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Chris DiBona comments on anti-virus software for mobile devices

plus.google.com

1 pointsby narkee15년 전0 comments

Social web browser Flock officially dead

flock.com

1 pointsby narkee15년 전0 comments

Cisco: The anti-Nokia

economist.com

6 pointsby narkee15년 전1 comments

Where are the iPod touch knockoffs?

asymco.com

2 pointsby narkee16년 전1 comments

HP acquires 3PAR for $2 billion

pcmag.com

4 pointsby narkee16년 전0 comments

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8년 전discuss

Reminds me a lot of StumbleUpon, which coincidentally, just shut down this year (June 30 2018).

8년 전discuss

I think GitLab has been around a lot longer than MetaMask, so probably the other way around if anything.

8년 전discuss

How is it that inverse seems to be used as "multiplicative inverse" in this context? It seems like a really ambiguous term, because it could also be interpreted as either:

inverse of the square root (which is just the squaring operation), or

the inverse of some other binary operator, like addition or anything else...

8년 전discuss

As a consequence, are people that have had children found to have higher incidences of Alzheimer's?

9년 전discuss

Do you have any hints on how one might implement this on mac OS? I'd love to have my keyboard configured like this...

9년 전discuss

According to a BBC article I just read the other day, conventional wisdom might be changing on that.

"It is time to reconsider the widespread advice that people should always complete an entire course of antibiotics, experts in the BMJ say."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40731465

10년 전discuss

Wait, isn't that the entire point of high-frequency trading and their low-latency access to markets?

14년 전discuss

I don't know about other places, but on the highway in Michigan near construction sites they sometimes have signs saying something like "If you injure a worker, it's a $5000 fine and up to 25 years in jail".

Note the precedence of the $5000 fine before the 25 years of jail time. Clearly the Michigan DOT thinks that fines and jail time are necessary incentives to not kill or harm construction workers.

14년 전discuss

FYI, that last line says "patents", not "patients".

14년 전discuss

The call for larger sample sizes isn't always appropriate. It can often lead to spurious inferences.

As Jacob Cohen (famous statistician) has said, "all null hypotheses, at least in the two tailed forms, are false".

That is, with nearly any hypothesis about differences between groups, given a large enough sample size, you're likely to find a significant difference.

14년 전discuss

I'm finishing my PhD, and starting a post-doc in the fall. I had wanted to break out into industry, because I didn't see myself in academia in the long term, but I didn't get anywhere with job applications, so here I am.

I have a few questions:

1. My work consumes most of my time and energy - how would one find time to work on side projects and build a portfolio, when the academic workload is so all-consuming

2. I felt like I had to apply for industry jobs in my niche, otherwise I would be competing against a much larger pool of general engineers/science graduates. Considering that I've spent most of the last 5-6 years focusing on work in a specific niche, how can this be used for leverage for more general technical positions?

Thanks for the interesting article!

14년 전discuss

What an amazingly complex game it would be if he decided to include relativistic effects of time-dilation.

14년 전discuss

I don't understand that distinction.

In selecting a typeface, you're also necessarily selecting the font, so why make the distinction?

From an artistic and technical point of view I get it, but from a user perspective the two are not separable quantities.

14년 전discuss

I think research funding in general could take some cues from the Y Combinator funding model, in the sense that if you give smart people money and time, they'll discover/create amazing things.

You would think the value and return you get from investment in science would be apparent to anyone living in the modern age.

14년 전discuss

Is that supposed to be a trick question?

I can't tell if the answer is n(n-1)/2 or just n(n-1), because I'm unsure whether you would be looking to count a "bidirectional TCP connection" as 1 or 2 TCP connections...

14년 전discuss

Don't forget battery life.

14년 전discuss

Thanks for the explanation, closures have been a little tricky for me to wrap my head around.

I'm confused a little with regards to the closure closing over the "value" of free variables, or the reference.

For example, in python:

    i = 1
    def f():
        return i

    i = 2
    def g():
        return i

Both f() and g() return 2, even though when f() is defined, shouldn't i=1 be closed over in this case? That's what I find confusing here, in the sense that the state of the environment changes outside the closure affect things inside the closure.

14년 전discuss

>Conversely, competitors like JoinMe (which is part of LogMeIn) use a Flash-based viewer, which won’t work on many smartphones (including, famously, any iOS devices)...

14년 전discuss

Say I use my Macbook for development, and I compile a small toy C program using gcc. Does that mean now that I cannot run the produced binary by default?

Forgive me for being naive, but what does "app" mean in this context? Is a shell script an app? What about a python script with GUI elements?

14년 전discuss

My response was designed to highlight the equally offensive suggestion that "all the Indians" were metric geniuses, while American students were all slow and ignorant of the metric system.