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by decode 18y ago
Balsamiq Mockups has been getting a lot of good press lately: http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups
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by decode 18y ago
Every year, the University of Michigan publishes a survey of salaries for its Engineering graduates: http://career.engin.umich.edu/salary/ Average annual full-time salaries for computer science graduates finishing in the 2007-2008 school
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by decode 18y ago
Okay, I'll bite. Your supposed refutations don't work because you're missing the point of many of the jokes. I'll highlight a few: The names: myPod just sounds dumb. So did iPod when we hadn't had it marketed to us a million times, so in
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by decode 18y ago
Once a long time ago I saw that DJB recommended www.joker.com and I've been using them for the past 5 years. They're not the cheapest (it's been $12 a year since I started using them), but I've never had any problems. The web UI is fairly
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by decode 18y ago
Here's one way I see it, expressed as a syllogism: 1. Democracy works best when every individual votes. 2. I am an individual. 3. Democracy works best when I vote. Here's another way I see it, expressed by some German guy: "Act only accordi
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by decode 18y ago
Here's the problem with learning through fiction: the only thing you can learn about through fiction is the mind of the author. When you read a Rand novel, you don't learn anything about how objectivism works, you only learn about Rand's i
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by decode 18y ago
This reminded me of Cory Doctorow's great story "Themepunks", which includes self-replicating 3-D printers. You can read it for free on Salon.com, but the links between the chapters are a bit broken, so here they are if you are interested:
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Summary of the article: Premise - The media created a near universally-held belief that people went crazy over "The War of the Worlds". Conclusion - The media don't really affect us that much. Here's another entertaining look at three diffe
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In my experience, there is a large gap between the smaller, liberal arts "teaching" college and the large, research institution. I did my Bachelor's at the former and had great teachers and small classes (no classes with more than 30 stude