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by andrewl 9y ago
I can't find the quote, but I remember Mark Twain describing his training as a Mississippi River pilot. The master pilot training him said something like "What was the water depth at So and So crossing at mid day three trips back?
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by andrewl 9y ago
That story, by Charles Fishman, is part of his book The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy : https://smile.amazon.com/dp/01430
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Literate Vimrc(tylercipriani.com)
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Teaching Humility in an Age of Arrogance(chronicle.com)
1 points by andrewl 9y ago|0 comments
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The Biggest, Strangest ‘Batteries’(nytimes.com)
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The Hottest Body Part? For a Sapiosexual, It’s the Brain(nytimes.com)
2 points by andrewl 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 9y ago
To respond to grabcocque's suggestion that “Christopher Tolkien calls himself an ‘editor’ but I’m not sure he understands what the word means.” Christopher Tolkien knows what the word means. He studied English at Oxford and later becam
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Mossberg Final Column: The Disappearing Computer(recode.net)
266 points by andrewl 9y ago|61 comments
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Lines of Spines – What is a library?(thesmartset.com)
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The Anatomy of Finickiness: “Einstein’s Beets: An Examination of Food Phobias”(lareviewofbooks.org)
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by andrewl 9y ago
This may be apocryphal, but it's said that a friend warned Voltaire coffee was slow poison. Voltaire responded that it must be, because he had been drinking it for fifty years.
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by andrewl 9y ago
The half-sunken SS Atlantus used to be quite visible off of Sunset Beach in Cape May, New Jersey. It's been steadily sinking over the years and not much is visible from shore anymore. Here's a view, probably from the sixties: htt
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Designing for All Abilities(nytimes.com)
1 points by andrewl 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 9y ago
That was my immediate thought as well.
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Should We Have a Codified Legal Environment for Investing in Startup Companies?(blogs.harvard.edu)
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How the GOP Could Use Science’s Reform Movement Against It(theatlantic.com)
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‘Sniffing’ urine to detect prostate cancer could prevent unnecessary biopsies(acs.org)
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Can Sleep Deprivation Cure Depression?(nytimes.com)
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by andrewl 10y ago
One theory I read is that hot climates tend to produce more hot or pungent plants, as these chemicals are often insect repellents. And the tropics lack winter, which gives plants an annual break from insects. They're under constant att
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Population Explorer(populationexplorer.com)
3 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 10y ago
There's also Joel Spolsky's The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) : https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/
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by andrewl 10y ago
This is a good article, but it's very difficult reading.
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Visionary Puppies(slate.com)
2 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 10y ago
What was the condition?
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The Internet of Things Is Coming for Us(nytimes.com)
1 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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The Tiny Robots Revolutionizing Eye Surgery(technologyreview.com)
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by andrewl 10y ago
I don't have enough experience with Smalltalk to directly comment on your criticisms. I have experimented with Squeak and Pharo, but nothing earlier. Do you know if the more modern Smalltalks suffer from the same weaknesses you see in
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by andrewl 10y ago
This letter to the editor from the January 3, 2017 New York Times argues for public funding of water systems: Failures of the Private Water Industry http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/opinion/failures-of
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Don’t Fight Sober(lrb.co.uk)
3 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 10y ago
Just based on my own experience I never take fluoroquinolone antibiotics. I had one dose of Avelox and the next twelve hours were like a waking nightmare. They were twice a day pills, so I had to wait until that evening for the effect to pa

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