andrewl

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by andrewl 16y ago
The fourth comment on the NY Times article says that Amazon was not helpful in a similar situation. But it's only one comment. Does anybody here have experience with Amazon's response to abusive merchants? Here's the comment: I had a simila
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by andrewl 16y ago
My giftedness worked against me in one way, in that I often understood things so quickly that I never learned to figure anything out. Especially in grade school, if I didn't get something by just reading it once, I had no idea what to do. I
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by andrewl 16y ago
I agree with the author. In the meantime, the authorities should be doing something about the bullying themselves. Here's an interesting article about an unusual bullying-reduction program: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/08
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by andrewl 16y ago
You don't have to pay to use Rails, BDD, Agile, or other tools and approaches. Certainly there are books and courses for sale, but also quite a lot of material for free. Saying "Here's a 'medicine,' it might work for you in some circumstanc
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by andrewl 16y ago
You could try this: http://www.nadachair.com/ It feels good for my back, but everybody is different.
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by andrewl 16y ago
There's a lot of good information on this site: http://www.bullyonline.org/ It's poorly-organized, but it's worth digging around. I gave a printout of the profile of a workplace bully ( http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/serial.htm ) to
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World Maker Faire - From Bamboo Bikes to Urban Rooftop Cosmic-Ray Detectors(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by andrewl 16y ago|0 comments
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Video from the Kaiser Family Foundation Explaining the Health Care Reform Law(healthreform.kff.org)
2 points by andrewl 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 16y ago
Maybe. Or maybe the group that did the above site was already around at the time of the Challenger disaster, but half of NASA had never heard of them. From what I've seen in large organizations, it's not unusual for there to be departments
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by andrewl 16y ago
NASA's Ames Research Center has a great site called "Using Color in Information Display Graphics": http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/ It has articles, tools, a bibliography, even an entire section devoted to designing with blue: http://colo
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by andrewl 16y ago
Glad to help. The first one I read was "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine." In that story the professor builds a new type of computer that's much more powerful than anything else in existence, and much smaller (about the size of a Vax may
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by andrewl 16y ago
I have never read a Hardy Boys novel, although I've always meant to, just out of curiosity. What I did read was the entire Danny Dunne series, about a young teenager whose widowed mother was the live-in housekeeper for a science professor.
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NASA's Color Usage Lab(colorusage.arc.nasa.gov)
3 points by andrewl 16y ago|0 comments
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Lies, damn lies and Chinese science(newhumanist.org.uk)
8 points by andrewl 16y ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 16y ago
NASA's Ames Research Center has a fascinating site called "Using Color in Information Display Graphics": http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/ It has articles, tools, a bibliography, and an entire section called "Designing with Blue": http://c
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by andrewl 16y ago
The statues on the pediment of the Philadelphia Museum of Art are painted in the old style: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pediment,_Philly_Art_... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pediment,_Philly_Art_...
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In This Region, Two Plus Two Sometimes Equals Six, Sometimes Ten(worldaffairsjournal.org)
1 points by andrewl 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 16y ago
The point is to map some easily-typed, but rarely-used, key combination as your escape key. I use jj. On the rare occasions I have to actually type jj, I just wait about a half second after typing the first j, and then the second j is rec
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by andrewl 16y ago
I agree with ggruschow: read the help. I printed the manual (it's about 275 pages) and the FAQ (about 130 pages) and put them in binders. I read them periodically to learn new features and concepts. They're available at: http://vimdoc.sour
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by andrewl 16y ago
It reminds me of E.J. Corey's group at Harvard, as described in "Lethal Chemistry at Harvard," available at: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/29/magazine/lethal-chemistry-... The article begins with the suicide of one of Corey's graduate st
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by andrewl 16y ago
It seems likely that most people would see things differently were they to have her experience. I like the talk, but I understand why some people do not. But I would not say she was "so easily" drawn into mysterious or magical thinking. She
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by andrewl 16y ago
These short videos about using Vim are good: http://vimcasts.org/
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by andrewl 16y ago
Wall timers for my air conditioners. I have window units in my bedroom and living room. I'm on the top floor of my building, right under a black tar roof. In the summer my place would sometimes get so hot that I'd have to leave both air con
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by andrewl 16y ago
I have jj mapped to Esc in insert mode. If you type it quickly, the two j characters vanish and you escape out of insert mode. If you type them slowly, or preface them with ^v, you get two j characters in your text. I rarely need two j's in
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by andrewl 16y ago
I used to use jEdit, which is still a very nice editor. And it ran on Mac/Unix/Windows, which was good because I moved among all three systems. But the last I looked (three or four years ago) development had stalled. And I got into a job wh
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by andrewl 16y ago
My introduction to Martin Gardner was his book "The Annotated Alice," from which I learned about Lewis Carroll, Alice, enantiomorphs, Oxford, logic, how to read closely, and much more that I can't recall off the top of my head. He was a fas
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by andrewl 16y ago
There's a slide show at: http://www.uc.edu/slideshow/signage
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Redesigning Hospital Signs(uc.edu)
1 points by andrewl 16y ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 16y ago
He's referring to the book "Shop Class as Soulcraft." The NY Times had articles about it. Here's one: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html
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by andrewl 16y ago
This service arranges for your pet to be placed in the home of a caring atheist (who will not ascend to Heaven) on Judgment Day. The founder says "I'm trying to figure out how to cash in on this hysteria to supplement my income."

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