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by grandpa 16y ago
Rnpu zbivr vf pbaarpgrq gb gur bar rvgure fvqr bs vg ol na npgbe jub fgneerq va obgu. Va guvf pnfr, Wbua Yvgutbj (Sbbgybbfr) naq Zbetna Serrzna (Qnex Xavtug).
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by grandpa 17y ago
> So how do you write a test for a case you couldn't foresee? TDD is a design technique, not a testing technique.
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by grandpa 17y ago
Seneca wrote about this in _De Brevitate Vitae_ about 2,000 years ago, and unlike TFA, actually said it well. Those who do not study philosophy are condemned to blog mangled versions of it.
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by grandpa 17y ago
In fact, Feynman's children thought he was really dumb because he'd come home every night and talk about the stupid things he did at work. It wasn't until he won the Nobel Prize that they clued in.
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by grandpa 17y ago
I'd have more respect if he didn't keep describing everything as "big time". Big time.
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by grandpa 17y ago
People didn't stop going to the movies when VHS movies came out. People didn't stop buying CDs when MP3 came out. Come to that, people didn't stop telling stories when books came out.
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by grandpa 17y ago
> Another way to look at this: The first time you meet > someone, you learn their full name. When discussing them > with someone else who knows them, you use just a single > name. If they're standing right there, you don'
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by grandpa 17y ago
The Boston Globe article is only a comment. Read the original source instead: http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~edunn/publications/dunn_aknin_norto...
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by grandpa 17y ago
Two economists are walking down the street when they see a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk in front of them. The first economist goes to pick up the money but his colleague stops him and tells him not to bother. "Why not?" "If it were a real
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by grandpa 17y ago
From Knuth vol 2 section 4.1: Our decimal notation...was developed first in India within the Hindu culture...The earliest known Hindu manuscripts that show decimal notation have numbers written backwards (with the most significant digit at
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by grandpa 17y ago
The LA Times article does actually quote two experts: David Logan, a professor at USC who specializes in cultural change in companies, and Jean Twenge, an associate professor at San Diego State University who has published a bunch of papers
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by grandpa 17y ago
> With such a broad law, the second jury didn't have much of a choice, and it convicted him The jury always has a choice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
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by grandpa 17y ago
> Now, the TSA doesn’t even trust pilots I'm sure they trust pilots . It's random people wearing pilot uniforms they're trying to stop.
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by grandpa 17y ago
Oh... an economist, not The Economist :)
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by grandpa 17y ago
When did a 12 hour project become "an age"? Real watchmakers like John Harrison spent /years/ on a single piece.
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by grandpa 17y ago
This is what Stephen Fry calls the "Milkman's Whistle" style of journalism. Good example too, complete with slightly ironic close.
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by grandpa 17y ago
I misread it the first time and wondered what you had against Pi.
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Functional programming is not all-or-nothing(philosophymademanifest.blogspot.com)
2 points by grandpa 17y ago|0 comments
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Tips for maintainable metaprogramming(philosophymademanifest.blogspot.com)
9 points by grandpa 17y ago|2 comments
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by grandpa 17y ago
Is it possible that what is being measured isn't actually the _result_ of meditation? What if people whose brain works a certain way are the only ones who can sit still for hours at a time every day for many years? I know I couldn't.
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These are the changes in the DESKTOP Ubuntu 9.04 release(ubuntu.com)
1 points by grandpa 17y ago|0 comments
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by grandpa 17y ago
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904overview