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by yungchin 17y ago
There's one essential difference between him and professors, noted subtly in the "it's part of their job, remember?" - he doesn't receive a teaching salary. Whether receiving public money should automatically mean that your writings should
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by yungchin 17y ago
I think the important part of the plan is not to put books on computers; it's the open-source part. Whether schools eventually opt for a print version of the text is a matter of preference. It is not the printing that makes textbooks too ex
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by yungchin 17y ago
I guess that solves half of the problem - allowing you to compare results between engines should keep them "honest". But the barrier to entry for a new engine would remain as high, or?
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by yungchin 17y ago
(This is my own, in case that wasn't already very clear... I hope for forgiveness on the basis that it's not totally rubbish)
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Federating Internet search(oei.yungchin.nl)
8 points by yungchin 17y ago|4 comments
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by yungchin 18y ago
Great. So now you can write code that you can only get the rest of the world to use, if it's so absolutely magnificent that they'll replace their default interpreter for it? They might have also made it auto-insert the "self" method paramet
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by yungchin 18y ago
An excerpt: "The biggest threat to MySQL future is not Oracle per se, but that the MySQL talent at Sun will spread like the wind and go to a lot of different companies which will set the MySQL development and support back years. I would not
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"Monty" Widenius on Oracle and MySQL(monty-says.blogspot.com)
4 points by yungchin 18y ago|1 comments
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by yungchin 18y ago
I suppose this outcome was inevitable. MS couldn't afford the bad publicity of an all-out litigation, and would have perhaps risked a ruling that would render all software patents worthless. TomTom was in a worse position though: if they'd
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by yungchin 18y ago
This is going slightly offtopic, but since you're bringing up this example, can I ask you for a link/citation for that list of physicists? I'm a bit surprised by the story, since Einstein's work was I believe internationally recognised almo
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by yungchin 18y ago
Perhaps speed is (subconsciously) a more influential factor than we think. I think it is on that basis that Google is rather obsessed with page load times - see eg. https://adwords.google.co.uk/support/bin/answer.py?answer=87... - and pre
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by yungchin 18y ago
I would never need more than 5 seconds, because by then I will have switched to the next activity and cleared the email from my in-brain queue anyway. Typical use cases are where you notice just while hitting Send that you: promised a link
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Proof-of-concept exploit: Intel CPU cache poisoning(theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com)
8 points by yungchin 18y ago|2 comments