tomgg

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by tomgg 11y ago
Scientists rely on faith too; hypothesis testing being the most obvious example. New beliefs are always conditioned on faith(:= prior beliefs).
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by tomgg 11y ago
What if you've resolved to only use free software? That means _Google Music_ is not an option.
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by tomgg 11y ago
> So half the planet is incapable of learning what clickbait is and only you can resist it? Are you suggesting that this was my contention?!---I fall for click bait all the time. > Are we all so psychologically weak that we cant figur
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by tomgg 11y ago
> The reason why people continue to visit all those sites and click all those links?---Because they like it. This is disingenuous; there are people who dedicate their working life to causing other people to do things they (other people)
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by tomgg 11y ago
Does this ``gap" reduce as the employees considered get younger?---the data source doesn't include age demographics.
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by tomgg 11y ago
I thought they went after her (Gillian Triggs) because she delayed releasing the report until 1) after a government-changing election result, and 2) the majority of children had been removed from detention as a result of new policy from the
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by tomgg 11y ago
1. The readability and typography are (to me) stellar. Would that more websites present information that clearly. 2. The author doesn't dislike systemd.
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by tomgg 11y ago
So many Google sites have 1/3-of-a-page fixed headers; fixed headers suck.
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by tomgg 12y ago
This[1] bug from 2012 is the reason I switched; 30 months (still incrementing) to fix a massive usability break seems slow to me. 1. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=143619
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by tomgg 12y ago
Any plans for an option to switch off all those avatars?
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by tomgg 12y ago
An excerpt from the excerpt: > Schmidt arrived first, accompanied by his then partner, Lisa Shields. When he introduced her as a vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations—a U.S. foreign-policy think tank with close ties to the S
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by tomgg 12y ago
I throw these eye-candy Google websites into a text-only browser and start /'ing; it is _way_ easier to find the info you're looking for.
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by tomgg 12y ago
I've been playing around with julia[1] this week and discovered the inclusion of a pipe-like operator that removes a lot of the parentheses from functional programming; you can write, x |> a|> b |> c|>s->d(s,y)|&gt
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How Not to reference papers(igorpak.wordpress.com)
3 points by tomgg 12y ago|0 comments
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by tomgg 12y ago
On mobile I dislike all of the kinematics. If you're composing a message and scroll up to quickly reread something, the keyboard will fly off the screen; getting it back requires tapping on a text box ...but now the keyboard is _coveri
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by tomgg 12y ago
I can't speak for the others, but w3m definitely has graphics support.