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Gosling Rallies Against Oracle for Java EE Neglect(infoworld.com)
2 points by andrewl 10y ago|0 comments
752.
The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland(bbc.com)
125 points by andrewl 10y ago|38 comments
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by andrewl 11y ago
I'd only heard the name App Academy before this article. I did a bit of reading on it. It's an intensive twelve-week program, and it looks like applicants have to pass heavy screening for aptitude. I can well believe that properly
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Review: ‘Disrupted,’ a Tech Takedown by Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs(nytimes.com)
7 points by andrewl 11y ago|1 comments
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Fewer Asians Need Apply(city-journal.org)
4 points by andrewl 11y ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 11y ago
Good article. One difference I've seen between big cats and house cats is that big cats never (as far as I know) tuck their feet under their bodies in the "bread loaf" position that house cats do. I always assumed it was beca
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Not Just a Death, a System Failure(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
7 points by andrewl 11y ago|1 comments
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A Beloved Bronx Teacher Retires After a Conflict with His Principal(nytimes.com)
3 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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A Drug to Cure Fear(nytimes.com)
9 points by andrewl 11y ago|2 comments
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by andrewl 11y ago
I like his description of one unfortunate aspect of American culture he discovered on his first visit: "...for the first time in my life I was confronted with a civilization that did not give its scientists the automatic benefit of the
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In Taiwan, Survivor Mentality Stymies Tech Innovation(nytimes.com)
1 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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A Tribute to Opening Up Dolphin Smalltalk 7’s Source Code(medium.com)
1 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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Jewish Deportee on Persecution, Past and Present(nytimes.com)
2 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 11y ago
FogBugz, from Fog Creek Software, uses Monte Carlo simulation in its evidence-based scheduling tool: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
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by andrewl 11y ago
The description is missing a t in two places in this sentence: "Pome stands for Posgres Metrics. Pome is a PosgreSQL Metrics Dashboard to keep track of the health of your database." It should be Postgres instead of Posgres
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The Superintendent Who Turned Around a School District(npr.org)
1 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery(nytimes.com)
4 points by andrewl 11y ago|1 comments
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Meet “Sledgehammer Shannon,” the Lawyer Who Is Uber’s Worst Nightmare(motherjones.com)
1 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
769.
A Free, Almost Foolproof Way to Check for Windows Malware(infoworld.com)
2 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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Universities Race to Nurture Startup Founders of the Future(nytimes.com)
2 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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Sued Over Old Debt, and Blocked from Suing Back(nytimes.com)
4 points by andrewl 11y ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 11y ago
There's been a good bit of research into this at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Neuroscience & Society. Here's an overview: http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~mfarah/research/socioeconomic-
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John Rassias, Who Pioneered Foreign Language Teaching, Dies at 90(nytimes.com)
14 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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Why people think total nonsense is really deep(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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Anti-ageing drug could let you live to 120 in good health(nzherald.co.nz)
2 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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Wizard of Princeton(weeklystandard.com)
2 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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Caltech Prof: A Lot of What You Know of Scientists Like Newton and Darwin Is Wrong(laweekly.com)
2 points by andrewl 11y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 11y ago
I think there's something to this. Whether it's logical or not, a language is partially judged on its web site. The Ruby and Python sites are less whimsical: https://www.ruby-lang.org https://www.python.org
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by andrewl 11y ago
I agree. The city felt so much more friendly. And it was quieter, too.
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by andrewl 11y ago
Paul Graham discussed this in the Ongoing Diagnosis section of his Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas article at: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

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