Umalu

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by Umalu 16y ago
Instead of focusing on engineering schools, if NYC wants to attract engineers it should focus on its elementary, middle and high schools. Engineers value education. Engineers usually do not make enough to afford fancy NYC private schools, a
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by Umalu 16y ago
I think it's art, and applaud them for it. Reminds me of Brian Eno's (supposed) definition of originality: do something that's so time consuming or difficult that no one else would ever bother.
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by Umalu 16y ago
The author of this article Googled the ingredients of a banana split to prove to his mother that the ice cream flavors she was offering to his children were not the "correct" flavors for a banana split. While I yield to none in my admiratio
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by Umalu 16y ago
Catan "serves as a model for solving contemporary problems such as trade imbalances, nuclear proliferation, and climate change." Huh? Catan is a GAME! You play with your friends! It is fun! Its creator was trying to improve the gameplay of
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by Umalu 16y ago
I have a hard time with articles like this that generalize over such a broad and variable base. Some big companies are great, some are terrible, and most are in between. And once you're in that big company, a lot depends on who you work for
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by Umalu 16y ago
For a different perspective on this, check out "The Grass is Indeed Greener: How I gave up dreaming about the big city and learned to love the suburbs". http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2010/10/grass-is...
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by Umalu 16y ago
As a denizen of an email-centric corporate culture, my daily email volume is in the 200 range (not including spam, which is filtered out).
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by Umalu 16y ago
Interesting to contemplate a government with no secrets. Is complete transparency a total pipe dream? One wonders whether a government committed to complete transparency would be even more effective, as people would be more willing to trust
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by Umalu 16y ago
Amazon's choice: (1) host Wikileaks and risk getting shut down, or (2) drop Wikileaks, get boycotted. If choice (2) is as bad as choice (1), something I guess the boycotters hope for, then Amazon's choice is a Morton's fork: two equally bad
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by Umalu 16y ago
Google correctly translates "Hello world" from English to Latin as "salve mundi". The Latin-English part is clearly an Easter egg. Nice.
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Is this evidence we can see into the future?(newscientist.com)
15 points by Umalu 16y ago|5 comments