papersmith
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Comment · 16 years ago
Comment · 16 years ago
"Can someone talk Steve Jobs into building a consumer robot?"
Chances are he will talk you into buying an espresso machine instead. :)
Comment · 16 years ago
It's actually 詹姆斯·邦德. 007 is just easier to say.
Comment · 16 years ago
I think for that you'll have to use the ltree index, rather than regular string index, else it'll sort like this:
1/2/3
11/2/3
2/2/3
I wonder if there're ltrees for other DBs.
Comment · 16 years ago
Personally I just sort everything in memory like reddit, since I need to traverse all branches to calculate weighed scores, which is a balance of vote counts and age. I think reddit/HN do something similar? I wonder how Disqus handles this.
I'm not really sure how to do that in SQL.
Comment · 16 years ago
Most, if not all pay-as-you-go plans have an expiration date.
Comment · 16 years ago
"One could argue that was more craftsmanship than innovation, but there's a strong connection between making things well and making better things, and China isn't famous for quality goods either."
That's because they weren't taught in our textbooks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_and_technolo...
Comment · 16 years ago
Though from certain POV these devices exist despite government policies, as the phenomenon has certain anti-authority connotations:
Comment · 16 years ago
I'm trying to wrap my head around how the whole thing works. On one hand, mundane stuffs are monitored, on the other hand, you have stuffs like these freely discussed:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...
According to wikipedia, this is on the 12th most popular site in China.
I think the censors operate on very crude keyword filters. As long as you avoid the few obvious keywords, it's not that easy to get caught. The domestic web sites get around the censor by agreeing to open backdoors for the filters, yet at the same time turn a blind eye to the real disruptive stuffs that got around it.
Comment · 16 years ago
Another thing is that scrolling is kinda sluggish in Chrome on my 2007 Mac Mini. Google docs PDF reader seems to scroll much more smoothly. It's still a big improvement over the flash version.
Comment · 16 years ago
Apple actually has a giant physical store in Beijing.
http://www.apple.com.cn/retail/sanlitun/
I know it because of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8vqSJAOC7I
They're also building a big one in Shanghai.
http://gizmodo.com/5279167/apples-massive-shanghai-store-mix...
Interestingly enough they don't sell anything online. Maybe it has to do with Chinese buy everything in cash.
Comment · 16 years ago
"A couple years ago you’d have stories about kids in Manchester textile factories putting up with pure hell. It’s simply the nature of the beast."
"A couple of years ago" in this case would be a figure of speech. ;)
Comment · 16 years ago
Or by a 25 year-old on myspace today.
Comment · 16 years ago
I wouldn't say they have no marketing. The Signal vs Noise blog, Ruby on Rails, and their books are very effective marketing tools. That being said, the quality of their products does seem to play a large role as well.
Just curious, which family in the film are you referring to? I only have a vague recall of them.