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Guardian interview with Peter Norvig(guardian.co.uk)
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by atlantic 14y ago
My theory is, it was a weather balloon.
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Influential GOP group releases, pulls shockingly sensible copyright memo(arstechnica.com)
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Scientists don’t fall in love with an experiment. Neither should entrepreneurs.(techcrunch.com)
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by atlantic 14y ago
Shouldn't that be 'lakhing' ? :)
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by atlantic 14y ago
Yes, the island of Dr. Moreau. Wells was hardly a member of the great unwashed masses, yet he perceived the dangers of this particular line of research over a century ago. It might be worth a read - scientists are often not the best people
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Scientists Recover Oldest Playable American Recording(theatlantic.com)
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by atlantic 14y ago
I don't have a degree, and I've working as a web developer for 12 years, with a steady improvement in wages and benefits from year to year. Worked first in start-ups, then in SMEs, and then in IT consultancy, now a freelancer. Absolutely no
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by atlantic 14y ago
If I were you, I'd delete this and start again with a different tone. You sound a little desperate, and that will push people away. Repost under your own name, asking for advice about how to find a job in SF, and mentioning your skills in b
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Armstrong and the cult of willpower(newstatesman.com)
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US university janitor earns Ivy League degree(aljazeera.com)
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by atlantic 15y ago
There is a huge amount of work in the corporate world creating and maintaining public websites, private intranets and web-based applications and tools. It's not glamorous and it doesn't make the news, but it's there and it puts food on the
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by atlantic 15y ago
And there is also snippet compiler: http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/SnippetCompiler . Unfortunately, it only works up to framework 3.5, but that's good enough in many cases.
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Waiting to exhale - the art of free diving(theatlantic.com)
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UK moves to restrict Internet freedom(aljazeera.com)
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The Q Score: How Y Combinator's Startups Are Like Broadway Musicals(theatlantic.com)
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SOPA reframed: content access vs. content distribution.(aljazeera.com)
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by atlantic 15y ago
Why not take a more radical approach, and deny that there is a copyright problem. The supposed losses of the entertainment industry are all based on the argument that whatever is downloaded is lost revenue. In fact revenue should be compare
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by atlantic 15y ago
No. I did some serious work on jQuery, but that's a library rather than a language; and in the process also revised JavaScript.
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by atlantic 15y ago
You are not statistically significant.
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The Iranian Threat(aljazeera.com)
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New Stuxnet worm targets European firms(guardian.co.uk)
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U.S. Drug Policy Would Be Imposed Globally By New House Bill(huffingtonpost.com)
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Former head of MI5 decries "war on terror" terminology(guardian.co.uk)
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One in 25 business leaders may be a psychopath, study finds(guardian.co.uk)
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by atlantic 15y ago
As a FB user,I'd like to say that I turn off all applications that appear on my feed- no exceptions. This does not reflect on the spamminess or otherwise of individual applications. It just means that I only use FB to interact with other
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by atlantic 15y ago
You've misspelled "philosophy". Also, something wrong with the photo; don't necessarily get rid of it, but it needs to be a bit more sober (black and white? wearing a tie?).
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by atlantic 15y ago
Let's not conflate the French and Russian revolutions - they have absolutely nothing in common. And yes, the French revolution did work out very well for the poor, eventually. It was at the root of the development of modern democracy in the
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by atlantic 15y ago
The focus should be on the effects, not on the medium. A concerted attack that targets infrastructure, for example a nuclear power station or the national power grid, should be considered an act of war. But an attack against email accounts
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by atlantic 15y ago
Something that has helped me a lot recently is to hit the gym every day. This has knocked a couple of hours per day off my working hours, but surprisingly I am more productive than before, because my mind is clearer and my mood is more posi

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