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by RWeaver 13y ago
Source?
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Thanks for the link. He definitely did quite a good job with the fitness function (bigrams, finger priority, etc), I just didn't see quite how he came up with the workman layout specifically. If he manually evaluated a few layouts and
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by RWeaver 13y ago
It sounds like all of these layouts are just people taking guesses and reporting on their anecdotal experience. Has anyone ever tried determining a fitness function (travel distance, priority finger use, sequential characters on nearby fing
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by RWeaver 13y ago
I bet the tourism companies inside the USA are over the moon with where this is going.
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by RWeaver 13y ago
It's because they're procured based on verifiable requirements, and yet there's no way to specify a verifiable requirement for user interaction. Security is almost the same. 'Must be secure!'. Unless they procure an
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by RWeaver 13y ago
What if you have a laptop? I often have some crappy tv show over on the right hand side of my screen with the code editor taking up the other 3 quarters. Or two notepads in semi different places to be able to type text from one to the other
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by RWeaver 13y ago
I liked nReduce, but I think a lot of the ideas could have used some feedback (including mine at the time), or early pivots, some were very obviously not that great It might have been good to incorporate some sort of acceptance gateway or i
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by RWeaver 13y ago
I'm probably still very uninformed about Japanese society (it's complex), but they are probably more prone to suicide than others. From what I understand there is a huge emphasis on obligations to others, perfection, and the shame
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Hopefully as batteries improve we can push into the new paradigms of compact wearable computing (watches, raspberry pi rings?) and augmented reality. The premise that we're all done innovating is completely flawed, and there are no dou
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Credit cards are privately owned though. You don't -have- to use them and if you stop the surveillance stops, so it's a choice. With government surveillance you have no choice, not even by moving overseas.
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Minimal frills I would think And then there's machine code - industrial alcohol
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Or pirate party!
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by RWeaver 13y ago
The leader of the opposition is a devout Catholic. As the minister for health he tried to block abortion treatments until overruled by his party, and nearly became a priest before settling for lifetime politician. He became the leader of th
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by RWeaver 13y ago
I wish I could upvote this a thousand times. It's great documentation, about documentation. I wonder if it would be worth encouraging people to put their names on official documentation that they write. They'll take some pride in
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by RWeaver 13y ago
It's a service to society if the grandmother would otherwise be taken care of by the government (at enormous expense probably) I can imagine other fulfilling activities like helping less fortunate people get back on their feet, which c
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by RWeaver 13y ago
So train them. Give them a general aptitude test, tell them you're taking a chance and hope they'll stay for at least three years and give them mentors and a couple of months to come up to speed or they'll be let go
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Unless you think of a dynamic ad market as an efficient market signals system critical to the economy. Ie get the most interesting market messages to the right people, while not bothering the rest. Not that I do anything related to advertis
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by RWeaver 13y ago
No doubt. If China had done this, the USA would be at the brink of war right now. They would be 'terrorists', or 'information terrorists' or something bizarre for undermining the 'international government'. So
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Remember MS-Java? As I recall it was a superset of Java. So you could migrate your java programs effortlessly towards MS, but couldn't get away! I'm glad they lost that lawsuit
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by RWeaver 13y ago
And Angular directives are pretty self contained, with their own scope, template, functions, etc. You need angular.js obviously, but that's just the generic library.
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Don't forget corporate secrets. What are your profit margins? What is the maximum/minimum you're willing to pay for all of your current negotiations? What is the design/strategy for your latest products? What is your exa
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Society gets to decide the rules though, and we can't all do that when only a tiny fraction know what the rules are, and anyone that tries to talks gets prosecuted under the espionage act. Obama really needed to keep his transparency p
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by RWeaver 13y ago
The data retention laws in Australia haven't been approved yet to my knowledge, but as part of the Echelon program they're not safe either. Although at least they announced the intention to make those changes to let democracy work
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Definitely, I'm on the lookout for any kind of service that operates in a country with transparent law enforcement and accountability. I trust Google not to share my sensitive information (product strategies, negotiating positions) wit
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by RWeaver 13y ago
And they make a big song and dance about every request having judge approval and being overseen by the court, we already know that they just rubber stamp the collection of 'everything' and gag the companies not to talk about it.
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Could it be both? Most network monitoring systems specifically don't want to modify the network data, so "direct access" is undesirable anyway. It seems Google, FB and others are compelled to duplicate all data (including rea
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by RWeaver 13y ago
The thing is "no comment" would basically confirm that 'something' is happening that's secret. Everyone would go conspiracy wild and pull everything they have away from Google. They probably want to confirm it, but
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by RWeaver 13y ago
The thing is we can't trust any statement by anyone because of the gagging component of NSLs. I've heard it said that the above information is for FBI requests under the patriot act and doesn't include NSLs. For all we know N
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by RWeaver 13y ago
My Galaxy Nexus worked really, really well when I first bought it. A couple of updates later it's running like molasses despite lots of spare HD space and no random services eating RAM. The culprit is the Google services I can't uninstall a
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by RWeaver 13y ago
Not to mention the organs it's nearest to in your pocket

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