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Comment Re:Mozilla has been in decline due to poor dev (Score 1) 318

by jnull on Sunday March 10, 2013 @02:50PM (#43132349) Attached to: No Firefox For iOS, Says Mozilla's Product Head

No need to attack. I stated my personal evaluation and decision. As far as decline: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1&qpsp=2008&qpnp=6&qptimeframe=Y It's clear they peaked in market share a couple years ago. I believe it is due to quality more than platform integration. You can do your own performance evaluation, but I imagine you will find greater memory consumption with Firefox. Options are good. I wish them well.

Comment Mozilla has been in decline due to poor dev (Score 4, Insightful) 318

by jnull on Sunday March 10, 2013 @12:45PM (#43131527) Attached to: No Firefox For iOS, Says Mozilla's Product Head

I switched to Firefox so many years ago for innovative features, but both Chrome and Safari have beat them out in performance and integrated capabilities. How many BS Firefox updates were there last year with nothing significant delivered. Once big fan and now I don't care what system they are on. Perhaps they should pull back and focus where they may be able to be good again. (my .02)

Supermassive Black Hole Is Thrown Out of Galaxy 167

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @07:50PM from the moving-to-better-quarters dept.

DarkKnightRadick writes "An undergrad student at the University of Utrecht, Marianne Heida, has found evidence of a supermassive black hole being tossed out of its galaxy. According to the article, the black hole — which has a mass equivalent to one billion suns — is possibly the culmination of two galaxies merging (or colliding, depending on how you like to look at it) and their black holes merging, creating one supermassive beast. The black hole was found using the Chandra Source Catalog (from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory). The direction of the expulsion is also possibly indicative of the direction of rotation of the two black holes as they circled each other before merging."

Comment Do No [intentional] Harm--NPD walks the line (Score 1) 178

by jnull on Thursday February 18, 2010 @02:03PM (#31187194) Attached to: Two Scoops of Buzz

From a go-to-market POV, getting "buzz" and an initial user-base is the most difficult part of social network-based apps. To the old adage: ask for forgiveness, not permission. Personally, I think it is just fun for people to hate on Google (the big institution)... heck the Avant-garde of hatin' big business is even hatin' on Apple! Now that I just find funny... reminds me of that South Park "Smug" episode. I digress. Google will always struggle with using its data and users to its advantage without losing them. To Google or any other company (Slashdot included), we're all just data points. There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those who get that and those who don't. --

Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics 572

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 09, 2010 @07:36PM from the because-they-suck-at-poker dept.

David Gerard writes "Zed Shaw writes an impassioned plea to programmers: Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All. Quoting: 'I go insane when I hear programmers talking about statistics like they know s*** when it's clearly obvious they do not. I've been studying it for years and years and still don't think I know anything. ... I have taken a bunch of math classes, studied statistics in grad school, learned the R language, and read tons of books on the subject. Despite all of this I'm not at all confident in my understanding of such a vast topic. What I can do is apply the techniques to common problems I encounter at work. My favorite problem to attack with the statistics wolverine is performance measurement and tuning. All of this leads to a curse since none of my colleagues have any clue about what they don't understand. I'll propose a measurement technique and they'll scoff at it. I try to show them how to properly graph a run chart and they're indignant. I question their metrics and they try to back it up with lame attempts at statistical reasoning. I really can't blame them since they were probably told in college that logic and reason are superior to evidence and observation.'"

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