago
How is it better than (or different from) http://github.com/tomtom/tselectfiles_vim which is vimscript only?
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by xtho 16y ago
With truecrypt you can also create file containers, which you can easily backup as a whole by copying them to another disk. In some situations, this has certain advantages e.g. when upgrading your hard disk. It also provides a way to allow
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by xtho 16y ago
I personally found it more pleasing to print web pages to pdf and copy them to the kindle via usb. But this wouldn't be exciting enough to blog about.
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by xtho 16y ago
As somebody who doesn't blog (and never did), I wonder if there is a difference whether you want people to follow your news feed or whether you market your articles on social news sites like this one. If it is news feeds, I'd say one of the
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by xtho 16y ago
Are you suggesting that this could explain certain events in the past?
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by xtho 16y ago
If the disorder is the new standard, then the underlying notion of a "normal" personality would become useless. Maybe the concept was wrong right from the beginning. It's interesting though that e.g. for Freud normality rather was something
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by xtho 16y ago
Did you talk to those people when they became homeless or did you watch them after years of homelessness during which they were at best ignored by common people?
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by xtho 16y ago
Choose something you use yourself. From the discussions on the user mailing list/forum you will soon find out what features users are missing. Or take a look at the bug tracker. Many procects have todo lists somewhere in the source tree. Th
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by xtho 16y ago
1 isn't a matrix. Integers/floating point numbers are in many languages treated differently than other types for reasons of performance and memory management etc. Ruby isn't different in this respect (IIRC they call it immediate objects). A
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by xtho 16y ago
"In some languages, you have some objects with methods named size, some with length, etc." In ruby you dont. It's #size and ruby is quite consistent in this respect. So it's remembering a method name vs remembering a function name (in a sup
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by xtho 16y ago
I didn't comment on the article but on the statement above about applied statistics being dominated by ml and about Bayesian statistics being the future.
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by xtho 16y ago
You can't solve all problems with machine learning and data mining. How would you apply those methods, e.g., to psychological experiments or test planing when every single test costs a considerate amount of money?
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by xtho 16y ago
"Academic Teaching: In academics, the courses available rarely go beyond just some Stat 101" Not if you study statistics. The problem with learning only "applied statistics" is that people lack the mathematical foundation to unders
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by xtho 16y ago
Well, the original 7'' eeepc probably was too small for most people. I personally understood (and welcomed) their move to 9'' models. I personally find it interesting though that they haven't since released a model that offers noticeable im
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by xtho 16y ago
You don't need to cite a study but describing contrived and hypothetical counter-examples isn't the proper way to criticize empirical research either.
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by xtho 16y ago
How does tcl, php, and vimscript support dynamic scoping? Examples please. IIRC common lisp supports dynamic scoping too -- it defaults to lexical scoping though.
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by xtho 16y ago
I simply hope you were ironic since both phrases should be avoided when writing about science.
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by xtho 16y ago
What would be the devil's term for HTML pages? Chiseled in stone?
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by xtho 16y ago
Since more and more plugins are available as git repositories, vimball becomes less important though.
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by xtho 16y ago
There are other similar solution for handling "bundles" (or plugins distributed as git repositories): tpugin (on demand path manipulation): http://github.com/tomtom/vimtlib/blob/master/macros/tplugin.... scriptmanager: http://github.com/
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by xtho 16y ago
I love it when a statement begins with "Research shows ..."

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