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by JimmyL 17y ago
Hint: the MIT prof referenced in the headline is Ron Rivest, the R in RSA. While the description ("MIT prof") is factually correct, that's like describing Donald Knuth as a "Stanford prof". Both place the focus on the affiliation, whereas (
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Same here - I raced boats for years and knew that waterline legth was proportional to speed, but never why.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I got bored a few lines into the generated article - it reminded me somewhat of a book report a kid might write. There was no drawn-out arc to the story; each sentence or two was correct and complete, but didn't flow that well into the foll
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I would skip inserts - more than likely your users will insert the data the way they're used to, by adding a row to the Excel table they're using. If I understand what your niche is (power users who are comfortable with Excel), I would focu
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Exactly - if you look at the numbers, you'll see that BRK.A is a very low-volume stock (today's volume was 1,700, which is quite high for that stock). It's also got only 1.5M shares outstanding, in comparison to (for example) IBM's 1.3B.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
My father did little when it came to marketing (he mostly sold office buildings), but one of his few lessons about it was that one should never advertise their product as "exclusive". If something really is exclusive, people will start usin
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by JimmyL 17y ago
SneakEmail is great; it's what I use when I'm seriously suspicious of who I'm sending mail to. For 95% of the things I sign up for, however, I'm not that paranoid - the slight decrease in security is offset by the added convenience of not h
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I do this all the time with Google Apps to track who sells my email address, creating a new one for each place I signup. 1. Create a catch-all address for the domain you're going to use that isn't the normal postmaster one. 2. Pick a three-
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I'd assume that Buffet's thought process - correct in my opinion - is that having a fancy website won't get him anything, and will only cost him money to create and maintain. Unlike most companies, Warren Buffet doesn't care if you buy his
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Like many have said, it is unclear what your site does/where the content comes from. Also, fix your spelling - the sub-banner "Its Your University" should be "It's".
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Inkjet printer cartridges/Gillette Fusion razors/battery-powered electric toothbrushes/etc. (all the same model in different guises)
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I recall something about ICANN changing the rules to prevent this from working anymore, no?
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Contact lens solution is on the list of exempt substances - you should be able to carry a full-size bottle with you, separate from your 3-1-1 bag. Like with all TSA stuff, however, it's somewhat at the discretion of the security officer on
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Stack Exchange is designed for one type of interaction: answering focused questions. It's not appropriate for just putting an idea out there and discussing it, or for that matter even having a discussion about answers to an individual quest
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by JimmyL 17y ago
If he's got a degree and a decent resume, look into TN-1 status as a "Computer Systems Analyst". When doing this, however, you have to be very careful with the job description - the CBP manual specifically excludes programmers from the CS
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by JimmyL 17y ago
After reading this survey, it sounds much more like a pitch-in-disguise than an actual survey for determining if you have a market, information about potential customers, etc. If you want to advertise, advertise. If you want to get informat
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by JimmyL 17y ago
That's been around for a while - think of the video billboards of Times Square, or any of the ones that inhabit the financial districts of major (Western) cities. The problems come, I would guess, from a very high start-up cost. Not only do
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by JimmyL 17y ago
The aspect I found most interesting - and this was mentioned in passing only - was that there was a second system for displaying what the issues of the day were in a quick fashion. When there was mention of the international community, the
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Two things that immediately jump out: >> we would allow all of our account-holders to withdraw funds from any ATM at NO CHARGE (woo-hoo!). So he would just eat the interchange fees that the owners of the other ATMs/networks charge h
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Exactly - environment fail. There's no download link for IE when you're looking at the site from a Mac because...there is no IE8 for Macs available. So where you'd think there would be a download button, there's text saying "IE8 is only ava
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by JimmyL 17y ago
True - but I don't think that's what the author is talking about. You can't simulate biological world-scale evolution right now. As you say, it's just too complex and operating at too large a scale. We somewhat know how, but the technology
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Why? We do long-term experiments in biology because genetic evolution is slow - whereas with genetic programming we can speed it up limited only by the computing technology. Let's say biological evolution has been going for 4.5 Billion year
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I thought of the xkcd version of set theory - http://xkcd.com/468/
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by JimmyL 17y ago
In (what should have been) my second-last semester of school I had a very solid job lined up for post-graduation. Then I D'ed a course by 3 points on a 150-point exam, which meant I had to tack an extra year on to my schooling, and lost the
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by JimmyL 17y ago
JIRA (great Confluence integration for enterprisey use, but a lot of clicking) and DevTrack (terrible in all ways).
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Uh, what? Every day there are posts here about how great the Cloud is, and how we should just dump our data there and not have worry about data centers ourselves. Isn't that exactly what was done here - individual handheld users put their p
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I have had no problems (or difficulties) with OpenID - set up an account on myopenid.com, pasted two lines into the source of the root page of my domain that delegates to myopenid, and then I just use that.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I don't think anyone's doubting the $3/month figure - most people could spare that. It's the "getting 100% of registered voters to participate" part that has many people thinking you're overreaching slightly. For the most part, the people t
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by JimmyL 17y ago
That's how MoveOn works - it lets its community members vote on issues that it will prioritize in its campaigns and lobbying.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
As I read it, your goal is to get more Americans to join your project than currently use Facebook, and have them all do $3/month in targeted political donations. Didn't that get tried by MoveOn?

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