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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Often, when I'm reading a resume I'm thinking: “This guy is great, look at all this experience. He clearly knows Ruby and JavaScript like the back of his hand, and this interview is just going to be a formality” For what it's worth from t
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Another recent article about Aspirin: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/04/20/3481356.ht... "scientists have now discovered that aspirin also activates an enzyme that burns fat, a finding that could unlock its cancer fighting pr
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I always get a chuckle when reading up on prescription-only drugs that are (often significantly) safer than Tylenol. :-)
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
As a motorcyclist, I really hope that all the upcoming variations of autonomous vehicles are heavily tested in all conceivable edge cases. Also, as a motorcyclist, I welcome the well-tested, never-tiring, unimpaired, highly predictable,
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Summary: * We make a lot of low-paying jobs for young people, hocking our foreign-made goods to Americans in every state. * We may or may not create jobs as a bi-product of our app store, where developers can try to scrape in an environment
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
That video gave me motion sickness, and I couldn't see the slides very well.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I used to agree with you. But I've seen too many doctors who are either outright bad, or who don't recognize the limits of their knowledge. I've been told many things that were directly contrary to the reality of the situation. I've been
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
It's insane to suggest we don't teach kids street smarts I never said anything of the sort.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Isabella had just learned about “stranger danger” at school What? Does she use a time traveling bus to visit 1990? I thought schools had wised up to the fact that virtually all harm to children (excluding traffic fatalities) is brought
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
Your comment reminds me of the Charles Petzold essay on getting away from the IDE, which is summarized fairly nicely in this Coding Horror post: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/10/the-cognitive-style... Personally, I think that att
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
The patents I find offensive are the ones held by companies that aren't producing any products, much less a product similar to what's described in a given patent.
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
Well, in nearly every job I've had, there's at least one alpha nerd[1]. Worst of all is the alpha nerd boss (I intentionally avoid the word 'manager' here). I welcome advice on how to find working environments free of this sort of thing.
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
Historically with SVN, branching was skittish. Really? How? I've always found Subversion branching to be painless, reliable, fast enough, and merges often go flawlessly, and it's really not been that hard to resolve merge conflicts.
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
This whole debacle is the epitome of what I call alpha-nerd behavior, and it's slowly killing my interest in software development.
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
I keep mentioning that, in my opinion, non-college mathematics teachers generally only know enough math to get through the end of the material they're teaching in any given semester. I don't think they're capable of teaching the material f
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
I think the only people I've seen using these sorts of low-level techniques on a regular basis were electronic engineers who were writing embedded code (specifically: for Wacom-style tablets). Then again, I've never worked with games prog
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
I couldn't locate that book in any library as a poor high school student bumping up against his own x86 assembler and graphics limitations. Years later, I managed to track down a copy of the paperback reissue. It was already well out of d
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
I don't know whether to agree with your second sentence or not. It looks like reasonable suspicion is required, but it also sounds like individual states' stop-and-identify laws are varied and vague. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_an
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
My gripe with Sony has been their insistence on proprietary technologies. I was happy to hear that the PS3 uses Bluetooth for its controllers, but it seems like they waste time engineering and manufacturing their own solutions for everythi
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
That reminded me that the last Sony product I purchased was an expensive, bulky, CD-playing alarm clock. Every morning I woke to the excessive noise of the CD spinning up, rather than to my music. :-)
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
why don't more people do casual programming of any kind? I'm not sure I understood what the author meant by casual programming, but the first thing I thought of as I read your comment was HyperCard.
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
"We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes." Thanks for that, as one of the masses, my VIC-20 was crucial to developing my early passion for computers.
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
I remember a Larry Niven fan in high school excitedly explaining the concept of armor that hardens on impact. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=927
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
I simply gave up after a month Well, there's the problem. There was no insight in this essay, it just seemed like the ramblings of someone who wasn't paying attention for decades.
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
I think you need to read the Wikipedia entry on Argument from Authority.
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
I want these glasses, but with lenses. Not just any lenses, I want lenses that have electronically-controlled, variable tint. Not only would I get the benefit of sunglasses, but the tint could be run up when I'm significantly engaged with
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
Anything that gets drivers' eyes back in the general direction of the road is a good thing. As a bonus, putting data at (perceived) infinity means that older drivers who have become farsighted will have less difficulty reading their speed,
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
Congratulations! Looks like you found a star Uh, why are you looking for a star? Why does everything think they need or even want a star? How about just someone who gets things done? As for reference checks, they're a great way to assur
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
there are no such thing as a "cyber rapists". Rape happens in the real world You're being obtuse.
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by georgieporgie 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that's not what people mean when they talk about appeal to authority. An actual appeal to authority is fine. A fallacious appeal to authority is one where the 'authority' in question has little or questionable authority in

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