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Amen. Tags are fun, especially when we try to be creative in selecting them. Unfortunately, it makes it rather hard to find content. Forcing people to select only one tag for a post would usually result in a) people not tagging a post at all or b) people selecting a very general tag as to be worthless or c) people using a 'creative' tag resulting in a tag "ghetto" ( forgot who first used that word)
I love my Kindle but I find the screen to be too small. It'd be nice if it were 8" instead of 6". I mostly read pdf s now ( papers for my thesis ) and I do not enjoy reading them in landscape mode.
The Theory That Would Not Die. Reading loads of technical books, too. PostGIS in Action and Spatial Databases: A Tour. And a smattering of web development books.
Great find :D Now if only I could find the time...
The reliance on PolitiFact's APIs provides a single point of failure. Then something like a collaborative fact checking platform would be nice. Something like Wikipedia but for fact checking.
rk · 4534 days ago · link · · parent · post: Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More
Oops. Drat. My bad. I thought hubskis redundancy filters would block it. Turns out it had a different URL.
Think of the possibilities: zoom, playback, infrared vision, x-ray and all those superpowers XD
OT: Man, have I been away that long? Since when did hubski have user tagging?
rk · 4541 days ago · link · · parent · post: USB Stick Contains Dual-Core Computer, Turns Any Screen Into an Android Station
Screw touchscreens, I want a retinal implant XD
Though it'd be nice if the Cotton Candy is a 3G modem too. That way you won't be too dependent on the host device's networking hardware.
rk · 4541 days ago · link · · parent · post: USB Stick Contains Dual-Core Computer, Turns Any Screen Into an Android Station
You might want to check out the Raspberry Pi, too. Granted, it is a bit bigger but at $25 a pop, it's a steal :D
A shame I can't vote. It's rather frustrating how the decisions of American lawmakers could affect the whole internet. We really should start treating the internet like an ocean. As a shared resource. What happens in one country could have ripples that affect the rest of the world.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm currently earning my masters degree in geomatics engineering. I wanted a CS degree after but after reading your post, I think I'd get a math degree instead :)
I don't see any mention of Microsoft in that post.
rk · 4544 days ago · link · · parent · post: Steve Jobs wanted iPhone on its own network, carrier-free
It sounds like he wanted a wireless mesh network. I wish he succeeded with that too. I think it's still an active research area. We'd be awash in EM radiation, too. XD
Yeah. All it would take is one controversial link. This is a lot worse than the DMCA. At least that one had save harbors. The SOPA is a kill switch.
Any suggestions on how to combat this ghettoization?
Great find :) Liked the practice and challenge sections. Kinda reminds me of Project Euler.
Awesome read. Now looking at the books/papers it references. Speaking of hacks, you might want to check out "Mind Performance Hacks" by O'Reilly :)
rk · 4618 days ago · link · · parent · post: A detailed hands-on with Amazon's Kindle Android tablet
How exactly? I don't really have an Android device yet. I've read a lot about the fragmentation issues though those things are rather abstract for me.
You might want to check this out:
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython It assumes that you already know Python though. Might be better to read it after you've read Dive into Python or some other introductory book :)
De nada :) The tutorial that comes with Python is surprisingly good too. What're you gonna use it for btw?
Btw, just noticed that the tags view does not show the date the article was posted. Won't it be useful to show it? Recency is one of the ways people judge the relevance of articles.
Agree with constraining the tags list. Autocomplete worked well for StackOverflow. Maybe we could adapt it? Also their policy of letting only people with a certain amount of reputation to add new tags.
rk · 4618 days ago · link · · parent · post: A detailed hands-on with Amazon's Kindle Android tablet
Hardware's just part of the equation though. I think the ecosystem matters as much if not more than the hardware. This one would be deeply integrated into Amazon's services, much like the iOS devices were integrated with iTunes. I think Amazon has a winner here. Though I, for one, am sad that they won't be pursuing the e-ink Kindles right now.
rk · 4618 days ago · link · · parent · post: How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers?
Yeah. It can be annoying when you're doing research and then you hit a paywall. The exorbitant fees all but guarantee that individuals won't have access. You have to have affiliations with universities or other monied organizations.
I wish citing a paper is as easy as using apt in Ubuntu or importing a module in Python. We need an open access journal. Open source too. Where the papers and their associated datasets are hosted as well. That way we can just fork them if we think of something more interesting to do with the original research.
On machine-machine interaction?
Point taken. And now they own the browser too. ( At least the browser I'm using ). I'm loathe to leave Chrome though. sigh Decisions decisions. Security for convenience.
Hmmm... and maybe a recommendation for related tags?
It's weird though. Online communities have been grappling with these issues since the usenet days. You'd think we'd have a solution for this problem by now. Or at least a sort of "best practices" document.
That is going to be a very slow internet.
Thanks. Nice place you got here though :)
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