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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
You have to be over 50 to have run in the era before heavily cushioned running shoes; they came in about the time that the running boom took off. Comparing injury rates before 1975 and after requires that one take many factors into account,
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
From Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, entry for April 19, 1773 (Courtesy of gutenberg.org): Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. 'I have looked into it.' 'What (said Elphin
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
This has been said, often by women. Why is it news when Jack Welch says it?
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
F&L on the Campaign Trail delivered authoritativeness? Now there's news. _The Boys on the Bus_, written during the same campaign period, had something to say.
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
Finished: _Germany 1866-1945_ by Gordon Craig. Various others in parallel.
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
Right, you can always lie, or give correct but misleading answers.
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
Other than the lambda in lambda calculus, what would make me think I'm studying Ancient Greek? Steve Yegge had a vastly better blog about practice somewhere, making also the point that directed practice is better.
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
I thought Dave Cutler was the principle architect on NT?
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
Classpaths! Brutal!
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
Maybe if it were the prize for literature. Have a look at some of the forgotten and forgettable who have received that...
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
Quite so. The family brought on a string of years of rising at 5:30. Now I'm reverting to something nearer solar time.
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
Carlo Ponzi was not a Sicilian. Even the old Kingdom of Two Sicilies ended well south of Emilia Romagna.
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
I was just down at the Barnes & Noble browsing the computer section, picking up bits of French spoken by a middle-aged couple--too quietly for me to be able to comprehend. The locals were speaking a lot louder.
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
Well, it's his job. I haven't read VF much since my mother-in-law quit subscribing, but I don't recall having much difficulty distinguishing it from (say) Communications of the ACM.
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
Right. The guys who haven't mastered 65-year-old fission technology.
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
Around the house is my grandfather's ca. 1911 yearbook from a midwestern engineering school. I was entertained to read a two page item by the yearbook staff calling for a better sports program to draw attention to the school. The school sur
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
1. It has been a looong time since I read _Being and Time_, but I don't think that's what Heidegger had in mind. 2. Could it be that we're on a 35-year, say generational, cycle? It's about that long since _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Main
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by balding_n_tired 17y ago
Of course, this will run through the whole list, no matter what... def is_constant(l): return reduce(lambda x, y: x and (y == l[0]), l, True)