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by hsmyers 16y ago
My knee-jerk reaction to 'made' was of course not. And then I thought about it. We 'make' children learn how to do fundamental mathematics and it doesn't seem do them harm (yes there are serious arguments about when and how we should do tha
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by hsmyers 16y ago
The age of the daughter is not a surprise--- the number of children who learn chess and happen to be 8 is actually quite large(and no I don't have a citation, this is anecdotal). However of that group the number who the next day or so inven
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A snapshot from the Wall family (Larry that is)(reddit.com)
1 points by hsmyers 16y ago|0 comments
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Seems to me that Apple is caught in a cleft stick--- on the one hand, the fan-boys don't see a problem and on the other hand the rest will not be reassured by anything Apple is likely to do. As for the general public, their lack of technolo
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by hsmyers 16y ago
If the email sent doesn't bounce, then it doesn't necessarily raise a flag.
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Slipping away from the Perl community(perlbuzz.com)
76 points by hsmyers 16y ago|43 comments
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by hsmyers 16y ago
While the rumor was slightly interesting, the commentary was very interesting! It gives (with give and take :) ) a modest window into how folks at this level and in this discipline interact. A pleasant change from the more or less constant
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Not sure about the country thing, but I did notice that these were hardware patents, not software. This may be more of a problem then it looks at first glance...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
A rubber stamp doth not a judicial review make...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Do you suppose that there is a chance that one (or more) of the clerks for the court reads Groklaw?
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Appeals to the inner command line in me. Needs a spell command to make it complete for me :)
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by hsmyers 16y ago
While I find the article interesting I am distracted by all of the dropped 'th' through out. Is this something intentional or a kind of strange error?
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I was referring to PG's re-work of karma display. This seemed like a likely side effect...
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Side effect of karma change?
2 points by hsmyers 16y ago|4 comments
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by hsmyers 16y ago
And you know this how--- Because SCO told you or what? Groklaw will not close; PJ will stop writing articles, but the site will remain. There is even an outside chance that the reins will be turned over to another to keep up the crusade to
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Is there a reason to not use the Apple COM SDK for iTunes? link: http://developer.apple.com/sdk/itunesvisualsdk.html Or are we (you) talking about something more app store oriented?
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Would someone who can afford it try to do this and then find out if "they will immediately void your warranty"--- lots of possible FUD here with no proof that I've seen. Just to be clear, I lean in the direction of 'void', after all we are
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by hsmyers 16y ago
First one you need to know is C-x C-c... then you are free to experiment and learn to you hearts content...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I also remember a short story about a guy who builds his house using a tesseract as the model. More inside than outside--- until it collapsed! :)
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Doesn't mention Kindle-ability though...otherwise it's book shelf building time :)
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by hsmyers 16y ago
CPB agents much to young to know what 'Jack Boots' are, who wore them and what 'Papers Please' really means.
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Yes--- must have a fondness for pyramids and a passion for smoke and mirrors. [Actually I've no clue, but this sets off my Amway Meter(TM) something fierce]
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I'd suggest that on the same lines, a class in ancient computers might be a way to spark the imagination. Napier's Bones, Pascal's Adding machine, Babbage's Difference engine and the like. They did it for me when I first learned about them
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by hsmyers 16y ago
This kind of action is essentially an admission that the allegation is true. I'm sure there is a handy politician who could pipe in here and say "If you don't have anything to hide, then you have nothing to worry about..." Besides, it's the
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by hsmyers 16y ago
In an ideal world what you say may well be true. In this world, strip-mining and clear-cutting argue otherwise. As one who lives in one of those western states mostly owned by the federal government and one with an over whelming republican
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Absolute, complete utter bullshit. Functionality be damned--- such a pricing structure makes it impossible for people to get beyond the initial rip-off. Nor should they; this is the same approach that gave us 20.00 CDs with a single desired
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Actually as both artist and mathematician, the first thing I had to do is 'translate' her visualization into something I could relate to my visualization on a given subject. Hmmm--- that is not really clear; I suppose what I mean is that we
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Regardless of your stance in the editor wars, the 'first' key or key chord you need to know about is what it takes to leave the application. How to get in and how to get out first--- everything else second. The chord BTW is ^x^c I suppose y
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Nicely complicated--- useful if the boss or client wants verbiage. If asked directly though, I usually say "If I've done it before, I know how long it takes; if not then not."
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Certainly did if you don't use gmail--- maybe not if you do :)

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