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smogzer··on Google's Biggest Mistake
Can't google replace java with scala in android and get over this issues ?
smogzer··on Firefox 5 is now officially released
From a personal marketing perspective i guess they do this version rush because the dummy "consumer" looks at a big number for comparison. Chrome started pulling big numbers to surpass IE, and now firefox is doing the same.
smogzer··on Chrome dev on WebGL security and Microsoft bullshit
Here, see MS security at stake here https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/ .
smogzer··on U.S. Government Wants to Double Prison Sentences for Hackers
First there were witches, then there were terrorists then there were the hackers. But as every child says those who accuse are the ones who really are.
smogzer··on Lulzsec Declares 'Operation Anti-Security'
Dear Lulzsek, eye for an eye, and everybody goes blind. If you have something to ask from the government, please write a Petition or a Freedom of Information request, or any other formal request. Hey, with all your power you could event start a site to inform people of their democratic choices and suggest actions that make the world a better place.

Don't act like rude kids, that just denigrates our image as a whole and eventually further spoils our beloved common space known as the Internet.

smogzer··on Senate Voting to make Unauthorized Streaming a Felony
when the government represents the interest of a small group agains the people that voted for them is time for change:

meta-government + minarquism.

smogzer··on Microsoft Makes It Easier to Hack the Kinect
Not easier in any way. The openni sdk is much open as it allows the developer to use multiple operating systems, multiple depth cameras and a more permissive license.

So the article and the herd got it all wrong, in fact the world would be better if this sdk was not released, and in my opinion without microsoft (see the latest fear mongering about webgl from a company that takes ages to patch security holes).

smogzer··on CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility
False flag to justify tighter Internet regulation ?
smogzer··on Experimental UK Gov site: alpha.gov.uk
"You pay. We decide."
smogzer··on Kill Math
I just wish that scientific publications came in Python code instead/besides of "in formula (a) the variables ... represent ..." . Just get me the code and I will just plug into the general framework for that (robotics, chemistry, politics, finance) and see if it works as stated in the article.

And ! code cannot be misinterpreted, either it runs or it does not.

So dear mathematicians please do the evolution and cast your ideas as python code.

smogzer··on Nokia announces start of Qt 5 development
Been using QML for about 16 months, since it was in a development branch. I believe it has alot of potential for development of frontends and also I see it as a kind of a replacement of html which was created with static documents in mind, and then got aumented with other paradigms (css, javascript, dom, etc).

I feel the QML language is in a embrionary state yet, they are writing the use cases and writing the language at the same time, which will in time show some redundancies in the concepts they use now. Example: 1)there should be more (multiple) inheritance so that we could derive from QML elements like we do in OOP; 2) there was no ability to access the items ids like in a DOM tree.

But what sets a project IMHO is the ambition and the goals. And this team has both, and their work will deliver.

smogzer··on Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS
speaking of rss feeds, does anybody have a list of "social" or "information" (weather like) sites with support for rss feeds ?
smogzer··on Osama bin Laden Is Dead
DNA Matching with his sons.
smogzer··on Guido van Rossum on PyCharm
I'm starting to use wingware wing IDE. And i got wing working with web2py with code completion, etc.

Is pycharm for web2py development better than wing ? Since it is focused on web applications it has potential to be better.

Thanks.

smogzer··on Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line of Phones and Tablets
Singularity should not ben pattentable. Like 15 years ago i described how myspace future phone would be like: no physical buttons taking space, a gps, runs linux, and a thinnier form than my current ipaq. So, after a decade after the first ipaqs the samsung galaxy from where i am typing finally arrives.
smogzer··on C++ repl (IGCC)
KDevelop kind of validates c++ code as I type. Also C++ is too "complicated" for a scripting language, if you want to include a C++ kind of scripting in your programs Angel Script is better for that purpose. So the only use i can see for this now is "hello world", or to teach the basics of C++.
smogzer··on Best of ZSH Tips
Have a link to this from the desktop.
smogzer··on StripeSpotter, open source barcode scanner for Zebra's and other animals
Idea: create a startup that sews unique barcode tshirts so that this technique can be used to identify anything.
smogzer··on Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut
Well maybe they are putting together a better site that makes up for all of those and also enable the citizens to vote and/or give ideas where they want their money spent, or just enable the voters to keep the money if they do not have representation.
smogzer··on Computer Vision is Artificial Intelligence
I quit my Phd in computer vision. There where i was working with a stereo vision robot. So i was trying to get the robot to behave like a human would, fixating point of interest (salient points) and calculating distances, well that involved a lot of trigonometry and the cameras had to be perfectly calibrated to get good data, so it was really hard just to match points of interest from both cameras. In conclusion i believe robots will see the world, but it will be through their eyes/sensors, not some human like approach. As for AI it will have to be some sort of baby like bootstrapping aproach able to learn, validate, propose new theorems and have it's own curiosity, in the form of a function that minimizes entropy or something like that.

And it will be funny if humans won't be able to make sense of that learning data :)

smogzer··on GiftRocket (YC W11) Lets You Send Gifts That Can Be Redeemed At Any Location
that ! now pair with breakupnotifier ! and create giftonbreakup. It's like URL programming of life events.
smogzer··on From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind Breakup Notifier
I believe capitalization should follow the path of relationship automation: onBreakup(): sendFlowers(x);

You could partner with a local flower/chocolate shop and have it taken care of. Another idea is to pay for sms delivery of breakup, sort of a premium advantage.

smogzer··on New web2py RESTful APIs writes SQL for you
Massimo you're internet wise omni-present and python-wise omni-potent ! Thanks for web2py !
smogzer··on Obama "IP czar" wants felony charges for illegal Web streaming
Thought Crime ?

The fact that a government is acting against its citizens in behalf of a minority, now that should be a crime.

smogzer··on Why Gas Is So Expensive Today (Hint: It’s Not Libya)
begin bla bla bla.

... and since bernanke is printing money and making stockmarkets go up, therefore the oil exporters also are printing what they have, i.e.oil, making their "valuables" go up...

bla bla end

signature: soylent green is sheeple.

smogzer··on Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work
Also Nokia wanted to flood the market with cheap phones to curtain the people from seeing other brands. I guess this might have created them a support nightmare. New kids understand the concept of singularity and just strieve for perfection, lefting Nokia the land of the lost buttons.
smogzer··on 70% of the Public Finds Piracy Socially Acceptable
piracy is the opiate of the youth.
smogzer··on Nokia's Windows Phone 7 concept revealed
So they need to do a deal with the devil in order to loose the keyboards and copy established designs. Nokia + MS = 2 x Marketing.
smogzer··on Global Village Construction Set: Open source tools and machinery
So how do we franchise this startup ?
smogzer··on A brave new world of fossil fuels on demand - The Globe and Mail
Dear google please buy/support this tech and release it as opensource.

Signed, We.

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