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To all the folks replying that someone will fill the gap in front of you: that’s the point. It isn’t about reaction time. It’s about letting traffic flow easier, not fighting with …

That was an incredibly condescending answer. In 2015, we continue to develop incorrect CSV parsing and production when there are ready solutions in the wild for the spec ( http://w…

I am disappointed in this challenge on two levels: (1) A great many solutions fail to actually produce proper CSV: what would you do if any of the names or arbitrary credit card nu…

Perhaps something like a Talk page on a MediaWiki platform? It would be out of the way but directly connected to the page you are on, a second set of comments accessible by a MetaT…

I can't speak for the other two systems compared, but to be clear, OP's examples involve more than "dictation and simple searches"; Siri also controls the device. Without entering …

No problem. :)

This is not two-factor authentication. It is important to know what it means. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication factors are: * Something only the user …

This sentence really clued me into my problem with the essay. As I read it, I found myself tripping over the sentences, especially this one. I had to reread it in order to understa…

1. I think we should challenge the definition of "global variable". In what context is the variable global? The traditional definition is that the context is the whole program. How…

> You shall know a tree by it's fruits. Don't judge a book by its cover. Follow the money. A witty saying proves nothing.

2010 Stanford study. I updated my post.

Brief rant whenever I read this tripe, and reading it afterward reminds me of psychobabble, but I am ranting against psychobabble anyway... I thought the notion of willpower being …

I believe you may be saying that if your goal is to make somebody say "Yes", then the toolset adequate for the job is one based around manipulation. One may manipulate through dire…

While true, I happen to have both kinds of devices (updated, not old), and we found the Facetime experience MUCH less pixelated and less jumpy than the Skype experience over the sa…

Every time I see the phrase "open source", I mentally add "but not open binary"; how do I know that the service that is run uses binaries that are compiled from that open source al…

Maybe the critical question is: If no light at all comes from the object, is that the same as it being dark, or is it a complete lack of stimulus? If the brain receives noise, it f…

My guess: The object that does not reflect light to you ceases to exist in your vision. Nothing comes from that direction. Your brain would then attempt to compensate -- as it does…

> there's also a lot to be said for age and experience I would propose that deliberate practice ( http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/05/04/deliberate-practice-h... ) is more key than…

I wanted to suggest that, but I couldn't get it to work on my repo. Might be my version.

Rebase is for cleaning up history. Merge is for introducing new features. Use the best tool for the job. Always "git pull --rebase"; it is fast, easy, and meaningful. You can chang…

The closest Clojure has to car/cdr is first/rest. It supports "cons" but only for creating sequences. Traditional Lisp car/cdr is one-location/other-location, and its cons puts tog…

Is there a convenient list that I can read that shows what feature changes have been introduced to Erlang in the last 10 years?

Can you go into more detail about your architecture (a quick diagram of the connections between these components)? I am very interested -- my own dabblings have been leading me in …

I guess I will be your essay-writing dissenter. C is a high-level language with fewer features than many other languages, is not necessarily the engine behind other languages, has …

Having done this for a while, I can solidly say that the relationships and structure of data has been consistently better when designed as a set of schema tables than as a set of c…