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if my friends and I have problems with your product, it doesn't matter how reliable your research spins it as, I won't believe you. Forget research: make something my friends and I, or people I hear about, don't have problems with. That's all I pay attention to, and it works a lot better than the alternative. (paying attention to whatever you "prove" at a statistically significant level - nevermind how many commissioned studies you don't publish, thereby completely invalidating that statistical significance - and ignoring anecdotes simply doesn't work, for me or anyone else.)

This article is literally asking for the right to lie (under the guises of 'research') and asking us to mod down anyone who calls them out on it. It really takes some face to say "Ignore what you experience - and vote down the experiences of others - and trust our data instead."

Next you'll sell me the most reliable cloud on the planet. All the responses on the article say they've had nothing but problems and downtime. But, I should just ignore these, right?
Was there a particular part you found especially pleasurable? What made it more pleasurable for you to read than other writing?
I don't buy that aristotle’s logic, euclid’s geometry and hell newton's physics shit.
> Something is rotten in the core of science.

It's not science that is the problem. It's that biology considers a 95% confidence sufficient. Considering how many studies are done each year, this virtually guarantees incorrect results.

The reason they do that is that it's impossible to get better results, they just can not do enough trials. So they are stuck.
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If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for everything...or something like that. Science and especially statistics have never (and sadly never will be) perfect or free of human bias, but not believing anything outright leaves you open to manipulators that make you "feel" whats right, instead of having you think about whats right. We might think we're super rational, but it just ain't so. Unrelated example: Female students told before a standardized math test that its genetic that women are worse at math also did significantly worse than males and control females. They were (probably) all rational people, yet this seemingly unimportant event changed their rational performance.

If science and anecdotes are equally bull to you, how do you make up your mind about things? Magic?
Sheesh, last thing I want is my computer to become horrible at math. Although maybe it'll be better at floating point...
Europe has over 50 countries. Would be a pretty long list to name everyone.
>Also, considering that medicine is at the stage of alchemy and that doctors simply have no idea what long-term effects these vaccines have on our immune system, some questions do have to be asked.

What the hell are you talking about? There is probably no single more life-saving intervention in medicine than vaccines. It is true that a small number of people have a bad reaction to them, but more people have a bad reaction to tetanus.

Those who do not vaccinate are risking re-emergence of preventable epidemics: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/whooping-cough...
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Does anyone else think it weird that the first mainstream hi-res displays weren't pushed by Microsoft? Let me explain...

Back when WPF was still called Avalon, Microsoft were pushing the technology as a solution for the soon-to-be-arriving high-dpi displays (which, we were assured, were right around the corner). As an example, see a contemporary blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/marcelolr/archive/2004/12/03/274213....

Given that Microsoft were (are?) deseperately trying to hold back the tide of web-based applications, wouldn't displays like this, combined with tchnology such as WPF, have been a killer feature of a desktop OS? And hence, shouldn't they have been a high-priority for Microsoft?

So why did Apple get there first? Why didn't Microsoft research/fund/introduce these high-dpi displays?

Edit: More links from a Coding Horror post from the same year: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/11/trapped-in-a-bitmap...
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Actually this is coming with Java 8 via project Jigsaw (new modularity for Java).
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The explanation of Godel's incompleteness theorem is extremely bad in this post. It simply states that a logical system that is consistent can't prove everything, and if it ever does prove everything it can only do so by being inconsistent. Likewise, a logical system cannot be used to prove it's own consistency. Basically it just means if you want to prove that a logical system is consistent, you need to use a more powerful logical system, and you can't formulate a consistent logical system that proves everything. It has absolutely goddamned nothing to do with failing, unless you consider a logical system only succeeding when it has proven everything in the universe, including its own consistency, which is just silly. We don't NEED to do that. His theorem is of extreme importence in proofs and mathematics, because it means that one can't prove that math is consistent using math, but it has nothing to do with computer programs /crashing/. That is a gross misinterpretation.

It's made worse because all computer programs COULD crash simply because they are implemented on imperfect devices. But this has nothing to do with Godel's theorem, it has to do with physical limitations. Saying Godel's theorem proves all programs eventually crash is like saying Einstein's relativity is why time moves slower when you're bored.
Math is a symbol game? I'm sure you don't believe that any more than you believe music is a symbol game.
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"Dont get me started on Eclipse install process."

Actually, please start. I install the JDK via an installer, unzip Eclipse, run eclipse.exe, and it just works. Am I missing something?
The "first" main stream hi-res display? I have some Sony Trinitron CRTs in my basement that would like to talk to you.
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absolutely, it's at the boundary. I think Brouwer's work in topology and intuitionistic logic is a good example of this interplay
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As someone who has used a retina display in daylight, it is unusable (bring up a black terminal, it is a goddamn mirror). It only compares favorably with the notoriously horrible apple glossy displays... well know for having some of the worst imaginable glare problems (unusable in many office overhead lighting situations). How the author found this better than the matte screen is beyond me.

That all said, I am happy about Apple pushing forward on a decoupling of resolution from perceived size... it is long overdue. That combined with apples supply chain clout, I can't wait to see more ultra-high resolution screens everywhere.
On "latent" ... English is not my primary language and this was just a bad translation.

Do you know anything about vaccines at all?

I guess not, but I can't help to not get worried about the rise of autoimmune disorders and I haven't heard yet a plausible explanation for the phenomenon.

Unless your logic is that the vaccine somehow changes
the bodies response, which it doesn't.

And how in the world would you know that?
This fork seems to be more active: https://github.com/chrivers/pyjaco
Re:Rothko

Except Rothko was a lousy artist before he hit on the black on black rectangle thing. A study of his development as an artist shows somebody who is almost talent free.

I think the point is that much of modern art is so self referential that it has become almost devoid of any sort of external meaning. This is easy to observe. Sit for a few hours in the modern art wing of your local free public museum and observe as the man on the street barely holds back snickers and gafaws at the absurdity of some of the work.

I'm reminded of a tour through the Vatican art collection, perhaps one of the finest in the world. The crowds were bunched around some of the great statuary and paintings (even ones they didn't formerly know). Near the end of the tour, the viewer is thrust into the modern art collection. The crowds suddenly stop bunching and most people can't wait to get through it.

This seems on its face backwards. What should be more relevant to the modern viewer, statues of a dead religion in a language nobody natively speaks or religious art made by their peers and contemporaries?
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Microsoft isn't a hardware company. Apple's supply chain dominance is what brought this to market.

Microsoft sells some rebranded hardware products (manufactured and designed by Samsung, Acer, IBM, ATI, Nvidia and Asus)... but it makes PROFIT by selling software.

Apples makes software, but it makes its PROFIT by selling hardware.
I'll check it out.

Coincidentally I watched two docs recently that touch on the topic of what "modern art". "Exit through the Gift Shop" and "Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?", both were pretty good.
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Interesting article, two issues.

First, you changed two variables simultaneously, so its tricky to tell how much either contributed. The cynic in me, suggests that the article could actually be summarised as 'we cut our prices'.

Second, you right:

> So we improved our onboarding to help a gym owner export a CSV of their members’ email addresses to send to us.

Certainly in Europe, that could fall foul of data protection legislation, you'll need to make sure that the customer has given permission for their data to be past to 3rd parties.
Aren't you concerned about freezing the app to yet another runtime that must be individually updated because of security issues or features that are decoupled from the operating system (like timezone data)? Or do you see this as an opportunity to roll out timely updates that are independent of a global system runtime? Since you mention servers, how will you avoid clobbering machine-specific tweaks (like heap size)?
Sorry, didn't really clarify what I meant by mainstream: easily available to purchase, by non-techie consumers, from a high-street shop.
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Why "installing" almost anything requires "access rights" is still confusing to me. I don't understand why there's not been a movement to 'install' things in to my own home directory structured, vs "c:\program files" on windows "/usr/bin" and such on linux. - Fall back to c:\mystuff or ~/bin.
Then why don't they keep the OS and API and write a brand new UI, like Apple did when they made OSX from Nextstep?
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Will be really interesting to see how they compare to other European/Global seed/incubators like Wayra
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Have their been stories with seemingly solid statistical data, where anecdotal evidence shows that the statistical evidence is wrong?
Um, nine years? Did you read his post?
If nine years isn't enough to recognize any flaws, than the software is flawed anyways.
An anecdote, if true, is a contrary example which can be useful. It can even disprove an absolute claim - it only takes one counterexample. In mathematics this is done all the time.

Statistics are themselves misleading - there are whole books on the subject (oh no! an anecdote! better close your mind now). They are highly contextual, but the popular press excels are stripping that context and proclaiming absurd extremes. Anecdotes are excellent context, putting statistics into perspective.
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Your anecdotes aside, it's still a strawman.
Did they just put the Slide up to unlock on a god-damn laptop?

It's not like they can't detect if your computer is equipped with touch or not.
memory could translate to speed on a busy server but yeah I didn't see much improvement myself either. they really need to switch to a JIT architecture to make an impact.
Reminds me of the sound of ice. Some examples:

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Banksy's film "Exit through the gift shop" explored this argument well I though, indeed took it to the next meta-level and asked "how can you rip-off a modern artist's work?".

http://www.banksyfilm.com/
I've heard in Russian "krasne" or sth like that means both "red" and "pretty". Does that makes you like red color more ;) ?
Sony multiscan trinitrons weren't exotic - you could purchase them in any reasonable electronics store. I have several that go up to 2048x1536 @ 75hz. Viewsonic had monitors that did the same. While I look forward to higher resolution LCDs becoming a standard option, LCD's set us back resolution wise for quite a long time. LCD does have other advantages over CRT of course.
> oh no! an anecdote! better close your mind now

Another idiotic strawman argument.
> How about because it's far easier to use and less fiddly than Linux?

It really isn't. Unless you cherry pick the wrong hardware, it just works. And keeps working for ages.

> How about because the software selection is vastly superior to both Linux and OS X?

I'll agree the selection is larger. As for its superiority, that is debatable. In fact, I consider OSX's experience less confusing. And the package managers you find on Linux are vastly superior to the Googpe-browse-download-run-next-next-finish experience most Windows users have to endure.

> How about because almost any computer (including Apple's) can run Windows AND all your hardware will work just fine with it, while if you want to run OS X, you'll have to buy an expensive machine from Apple, and if you want to run Linux, you better pray there's decent driver support for your peripherals.

It's hard these days to buy a computer that won't run Linux properly. You really need to plan your mistake. As for Macs being more expen

sive, they are also better built. There is no Mac competing with the US$300 HP notebook, of course, but the US$1000 MacBook has feature parity with US$1000 machines from Dell, Acer and Lenovo. Plus, it's pretty.
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>It's up to each of us to decide what we like and don't like.

Is that really true? Because there seems to be an implicit hierarchy of art. It isn't all subjective, otherwise art critics would be out of work.

>Having said that, the best way to learn to appreciate visual art is to learn to sketch.

I'm not knocking visual art, in general. I'm a terrible painter, so I can certainly appreciate the tremendous skill and talent it requires to create a masterpieces. What I'm referring to is art that seems to be art, only because other say it's art. In the article, there's a photograph of a woman sitting in a lawn chair. Why is that art and a random photo of me doing the same thing, not?
> but I can't help to not get worried about the rise of autoimmune disorders and I haven't heard yet a plausible explanation for the phenomenon.

The most plausible explanation is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis see also http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/disease-prone/2012/02/15...

> And how in the world would you know that?

How could it? If a vaccine could cause such a change so could any illness. A vaccine is just a piece of virus put where your body can notice it. Everything after that is entirely from the body.

For example rabies: Lethal right? But the body can actually clear the rabies virus with no trouble - almost. The trouble is that by the time the body gets rids of the virus it's too late.

So what do you do? You give the body the rabies virus ahead of time, and you do it in a way that prevents the person from actually getting sick. Then next time the body encounters rabies it's ready.

All vaccines work exactly this way: You let the person encounter the illness ahead of time. You make no change whatsoever in the person - all you are doing is making them slightly sick, but in a way that doesn't kill them.

Whatever change the vaccine causes, the illness also does - except the illness also causes damage as the virus replicates.
Retina displays are suddenly the buzzword. Is it a new concept? No. Do we really need it? Debatable. Do we want it? Undeniable. Credit where its due once again to the Apple marketing machine...
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why don't you?

I assume they don't exacly have a huge community of active devs. combine that with the fact that user interface design is hard and needs experienced people working on it and you got the reason for cloning a perfectly functional UI instead of completely messing up while innovating a revolutionary new one.

This is pure conjecture, of course :)
Commonsense, like ulcers are caused by diet and anxiety, or that salt raises blood pressure?

I think a good point is made: statistical evidence is also misleading - it deliberately ignores (averages out) the extreme cases. The results are a distribution; statistics folds that into one number. Anecdotes fill out the distribution.
Who the hell reads these "professional" reviews? And why aren't people able to make their own opinion? It must be a dream-job (for some at least), get paid for playing prohpet and writing shit about other's (yet unfinished) products.

Personally, I bought my laptop a few years ago with XP preinstalled and Vista CDs alongside. I installed Vista out of curiosity, mostly because people almost unanimously said it was crap, and, wouldn't you believe it, I liked it. I got a rock-solid, capable OS that was way ahead of the clunkiness that I remembered from the XP days and way better than crappines I was starting to experience with Linux.

So a message to all you schadenfreude-review writers: go to f*ing hell.
Because it is extremely much work, both in the research/prototyping/design and in the implementation. And when you are done, there are no apps that supports it.
Yeah, thanks for deciding how gullible I am, and please do sanitize what I get to read for my own good. That's how open dialog works, right?
So basically you are suggesting that we can extend our product (you call it apps) to the Mobile area? aren't we doing that already with mobile apps??
Therefore, books and literature aren't art, since they express ideas, notions and feelings with nothing but words. Wait, what?
"- If you listen to hundreds of hydrophones over hundreds of hours, and hear only a handful of unexplained sounds, and promote only half a dozen, it is unlikely what you promote is of scientific interest. It may be interesting but not of interest."

The keyword here is "in tandem". Sure, in one hydrophone you'll hear a pebble dropping, in another, a fish drowning, but this is not it.

This is a loud sound, heard by an entire array of microphones simultaneously, pinpointed at 5000km away (or around 3100mi). (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop )

"I am unclear what is a mathematical wave property, but I am clear that it is reasonable to use fish singing broadway melodies as a stand-in for unusual events underneath the ocean wave"

What I meant to say is that NOAA and others have looked at the sound spectrum (and power) and no good explanation has been found, but a "giant whale" (or a choir of fish) is as believable as "aliens".A crowd of people is loud, but an uncoordinated event only goes so far. Other known geological phenomena like ice falling apart have been ruled out more or less.

It's not promoted because "it's funny", it's promoted because there are not a good explanation for such events, and it's something scientifically significant (something that can be heard from 3000mi away is really loud)

"NOAA- Yes, Oceanographer" sure they are, but the comment doesn't do them justice. They are Oceanographers yes, but it's a little bit condescending given the work they do. Like saying the DOE makes your toaster work.
This is going to be funny. When ME came out, enthusiasts started using Windows 2000 on their desktop.

Now with MEtro, maybe they'll again go Win 8 Server.
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As someone who has been waiting for a higher resolution laptop screen for years, what apple has done is a godsend. At least now other laptop manufacturers will take high res demands seriously.
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I wholeheartedly agree with the article. He doesn't get it. Period. My wife doesn't get programming either but she won't write an article about it.
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