Pooter

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by Pooter 16y ago
I think his reasoning is more like "I see a fundamental design flaw in all other cars which Toyota has recognized and addressed in a way that I like, and wish other manufacturers would adopt that solution or one similar to it." You don't ha
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by Pooter 16y ago
> It's a test update, one whose sole purpose is to help Microsoft work with the carriers to figure out how to roll out updates. If it's a test update, why is anyone who doesn't work for a carrier and/or Microsoft aware of the problem? I
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by Pooter 16y ago
Looks like a really cool framework; the demos are pretty spiffy, too, particularly the realtime video frame analysis of the Shreck trailer.
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by Pooter 16y ago
Actually, my solution was to fire the whole division AND get out of the market. And this isn't a technical problem; it's a process and culture problem. MS almost certainly has the technical and financial resources to have prevented this. Th
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by Pooter 16y ago
Thanks for having the courage to disagree through mods rather than comments. And thanks again for the continued cowardice.
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by Pooter 16y ago
I had roughly this same experience with buying VMWare Fusion two years ago. Nice to see they're paying attention to customers.
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by Pooter 16y ago
Just wow. Fire the entire mobile division and get out of the market; you're cursed and/or hopelessly incapable of executing properly on anything in the space.
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by Pooter 16y ago
If you're gonna disagree, have the courage to do so in writing.
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by Pooter 16y ago
Why can't you explain it? Is it because your post is a bunch of poorly conceived bullshit? Is it because you don't really give any time to consider the intent of what's being said and the social context of the terms employed? Is it cause y
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by Pooter 16y ago
The solution, ultimately, is for the site to wither and die, and be replaced by something else that will have the same fate. This is what happens to all things, and to all human social groupings in particular, from ancient Rome on down to y
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by Pooter 16y ago
No, shut up. Python isn't a statistical programming language.
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by Pooter 16y ago
I think I get an email once a week or so that tells me what people I'm connected to have changed. That's basically the only time I ever even consider checking out LinkedIn's site.
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by Pooter 16y ago
Part of the selling point of iOS is that it works well. And it does. And 3rd party plugins that Apple has no control over reduce the quality of that experience, increase support costs, and generally add instability.
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by Pooter 16y ago
I believe Jobs actually made this point fairly directly, though couched it in terms like "if people start using 3rd party tools to generate cross platform apps, you wind up with crappy apps that don't suit the platform, have undesirable per
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by Pooter 16y ago
Don't kid yourself. In Philly, it owes more to the apathy of the courts than any egalitarian motivations.
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by Pooter 16y ago
> People don't seem to really have a clue as to what is actually difficult or interesting from a CS perspective. Pardon me, but I do have a clue as to what's actually interesting and/or difficult from a CS perspective. I work in NLP res
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by Pooter 16y ago
1) Find person nearby with a drink that has ice in it 2) Use spoon to extract the ice from their glass 3) Put ice in coffee Also, you may need to threaten the person with the spoon to get the ice.
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by Pooter 16y ago
No, I'm not sure what everyone's so excited about. Basically, they did a televised demo of a natural language search interface. I'd be curious to know more about how the system works, and how they trained it and/or curated the knowledge ba
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by Pooter 16y ago
Just do it. Keeping someone around who doesn't pull his weight AND has a bad attitude is poison. Cut the losses (yours and his) and get it over with. Also, don't give advance warning and don't give reasons. Warning just creates risk for y
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by Pooter 16y ago
I had a Russian professor (teaching the language, and from the country) in college who mentioned one day in class (I forget how we got onto the subject) that Americans smile a lot more than Russian people, and that it generally seemed false
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by Pooter 16y ago
When Watson's language processing abilities are sophisticated enough to understand contextually sensitive ambiguities that humans have no problem with, I'm more inclined to entertain the notion. As someone that works in NLP and information
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by Pooter 16y ago
Cause they're able to get laws written to suit them, cause they're richer and more motivated than you are.
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by Pooter 16y ago
Or RealPlayer, MediaCenter, or Songbird.
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by Pooter 16y ago
Enough to be dangerous. How much more to they have to demonstrate?
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by Pooter 16y ago
And because they realized that it ruled out large swaths of application classes that they don't have an issue with (games, for example). Mostly, it was about keeping crappy flash apps of iOS. And from a platform perspective, that did actual
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by Pooter 16y ago
1) You're not locked into Apple's devices. ITunes is standard mp4 audio and plays on a variety of platforms; the DRMed video plays through itunes on windows too. 2) Amazon's VOD service provides DRMed video, too. Then what's the issue?
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by Pooter 16y ago
Or, you know, it's a way to get content providers to sell through Apple. If there's a 30% premium to get on iOS through Amazon, a way around that is to just sell through iBooks. We'll see how it shakes out. Maybe it'll be like the "nothing
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by Pooter 16y ago
> While not the most honest move, it is a brilliant PR coup. You misspelled vaporware. Apple announced something they're gonna roll out in the next rev. of iOS. Google put out a press release.
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by Pooter 16y ago
Apple doesn't even come close to having a monopoly. Microsoft most certainly did have one during the browser wars, and were leveraging it to get people to increase IE marketshare. With Windows on the desktop, you didn't really have much of
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by Pooter 16y ago
None of these are Rails specific. Don't stick session data in a relational db if you can put it in memcache or someplace similar. Also, MySQL's query optimizer and execution engine suck (SQL server, DB2, Oracle, and PostgreSQL all handle in

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