mkross

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by mkross 13y ago
The red linkage graphs would be much more comprehensible with edge bundling[1]. As it is, you get a ton of red lines that are hard to decipher. In order to show emphasis, some of the lines are orange. [1] Something akin to https://www.ev
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by mkross 14y ago
tednaleid, you seem to be dead. Perhaps posting a link to wikipedia with no other content auto-triggered something.
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by mkross 14y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by mkross 14y ago
// In Java, all instances of Object are also a monitor. // See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_%28synchronization%29 Foo myMonitor = new Foo() // To "enter" a monitor, you use 'synchronized'. synchronized (myMonitor) {
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by mkross 14y ago
You could test that the logging and parsing are in step, which then reduces the developer time to "Doh, red test" and a simple fix.
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by mkross 15y ago
I think the author is trying to make a poorly articulated argument that the _intent_ of G+ is not to "kill" Facebook, but instead improve Google's targeted advertising capabilities. To some extent, this is true, but I'm not sure if it is a
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by mkross 15y ago
How about the version of Siri that existed before being subsumed by Apple? I had never heard of it, though it seems that the tech was relatively the same.
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by mkross 15y ago
> The relationship soured after they came to doubt his reincarnation credentials and found that his claims of cancer were false. As someone who knows very little of Buddhism, what sorts of "reincarnation credentials" is an executive-lev
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by mkross 15y ago
Private browsing won't stop google from logging anything. It will make it so your browser doesn't remember what you did, but it doesn't stop the authorities from knocking.
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by mkross 15y ago
Maybe sugar is toxic. I don't know (and there seem to be some pretty reasonable opinions both ways). However, there is a line in the article that really stands out to me: "If Lustig is right, it would mean that sugar is also the likely di
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by mkross 16y ago
http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/ is the non-print version for anyone that ran into problems with the javascript on the print page.
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by mkross 16y ago
Assuming the article is correct (and the video seems to back that up), I wouldn't even consider this protesting. Yelling over Clinton's speech, holding up signs, harassing people going to the speech, throwing shoes -- these are all protest
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by mkross 16y ago
I was going to mumble something about correlation != causation, but I decided to track down the paper first ( http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/195/5/408 ). The authors didn't explicitly decide that diet caused depression, but they d
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by mkross 16y ago
"Them darn kids aint learnin cuz they aint tryin!" Let's consider the assumption that between 36% and 45% of all undergrad students are slackers. Sure, a bunch of students aren't learning because they are slackers, but why there are SO MANY
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by mkross 16y ago
1) "After four years, 36 percent of students did not demonstrate significant improvement, compared to 45 percent after two." Thats 36% of students who spent four years without improving what the study authors deem as important cognitive abi
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by mkross 16y ago
I'm not seeing it. I think this argument boils down to "you have a lot of devices; everything in the cloud makes your stuff available everywhere all the time". Besides the fact that my gut says this is basically the same issue that netboo
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by mkross 16y ago
I assume the reason to stop is due to a feeling of guilt. Instead of considering human influence as a part of nature, many people consider it to be some sort of perversion. So instead of being amazed by the adaptability of life, people fe
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by mkross 16y ago
Presumably the already late Java 7/8 will be further delayed.
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by mkross 16y ago
"Crash course" doesn't explicitly mean non-technical. It could have included an overview of the encoding algorithm that doesn't go into perf improvements most commonly used.
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by mkross 16y ago
The list of things to know about JPEG includes what the acronym means and how it is pronounced. If you're looking for a technical description, this isn't it.
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by mkross 16y ago
Wait, science isn't creative? Someone go tell Einstein that his bizarre, nonsensical ideas about the universe can't be correct. Warn Galileo that thinking outside the box is anti-science. Let Pasteur know that meat doesn't rot because re
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by mkross 16y ago
Because Diaspora is open-source, it attracts this sort of "look at how bad the code is" attention. I'm willing to bet that the first prototype of yahoo/google/facebook all had terrible code that may have lasted a long time. However, by not
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by mkross 16y ago
The small things really do matter when dealing with fickle users. I wonder, though, how much of the 17% might be due to the placement of the checkbox. Putting it below the credit card info would make me think "wait, I'm paying these guys
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by mkross 16y ago
I'm interested if this has any effect on Apple's FaceTime video chat stuff. I wouldn't expect too much to come of it, but it could become ammo for either side at some point in the future.
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by mkross 16y ago
While Collection<Firetruck> has an indeterminate relationship with Collection<IVehicle>, this is good! If Collection<String> was a subclass of Collection<Object>, you could fill the collection with Strings a
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by mkross 16y ago
Wait, generics support co/contra variance through the 'extends' and 'super' keywords. e.g. Collection<? extends Foo>
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by mkross 16y ago
I'm confused by your first sentence; it isn't a higher standard to not assault others. Or do you mean that because techies are so .. something that they in particular should eliminate every possibility of someone being assaulted around the
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by mkross 16y ago
Minor nitpick: I graduated in Dec '09 and came back to Palantir in Jan '10. After working on interesting problems and writing stuff that people not only use, but are willing to pay for, I was hooked. School, by comparison, was a lot less i