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by zb 15y ago
That's true for a certain category of content - wall posts, photo albums, notes - although they don't make it especially easy. For comments, you not only can't control the privacy setting (it's controlled by whoever posted the original cont
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The Politics of Reason(zerobanana.com)
1 points by zb 15y ago|0 comments
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by zb 15y ago
I wonder if he's regretting using MySpace as an example.
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by zb 15y ago
You may say it's not their fault, but if you log in to LinkedIn today you'll notice that all of the "news" articles - now placed in an even more prominent position than normal - are about how underpriced their stock is. Entirely coincidenta
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by zb 16y ago
< cough > Stravinsky?
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by zb 16y ago
No! That was the orthodoxy for 40 years and it got us nowhere, because the construction metaphor is fundamentally wrong.
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by zb 16y ago
Because if you're the innocent target of a malicious sign-up then you shouldn't have to take any further action - particularly action that could expose you to further harm, such as clicking on a link randomly emailed to you from some site
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by zb 16y ago
Perhaps I’ve missed some obvious reason why the industry still does this. Because if you get a random email from some site you've never signed up for, there are two possible scenarios that you cannot distinguish between: 1) Somebody has m
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by zb 16y ago
This post originally appeared at OnStartups, where all my writing appears exclusively. You know you're old when: you still remember when the term "exclusive" actually meant something. Edit: on closer inspection, this version is actually t
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by zb 16y ago
Yeah, the bumble-bee thing is unfortunate. But there is something to this: we can trade away a verifiably optimal solution for something more useful, like a timely one. (Coincidentally, I submitted an article on that general theme this very
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by zb 16y ago
This article is incorrect on two counts: First of all, the travelling salesman problem is not actually about travelling salesmen; a solution has to work on an arbitrary graph, not just one that is constrained to the actual geometry of space
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Is it Safe?(zerobanana.com)
1 points by zb 16y ago|0 comments
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by zb 16y ago
You should try out Stacked Git, it provides a very easy way to deal with temporary commits. http://www.procode.org/stgit/
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by zb 16y ago
You're looking at the wrong end of the relationship: don't look at recommendations people have received, look at the ones they've written . That will really tell you something about them. Can they recognise the skills and attributes that a
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by zb 16y ago
One difference: if you're killed falling off a roof it's probably because you failed to take appropriate safety precautions; if you're killed by one of those other things it's probably because it was out of your control. People are, underst
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by zb 16y ago
He doesn't seem to be claiming that Git is more revolutionary than Mercurial/Bazaar/&c. as a VCS . I think it's fair to say that Git makes it easier to build some system other than a VCS from it, since all of the low-level commands for
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by zb 16y ago
You can feed the accelerometer data into the Kalman filter as well. However, since it's much more noisy than the GPS data, it won't give you any real benefit. Where people would like this is to do dead reckoning when a GPS position isn't
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by zb 16y ago
Actually, an accelerometer is far, far less precise because something like going up a slight incline results in a pretty significant change in the horizontal acceleration but a comparatively small change in the vertical acceleration (which
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by zb 16y ago
Technically, GPS uses both pseudorange and doppler data as an input. These are usually combined with the previously measured position and speed using a Kalman filter. Speed is generally more accurate than position (to the extent that it mak
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by zb 16y ago
I can't for the life of me work out why that infographic is in the shape of a wheel, instead of a list with the actual meanings written next to it instead of numbers and a key.
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by zb 16y ago
That column of text is far too wide for comfortable reading. Good suggestions on picking an appropriate measure here: http://webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Horizontal_Mo...
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by zb 16y ago
The quote said "information", not data. Edit: "There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days."
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by zb 16y ago
tptacek did an excellent job of explaining it for you already. It sounds a bit like you are thinking of design as "making things pretty", and it's not. It's about communication. The message this resume is communicating is that the author al
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by zb 16y ago
I'm also amused by the fact that the weather forecast simply reads "11:56 AM, Mostly".
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by zb 16y ago
Don't use that metaphor, for starters.
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by zb 16y ago
It's legit in his case, he's clearly doing such a bad job of it that nobody could mistake him for a real lawyer ;)
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The art of good writing(ft.com)
1 points by zb 16y ago|0 comments
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by zb 16y ago
You're looking at it as one or the other, when it should be one or both. Identifying problems that are soluble and then solving them without creating too many new problems is a lot more difficult than just solving problems. And also a lot m
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by zb 16y ago
Amazing that just a small number of humorous headlines can be motivation enough to keep clicking until I find one. I believe there have been studies showing that this is actually the best motivation of all. That's why we all check for new
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by zb 16y ago
OK, but that link still shows Software and Computer engineering ahead of Mechanical and Electrical engineering.

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