WBrentWilliams

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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
From a strictly legal point of view: Paper, ink, and a safe. These are kept on your person and/or in your house and require a court order to access against your will. Expanding a bit, there is nothing that stops you from using local en
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
I'm going to earn my downvotes today. It was more interesting reading the comments than the article, especially when one of the threads devolved into saying the article is political. The other entertaining point is the offense at the n
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
It would be interesting if a group of students applied for their applications en mass (say, the entire 2012 admitted class to a University in the US) and performed statistical analysis on the resulting data. I wonder if any great numbers of
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
To be fair, the President only works as hard as the votes he can get for his party. That's not over. Obama's job for the next two years is to do what he can to make it a possibility that another Democrat will come after him. That
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
If what the purest form of this bill was trying to do is important to you and you're from the US, keep working for it. I suggest the following: 1) Show up at the primaries. 2) Reform your local laws to allow you to vote in the primarie
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
I'd say the fault with HTML/JS/CSS is that the implementation of the rendered (the browser) broke the stack by not being strict in what it emitted. Put another way, a badly formed page should render badly and/or issue er
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
This was fun to read. What I saw was someone say that they were panicking because they needed time to understand how all the things that go into learning to be a researcher goes into learning how to be a professional programmer. I'm qu
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
I was taken more by the lack of historical grounding of the students in the story. Then I remembered two things: 1) The journalist probably didn't have dig hard, but could easily have cherry-picked a fun interaction for story color. 2)
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
There are many ways of looking at this, most disturbing. I imagine that my own experience working to support PhD candidates and post-docs a decade ago is instructive. The TL-DR: failed start-up. I went back to school during the post-2001 re
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
You are quite correct to be skeptical. See my reply below. That said, a single pattern noticed is only correlation. It is far better to ask three questions: What do we know? How do we know it? What does the shape of what we don't know
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
You quite correctly diagnosed my ailment and diet. I wasn't (and still am not) wild about being on Infliximab, but it's better than the alternative. I'm also quite thankful for my University position and the very good insuran
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
First, a snark admission. I read the article and the comments concurrently. I was not disappointed in how quickly the reductionists came out to defend their favorite theory of caloric thermodynamics. That said, I will provide an personal an
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
To give away my age and turn the snark on, I grew out of my "I hate myself and want to die" period. Rainbow t-shirt included. Not only did I decide it was "OK" to have interests and passion outside of work, I embraced th