StrawberryFrog

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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> I don't know about the quality of the English translations of his books I don't know about the quality of the original Polish, but ... some of his heavier works are well, heavy in the English version. I'm thinking of "Solaris", "His
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
It's very similar to the argument that Jeff Atwood gave a while back that "If it's a core business function -- do it yourself, no matter what" ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/10/programming-is-hard... ) And taken on those terms -
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
It looks like he's using their logo too.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> By your logic, if the Iranian government accuses someone of sluttiness, spying or apostacy, we should extradite the accused to Iran. If they were accused of sluttiness while they were in Iran, by an Iranian citizen or two, then there
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> Considering Assange has probably been pretty careful and paranoid You'd expect that, wouldn't you. But then his whole career show less risk-aversion than most people. To put it mildly.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Conspiracies are pretty rare, but opportunistic behaviour by governments is not hard to believe. Pissing off governments is like running for president; your transgressions will be dug up and used against you. Are you finding it hard to beli
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I agree that lack of email is mad. But how big a decision can this be? If it can run programs, it can run an mail client. Even an exchange client. "it won't have an email client" is not part of the hardware design, it's just that the softw
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
That's not quite right though; there is a CSS level 3 and these specs are in it.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
In summary: no, they're in CSS3; but it's all modular and might not be implemented at the same time. There is incentive for MS Grids to go forward soon, they're important to MS for use in Windows 8. Also, they're cool, or rather they're a s
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Are the ms-grids and the multicolumn layouts in CSS4? It doesn't look like it from that draft. Are they just free-floating proposals at this stage?
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
It shows that the DMCA and Patriot act were not an aberration, were not an anomaly that would be rolled back; but the shape of things to come, part of a trend. Note the use in the title of the words "back" and "worse than ever". This is not
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Have you tried reading a PDF on a kindle? It works . technically. But it's not pleasant.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> > In some sense you wouldn’t even be human anymore. People like Jeff are better regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs. > I think Yegge's just defined the best characterization of t
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Maybe, but I enjoyed reading all of Steve Yegge's rant. It was informative and funny. And I don't even work for google. And it wasn't really even 10 pages long. The criticism of its length is fatuous and flippant, and not substantive.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
In pg's Hierarchy of arguments http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html , "I stopped reading after x pages" is "DH2: Responding to Tone" and therefore always unconvincing.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Maybe it's my unenlightened European perspective coming out here, but why is this a big deal? Facebook chose to do business in Europe, Facebook chose to be governed by European law.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
"oversized" is different to "larger"
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I'd guess WordStar. Or failing that, WordPerfect. WordPerfect was more commonly seen, but WordStar fits the description of "Runs on CP/M and is not supported" better. Edit: See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar#Abandonment
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> Actually there is no difference between search page result sites like the OP and what you said Uh, yes there is. http://www.somesite.com/index.html?q=foo is obviously a search (right down to the choice if q for query), but http://
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Great comment. > Before cars, towns were organized for churches or shuls to be within walking distance which means segregation. It's not gone. Some areas of North London are full of kosher delis, men with black hats and side-curls, etc,
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> At the end of day, you seem to miss my point altogether. Testing for the skill is not useful in itself. It is just an heuristic. I see the point, I just disagree with it. There's some validity to using CS101 knowledge as a heuristi
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> First, knowing your 101 Data structures is correlated to your Computer Science general knowledge. I can't quite shake the idea that what you're really testing is if the applicant has been to the same kind of school as yourself. >
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> Even if we don't manipulate these data structures directly these days in code We don't manipulate them indirectly either; .Net or Java lists aren't implemented like that.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> implement an algorithm that finds the value of the element in the middle of a linked list I'm struggling to think of the last time I had to use a linked list for anything. I'd be tempted to give the troll answer: put the elements into
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Good developers are hard to find at any price.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Oddly, I also recently switched to chrome. Firefox started randomly freezing up. Sadly, it looks like some corner-cases have slipped through the FF quality control now that they are releasing faster. I notice that Firefox 7 has gone to 7.0
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
As others have pointed out, a the point of a "phase 1 trial" is to find out how safe the treatment is. This drug passed. Once that is done, how well it works is the Phase 2. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial#Phases
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> I've yet to see a positive comment regarding this new feature Spotify -> Facebook integration used to be optional. Now it's becoming mandatory. It's hard to find an upside of that for users. The only upside that I can possibly thi
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Correlation is not causation, so forcing all new users into that workflow won't necessarily make them the kind of people who would do that voluntarily. Also, this is a statistical relationship - there will be users who were likely to buy pr
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I'll take a guess at the pros and cons for spotify: Pro: some users like the integration and the social features that it gives them. This doesn't explain why it's now mandatory, or why it's become mandatory right now. Pro: Has Spotify done

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