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by blahedo 15y ago
> Ironically, mild extortion is the point of the Tribune's "What's Your Problem?" column. I don't think so. I can see why you'd say that---there's a certain family resemblance---but extortion when someone threatens to reveal a bad
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by blahedo 15y ago
Still growing---it's a lot more than last year but chapters 8--12 are still blank. I imagine that by next fall it will be in near-final draft form and they'll aim for a dead-tree publication date in time for Fall 2013, but that's just a gu
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by blahedo 15y ago
> 5 of the 13 chapters are blank. It's an update of HtDP ( http://www.htdp.org/ ) and it's still in progress. I taught an intro (CS1) course using last year's draft (when chapters 1, 2, and 4 were all there was) and had no problems.
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Lone Yelp review dogs business owner(chicagotribune.com)
222 points by blahedo 15y ago|144 comments
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by blahedo 15y ago
> (though not an indistinguishable beverage containing diet sweetener) Really? Indistinguishable? This presumably doesn't invalidate their results, but a lot of people can distinguish the taste very well. This just seems like slopp
906.
by blahedo 15y ago
> ...which looks like the offspring between an ATM machine and a safety deposit box. The author evidently has never seen a modern transit station locker system. (Admittedly less common now that lockers have been removed from airports
907.
by blahedo 15y ago
I'm betting that the journalist that wrote that post garbled the message and that the PIN is an alternative to using the bar code. Some of us still don't have smart phones.
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'm glad this came up to make me think about it more; I'd already gotten in the habit of logging out of FB except when actively viewing the feed, for precisely this reason---I didn't want FB tracking me across browsing other sites. (The FB
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by blahedo 15y ago
No. Your formulation is not incorrect, but pg's is correct as it stands. The word "less" has been used in a range of English dialects for both countable and measurable things, for more than a thousand years. See e.g. http://itre.cis.upen
910.
by blahedo 15y ago
No, we should be asking for exact age and year, and then jittering each part of it by plus/minus 2 at random. Won't affect the data analysis, but will increase the anonymity considerably.
911.
by blahedo 15y ago
> ...for the state of Illinois. A driver's license id was composed of birthdate, sex, and some location information.... It's worse than that: in Illinois the first four characters of your DL ID are your last name's soundex code.
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by blahedo 15y ago
It doesn't have to be this way, and individual fields can break away (to a greater or lesser extent). For instance: In Natural Language Processing / Computational Linguistics, the professional society (Association for Computational Linguis
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by blahedo 15y ago
> "Why is the market failing?" There's an easier answer to this question: because it's not a "market". There is no part of this whose pieces are fungible. Not the researchers, not the ideas, not the papers, not the journals. For "t
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by blahedo 15y ago
Part of me wants to snark back at you ( http://lmgtfy.com/?q=NFC ), but I had to look it up too, and the larger issue is: this page really should have told us. I'm familiar with the general concept, but the acronym is not yet in mainstream
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by blahedo 15y ago
I had a female student a few years ago who was complaining about the sexism of the themed parties at one fraternity (e.g. "red light", where the girls were supposed to dress as hookers, "pimps n hos", same story, ...). Knowing that she was
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by blahedo 15y ago
The people outside that group that don't are often in the category of moving outside their current city after they got cell phones. When you're going to have to change the landline number anyway, and notify all your friends of the new numb
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by blahedo 15y ago
This version is nice because it's even clearer what's going on at integer-divisor points in the process, with different numbers of "arms" on the pattern.
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by blahedo 15y ago
The seas wouldn't even be flat to the "surface" of the cube, right? They'd deform into a spheroid. So looking at it from a peak (or from space) it would appear to be a liquid sphere intersected with a solid cube.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Ah, I see. I don't think it's quite the same thing, though, because their previous opt-out problems have been when they actually create a new feature, make it public, and make you opt out to make it less public. This situation is, while n
920.
by blahedo 15y ago
Did you read the post? Assuming they're not lying, there are no changes to your existing settings for existing things, but for future posts you'll have better and/or easier control over your privacy settings. This is not FB's usual opt-ou
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by blahedo 15y ago
> querty Ooh, I think we found part of your problem.
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by blahedo 15y ago
To get a sense of the status of Arabic dialect with a referent that might make more sense to a western audience (or maybe not), try this approximation: Arabic now is like Latin a millennium ago. In the 11th century, standard Church Latin ha
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by blahedo 15y ago
There is a certain amount of misinformation in this post that I'd like to clear up: 1) In the 10th century, (Old) English and (Old) German were already somewhat divergent, and not really mutually intelligible, but closely related. 2) The sa
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by blahedo 15y ago
> 2) Sit up straight, dammit. In every photo we ever see of new startups, how many people are sitting with good posture? None of them. Do you have data that indicates that contributes to RSI? My personal experience is that trying to
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by blahedo 15y ago
So now we're carrying around 130 security tokens? Unless you're talking about this in conjunction with a password manager, all the OP's arguments apply to this too.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Having just moved (and thus done my shopping for a new internet connection), I found it pretty galling that I was pretty much expected to either get a $30 land line or a $50 cable-TV package if I wanted to get internet. Technically I didn'
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Wells Fargo and Intuit Join Forces to Ruin My Weekend(augustjackson.net)
34 points by blahedo 15y ago|18 comments
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by blahedo 15y ago
I can still remember how excited I was when URLs first started appearing in IRL locations (billboards, magazines, etc), around 1996 or 97. At the time, of course, a lot of the people seeing them had no idea what they were....
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by blahedo 15y ago
> I've never understood the "no open windows but still running" model Here's a very specific use case that comes up all the time (for me, but I think it's more general too) where this model is superior: I have a folder-ful of files th
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by blahedo 15y ago
I don't know the future prognosis of OmniWeb---it's been a while since they've released anything but bug fixes---but they've had side-tabs since they introduced tabs close to a decade ago. The advantages of this are many: they take up no v

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