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91.
by gohrt 10y ago
What would be the point of all this? Step 1 is the illegal part, and the other steps don't erase that.
92.
by gohrt 10y ago
heh, that's an old paper: http://www.flownet.com/ron/eg-rg-faq.html
93.
by gohrt 10y ago
The forced-login isn't to improve product quality, it's to make more money on ads. StackOverflow/Exchange works great without forced login to view content.
94.
by gohrt 10y ago
You are allowed to throw away the instructions. Your opinion is common, but it reflects a waning creativity of a person growing older, not a major change in LEGO
95.
by gohrt 10y ago
"the decline of American inventiveness” is assumed without any sort of proof.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Technic and Mindstorms are absurdly expensive compared to TinkerToys, and I think pricier than Meccano. I don't know that LEGO really pushed out TinkerToys though. He's right that LEGO is rather inflexible, as far as building stru
97.
by gohrt 10y ago
Soon to be the national policy from the Federal government.
98.
by gohrt 10y ago
Because programmer recruiters are searching for intelligent talented people, people who can walk out if they don't like the job. Military recruiting is capturing suckers, and signing them onto to multi-year contracts.
99.
by gohrt 10y ago
"we" who? You gotta pick: a draft, recruiting, or less war machine
100.
by gohrt 10y ago
Set limit = 10M, log request sizes, when you start seeing requests with size >1M, consider raising limit.
101.
by gohrt 10y ago
Not "instinctive", but "sensible". Saying "excuse me" or "passing through" would work just as well.
102.
by gohrt 10y ago
Silly that the announcements give so much attention to scores going up (due to a change in scale) and not to the content of the change. It would be trivial to keep the scale magnitude the same by multiplying by a factor ("old average
103.
by gohrt 10y ago
HRC and DJT were born in 1946. They were college-educated adults with years of career experience before it was reasonable to expect someone to have computer experience, and before the popular GUI computers were in use the general public.
104.
by gohrt 10y ago
What's better than Maven to solve the problems Maven is used for?
105.
by gohrt 10y ago
median is wrong metric for an asymmetric distribution.
106.
by gohrt 10y ago
Federighi focuses on selecting for "interest", but not talent.
107.
by gohrt 10y ago
Almost everyone can do some kind of math. For the same amount of discipline and effort, some people can prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and some people can prove Fermat's Little Theorem. And everyone can coast. Some people can get as
108.
by gohrt 10y ago
Neilsen Norman Group writes articles that convey important technical information in very easy to understand language. Reading their writing makes me feel smarter, and I think it's more than a feeling.
109.
by gohrt 10y ago
In the past it requires that you report the data to the local permitting board.
110.
by gohrt 10y ago
That's a lot of saltiness over a kid who took apart a clock and re-assembled it without breaking it, following in the steps of Richard Feynman.
111.
by gohrt 10y ago
it's unclear how the act of purchasing a product works -- it might require the buyers phone to be near the item when it leaves the shelf
112.
by gohrt 10y ago
It turns out the most people aren't interested in complex strategies to steal a grocery items while under intense video surveillance with ID verification.
113.
by gohrt 10y ago
> because somebody would be able to steal a product by discreetly removing a tag and then walking out of the store. That's already handled in grocery -- people can mess with regular barcodes if they want. it's a known cost of
114.
by gohrt 10y ago
Alfie Kohn's book is about bribes being a bad strategy, not quite about punishment being a bad strategy. The two are related, though. The article here is explaining how meaningful, relationship-building positive-reinforcement is an eff
115.
by gohrt 10y ago
wait, and try again later. kids don't hold grudges forever.
116.
by gohrt 10y ago
Ideally, at that point the child is smart enough that you can reason with them, and at that point your "tricks" (aka civilized behavior) has made enough of a molding effect on their personality and relationship with you.
117.
by gohrt 10y ago
"literally"?
118.
by gohrt 10y ago
If some tips work and some tips don't, then nurture matters, but it is correlated to nature. If nurture didn't matter, tips would be totally irrelevant.
119.
by gohrt 10y ago
> “Companies should share de-identified scenario and dynamics data from crashes and near-misses,” That's a limited request for information sharing, and in line with how NTSB handles airplane incident today.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Google has also been paying people to drive StreetView vans around the world for 10 years. Don't know how much driving data comes back from that though.

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