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by badgar 13y ago
My undergrad thesis advisor, Bill McKeeman, wrote his parsers in this fashion. I implemented a parser using this model and extended its existing lexer. The token stream is an array of 32 bit integers, each of which is the token type bitmask
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by badgar 13y ago
> Nope, it's bullshit, just like badgar's half ounce-a-week descent into ruin. Excuse me ? First of all, nothing I described was "descent into ruin." I said I'm having a hard time not smoking pot and it's affecting many aspects of my l
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by badgar 13y ago
Nobody in this thread knows what they're talking about. You might as well have said "As entertainment, food is no worse or distracting than television." Look, not everybody gets addicted to pot, in fact most folks don't. But it's psychologi
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by badgar 13y ago
Yep, Galaxy Nexus here and it is completely unresponsive to any interaction whatsoever.
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by badgar 13y ago
> Problem? The problem is you aren't sticking with the narrative folks here are comfortable with. This particular Internet forum assumes Google has zero support, even though this is pointed out as false in literally every Google thread.
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by badgar 13y ago
What's up with Peter Norvig's comment at the bottom? Did he not RTFA? He suggests a solution that the article criticizes heavily halfway through.
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by badgar 13y ago
The last I've heard of this was 2 years ago, an article in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_... At that point, it was ~40% of revenue and ~80% of profits from subscribers. Apparently they've gone
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by badgar 13y ago
Random is incorrect.
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by badgar 13y ago
That's because it's Google Now, not Google Planner. It's for giving you information relevant to right now. You don't plan to use Google Now for something, you check it when you want information relevant to you at the moment. If you stop t
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by badgar 13y ago
> You can't be sure if a card will appear for flights In my experience, Google Now finds my flights in my Gmail 100% of the time. For at least a dozen flights across the US. And for some airports (SFO is one, unsurprisingly) it even h
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by badgar 13y ago
You buy expensive makes then, I really hope you know that you're way above what most people spend on cars. Most cars don't have those chips yet. The only sort of mainstream car I've seen with a chip in the key is the prius, which starts in
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by badgar 13y ago
He had root, so he could have instead installed a rootkit, which can hide the existence of processes from all of userland. In a graduate OS class I took, we had an assignment to do hide a process live on OpenSolaris 8 using the kernel debug
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by badgar 13y ago
> uptime percentages are a useless measure Uptime is only useless if you don't care about high availability. Many startups don't, but Google sure does.
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by badgar 13y ago
Whenever I go to bed early, I wake up for the best hour or two of my life around midnight. Good to know I'm in working order.
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by badgar 13y ago
When people don't argue in good faith, I think it's more important to make sure others following along see so and aren't misled by FUD and ignorance. I value that over being sensitive to the person who is participating in bad faith, as this
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by badgar 13y ago
IANAL, but cell phone calls are encrypted, and I'm pretty damn sure you need a warrant to legally decrypt a cell phone conversation over the air. But I bet you wouldn't need a warrant if you wanted to just capture and show the existence of
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by badgar 13y ago
> Google offers support for exactly one product (adwords). Since this a bald-faced lie, my unpleasantness is clearly warranted. You are clearly deriving arguments from a predetermined conclusion likely reached ages ago. At this point yo
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by badgar 13y ago
Generally, we consider a service being too expensive to be a good reason for a company not to offer that service. So not offering a service might be evidence that said service is too expensive to offer/operate. You can see this argument bei
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by badgar 13y ago
No, logic doesn't work that way. Absence of X does not prove that X is cheap.
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by badgar 13y ago
Considering how much heat gizmodo got for calling out the same kid two years ago, I'm not surprised.
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by badgar 13y ago
> Its kind of depressing for me, because it seems to mean being showy, and having a good PR facade is worth far more than people doing the actual work. Marketing is a huge part of the startup world. There's a reason people are told to s
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by badgar 13y ago
What is the incentive to do so? BTC is expected to rise in value over time since it's a deflationary currency. So any sane businessperson should expect to be constantly decreasing the BTC price over time. It's a feature, not a bug.
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by badgar 13y ago
> You likely lived in an MDU (multiple dwelling unit), i.e. an apartment. Which is, like, nobody in new york city. Quit complaining everyone!
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by badgar 13y ago
It's called a leak regardless. Often of it is on purpose we call it a "controlled leak," but it's still a leak. Not all leaks are bad for the party that does the leaking.
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by badgar 13y ago
Sorry, evil (bribes in this case) is the only answer for when Google does something an HN commenter doesn't like.
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by badgar 13y ago
Do you have any idea what construction work in NYC costs? Is anyone here thinking any of their comments through past "X city would be great for fiber"?
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by badgar 13y ago
I see. Money must not be explicitly trading hands in these commercial data-sharing agreements, because you're very serious about that one detail (and nothing else). I obviously don't have insight into these commercial data-sharing contracts
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by badgar 13y ago
Undo a fork is at least an order of magnitude more difficult than making the decision to fork in the first place. Nobody has that on their minds right now.
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by badgar 13y ago
Yes, yes it does. You'll need to refine your brief assertion to make it correct. It's all anonymized of course, but Facebook absolutely has many commercial agreements to share its user data with partner companies. A common part of these agr
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by badgar 13y ago
> I find it odd that Facebook isn't scared of the same legal liability. Infact, they should be more scared. You don't understand how partnerships work in this case. Facebook is paid to provide data according to a contract between the tw

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