alphamerik

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by alphamerik 14y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, because between the multitude of posts in this forum and the posts which I responded to on the blog, I feel like I am taking crazy pills. What is the big deal here? Seems like so many of my peers have deep seat
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by alphamerik 15y ago
> Wow, back in 1991, he was being considered for a Presidential Appointment [...] That's what all of the documents seem to be from On the first page it looks like in '07 two documents were destroyed, also from '85 there is a report from
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by alphamerik 15y ago
How does etherpad (acquired by google) compare to just using Google docs? Recently went through an interview with Google where we used a shared document, it was a horrible experience. I remember thinking that no sane person would code with
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by alphamerik 15y ago
The problem is that if the cryptography is broken, in regards to #3, you have no idea if a token created with the 'old method' is real or counterfeit. In a decentralised service you would need to convert all old tokens into new tokens befor
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by alphamerik 15y ago
[cough] I hear Google has pretty good bandwidth and scaling. Ever try App Engine? [/cough]
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by alphamerik 15y ago
This is a good example of why (how?) language is so weird. Maybe I am just satiated, but for an inquisitive mind, to me "Why is the moon in the sky?" and "How is the moon in the sky?" parse out to be semantically equivalent. Science (astro
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by alphamerik 15y ago
I think the whole point of that part of the article is that the only answer that could satisfice O'Reilly and viewers is that of religion, and Norvig says Chomsky has a philosophy "(some would say religious belief)" i.e. some unscientific b
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by alphamerik 15y ago
A couple of years ago you had expressed interest in making a port to App Engine, any interest in doing that still? Want any help? ;)
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by alphamerik 15y ago
Not exactly the same, iOS is not and will never be open source. Google is only delaying the source release of honeycomb until they are happy with the product.
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by alphamerik 15y ago
Agreed, I don't understand what all of the anger is about like in this highly opinionated and skewed Ars Technica piece: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/03/android-open... The source will be released when Google is happy with
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by alphamerik 16y ago
It amazes me that people would put coworkers second. Those people can be very annoying because I feel like their only purpose is to leech knowledge rather than do any real work. OP's list is the lazy programmer's list. Taking breaks to t
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by alphamerik 16y ago
So at an average of $1 per user/month, and a charity giveaway designed to generate at least 15,000 users, the $150k should be recovered in less than year. Good stuff :)
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by alphamerik 16y ago
Have you considered charging for write access? Allow the site to be publicly readable but charge people a yearly fee to submit stories and posts. They would be much less likely to act abusive if they are paying and their access could be r
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by alphamerik 16y ago
I do indent my code, but I prefer to auto-indent. Using indentation to determine if a line of code falls inside or outside some logic block requires a lot more effort for me. Would much rather just use curly braces. Curly braces also mak
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by alphamerik 16y ago
They lost me at Stanford vs State school, I had to stop there. Cover letters are an excellent way to judge the intent and character of an applicant. Sounds like Scott is the one with a chip on his shoulder there...
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by alphamerik 16y ago
So by compatibility break you mean that you are pissed that Android can run at any processor speed? I have news for you, in iPhone-land the phones in a couple years will be faster too. :)
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by alphamerik 16y ago
I have been using JIT on my ADP1 with 2.1, and it hasn't broken anything. Performance is great, 3.5mflops in linpack vs 2.4mflops. But I am confused, why do you think there is a compatibility break?
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by alphamerik 16y ago
Dale Carnegie has been writing about this stuff since the 30s, minus the pithy blame. This guy sounds like he is going through a late stage realization wound up with an entitlement attitude.
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by alphamerik 17y ago
Maybe, or perhaps or is because they are white and college educated. After all, white male college graduates between 25 and 44 have the next lowest unemployment rate of any demographic group.
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by alphamerik 17y ago
Scientists like Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Neil deGrasse Tyson have done more for the public interest of science than any so called administrator, and oddly enough they tend not to impose their specific agendas in the process. If the
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by alphamerik 17y ago
Yes... I would expect a pragmatic scientist to be pragmatic about science, and a pragmatic politician to be pragmatic about public issues, ie politics. I fail to see how Columbus holds any credence in the conversation, Columbus sought the f
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by alphamerik 17y ago
A pragmatic scientist might realize that a discovery in itself is neither good nor bad, and would fight for the public interest of doing science for the purpose of discovery, rather than politicizing what they feel the public is interested
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by alphamerik 17y ago
This is only bad news if you happen to be a politically motivated person rather than a person of science.