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by elptacek 16y ago
Two words: "mix tape" (Also, we've really come a long, long way from a bunch of inky-fingered hunchbacks in a scriptorium, huh?)
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All governments appear historically do have been designed by a small group of people with coherence of vision. All of these systems, based on idealism, fail to account for the complex requirements of administrating a functional society. As
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I read a story about Cameron Willingham in the New Yorker a while back: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_... There's also an article about him on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Todd_Willingham
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There's a somewhat negative cast towards the end of this article where the author discusses "the fundamental inability of most humans to handle such technology responsibly" and how "psychosocial factors" retard progress. And then you have s
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Someone has to hire that first IT manager to build and integrate technology into an existing business. Nobody is going to get this right. To us, this is an old problem, because we're completely steeped in this world. On the grand scale of t
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by elptacek 16y ago
Since I am not at liberty to discuss what I've been doing for the last two weeks and why that makes this assertion completely, utterly and shamefully naive (and ridiculous), I'm just going to tell you a story. Years ago, my mother worked fo
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by elptacek 16y ago
Curiously, problems aren't solved with weak methods of inquiry. They're also not solved by pointing at them, jumping up and down, saying, "THIS IS A PROBLEM! SOMEBODY FIX IT!" There's this thing our parents said to us, "Whenever you point a
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by elptacek 16y ago
Also, Marion Nestle: http://www.foodpolitics.com/
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by elptacek 16y ago
This article has a bad smell. One commenter said it best -- the author is confusing 'risk factor' with 'cause'.
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New Visual COBOL release deploys code to cloud and JVMs (sdtimes.com)
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by elptacek 16y ago
I wish I could upvote this comment twice. There's a tremendous amount of data freely available and it doesn't take a PhD to see correlations between motivations and consequences. To this list, I add: http://www.amazon.com/American-Project-
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by elptacek 16y ago
When I first read this article, so many thoughts crowded into my mind that it was difficult to compose a coherent response. Since I often take the train through one of the less nice areas of Chicago, from time to time I catch myself gazing
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A Basal Dinosaur from the Dawn of the Dinosaur Era in Southwestern Pangaea(sciencemag.org)
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Look Around You - Maths(video.google.com)
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by elptacek 16y ago
What rolls down stairs? Alone or in pairs? What rolls over your neighbor's dog? Spray-on liquid glass!
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by elptacek 16y ago
For many years, I wished for a boss who would hand me a book and say, "here's a book, read up on it." Little did I know that I had to marry him first. </twee>
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Swine flu survivors developed super flu antibodies(uk.news.yahoo.com)
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When ramps come into season, I would suggest replacing your baby spinach greens with a lightly sauteed chiffonade of ramp greens, undressed.
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by elptacek 16y ago
Quite the opposite. I've never worked in another place where it was more inviting to be outside.
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I made them for the kids earlier in December. I think you may have been out boozing it up with your Hacker Nerd buddies or something.
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I used to work on this campus in 1997. It kinda reminded me of an apartment complex in that there is a large open areas surrounded by free-standing buildings. At the time, there was a dry cleaners drop off, at least one small restaurant and
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by elptacek 16y ago
This is not too far from what I originally intended to reply to the article itself, too, until I read the other comments. My three would probably be soup, pizza and sweet potato fries. This would give you a kick start on sauces (soup base),
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by elptacek 16y ago
"We don’t know. It’s complicated." But then there's the thought bubble with the words "Moral failure" in it: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/physician...
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by elptacek 16y ago
I can't tell if you're saying that bicycle design is a 'solved problem' or if everything that can be invented has already been invented. Either one is a perfectly valid excuse for not looking at anything in an entirely different way, I supp
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Interesting concept bicycle design by Bradford Waugh(behance.net)
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We don't cook because our parents didn't. Prepackaged convenience foods have always been something of a status item. This whole "return to cooking" is something of an amusing rebellion to me, since it was something of a stigma in my childho
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Jeff Bezos' Original Job Ad(blogs.seattleweekly.com)
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Google's next Android Music app leaks out, gives hints of a 3.0 UI overhaul(engadget.com)
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Study ties brain structure size to socializing(google.com)
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Is reading wife's e-mail a crime? Rochester Hills man faces trial(freep.com)
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