andrewl

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by andrewl 10y ago
I can't help thinking of Fry's first morning in the year 3000. Fry: I'm never gonna get used to the 31st century. Caffeinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? Admiral Crunch? But I'll probably try it.
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by andrewl 10y ago
He did drop some platforms, although nowhere near as many as NeoVim did: Omitted in this version are: The 16-bit DOS, OS/2 and Amiga versions, these are obsolete. The 32-bit console version for MS-DOS/Windows 95/98 T
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by andrewl 10y ago
I had read before that Dyson was not big on the higher education system. This was interesting, about his time at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton: Well, I think it actually is very destructive. I'm now retired, but when I
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by andrewl 10y ago
I like what you're offering, but I just get an "Encountered Problem" error in the latest version of Chrome on Windows 10. And I was testing a very minimal site with just the London location, so load should have been low. Load
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Medical guidelines don’t include a diet low in carbohydrates(nytimes.com)
99 points by andrewl 10y ago|168 comments
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by andrewl 10y ago
At my company we run a locally-hosted version of FogBugz. It's a smaller shop, with about eighty users. And about twenty or so of them are not developers or technical staff, but staff in other departments who need to be able to view ti
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by andrewl 10y ago
I got this: Failed to load the widgetset: ./VAADIN/widgetsets/drafty.MyAppWidgetset/drafty.MyAppWidgetset.nocache.js?1472407401168
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by andrewl 10y ago
They're fascinating animals. They are also apparently one of the most aggressive animals in the world, and pound for pound the most formidable. I'd be much more scared of a wolverine than any dog. Besides the teeth, with which the
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The FDA Is Prohibited from Going Germline(science.sciencemag.org)
2 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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The Great Affluence Fallacy(nytimes.com)
3 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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Black Activists Don’t Ignore Crime(nytimes.com)
2 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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Health Secrets of the Amish(nytimes.com)
1 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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When Blood Pressure Is Political(nytimes.com)
1 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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A Famed Hacker Is Grading Thousands of Programs(theintercept.com)
122 points by andrewl 10y ago|35 comments
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US Government Agency Calls for the End of SMS Authentication(engadget.com)
3 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 10y ago
I've heard (but can't verify) that the Pragmatic Programmers have their own tool chain, and that it's quite good. It will, for example, check that code snippets are syntactically correct. I have a few of their books, and they
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Can Silicon Valley Really Do Anything to Stop Police Violence?(nytimes.com)
3 points by andrewl 10y ago|2 comments
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Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings(nytimes.com)
3 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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What It Is Actually Like to Be in the Engine Room of the Startup Economy(nytimes.com)
3 points by andrewl 10y ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 10y ago
Small talk in any culture should not be taken literally or analyzed too deeply. When a cashier says "How are you?" the standard response is "Fine thanks, and you?" It doesn't matter if neither of you really cares. I
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by andrewl 10y ago
Dalerus, as Zacharycohn says, the 18F group doesn't respond to RFPs. But I personally don't see that it would be a conflict of interest if they were allowed to respond. I could see a conflict of interest if the 18F group was a p
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by andrewl 10y ago
That's exactly how I read it, myblake. I would hope that somebody on the House subcommittee said to the lobbyists something like "You, the lobbyist representing ITAPS, I see in my notes that ITAPS members include, among others, IB
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by andrewl 10y ago
David X. Cohen, the Futurama executive producer who also holds an MS in computer science from UC Berkeley, wrote an episode called "The Why of Fry." It involved some time travel, which I always think of as self-referential.
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by andrewl 10y ago
The other thing I think Philadelphia has going for it is that rising water levels from global warming won't affect it as much as they will affect cities right on the ocean, or islands like Manhattan. The Delaware and Schuylkill rivers
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by andrewl 10y ago
This is for older children, twelve and above I'd say, but I think the Alice books ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There ) are great. Then they (and you) can read The Annot
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How Should We Treat Science’s Growing Pains?(theguardian.com)
3 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 10y ago
While I'm sure that a donation (especially a gigantic one) to the Clinton Foundation will help make the Clintons like you, it's not as though the Saudis gave the money to Hillary herself, or to her campaign. It went to the Clint
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South Korea’s Misogyny(nytimes.com)
7 points by andrewl 10y ago|4 comments
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by andrewl 10y ago
I'd seen the Q Drum before, and thought the simplicity and effectiveness were great. I had not see the gravity light, but I like it, too. And I think you're right about solutions being obvious only in retrospect. The simple fact t
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by andrewl 10y ago
I love solutions like this. I look at them and think "It's so simple and obvious! I could have invented that." But I never do invent them.

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