The Loud and Clear Message that the TED Controversy is Sending (skeptics
kill talks about wider views)
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Note: I'd usually confine this to wedtech but because of the broader nature
of the asm.js post, and the author himself, John Resig, I thought the
broader list would be better.
http://ejohn.org/blog/asmjs-javascript-compile-target/
-- Owen
Thanks a lot, dude. The second post that makes me feel incredibly old at 54 :-)
I certainly remember life without cell phones, trying to find a public phone
and the right change. Incredible how much things can change in such a short
time (including the differing perceptions of what constitutes
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Psi = sigh = psychology = pounds per square inch = ?
Am I close?
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Gary -
Thanks a lot, dude. The second post that makes me feel incredibly old
at 54 :-)
You and me both (56)...
I certainly remember life without cell phones, trying to find a public
phone and the right change.
In my Private Investigator days (late 70s) I carried a fully analog
pager and had a
Dang, I missed the thermodynamic reference.
I think there's a parallel between Sam Harris being outraged that people
think he's a racist islamophobe (
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/dear-fellow-liberal2/ ) and the woo
peddlers being outraged that TED doesn't think their ideas are worth
Fascinating…
--Barry
On Apr 3, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Note: I'd usually confine this to wedtech but because of the broader nature
of the asm.js post, and the author himself, John Resig, I thought the broader
list would be better.
Roger Critchlow wrote at 04/03/2013 11:04 AM:
I think it's a form of rhetorical dyslexia -- what one thinks one is
arguing is not the argument that others hear one making.
I don't grok the map to dyslexia. But the disconnect between the
thoughts of the sender and those of the receiver is quite
You're right, dyslexia is a bad match.
Probably should have called it dysrhetorica, failure to recognize the
significance of your own arguments, as evidenced by your dismay when people
tell you what they heard you say.
Or maybe it should be humpty-dumpty-itis, as in the words mean just what I
contrast with..
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-
next-generation-web-browser-engine/
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From: Barry MacKichan barry.mackic...@mackichan.com
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 12:04:00 -0600
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I like the two quotes:
/What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to
believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is
supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. /- Carl
You want to feel old? Try interacting with the Android development
community. The average age of the CyanogenMod community, for example,
appears to be about 14 years. I actually heard one of the CM devs refer to
one of their senior developers, who turns out to be 30 years old.
--Doug
On Wed,
Roger/Glen -
Dysrhetorica even better!
Humpty-Dumpty-itis... more cynical perhaps.
I am who you think I think I am also seems relevant.
It is perhaps why the most stubborn of us in our own self-image seem
to be the easiest to deal with (one way or the other). If we offer no
doubt about
Matthew Yglasias has a
piecehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/03/dropbox_vs_amazon_nobody_can_compete_with_jeff_bezos.html?wpisrc=newsletter_myslate
on
Slate about Amazon's new cloud storage service and how it's likely to kill
Dropbox. Naturally I signed up. But I already have a Dropbox
Interesting a new language I hadn't hear about. But why would you name
anything Rust?
--joshua
On Apr 3, 2013, at 12:50 PM, mar...@snoutfarm.com mar...@snoutfarm.com
wrote:
contrast with..
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-
So that after learning it, you could honestly claim that your skills were
Rusty.
--BadaBing
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Joshua Thorp jth...@redfish.com wrote:
Interesting a new language I hadn't hear about. But why would you name
anything Rust?
--joshua
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*Doug Roberts
Or perhaps they wanted it to sound futuristic, and believe in the Used
Future http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UsedFuture design ethic.
-Arlo James Barnes
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I haven't thought that much about it, but it just occurred to me that it might
be fun to build a distributed, RAID-inspired el cheapo cloud storage system.
Sign up for about ten services each offering 5 GB of free storage, and think of
each as a member of a RAID system, and stripe blocks of
I'm pretty simplistic about it and use mozy. My computers are backed up
automatically and I don't spend any time thinking about it. The two times there
was a failure of their data base on my machine getting corrupted, they were
able to recover everything quickly. When we returned to NM after
Well, the reason I mentioned it wasn't it was yet another Let's fix C++ by
harvesting ideas from the computer science literature. effort, e.g. D, but
that it 1) is from Mozilla (Eich) and aims to be a platform for a next
generation browser, and even one that runs on mobile devices, and 2) it
isn't
A small personal comment on related matters: It's not uncommon to hear
statements of the form Science can never explain X. Solving for X, one of
the common solutions is consciousness, but there are other popular
solutions to the equation. Step back about 500 years, and humans were not
in a
So far in this thread I hear opinions mixed with some desire to examine
evidence, but no discussion of the evidence itself. We are ourselves
demonstrating one of the points made in the original blog post that
spawned this thread - that it's about culture and assumptions, not science.
I don't
Four thumbs up for three idiots.
It was very good movie for the Maker movement.
On Apr 1, 2013 7:43 PM, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Bruce
If you liked 3 Idiots, you may enjoy its even better prequel - Munna
Bhai MBBS.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374887/
Sarbajit
On Tue,
That's amusing, Cody. There certainly was a lot of clever extemporaneous
mechanical and electrical innovation in the film.
Bruce
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:33 PM, cody dooderson d00d3r...@gmail.com wrote:
Four thumbs up for three idiots.
It was very good movie for the Maker movement.
On Apr
I'm a bit surprised that Chrome is behind Fire Fox.
http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1qpcustomb=0
This makes me more interested in asm.js than ever. And MozPhone. And
Emscripten. And Rust.
I wish the Dev Tools weren't so opaque.
-- Owen
Feynman had a nice comment on this, Nick. He suggests that faith healers
don't take their faith seriously.
Retrieved from http://faculty.randolphcollege.edu/tmichalik/feynman.htm
There is an infinite amount of crazy stuff, which, put another way, is
that the environment is actively, intensely
Doug, I can't tell whether you're being serious or not. Though I'm not in a
position to act immediately on all the new developments that Owen
enthusiastically ferrets out, I value the fact that he's giving us a
picture of how very much rich ferment there is right now in the
JavaScript/browser
I agree, Bruce, Wallander is really interesting. In fact, the blond,
divorced special investigator is the same actress who played against
Blovmqvist in the Girl With The Dragon Tatooo series. Good stuff!
Plus, I love listening to Swedish.
On Apr 3, 2013 9:35 PM, Bruce Sherwood
Doug -
Not to disturb you and Wallander, but here's a browserDrivel question:
are you saying Netflix is streaming to your Chromebook without
Silverlight?I'd like to never see Silverlight again...
- Steve
QUIT BOTHERING ME WITH THIS PISSANT BROWSER DRIVEL!
I'm watching Wallander on my
Rich: you never got back to me on Taize .. are you aware of the movement?
-- Owen
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Bruce -
I think Doug is just enjoying rattling the cage we all (including him)
seem to be inhabiting.
Otherwise he would not be reading his e-mail while watching Wallander.
His delete button (it is established that Doug does not read his mail in
a textual mail tool or I'd say delete key
Owen,
I lost track of your question -- just used Google -- I like it! ... the
natural resurgence of inner experience in a world religion that is capable,
deep, complex, and subtle enough to evolve radically and swiftly to meet
the remarkable, unavoidable opportunities of these decades:
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