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yrlson··on Nokia Agrees to Buy Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6B
You are maybe talking past each other a little. It wasn't case the case that the phones just lacked an app store. What really sucked about Nokia's symbian phones was the UI and the price tag. Now that's the fault of dysfunction within Nokia and not the fault of Symbian per se, but the fact remains if Nokia had just switched to Android it would likely still exist as a mobile phone company.
yrlson··on Women preferred 2:1 over men for STEM faculty positions
You can't really say that until you have studied other fields' hiring practices.
yrlson··on A Loss for Words: Can a Dying Language Be Saved?
That's not really reasoning, just self-fulfilling prophecy. Hebrew was revived, and I can't see a solid reason why the same could not be done on a smaller scale.
yrlson··on In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas
The US is the world leader when it comes to women's studies departments and professional feminists. They set the trend. If this is not in Europe yet, it is about to arrive.
yrlson··on The curious case of disappearing Polish S
I just checked, and it appears PN-87 is included in the default Ubuntu install as "Polish (qwertz)". For whatever reason many distributions include far fewer keyboard layouts than Ubuntu.
yrlson··on Haskell in the Large [pdf]
I haven't checked on Julia for like a year, but back then Julia didn't offer anything above and beyond R when it comes to "big" (really just not fitting into memory) data. As it is Spark with Scala is both faster and more convenient than R or Julia.
yrlson··on COMSEC: Beyond Encryption [pdf]
The NSA sees all. Using both a VPN and Tor is more suspicious than just using Tor.
yrlson··on The Fight to Save Japan’s Young Shut-Ins
Hikikomori are also well "networked" online and play the game of who is authentic and who is fake. Perhaps it is as popular as it is because it has become an identity.