mark_integerdsv

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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I'm interested as to why you'd assert that so confidently. Is it perhaps the more comfortable of the two possibilities?
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I don't agree with all that you've said but fuck if you ain't spot on about brightness. Swipebright is my poison.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Personally, I don't doubt that people with questionable shared interests have made contact with one another through FB. World's a weird place at times. The Internet kind of dilates the portal into those spaces.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Shit. I'm also 34... Totally forgot I had a birthday recently. My life seems to take place between 4am zombie walks to the kitchen to make milk bottles. I do have sort of a wife's account vector but tbh: she also starts feeling shit and cre
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
He is 'outed' in meatspace by his cyberspatial identities trough the irresponsibility of FB and himself, and all of the other none the wiser users enabled through this product to harm themselves.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I work in BI and data analysis and this is my personal definition: traditionally, companies have mined their own internal data. Cost to sales, balance sheets, customer surveys, top sellers... Etc. Big data are defined as those data external
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Maybe we missed each other... In my example I am talking about a man whose identity is necessarily hidden in meatspace due to an oppressive government. Cyberspace allows him freedom from this oppression. Hope that makes it clearer.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I do. Primarily because Facebook caters to users with low technical ability and includes baked in privacy settings that are notoriously ambiguous and difficult to understand. Facebook actively promotes an anti-privacy styled online presence
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
> YES people should be allowed to be gay in Tehran, and YES Facebook should help them with that - and they do: By not requiring you to enter your sexuality. Forget about being gay in Tehran. How about being gay in cyberspace? It strikes
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I guess that depends. I'm 33, married, two kids. I have never used Facebook but I do feel 'out of the loop.' especially since the baby arrived - I don't hear about things 'through the grapevine' and subsequently seldom find myself with many
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
If you fail to see the danger that a tool with the ability to search a network for such things as "Islamic men interested in other men, living in Tehran," a tool that can then display their place of work or other contact details (that they
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
What aggravates my particular swimsuit area is that no one who rattles very loudly on this topic seems to realise that there is more to skeumorphism than flat and textured. By way of example: one of my favourite skeumorphs is Apples "head s
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Yes, this is the freaking issue! People have to use this abberation formthe next few years! How is the fact that it might get better any form of comfort whatsoever? This is battered woman logic at it's finest... I really cannot understa
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I see your 95/XP/2000/7 and raise you ME/Vista/8... perhaps I have been a little selective, or perhaps the word 'history' is a iittle vague, I think my point is clear though and IMO well supported... by history.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Your post above should be in the dictionary under the title: 'Apologist.' ...there may be further references to Stockholm Syndrome (he doesn't mean to do this to me, that's just his process...) MS has a history of just not 'getting' it with
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Full disclosure: I'm not really that interested in stuff like this so I've not even dug around looking for this but what is the number of phones that sold out? It just feels like shoddy journalism and more sensationalist nonsense in the A
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
>>I'll repeat that even though I think we all know this >>already: if you don't want to use Metro apps, you don't >>have to use Metro apps. It is really that simple. >>...then click on the "Desktop" tile... I
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
For me, and from an enterprise poit of view, Big Data has always been data external to the enterprise, i.e.: not stored in the warehouse but rather harvested from the web or other sources.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Did I miss it or did you flat out omit the visual design aspect of the role? BTW: this is my reference point for the definition of 'Data Scientist': http://flowingdata.com/2009/06/04/rise-of-the-data-scientist...
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I still need to see a thorough rationalization for the use of this chart style. Bonus points for using the Tufte 'lie factor' formula.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Too damn right. Also this chapter coincided with our then president Thabo Mbeki making typically over-academic assertions that HIV does not cuase aids and our then health minister fuckface Tshablala Msimang (she of the stolen liver) telling
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Article mentions the TAC, real heroes of the struggle against the ANC governments struggle against science in the war against HIV/AIDS. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Rath#Illegal_AIDS_tria...
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I have yet to see it mentioned that every time Samsung fucks with Apple they get massive advertisement. Apple played right into their hands with that ridiculous court case that went on for months filling up the pages of just about every tec
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I'll allow it. ...good point, like to see more of this type of comment in this thread. Sounds like what you are saying is along the lines of (paraphrasing here) almost correct as opposed to precisely inaccurate. I hope others will add more
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Hang on people... The whole 'Randall Rocks/cool factor' aside, let us not forget the purpose of information visualisation. I don't see much discussion about the ability of these charts to condense large amounts of data into compact spaces.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Meh. This guy pops his head up in documetaries and occasionally in the startup blogoshpere. Usually to toot his own horn about his 80s Apple Cred. His advice and style are hoplessly outdated and his persona is actually rather annoying. I'm
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Can someone explain the affront to your sensibilities that is caused when one of our own (technologists) finds new ways to make money, rebrand and evolve a given subject area or just generally find new, better ways of explaining a thing? ..
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Uhm... Anyone else have a hard time reading this on iPhone?
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Does it really matter? To my mind this argument is the greatest argument against OSS for anything but hobbyist application. To see the Gurus of the Linux world squabbling like this makes it abundantly clear why this format will never take o
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I have at different times thought of Google as many things. Until now, a nucht-schlep was not one of them.

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