maercsrats

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by maercsrats 14y ago
Fuck'em. It was a dick move given all the opportunities he got in this country. I prefer rich people more like this: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-kin...
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by maercsrats 14y ago
In reference to your first paragraph, that's all your opinion. You are completely entitled to it and I respect it. My opinion is that this looks awesome and I really want to try it out. Especially since I know Ruby (and C) but I don't know
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by maercsrats 14y ago
Lies, damn lies and stats. "Apple sold 44% less iPhones last quarter" is technically correct. But last quarter saw around a 150% increase in sales because of pent up demand and the holiday quarter. If you compare this quarter from one a yea
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by maercsrats 15y ago
If you think it's that possible then why not contact your congress person/senator and have them look into this? In fact, talk to them about drafting a law against not being able to install software of your choosing on a machine you buy. Or,
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by maercsrats 15y ago
I just moved to IN so I need to double check the school system here but I do know about the TN system. My knowledge will vary county to county but in general I think this is true. I also made a comment above but will reprint some of it here
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by maercsrats 15y ago
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this but I'll say it anyway: there isn't a tablet market, there is only an ipad market. Apple want to make it easier to make books for ipads because: 1. that's what they sell and 2. that's what people
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by maercsrats 15y ago
I think part of the problem is that rails isn't really RESTful. Here is a good talk about it: http://confreaks.net/videos/699-rubyconf2011-resources-for-r... Dropping the rails router, controllers and rack in favor of something like webma
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by maercsrats 15y ago
bikeshed.js? There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton
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by maercsrats 15y ago
I like child labor laws. I like food safety laws ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle ). I like my bank being separate from investment institutions ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act ). I also like education prog
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by maercsrats 15y ago
Chip stacking tends to be too expensive. Think of it this way: take the full output from a factory creating chips. Now if you stack just one chip on top of another, you have effectively cut your production in half. It also means that your c
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by maercsrats 15y ago
Actually, I think diamond is getting much cheaper. It's becoming much more integral for satellites and extremely small electronics because of their susceptibility to radiation. http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/08/nanodiamond/ The first thi
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by maercsrats 15y ago
Right, I was thinking it was more of a random walk algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk There was too much randomness in his evolving. When I was evolving agents for my M.S., I used tournament selection ( http://en.wikipedi
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by maercsrats 15y ago
There is also releases and updates on genomic data. It stays pretty current as far as I know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_HapMap_Project
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by maercsrats 15y ago
A google engineer says that the security reason is bullshit: http://games.greggman.com/game/webgl-security-and-microsoft-...
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by maercsrats 15y ago
There is an anti-compete lawsuit going on between google and skyhook: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/internal-emails-reveal-go... There needs to be significant patent/ip reform in this country, there's no question about that. Google i
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by maercsrats 15y ago
There is a talk by Aaron Patterson from RailsConf talking about why rails 3.1 is slower than rails 3 and rails 2.3. Basically the rack pipeline is getting deeper. Because rack is so simplistic every request requires you going through that p
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by maercsrats 15y ago
This looks interesting and would have helped us out tremendously 8 months ago. But, hey, better late than never. One thing that looks like it's lacking is how to integrate ui libraries; specifically jquery-ui. Coordinating re-rendering of y
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by maercsrats 15y ago
That's not true about rails. Neither the ORM, templating or URL routing are built in. People use Datamapper or ActiveRecord, ERB or HAML and routing is handled as rack endpoints. Rails 3 is much easier to pull apart and put in pieces that y
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by maercsrats 15y ago
Actually, the cost is your click habits. Google is all about getting advertisers to sign on by saying "we have better information on all these people because we house all their data." If you are comfortable with that, that's fine. Personall
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by maercsrats 15y ago
Syncing with things can happen over 3g. Being transparent can be nice but not with unlimited plans gone from carriers. I'm wondering if there will be an option to say not to sync over 3g unless you are on wifi.
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by maercsrats 15y ago
I posted this on the site but I'll post it here, too. The last point is wrong. The USB Implementers Forum complained last year about lightpeak using the usb interface. The other points have some merit but, considering sony is supposedly put
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by maercsrats 15y ago
I started out working on a fairly complex dynamic form builder for the research group I work for. They needed a way to build up forms to administer to possible research subjects. The rest of the app was using pieces from jquery-ui so I stuc
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by maercsrats 16y ago
1) Good point. Using the backdoor of the app store would just be easier for them to do (I would imagine). 2) Maybe they will be bringing along the big guys, in the future. Java is being deprecated ( http://bit.ly/cFp0GX ) in the future the
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by maercsrats 16y ago
I think the newer version of macruby, with greater bridgesupport, should help this out: http://www.macruby.org/blog/2010/10/08/bridgesupport-preview...
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by maercsrats 16y ago
Here is a conspiracy theory I've got, and I think this article and Apple releasing the app store for mac backs it up: Apple is going to drop Intel chips in the next 3 years. My time may be off but I really think this is what's going on. All
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Capsicum - practical capabilities for UNIX(cl.cam.ac.uk)
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by maercsrats 16y ago
It depends on the software development project. I've worked with web devs who didn't know what a finite state machine was and did fine. Right now I work at a research institution crunching genomes. Not knowing the basics that a CS degree ca
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by maercsrats 16y ago
In my case, I was caught in the flood of Nashville and lost all my electronics. The next day I bought an ipad to do email, get on the internet, play a few games and read whatever books I had saved in dropbox or my work computer. I even was
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by maercsrats 17y ago
http://api.jquery.com/category/version/1.4/ Gotten from: http://jquery14.com/pre-release-1/new-jquery-api-site
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by maercsrats 17y ago
Well, there is already a lot of plastic in the oceans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch This could be useful for helping to break down that island if it was seeded with a slurry of this bacteria.

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