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Sure, you can get pretty far with a fairly simple solution. But lot of the time, you get two (or more) ways to split the string into dictionary words. For a simple English example,…

Japanese is usually written without spaces. Words and sentences just run into each other. When writing in hiragana (syllabic characters), word boundaries are often ambiguous. Engli…

"A fox was brown" is a perfectly ordinary sentence in the active voice. "Speed was involved in an incident" can also be parsed as active, if "involved" is an adjective. If the sent…

Factoring into powers of 2 seems to me like an unnecessary complication. It's possible to calculate an arbitrary power in O(log N) time without memoization. def __get_matrix_power(…

A maximum spanning tree might be misleading, as it's easy to interpret no vertex as no correlation. When building a tree, weak correlations may be included out of necessity, while …

I'm on a desktop and they're telling me to rotate my screen.

I agree. I'm not sure what kind of an algorithm they use for kerning, but it seems to ignore how letters interact optically. Pairs like "ve" and "ro" are set too far apart.

"VLC for Windows 8 might not be applicable for the store." And that's a major problem. Without distribution on the Windows Store, this thing isn't going to see any kind of mass ado…

It seems they are doing something similar, but with vertical scrolling/swiping. Swipe up from notifications to get to running apps, swipe again to get to the full list of apps.

Actually, A4 has an aspect ratio of one to the square root of two. Your point still stands, as this is even closer to the iPad screen than 2:3.

"The apps will allow for basic editing" I find it interesting that Microsoft now has several versions of Office that don't support the full feature set of their file formats. There…

They're killing the client. Messenger accounts continue to work, and users can sign in to the Skype client with their existing Messenger credentials. Messenger will be run on the s…

The introduction text is misleading. Besides these enumerated values, you can also use a custom PNG. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh70048...

This makes me wonder why "settings" is included in the default icon set. Settings should be accessed via the charms bar as well.

No, Silverlight doesn't run on IE10 Metro. I just tested that it doesn't run on an arbitrary site, and I don't think it's possible to even whitelist it.

Earlier, the plan was to have no plugin support at all in IE10 Metro. Microsoft is positioning the whitelist approach as a backwards compatibility shim for high-profile sites that …

Yeah, I want to see that too. The UI differences between the platforms go far beyond chrome and metrics. An app that runs on three platforms may have a different set of views and d…

I wonder if native UI rendering APIs will be available for these platforms. Will this be a simple wrapper and compile with few native hooks, like Flash on iOS? Or will they take a …

I think this is a demotion for desktop apps. The phrase "Windows 8 style UI" implies that the colorful rectangle look is the style for Windows 8. The classic desktop environment, b…

"75 percent of applications are already designed in HTML5, with an overlay to fit smartphones from Apple or Google." I'd really like a source for this. He seems to be saying that 7…

I would add the following: * A short-lived redesign of MSN around the concept of "channels" and "shows" with a focus on animation and video (1996!) * Partnering with broadcasters t…

K-means clustering gives you a set of centroids which are the calculated means of each cluster. If you only want actually occurring colors, just look up the color closest to each c…

Similarly, there's the lineage of: 1. Microsoft Passport 2. .NET Passport 3. Microsoft Passport Network 4. Windows Live Passport 5. Microsoft Account It seems that whenever Microso…

When browsing product categories, the page title says "Search results for ''". For €40 million, you could check for empty strings.

From a consumer point of view, I can see two problems. The selection is muddled, and the prices aren't all that good. They say they have 194,614 products, but that includes things …