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by bcbrown 14y ago
My college considered dropping its PE requirement back in the 70s. From what I heard, a major reason for not doing so was because all the PE teachers were tenured and couldn't be laid off.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I don't really like that you call tests "just checklists". That's accurate for unit tests, but I don't think it really captures the spirit of integration or functional tests. Integration tests, to me, provide value by making a space to brai
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I would say that progress comes about when unwavering advocates win over the pragmatic people with the power to make change. Both types are needed. Because Stallman is uncompromising, he'll never be in a position to make change. But he can
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by bcbrown 14y ago
That's what I did in my last job search. It's paid off wonderfully. The first three months weren't especially exciting, but now I'm working on very interesting problems, and growing a ton.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
It's a little creepy how the author keeps referring to it as Surface, almost anthropomorphizing it: "I love the Touch Cover and the sound Surface makes as I type." "In the first three days of using Surface, I charged it twice" "Surface simp
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by bcbrown 14y ago
It seems like overkill to file suit over this, but looking at the Surface FAQ[1], it seems legitimate to criticize Microsoft for using close so much disk space on a device that they make, with such a small hard drive. 5Gb for "recovery tool
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User sues Microsoft over tablet storage(geekwire.com)
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Not really. It's like Newsweek or Time, but more international, and more in depth. It's certainly skewed towards the financial, but it's really just a news periodical.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
They already have theirs.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
It looks to me like the study cited previously addresses your point by asking students whether or not they'd like to gave an academic position: "When asked to ignore actual job availability and rate a range of careers, only about 50 percent
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Better job prospects?
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by bcbrown 14y ago
At least in Seattle, most new construction seems to be taking one large lot, and either building one larger house with a smaller yard, or building multiple townhouses with little to no yard.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
You mean like the time when many people will be driving a long distance to visit family?
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by bcbrown 14y ago
For me, I found it a pain to get easy_install and pip working, which made installing packages frustrating. After figuring that out, though, it's fine, with a command prompt and Notepad++.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
They miss the point when they write "Who's to say that App.net will always cost $50 per year? What if, a year from now, it needs a lot more to keep the service going. App.net has incentives to figure out ways to raise the price to bring in
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Maybe these labels don't have much meaning after all.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
That's a much better response.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
A correlation between people who use a language and the previous languages they have used does not imply a correlation (or intellectual/philosophical inheritance) between the language under discussion and the previous languages used. I've n
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I don't think pointing to surveys showing few Clojure users came from Haskell/ML, is sufficient to disprove Yegge's assertion. If a language's designers came from camp A, yet the majority of users came from camp B, that does not mean the la
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by bcbrown 14y ago
That's true in grasses, but not in trees. In grasses, if the aboveground leaves get shortened/killed, from fire or mowing, the belowground roots die back, then both regrow in a similar manner.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
The installation itself wasn't the pain. It was the usability and configuration afterwards that sucked. The built-in music player didn't work, with no hinting towards the problem. There was some other stuff I can't remember specifically now
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Back when my high school switched from Win 98 to one of the NTs, and Ctrl-Alt-Del started being used to log in, I thought about making an application that looked like the login UI itself, as if someone else had pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del but then
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I did that, installing Ubuntu last fall. It was miles better than the last Linux distro I installed, Red Hat 6 back in the 90s, but it was still a painful process.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I thought I was the only person who did that.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
An interesting collection of essays and short stories that investigate concepts related to your observation is http://www.amazon.com/The-Minds-Fantasies-Reflections-Self/d... , which I'm almost finished with. It has a lot of thought-provok
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I read something where the goal is to mimic the offline community of students at a real university. By having a large group of people all taking the class at the same time, you maximize the chances that if someone asks a question on the for
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by bcbrown 14y ago
When I worked there a couple years ago, requesting a custom Windows build still took overnight, if you wanted more exhaustive testing than just xcopying a couple binaries.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
What's the difference between "molten ice" and water? Is it still crystalline? Is it just the pressure is different, or is there actual physical differences?
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Bezos has historically not given any high-profile donations, and the Seattle Times ran a series earlier this year bashing Amazon for its lack of "corporate citizenship". I wonder if this is a start of an effort to counteract that perception
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by bcbrown 14y ago
It can change the outcome of the electorate as a whole, if the less-likely-to-vote voters vote differently then more-likely-to-vote voters.

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