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by blahblahblah 16y ago
I remember this "assassination tag" game from the late 80s also. It was played with squirt guns in my hometown. Everyone drew names. The name you drew was your target. When you made a "kill", the person who was eliminated gave you the n
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Agreed. This problem isn't ACM's fault. Professional societies are too dependent upon journal publishers to force significant change. It is Congress that needs to step in and demand that all journal articles produced as a result of any f
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
The example you gave is a degenerate case that isn't really representative of the real world situation. Making x to be an odd multiple of pi in your example is an excessive constraint on the problem. Real world problems requiring creativi
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
It's not too hard to see why this works if you think about it as a mathematical optimization. You have a very bumpy fitness function in parameter space. When you apply arbitrary constraints on the parameters you are selecting a subspace t
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Regarding "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers", they ought to change the title of that book. The theory that ulcers are caused by stress has fallen into disrepute. Infection by helicobacter pylori is now believed to be the primary cause of pepti
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
There isn't necessarily any correlation between the newbie status of the questioner and the complexity (or lack thereof) of the question asked. This is particularly true of questions in niche sub-domains of programming such as image proces
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Apples and oranges. Yes, there is a "hot girl effect", but it really only applies to hot girls. People who are at the top of their fields may be friendly, but they are, by virtue of being at the top of their field, generally very busy peo
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
I would challenge the assertion that introversion/extraversion are some sort of immutable orientation. These traits can and do change over time. In high school, I tested as an INTJ on the Myers-Briggs. As an undergrad, I tested as ENFP.
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
She's not wearing the IT uniform though (khakis, polo shirt, dockers, and lanyard with ID badge). Maybe that's sold separately in an accessory pack?
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Fear isn't required for an adrenalin response. I accidentally shocked myself with household 120V AC once (the back of my hand brushed up against a live exposed wire). My hand jerked away by reflex before I was even aware anything had happ
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
I remember reading an article back in the late 80's or early 90's about wine chemistry. I think it was in Scientific American or Discover. Basically, the conclusion they came to was that the difference between a good wine and a mediocre o
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
This is interesting in terms of its potential. However, right now this is really the bare minimum implementable unit of functionality and is a little too limited to be of practical use in teaching anatomy. Features I'd like to see: 1. Arro
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
There are a lot of things that can be learned effectively from books, but I don't think graphic design is one of them. Books can help, but one of the key skills in graphic design is having an internal sense of how a variety of different pe
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
What the book is really teaches you is to not see an "orange" at all. The process is pre-verbal. By the time you see "an orange", the information you need to produce an effective drawing of it has already been condensed down into a verb
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Programmers write code to someone else's specifications. They're not responsible for macro-level design. A developer is intimately involved in the design of the software and also writes code. An engineer applies scientific principles to
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
If you think about it for a minute, the vast majority of suspicious activity likely to be reported in a Walmart is related to shoplifting. That doesn't make this move by the government any less creepy, but it does explain why Walmart would
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
A minor, slightly pedantic, point about the physics: Electron density is the quantity that determines x-ray absorbance, not mass density. Of course, a correlation exists between the two, but they are not exactly the same thing.
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
What is the intent of your research/work log? Do you just want to capture your ideas so you are able to review important TODO items, insights, and the rationale for decisions you've made later, if needed? Or is the purpose to document you
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
1. Wait until the price on his head goes up. 2. Send men to summon worms and go to Arakeen to collect it. 3. ??? 4. Profit.
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
How is it in the public interest for a teacher to be fired for giving a failing grade to the school administrator's, mayor's, or influential businessman's son/daughter/nephew/niece who goofed off in class, didn't do their homework, failed t
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
The situation is analogous to what happens when a CT machine malfunctions. The basic design of a CT machine has an x-ray source on a rotating ring. The patient lays down on a table and the table is moved through the center of the ring at
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Don't be shy. If you want a Happy Ending with your nut massage, just ask the TSA agent for one. ;-) Also, common courtesy dictates that you should at least offer a reach-around. http://www.moviesounds.com/fmj/cowboy.wav
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Actually, I'm kind of surprised that no TSA agents have fought this and turned the situation into a hostile work environment lawsuit payday yet. Coming soon to a courtroom near you... Attorney: Could you please tell the court in your own w
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
I hope they're successful in getting TSA's ridiculous policy changed. One shouldn't have to choose between being unnecessarily irradiated and virtually strip-searched or being sexually assaulted (in any other context, TSA's new pat-down pr
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
"Startups, less than two years old, with very little user traction and no revenue, getting acquired simply for talent, at valuations that give even the front-line engineers a seven-figure outcome." Seven-figure salaries for developers? Are
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Actually, nowadays, the email is more likely to be read in a timely fashion. Snail mail to congress gets delayed because it's subject to heavy duty security screening before it ever reaches the legislator's office. It may be useful for is
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
I found it interesting that, of the faces that I misidentified, all but one of them was female. It would be interesting to know if the statistics point to a significant difference in performance depending on the gender of the participant a
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
nude-o-scope just sounds too benign. We refer to the artistic, tasteful depictions of unclothed people in fine art as "nudes". The images captured by back-scatter x-ray bear no resemblance to the tasteful renderings of Titian, Michelangel
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
People, genius or not, generally don't have any idea whatsoever how they think. This is one of the fundamental difficulties that has plagued the field of psychology since its inception. Just because you can do a thing doesn't mean that
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
A bit part of the problem is that you don't get to vote the shares held by your mutual funds. The fund manager gets those votes and he/she is obligated to vote solely on the basis of profit motive. And because of 401(k) and 403(b), the va

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