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by etal 18y ago
Sorry, no disrespect intended by the "meathead" phrase -- the edit link is gone now, but I meant whether a city council would rather invest in 1000 startups or a football stadium. Sports seem pretty popular in Chicago and ATL, less so in SF
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by etal 18y ago
Atlanta feels more like Chicago than SF to me -- the sprawl is worse, the weather is better (but it's certainly not the California coast), and the meathead culture is substantial although I'm not sure I can compare it to Chicago's. The Olym
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by etal 18y ago
Same here (in gvim). I also like pylint's default behavior of issuing warnings where it finds these and penalizing the code's final score in the report -- it's a proxy for code problems that have been silenced or worked around, but still ne
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by etal 18y ago
That made me think of this: http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/projects.html Ubiquitous computing at the MIT Media Lab -- I saw a great presentation on this a couple years ago by Joe Paradiso. Their idea was also to embed networked computers
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ECMAScript for Guile(wingolog.org)
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by etal 18y ago
Some lactose-intolerant people do better with cooked dairy products, like pizza. Biology isn't like computers; usually a small bug, like a protein the body can't process, is fine in trace amounts. Even a little strychnine is fine in trace a
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by etal 18y ago
Yes, that's right. Most plants have a number of defense mechanisms to ward off insects, bacteria, fungus, etc. to avoid being devoured. (Plus other physical barriers, but that's not the problem here.) If a certain animal can eat a certain p
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by etal 18y ago
By strictly , I think most developers mean one SCM tool's functionality is a strict superset of another's. That is not the case with git and svn! Git is probably qualitatively better for most competent developers, but for strictly , eve
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by etal 18y ago
vim-latexsuite does something similar for creating environments. The default is Ctrl-J for jumping to the next section that needs to be filled in. The procedure takes some getting used to; I didn't like it at first.
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by etal 18y ago
It's interesting that ESR implies netbooks are an endpoint. Replacing his opinion with mine, they're not. In general, laptops are still too expensive and heavy, and phones still haven't caught up in functionality/cost. My netbook is a stopg
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by etal 18y ago
Good steps, at least for pharma: - Require better registration of clinical trials and automatic aggregation of results, as part of medical regulation - Make the clinical data submitted to the FDA (or equivalent agencies) public, or at least
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by etal 18y ago
That's not what negative means here. For these studies the conclusion is a statistical test -- accept or reject the null hypothesis. If a drug doesn't give results significantly different from a placebo, that's "negative". More to the point
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by etal 18y ago
Within a season. The east coast has four seasons; California has two: a 9-month warm, dry season and a 3-month cool, wet one. Seeing rain during the dry season is always a surprise, and people complain how weird the weather is. (Of course i
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by etal 18y ago
Here's his own telling of the story: http://mydaughtersdna.org/Members/hyrjr/the-reasoning-behind... An example of the zigzag pattern he probably received from the sequencing lab (his would have been much larger): http://www.ensembl.org/
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by etal 18y ago
web.py is a lot of fun, isn't it? My favorite part is that you can fit the whole app in one file, if you want to (since templates, database models, etc. are all optional). It's the Python web framework that gets closest to the PHP experienc
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by etal 18y ago
A feature on R a few days ago, and now Ubuntu? What, did Stallman's airship raid the NYT over the holidays?
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by etal 18y ago
There's a theory that any industry category will naturally support three competitors, in a certain market-share ratio like 60%, 30%, 10% [1]. This happens free of market manipulation, and mostly depends on marketing strategy rather than the
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by etal 18y ago
Some versions do. There was a big (funded) push to get Adobe's Creative Suite running on Wine a while ago. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...
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by etal 18y ago
The wiki is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community Personally, I use Google and pick the link that goes to the community wiki, and avoid the forums. Most new users' Ubuntu nightmare situations seem to get started by reading a "this worke
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by etal 18y ago
Some demented version of .toLower() done in C, maybe? Apparently the bug first appeared in WinXP and IE6, so they could have been working without some of the better-tested library functions included with the platform now. (Edit: can't think
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by etal 18y ago
Or it might have just been merged into the time module. The datetime module is mostly a single class which wraps the functions in the time module and adds a few convenience methods. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason for the separation i
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by etal 18y ago
Texmacs. Apparently there are only three.
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by etal 18y ago
I noticed in one of the screenshots that quarterly releases are considered stable. That and the ridiculously fast incrementing of version numbers seems to indicate that (1) they're continually tracking another project a la Gnome/Ubuntu -- p
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by etal 18y ago
I'm suspicious that the measure of "innovation" is the number of patents filed, but I can't confirm that from the article. In academia, good ideas rarely materialize into patents; they become papers, and the relevance/influence/prestige is
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by etal 18y ago
NaughtySVN appears to be at version 0.0.1, so I wouldn't rely on its stability yet. When I wanted a SVN GUI on Linux a year ago I ended up using RapidSVN, and that seemed fine. I usually do filesystem navigation on the command line or insid
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by etal 18y ago
I could've sworn I saw this project, or another by the same name and with the same intent, in an Ubuntu repository a year or so ago. If that's not a hallucination, then it looks like maybe the project was imported into Google Code last June
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by etal 18y ago
C lets a lot of exciting things happen inside an if statement. I once spent a couple hours cleaning up a big, ugly and unfamiliar codebase with transformations like that before I realized I was ignoring some side-effects and was therefore i
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by etal 18y ago
There are dealer-certified used cars, too, available from new-car dealerships. The best are the demo cars that they drive up to around 5,000, then sell. It's much cheaper than new, and you still can be confident it's not a lemon (possibly m
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by etal 18y ago
Doing the legwork to get back to school and lining your life up with the admissions schedule can take a year or more of planning before it's safe to quit your day job. It helps if other people you know are doing the same thing at the same t
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by etal 18y ago
Quibble: Those 2-hour lunches with a beer or a half-bottle of wine aren't a bad thing. On the occasions when I've been in Europe for business, a relaxing lunch and dinner were what made me perfectly willing to work 10-12-hour days six days

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