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Controversies over the term Engineer(en.wikipedia.org)
17 points by blogimus 17y ago|24 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
And unlike clay tablets, the rosetta disk even has some ISO compliance.
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by blogimus 17y ago
Thank you.
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by blogimus 17y ago
What do you imply by that?
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by blogimus 17y ago
I think we can all agree that these are special cases. In general, you don't go to jail until your family bails you out if you can't pay your car, house or credit card bill. or your business loan for that matter.
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by blogimus 17y ago
At least today (I believe in most, but not all countries) we don't have the specter of debtors' prison. I'd say that was a pretty hard barrier to a second chance.
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by blogimus 17y ago
"Come Sail Away." But it only lasts for 37 seconds. On a more serious note, it would be interesting to find out how many "earworms" (read the blog entry) are viral (almost all, most, few,...). Sing a bit and get it stuck in someone else's h
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by blogimus 17y ago
A notebook and a set of habits (my processes). A simple paper notebook which I can write ideas down in meetings, which I can keep by my bedside and scribble down my thoughts if I get a brainstorm when I'm sleeping. There have been a number
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by blogimus 17y ago
I thought of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" especially given the default secret knock.
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Free software helps prevent food poisoning(aqua.dtu.dk)
1 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
If this research is right about the brain's time processing, it would help explain déjà vu.
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Frequently Asked Questions on Black Holes(antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov)
1 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
I've been using Sharepoint for 3 months so far on a big ($100M+) government contract project. Our prime is hosting it. I'm not a fan, but I don't maintain it and it does the job. The most use I've gotten out of it so far is for document man
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by blogimus 17y ago
Images aren't from flickr, not enough cats.
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Leaf Project, A robotics project using artificial intelligence and vision(leafproject.org)
1 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
You can still see the votes on your comments by looking at your comments history.
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by blogimus 17y ago
About a year ago, I mentioned the problem of "bandwagon upvoting" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=217822 So I'm really glad to see this and hopeful it works out. I think hiding the votes is better than a hard upper vote limit, as it i
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by blogimus 17y ago
No its not in the CONUS, but many moons ago I was at Fort Greely, Alaska. When I was done with my tour and if conversation turned to the topic of my past travels, people would ask the whereabouts of Ft Greely. I say it was 100 miles south o
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Novel way to cool data centers passes first test(computerworld.com)
2 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments
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E-Memory and Human Nature(onpointradio.org)
2 points by blogimus 17y ago|1 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
My recollection is that AltaVista had paid inclusions (paid links to be placed prominently in search results) in its search results. I think most search engines at that time did. So that the first AltaVista results page or two was rarely wh
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by blogimus 17y ago
In the last twenty years we've gone from where microcomputers were generally isolated to our now highly connected world with social networking and botnets, all the benefits and security risks that entails. Programming languages in the mains
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by blogimus 17y ago
You've got half the picture, the art, the intuitive grasp of flow and balance. You've ignored the other half, the mechanics. The mechanics are not about memorizing volumes of texts, Aspects of an expert include having been there and done t
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by blogimus 17y ago
Just an observation, the VK captcha doesn't support visually impaired users.
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by blogimus 17y ago
I agree they are two different things. It sounds like you are talking about illustrates the dichotomy of fundamental versus applied research. In articles and discussions I read and hear on research and funding, I see a general lack of ackno
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by blogimus 17y ago
Well, http://www.copyrightkids.org might be a starting point. It seems a bit hokey, but might give you some ideas. It's put together by the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. I really don't know anything about the organization.
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by blogimus 17y ago
Just from reading that article it seems Alex and Eran, as founders, seem to really complement each other well. And their persistence, wow! The company was on the rocks. We had zero revenue. We had been trying for four years to make somethi
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History of the Super Soaker(isoaker.com)
54 points by blogimus 17y ago|11 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
I spin electrons into a shimmering digital tapestry of logic. I build stories of circumstances and choreograph virtual states. I contrast cohesion and coupling against a binary backdrop. I weave algorithms into patterns of recursive fancy.
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by blogimus 17y ago
A couple of days ago, I read the following article: http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/million-dollar-businesses-e... One of the businesses is Jimmy Beans Wool, started in 2002 with $30k and had $2.1 mil revenue in 2008. now boasts an aver

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