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by ern 16y ago
I managed to invite my friends, only to find one non-geek who didn't know how to install Chrome Frame, and couldn't run anything but IE on her work machine (corporate policy). The overhead of using IM group chats when she was in the convers
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I have read that breast milk tends to be deficient in Vitamin D: http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/recommendations/vitamin_d.h...
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My theory about this is that much collective knowlege of breastfeeding was lost during the years when baby formula was in vogue. I expect this to change, so that, by the time today's baby girls become mothers, they will be able to breastfee
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I'm currently maintaining a large project, and I find these sorts of comments frustrating, because "jeo", "jrm" and "msl" resigned years ago, and their initials are meaningless, since nobody remembers who they are. The names of the users wh
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The headlines seem to be a bit exaggerated. Given that they just launched in South Korea and Australia, and seem to be following up on an existing announcement, I can't see how stopping sales to consumers in the US constitutes "pulling the
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I think this Wikipedia article covers the issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
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I see that some people in the comments on Hanselman's site are using the terminology "C/C++". Back when I was learning C and C++, it was described as poor form, and a sign that that the writer didn't know either language very well. Has it b
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A few years ago, I was called in and told that my work machine was pulling huge amounts of data from the net. It eventually turned out that the problem was a buggy version of Google Desktop. After a fairly intensive search, I found the reas
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Something similar happened to me: a few years ago, I downloaded "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", and almost read the whole thing before I realized it was fake (the fake book said that Dudley died, and I remembered reading somewh
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by ern 17y ago
I decided to learn Python recently, and I ran into "Dive Into Python" as a recommended resource (I think I Googled "Python book"), and it almost did put me off the language. It's not really the author's fault, it is the fault of those who r
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What about interviewees who don't drink (for personal or religious reasons)?
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I don't think it matters if you live in a multi-generational household as much as it matters how much you interact with your extended family. I live with my wife and child only, but I still have to constantly have to fend off "suggestions"
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The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations(npr.org)
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I would assume that the posters in question would be non-sponsor advertising posters facing sites associated with the games, although the original article doesn't elaborate. Nonetheless, the tendency of governments to violate civil libertie
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I started doing Project Euler problems for the same reason last year. I even sat up with friends one night working on a few problems, just to recapture that college feeling. But I know writing algorithmically interesting problems are not li
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I always felt that Ubuntu had a very "African" look and feel because of the brown (and the name of course). I wonder if this is part of a move towards a more global image.
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Do the sysadmins and programmers you are interviewing need to understand the innards of a USB keyboard as part of their job function? If it's not part of their job description, then I am not surprised at all.
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Although I personally dislike the way people have been duped by De Beers, it should be noted that diamonds have helped Botswana become a stable and relatively prosperous country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debswana
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To be fair, he didn't advocate cheating vendors, it was the reporter who claimed that he recommended not paying vendors on time. His response was that he tells businesses to honor their word, but to negotiate terms. Of course, if you negoti
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A true story: a CS professor promotes Java widely and even writes undergraduate textbooks on Java. Goes off on sabatical with Microsoft Research, and becomes a .NET evangelist. Stops writing Java books and starts writing .NET books. Is ther