trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Consumer Safety Notice for Nest Protect: Smoke and CO Alarm
If you think QA is ever complete, then it is clear you have never worked on a QA team. You can always come up with new ideas on how to break things.
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trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
If this really was his personal decision, then he would have written the press release, and the chairwoman would have issued a press release expressing support.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
This is going to come back to bite us when the political winds start blowing the other way. I'm disappointed in how short sighted our community has proven itself.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Suspension of NASA contact with Russian entities
Umm... there was some collaboration. But characterizing it as "free" seems rather optimistic.
Even the present reduced degree of collaboration represents, I think, a much closer tie to between the two countries space programs than ever existed during the cold war.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: U.S. autism rate surges, CDC reports (1 in 68)
And even scientists can really only be be deeply familiar with the experimental basis for a few narrow fields of study. For all the rest, they too have to take it on faith.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007)
I used my clamshell feature phone to login to my home pc via ssh. Granted, the typing experience was pretty painful, but it did work. People seem to forget that 'app stores' have been around a lot longer than the iphone. It's just that the earlier versions of app stores, carrier decks, were managed by carriers who cared a lot more about preventing apps from interfering with their business than they did about providing their customers with good, useful apps. And they ran on operating systems that were customized or custom written by carriers who saw them primarily as a marketing tool useful for pushing their more expensive services.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Flood: Geometric visual programming, driven by a Scheme interpreter
Demos like this are cool, but they make me think that we'll never see a non-toy visual programming tool. Even a fairly simple bit of logic quickly becomes an incomprehensible soup of interconnections.
edit: Thinking about it a bit more, whats lacking in all the examples of visual programming I've seen is a clean way to build abstractions. It would take a while to learn to efficently read and style visual code just like it does with text based code. That I think i could get used to. The thing that I find alarming is the prospect of manipulating an ever growing graph.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years
I think this is why all of our recent presidents seem so similar once they are in office. They all have the same dirt on them. As with information revealed in the pentagon papers, I don't think we have much hope of decent governance until the cancer is excised.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: World Population with D3
Yeah, I have to agree I tried looking up demographic information about Chongqing and Chengdu and while they do seem to be growing, I didn't see anything that could explain a growth of that magnitude. Maybe it's an artifact of some interpolation method he's using? The source data he linked to seems only to go to 2000, so I'm not sure where the data for 2005 - 2015 came from.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: The Observatory of Economic Complexity
Germany is both a big importer and a big exporter of dairy products. I guess this indicates that there isn't any substantial cost associated with cross border trading of these products?
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Algebraic and calculus concepts may be better way to introduce children to math
For a good motivated treatment of calculus I'd recommend going back to Isaac Newton's Principia. It is surprisingly accessible, and really quite beautiful.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America's kids
Fortunately, TI continues to provide this to many students.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Pets vs. Cattle
It's not just on "factory farms" where animals raised for meat are considered temporary. If you are going to slaughter a pig in 18 months, you probably are going to be disinclined to form emotional bonds to it.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: MtGox.com is offline
It may not be a hoax, but it is definitely wishful thinking.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat
Like SEO :)
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: This Man's $600K Facebook Disaster Is a Warning For All Small Businesses
Presumably that 1% is continuously depleted by facebook's detection and deletion of fake accounts and continuously replenished by the creation or subversion of new accounts. A high turnover rate may drive the proportion of fraudulent activity on facebook still higher.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
This is also why Brazil is heating up so much in terms of start-up interest. It has a large population speaking the same language with significant income and a single government. And its government tends to be somewhat less nervous making (at least in some regards) than China's.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Ukraine protests: Before and after photos from Kiev's battle zone
With the notable exception of 1968 Democratic National Convention[1] I'm having trouble finding any news coverage of multiple injuries at a RNC or DNC. Care to provide references?
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trothoun | 12 years ago | on: Amazingly insane spam email I just received
Also, a possible visit from the FBI for incitement.
trothoun | 12 years ago | on: US Supreme Court declines to hear appeal by patent troll
They also like cases that are purely questions of law, they tend to avoid cases that have unresolved questions of fact.
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