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by Pitarou 13y ago
!
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by Pitarou 13y ago
The "secret sauce" of the MOOC is the on-line community of motivated learners. Can they make this work in industrial training...?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
How dare you, sir!
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by Pitarou 13y ago
The GE technical description is a thing of beauty. I love this part: Before use, the system should be calibrated with a gyro-controlled Sine-Wave Director, the output of which should be of the cathode follower type. Note: If only Cosine-
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by Pitarou 13y ago
True, but it doesn't kill them very efficiently.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
> Where are the internet hippies saying everything should be free? Are you trolling? Even the extreme open source advocates would agree that, if you commission a guy to do some work for you for an agreed price, you should pay him.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Yup. The cynicism of Japanese consumer law can be breathtaking. Have you followed the sorry debacle of Abe's third arrow? Any policy initiative that threatens a vested interest eventually gets overturned.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Can I check I've understood you right, Patrick? You have some code that infers from usage that, for instance, civil rights cards are popular in late January (Martin Luther King Day is on January 20th)? Neat! :-)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Embarrassing. I should have checked for myself. And it is strange. Maybe the author needs to check his locale settings?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Hat tip to Guido van Rossum for passing (nearly) all the tests in Python 3. Is the "ffl-ligature to uppercase" test really relevant? Isn't that fixed by appropriate use of string normalisation?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
We are all against OVER-simplification. I think what you meant to say was: "This article wasn't in-depth enough for me." Maybe you should ask the author to add some further-reading references to the article?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
... if you can pay the legal bills. (Or if the lawyers will take your case on a no-win-no-fee basis.)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
But it's interesting that Limm didn't seem upset about people sharing his work. What hurt him was that somebody else had claimed authorship, and somebody else was receiving the royalties.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Why hasn't this happened already? This kind of abuse is often a tool used by scoundrels in acrimonious disputes. Surely, people have wanted to sue in the past. What's been stopping people up until now?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Can anyone tell me why the designer thought all those extra hooks and loops were a good idea? (Check out the i, g, and k.) To my eyes, they're just visual noise. Do they confer any benefit in long-term use, or are they just whimsy?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
> I think it's unfair to place the blame squarely on the student. Even in college, the academic system emphasizes memorization and surface-level application (knowing how to "use a formula") over the kind of "thinking&
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Or maybe this: <script type="text/javascript"/> Not quite valid HTML, but it's semantically very valid indeed.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
The difference between academic teaching and practical teaching is that academic teaching involves "second order knowledge". I.e. knowledge that is not accessible to direct experience. We can only acquire it through study, refle
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by Pitarou 13y ago
> ... but most people still think. I take issue with that. People think, but they don't think far beyond what is directly accessible to experience, so I wouldn't call it academic thinking.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That's a neat little proof.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
No. If somebody sues me, and I offer to pay my debt in bitcoins, the court may refuse to recognise this payment. But if I pay in the national currency, the court is required to recognise this payment. This is part of the legal system in eve
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That won't happen. Governments routinely force their citizens to use a currency under state control. One of the ways they do this is by insisting that taxes are paid in the national currency.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
This is a marketing problem. For marketing purposes, Teslas must be perceived to as safe, if not safer in every respect than gasoline cars. So if they're more likely to catch fire when they hit road debris, that's a problem.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
And look at the tiny quantity of lithium involved. What could we do with, say, half-a-liter of powdered lithium? I should shut up now. I'm probably already on an NSA watchlist for the search term I used to find that site.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
"How much would you pay?" is totally the wrong question to ask. People have no idea how much they'd actually pay until you show them the product and invite them to get their credit card out. And it's well known that peop
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I suggest you start here: http://www.terminalcornucopia.com/ Check out the "fraggucino", which combines a lithium battery, water, a condom, and a coffee flask to make a big bang.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I think the distinctive feature about Japan and the US is that both governments are (through very different mechanisms) under the sway of their own internal pressure groups. This makes them unable to take a reasonable bargaining stance. Per
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by Pitarou 13y ago
This is a basic application of the ideas in the first week of a microeconomics 101 course. Maybe I'm being an arrogant dick, but if you don't already intuitively get this stuff, you really should not get involved in any kind of bu
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That's exactly how I did it. It's straightforward.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
The puzzles are weird. Some of them could be a homework problem at a good elementary school (e.g. http://www.puzzlor.com/2012-10_FarmOR.html ). Others appear NP-hard, unless I'm mistaken (e.g. http://www.puzz

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