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by btn 5y ago
Another approach for this is to explore the format through Apple's tools for building dictionaries – as they provide a "Dictionary Development Kit" in Xcode's downloadable "Additional Tools" package (which has
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by btn 8y ago
This article is essentially a press release for the author's own paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcpy.1047 Which itself is a part of a series of articles in JCP debating the issue:
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by btn 10y ago
"Social science" isn't a singular amorphous blob, and these methods aren't uniformly accepted. Online surveys are certainly becoming more popular as they are significantly cheaper to conduct than the alternatives, and yi
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by btn 11y ago
And a Kruskal-Wallis test instead of an ANOVA, so no "magic" would be required.
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by btn 11y ago
This is a very nice review, but in practice I've found the K-S test to be much less useful than it initially appears: 1. Failing to reject the null hypothesis is not the same as accepting the null hypothesis. That is, concluding "
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by btn 12y ago
One kilobyte per tick seems quite generous. All of the EURUSD tick data for 2013 from histdata.com (the source mentioned in the article) is only 515MB (~20GB for 40 years, ~824GB for 40 pairs).
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by btn 12y ago
New Objective-C features are introduced with new versions of the compiler (and Xcode tools/SDK), but each feature may be deployed on different versions of iOS/OS X (depending on how much support they need from the underlying runti
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by btn 12y ago
It looks like this is a re-invention of agvtool(1)---which ships with Xcode, will synchronise updates across all versioned targets in a project, and has options for differentiating marketing vs. development numbers and generating source fil
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by btn 12y ago
The node packing format he describes sounds a bit like a LOUDS tree [1], which stores the structure of a tree as a bit array (each node as a '1' for each child, plus a '0'---for a total of 2n-1 bits for a tree of n nodes
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by btn 12y ago
Is that spelt out somewhere? The only mention of it I can find is in the confirmation email they sent: "will be free for the next two years".
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by btn 12y ago
Something they don't mention until after you've signed up: the micro plan only lasts for two years. I assume any private repositories will become locked if you don't pay for a subscription after that (as with regular accoun
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by btn 13y ago
are you sure that deleting the whole grapheme is actually what the Tamil or Korean user wants? I'm not, but I think it's the only sane thing for a text editor to do if you don't want it to incorporate a ton of language-spec
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by btn 13y ago
Counting graphemes may be over-used, but needing to know their boundaries is important (and leads naturally to counting). For example, when you hit "delete" in a text editor, you'll probably want it to delete whole graphemes
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by btn 13y ago
One of the major difficulties with Unicode handling is not just that there are poor implementations out there with legacy baggage, but a lot of poor advice as well (or well-meaning advice that seems correct, but misses some corner case or
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by btn 13y ago
No, your IP has no effect; by default, you're seeing prices as if they were booked from the departure city. Matrix lets you specify the the "sales city" (the last field in the advanced search options), which allows you to che
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by btn 13y ago
The name may have passed into the vernacular, but it was invented for the particular drink that Starbucks now sells in 1992: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2012/12/07/frappucci...
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by btn 13y ago
Storing them where?
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by btn 13y ago
The original Kinect did not use time-of-flight technology, but projected a structured infrared light pattern and observed the displacement of the pattern to determine depth information. The Kinect that will ship with the Xbox One will use t
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by btn 13y ago
That shouldn't happen unless you've mapped "j" to "gj" (which is fairly common for people who use line wrapping): http://vimdoc.sf.net/htmldoc/motion.html#gj
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by btn 13y ago
Where does the "70%..." figure come from? It's not mentioned anywhere in the article. For that matter, the article itself throws around a lot of phrases like "clearly performing better", "proof", and &quot
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by btn 13y ago
this is perfectly adequate to support the characters from all major languages in use worldwide, plus emoji Emoji characters are in the range U+1F300..U+1F5FF, which is outside the BMP (up to U+FFFF), and will be encoded with surrogate pai
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by btn 13y ago
US states do have programs for transfering inactive/abandoned bank accounts to a treasury (and for claiming those monies back): http://www.helpwithmybank.gov/get-answers/bank-accounts/inac...
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by btn 13y ago
Claiming that this affects "10% of all Yahoo accounts" or that the breach in June 2012 is related is disingenuous---Yahoo and Yahoo Japan connected in brandname only ("Yahoo" accounts are not valid "Yahoo Japan" accounts, and vice versa).
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by btn 13y ago
Indeed. Comparable sites (video games, video game companies, and TV shows) in English follow very similar design patterns. That said, there are some major Japanese sites with absolutely mind-boggling design ("Rakuten" springs to mind...)
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by btn 13y ago
It's difficult to compare the two because they describe different aspects of the product. The English page has testimonials, pricing information, and some miscellaneous FAQ; the Japanese page has comparisons with email and Skype (the FAQ an
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by btn 14y ago
It's the "zoom" button, and it's supposed to toggle between two sizes: user state (whatever you last dragged the window borders to be), and standard state (whatever the application thinks makes sense for the window's content [1]. This w
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by btn 14y ago
It's available in over 200 countries now: https://support.google.com/mapmaker/answer/155415
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by btn 14y ago
The XML format is that used internally by the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and is documented here: http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/lenz-8-dtd-...
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by btn 14y ago
This appears to be a variant of a technique known in the research literature as Quikwriting [1] (a type of FlowMenu [2]), which you can still try online [3]. There hasn't been much in the way of evaluation of Quickwriting, but one study
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by btn 14y ago
If it's like their Mountain View coverage, there'll be a secure (WPA) option.

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