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by isani 8y ago
Sure, you can get pretty far with a fairly simple solution. But lot of the time, you get two (or more) ways to split the string into dictionary words. For a simple English example, is it "justice was served" or "just ice was
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by isani 8y ago
Japanese is usually written without spaces. Words and sentences just run into each other. When writing in hiragana (syllabic characters), word boundaries are often ambiguous. Englishwouldbemuchhardertoparseifwrittenlikethis.
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by isani 11y ago
"A fox was brown" is a perfectly ordinary sentence in the active voice. "Speed was involved in an incident" can also be parsed as active, if "involved" is an adjective. If the sentence is passive, then the acti
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by isani 12y ago
Factoring into powers of 2 seems to me like an unnecessary complication. It's possible to calculate an arbitrary power in O(log N) time without memoization. def __get_matrix_power(self, M, p): if p == 1: return M if p
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by isani 12y ago
A maximum spanning tree might be misleading, as it's easy to interpret no vertex as no correlation. When building a tree, weak correlations may be included out of necessity, while stronger ones that lead to cycles are omitted. If sever
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by isani 12y ago
I'm on a desktop and they're telling me to rotate my screen.
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by isani 13y ago
I agree. I'm not sure what kind of an algorithm they use for kerning, but it seems to ignore how letters interact optically. Pairs like "ve" and "ro" are set too far apart.
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by isani 14y ago
"VLC for Windows 8 might not be applicable for the store." And that's a major problem. Without distribution on the Windows Store, this thing isn't going to see any kind of mass adoption. I'd be wary about funding until they work out whether
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by isani 14y ago
It seems they are doing something similar, but with vertical scrolling/swiping. Swipe up from notifications to get to running apps, swipe again to get to the full list of apps.
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by isani 14y ago
Actually, A4 has an aspect ratio of one to the square root of two. Your point still stands, as this is even closer to the iPad screen than 2:3.
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by isani 14y ago
"The apps will allow for basic editing" I find it interesting that Microsoft now has several versions of Office that don't support the full feature set of their file formats. There's already Office Web Apps and Office Mobile, and now the ne
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by isani 14y ago
They're killing the client. Messenger accounts continue to work, and users can sign in to the Skype client with their existing Messenger credentials. Messenger will be run on the same infrastructure as before, not on the Skype peer-to-peer
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by isani 14y ago
The introduction text is misleading. Besides these enumerated values, you can also use a custom PNG. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh70048...
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by isani 14y ago
This makes me wonder why "settings" is included in the default icon set. Settings should be accessed via the charms bar as well.
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by isani 14y ago
No, Silverlight doesn't run on IE10 Metro. I just tested that it doesn't run on an arbitrary site, and I don't think it's possible to even whitelist it.
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by isani 14y ago
Earlier, the plan was to have no plugin support at all in IE10 Metro. Microsoft is positioning the whitelist approach as a backwards compatibility shim for high-profile sites that won't or can't give up Flash.
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by isani 14y ago
Yeah, I want to see that too. The UI differences between the platforms go far beyond chrome and metrics. An app that runs on three platforms may have a different set of views and different navigation logic for each.
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by isani 14y ago
I wonder if native UI rendering APIs will be available for these platforms. Will this be a simple wrapper and compile with few native hooks, like Flash on iOS? Or will they take a more integrated approach?
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by isani 14y ago
I think this is a demotion for desktop apps. The phrase "Windows 8 style UI" implies that the colorful rectangle look is the style for Windows 8. The classic desktop environment, by implication, is not Windows 8 style.
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by isani 14y ago
"75 percent of applications are already designed in HTML5, with an overlay to fit smartphones from Apple or Google." I'd really like a source for this. He seems to be saying that 75% of apps on the App Store and Google Play are HTML with a
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by isani 14y ago
I would add the following: * A short-lived redesign of MSN around the concept of "channels" and "shows" with a focus on animation and video (1996!) * Partnering with broadcasters to deliver interactive content over a TV broadcast signal (ci
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by isani 14y ago
K-means clustering gives you a set of centroids which are the calculated means of each cluster. If you only want actually occurring colors, just look up the color closest to each centroid.
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by isani 14y ago
Similarly, there's the lineage of: 1. Microsoft Passport 2. .NET Passport 3. Microsoft Passport Network 4. Windows Live Passport 5. Microsoft Account It seems that whenever Microsoft releases a new strategy white paper, the Passport brand c
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by isani 14y ago
When browsing product categories, the page title says "Search results for ''". For €40 million, you could check for empty strings.
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by isani 14y ago
From a consumer point of view, I can see two problems. The selection is muddled, and the prices aren't all that good. They say they have 194,614 products, but that includes things like 5000 rubber mats and 2000 hex keys. Meanwhile, there's
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by isani 15y ago
Funnily enough, some of these pages are nearly valid HTML5. This one, for example: http://home.mcom.com/docs/product/netsite.html The only issues are a missing doctype and a couple of stray tags. This is because (parts of) the site were w
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by isani 15y ago
Apple is leading the way if you're talking about mobile phone sales in the sense of making money. The lead by a great margin in both revenue and profit.
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by isani 15y ago
"All apps for ARM are going to come through the Store, which means they’re going to be Metro Apps." – Windows president Steven Sinofsky http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/09/13/windows-8-on-arm/
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by isani 15y ago
Was it worth it for Microsoft, though? Their entertainment unit made 32 million dollars in profit last quarter – a quarter which they considered an immense success. With that kind of income, the project will never break even, never mind tur
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by isani 15y ago
This thing is full of pointless UI weirdness. For example: * None of the back buttons look like iOS back buttons or state where they lead. * The tab controls are taller than usual, taking up room for no good reason. * The open in Safari ico

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