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by a-priori 17y ago
My prediction: in n years, there will be another article talking about how the XYZ design community is dying slowly. Replace n and XYZ as you see fit. There will always be a market for high-quality designers; there will always be a
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by a-priori 17y ago
That mod is a car accident waiting to happen.
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by a-priori 17y ago
You'll notice that most of the technologies used is this, such as <canvas>, WebSockets and WebGL, were all created quite recently. A lot has changed with the web in the last few years.
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by a-priori 17y ago
I don't really see myself watching much stuff on it, since you can't plug it into a TV For what it's worth, you can. Apple sells composite and component video adaptors for the iPad. http://store.apple.com/ca/product/MB128LL/B
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by a-priori 17y ago
This is a joke, obviously, but there have been a couple occasions where Canada has seriously looked into making the Turks and Caicos islands a province. So, it's not far off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands#Propos...
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by a-priori 17y ago
So basically the only news here is that the Wall Street Journal is now printing rumours.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Do most fluid dynamics simulations use Euler integration like this?
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by a-priori 17y ago
I recommend The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker.
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by a-priori 17y ago
That sounds like a good plan. Food, sunlight and physical activity are signals for circadian cycles. You should try to incorporate each into every waking period, at least in the beginning.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Why all the programming topics? Here's what I'm working on at the moment. - Computational neuroscience (I have vague ideas for a Ph.D thesis) - World history (I've come to realize the breadth of my ignorance) - French (I studied it in schoo
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by a-priori 17y ago
A quarter is about right (it's 23.4% as of 2009). What's more interesting is the graph of US GDP and world GDP: http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&ctype=l&m... In the 80s, the US sat at about one-third of the world GDP. So
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by a-priori 17y ago
Oh, fun :) I'm just about to launch a similar service, called Zeropoll. It seems you're pushing the event-handling logic to the client side, whereas Zeropoll generates Javascript on the server (ala RJS) and pushes that to the client. Your d
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Ravelry's Architecture(codemonkey.ravelry.com)
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by a-priori 17y ago
No, it's not. DNA transcription errors occur all the time in our bodies, but there are elaborate repair mechanisms in the DNA that either correct it or, if its uncorrectable, kill off the cell. But, sometimes these mechanisms fail and a cel
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by a-priori 17y ago
Yes, I agree this has gone off-topic. This was a rebuttal to patio11's remark that immortality without memory could be compensated for by writing everything down.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Keeping a journal probably wouldn't help. Take the case of Clive Wearing, who developed anterograde amnesia after a bout of encephalitis. He can conduct an orchestra, but he can't remember what he did 10 minutes before. He keeps a journal.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Not only that, but they're only called ZIP codes in the US (this is a peeve of mine). In Switzerland they're "post codes" ("code postal" in French, don't know the Swiss German name). They also write addresses in a different order. As an exa
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by a-priori 17y ago
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_neuroscience
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by a-priori 17y ago
which I consider the true science That there is a dangerous, dogmatic attitude that I suggest you lose. And I say this as a neuroscience buff myself.
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by a-priori 17y ago
They're missing the most important characteristic from that list: charisma. These natural leaders (who may be psychopaths/sociopaths) have a way of drawing people to themselves and making people like them and follow them in a way that makes
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by a-priori 17y ago
And no, people are NOT born with mental disorders due to environmental factors, they are born with NEUROLOGICAL disorders What is the difference? At some level, all "mental" (i.e, psychological) disorders are neurological.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Your BMI is lower than 100% of people who submitted this survey Is this your way of saying I'm a wimpy nerd? :)
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by a-priori 17y ago
If you really want to write code that you can understand all the way down I suggest starting from as close to bare metal as your level of masochism allows. For me, that's GRUB. This tutorial walks you through making a kernel image that GRUB
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by a-priori 17y ago
This is a result of the colour constancy effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy
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by a-priori 17y ago
Asking people about novel statements would be a huge improvement over the protocol they described. You probably would see a difference then. Generally, the brain evolved to be lazy. Our ancestors needed to spend their time finding food, not
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by a-priori 17y ago
Not surprising to me. Much of the activity you'd see in this experiment would be related to more mundane cognitive activity like language processing, semantic recall (remembering facts like what's in the middle of our solar system), metamem
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by a-priori 17y ago
The idea of experiment-driven law is an interesting one that should be explored. I'm reminded of a TED talk I watched recently about "charter cities" that have experimental legal and economic policies. http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer.h
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by a-priori 17y ago
When I saw the pictures of Kim Jong-il surrounded by a store filled with fresh fruit while his citizens starve, I was reminded of the final years of the rule of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu. In Ceauşescu's case, to some extent it app
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by a-priori 17y ago
I had to read through most of the site before I had a good idea of what exactly this was, but it does sound very interesting. What about deployment? On the site, you only talk about local development environments. Could you perhaps turn con
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by a-priori 17y ago
I disagree. Animals in general are naturally inclined towards superstitious thought. I recall experiments with rats and pigeons where they dispensed food at regular intervals. The animals ended up developing an elaborate ritual they repeate

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