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691.
Richard Feynman on the climate conference in Durban(motls.blogspot.com)
9 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|5 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
While I have never read Code Complete , I know of at least one very smart guy who read it, highly recommends it, and is utterly incapable of maintaining legacy code he did not write. He simply refactors everything he touches, which is not
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SolrNet 0.4.0 beta 1 released(bugsquash.blogspot.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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Free Will vs. Determinism as the Core of Political Disagreement(danielmiessler.com)
5 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|3 comments
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How to Pay for What We Need(theamericanscholar.org)
2 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
From the Wikipedia article on choline: Unfortunately, dietary recommendations have discouraged people from eating high choline foods, such as egg and fatty meats. The 2005 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey stated that only 2
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
You're right. A little more googling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_external_tank reveals the old foam began to be phased-out in 1996, with complete phase-out in 1997. Tile loss and other damage starting even with the first fl
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I found the Silencing Celebs with Arduino to be the most interesting of the lot from a gateway technology point of view. Also following the link for this project further eventually led me to a very cool site, http://www.ladyada.net/ .
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F# Math (III.) - Defining custom numeric types(tomasp.net)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I don't have the reference for this, but I recall the seals between shuttle booster segments were originally engineered to use asbestos, not rubber as the gasket. The engineery qualities of asbestos for this purpose were perfectly understoo
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I'm near the end of working my way through A Quantum Mechanics Primer , http://www.amazon.com/quantum-mechanics-primer-Introduction-... , and I have not attempted to tackle the PBR preprint, but based on Scott's interpretation of the cent
702.
Looting the Egyptian Currency: Democracy in Action(pjmedia.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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Nature hypes anti-Quantum Mechanics crackpot paper(motls.blogspot.com)
9 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|4 comments
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Rules could prompt colleges to pull online programs from some states(ecampusnews.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
It is important to note, these were not intelligence satellites. This is more like the Chinese government doing what some of the hacker sub culture has done for a long time: rattle the lock and see how easy it is to open. Presumably securit
706.
Lenses in F#(bugsquash.blogspot.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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Bakken formation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
doh! The real link http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/06/chase.ht...
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Kaczynski was arguably in part created by the worst aspects of the academia he attacked. It's worth reposting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3234014 which was posted on HN some time ago.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
tl;dr The author illustrates the corruption of the ratings agencies in the recent financial situation through anecdotes and statistics, leading up to his proposal to replace the function of ratings agencies with what amounts to crowdsourcin
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Crowdsourcing instead of ratings agencies(atimes.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|1 comments
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Introducing .NET Gadgeteer(gadgeteer.codeplex.com)
22 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|2 comments
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There are 19 (surface) warships in the British Navy(news.sky.com)
4 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Historically maps have been closely guarded military secrets. As late as the Renaissance possession of the wrong map could get you executed by European powers, even in peacetime. Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim is largely based on the true st
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Are Conclusions of BEST Study Irrefutable?(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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How to tell the people that there's no Higgs(motls.blogspot.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Great news guys! I'm going to make sure my team finds out about Testling.
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The Case for RAMCloud(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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Occupy Wall Street Survey Topline(douglasschoen.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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10 reasons to use the F# runtime in your C# app(bugsquash.blogspot.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments

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