nanairo

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by nanairo 16y ago
That is a good point... though I really don't like either choice. :D
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by nanairo 16y ago
Yep, I can see them getting excited data mining people's social networks. However before they do that they need to get the social network...
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by nanairo 16y ago
Personally I think we shouldn't move away from the concept of: URI <=> resource, just for some short-term gain. I think that metaphor will be a lot more useful in the long term. What we may do, and to be honest it's starting to happ
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by nanairo 16y ago
he he... I do that often for Wikipedia... even though I don't get why Wikipedia hasn't implemented a nicer looking URL (in particular removing the middle /wiki/). :(
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by nanairo 16y ago
What was the historical reason? I know that originally the actual domain name was written from "largest" to "smallest": com.google, for example. I find my perfectionist side slightly annoyed by the current form, but then if we ever change i
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by nanairo 16y ago
For a start we should try to get rid of all those www: that will be the greatest help. The rest should be pretty easy: a website can always set a forwarding link so that, say: www.cocacola.com/offer goes to the page of the actual offer.
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by nanairo 16y ago
I am not sure about that. Though I do think there is a certain feeling of elitism within Google, like all the brightest people are inside (which to be honest it's probably a pretty good assessment). So I am not sure how much they can get th
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by nanairo 16y ago
True... though "clone it and eventually users will come" was Microsoft strategy, wasn't it? :D (ah, Microsoft, if you had only patented it! ;P ). But I'd be careful to consider Google vs. Facebook a done deal. Yes, Facebook has only one ser
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by nanairo 16y ago
Personally I am more worried of a big company dominating more than one space. Say, I'm happy with PS3 to beat Xbox 'cause Sony is not a threat anywhere else, but Microsoft got the Windows/Office monopolies. I am happy with Apple being str
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by nanairo 16y ago
I feel a bit sad for Rails (yes, I know he will continue contributing, but I doubt it will be anything close to what he did in the last few years, when that was his main job). But he seems a great guy and he deserves all the best. Good luck
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by nanairo 16y ago
Oh, you should fix wikipedia then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton which is based on this: http://www.cbo.gov/budget/data/historical.pdf as confirmed by factcheck.org: http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/during_the_clinton_
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by nanairo 16y ago
Oh, I definitely agree that their impact was weakened by the exclusivity... for a start because Android would have been less popular. My guess (and it's purely that) is that the deal was extended (maybe one year... dunno) in exchange for th
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by nanairo 16y ago
Actually you can say "las juesas". :) In Italian it is true that the last letter is not a perfect indication of gender... even for people's names (e.g. Andrea should be a male name). But it works pretty well. Not sure if Spanish is similar
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by nanairo 16y ago
Nobody is arguing that American companies can't compete, or that America isn't a great country. But the UK was an innovator once, and so was Italy before it. That said you could very well end up with a future with very powerful and very com
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by nanairo 16y ago
I'll take your word for it. My impression of cause and effect was that it started pretty much from the beginning, when Obama tried to push for economic stimulus first and universal health service later. And now the teaparty are a force to b
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by nanairo 16y ago
But you are comparing apple and oranges. You are comparing Microsoft today with Apple in 2007. There were a _lot_ of people doubting Apple would succeed if they ever tried to move into the phone market. And carriers (at least in the US) had
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by nanairo 16y ago
Why are SS and Medicare the biggest drivers? Didn't Clinton leave you with a surplus? And didn't he have to pay for SS and Medicare too? What's changed since then and now? Anyway I am not arguing that big government are always the best. I a
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by nanairo 16y ago
Obviously it's not a good idea. But I would imagine that the answer if you can't fill your pot holes is to raise taxes, not hope that the future will bring something better. If during a boom you've cut taxes, why now that money is needed sh
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by nanairo 16y ago
Yep. I surely had high hopes on Obama. What's worrying me is how much opposition he has found and how much power he lost. It was enough to talk about socialism and having a bigger governmental role, and people (on both parties) seemed to st
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by nanairo 16y ago
... or maybe that you did something right in the past. By that meter then Nokia is doing things right too.
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by nanairo 16y ago
Either Roosvelt?
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by nanairo 16y ago
There's a certain irony in hearing someone from the Reagan government talking about China's fast train. If you so much as suggested something like that in the USA you'd be billed as a socialist and the program will be immediately scrapped.
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by nanairo 16y ago
Lol... ok so... at what point---oh wise one---do police pay become worth? Because the article speak of basically few officers and no detectives. And what happens if we don't find a better way to fill the holes? The reason why USA has no mon
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by nanairo 16y ago
You make it sound easy. Apple would have loved for nothing more than having their phone on every carrier. But at the time they were a nobody in the mobile arena, and not only was their phone a huge departure but they also wanted to keep the
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by nanairo 16y ago
I agree with the main arguments. Although as others pointed out this is mostly an american problem (though it still occurs abroad, but less so). But I find this argument naive: "But this pipe dream is being crushed quickly. The carriers, af
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by nanairo 16y ago
Even if it were so, I find this kind of attitude damaging for society. It's the same thing in Europe or the USA: nationalistic pride results in more expensive products, and people complain why they aren't cheaper. If instead they are cheape
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by nanairo 16y ago
Yep, I think it won't work either (too many holes in their ban). However I would have really wished for the University to use this chance to carry a proper experiment, gathering data, analysing them, etc. They are a university, after all! T
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by nanairo 16y ago
I am surprised about the number one: it seems to be the best from a purely checklist point of view. Yes, it has the most features but it has horrible battery, or that's what all reviews say. I would have chosen something else for the top sp
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by nanairo 16y ago
Could you tell me a bit more about why you like data.frame? Is it not just a 2D matrix?
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by nanairo 16y ago
Are you referring to the strips on the old title bar? True, but they were a _lot_ nicer. I remember at the time people complaining a lot about OS X look, including the stripes, and wanted the old look back. So I guess most of us don't feel

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