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by jcdreads 16y ago
You may find that undergraduate physics is a good match for your learning style. There is plenty of ridiculous math, but all of it is based in simple (!) models of the way the world actually works. Differential equations and vector calc
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by jcdreads 16y ago
While I wouldn't doubt that excessive debt is bad for any company, I think the recent collapse of advertising and broad decline in circulation are the most proximate causes of newspapers (and lots of other print media outfits) losing money.
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by jcdreads 16y ago
According to both the last president and the current one, neither are American citizens, necessarily.
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by jcdreads 16y ago
That there are badly motivated liars near a debate is not a reason to assume that everyone is lying or badly motivated. Some random scientist is very (not completely, but very) unlikely to care much about the political implications of his
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by jcdreads 16y ago
When I first switched from theoretical physics to experimental physics I thought the same way as you. Now, after years of aligning green laser beams through optical paths that include microscopes and experimental matter, the sight of a gre
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by jcdreads 16y ago
These paywalls around scientific journal articles were infuriating when I was a physics grad student, and they're even worse now that I don't have a university account through which to view them. In that spirit, here is the authors' rather
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Instead of {x -> x + 1} you could always run clojure on your existing production JVM and write #(+ % 1) to get the same effect.
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BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Response to DougR's Concerns(theoildrum.com)
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Examples: If you are a mortgage broker or a car dealer then 1000 clicks is easily worth $2000. Even if only a tiny fraction of them leads to a sale, each sale is worth thousands of dollars. If you are Prada or Lexus and you need people to
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Advertising is bought because it works. Advertising in nice places costs more. iOS users are a much, much more attractive demographic than the general public who see/click ads. A reasonably high-end display advertiser will pay a relativel
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by jcdreads 16y ago
The first line of the linked article at bestinclass.dk: > Spring cleaning is complete and the driving code behind bestinclass.dk is now being released as opensource. With it you can generate a static site, import a wordpress blog, emit
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Is it possible that each of them has searched both for her own name and for yours?
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Or you could just highlight the current bar.
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Well, except that when most people say "Facebook" they mean "a place online where I can look up and interact with my friends and family". That's a perfectly reasonable thing to want, and many people do.
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by jcdreads 16y ago
At least Shaw's didn't multiply the price by ten. Sounds like the manager at Shaw's cleverly identified getting rid of all of his (probably profitless) bottled water as fast as possible (and posting a sign outside saying they're out) as th
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Wonderful hand-drawn maps(slate.com)
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by jcdreads 16y ago
> "The best signal we’ve seen from Lunokhod 2 in several years of effort is 750 return photons, but we got about 2,000 photons from Lunokhod 1 on our first try." I was trained as a physicist and I'm still impressed by astronomers' abi
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Had I had this book when I was ten or eleven I think I would have been the happiest ten-or-eleven-year-old in the entire world. Like many technical things, programming is typically either self-taught or taught horribly; this seems like a c
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by jcdreads 17y ago
My apps are always originally written with pencil on paper, then in pseudocode that gradually transforms into something that runs. Even those with nothing but ObjC sources. This new requirement seems, if not unenforceably arbitrary, then
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Naive question: is "graph viz" a term of art that happens to be easily confusable with "GraphViz", the graph rendering software?
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by jcdreads 17y ago
I call not having to live atop one of the mountains in the Presidential Range.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Which is among the reasons an engineer might balk at moving from San Francisco to Olathe, KS.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Primary source: http://squeak.org
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by jcdreads 17y ago
This point isn't actually blindingly obvious. Those of us raised on Pascal might have assumed (or, in my case, actually did assume, without thinking hard about it) that the program ended when the execution point reached "the end," where th
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Oracle Coherence (formerly Tangosol) can be configured to be more or less anywhere you like on this triangle, including persisting everything to disk. Makes me sad that it's so expensive, and it chats a lot if you replicate fast-changing d
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by jcdreads 17y ago
I recall observing in the early 90's, with some amazement, that the actual Times Square had started to look like its depiction in Blade Runner, with over-the-top lighted billboards in every direction and sterile, glass-fronted places of non
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What I learned from making The Sandinista Project free for a day(blog.guterman.com)
1 points by jcdreads 17y ago|0 comments
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by jcdreads 17y ago
AOL (I mean, Aol; actually the former AdTech) has a pretty good self-service solution. It has a pretty dashboard, good management interface, and getting campaigns up and down is fast. Not sure on price. http://www.adtechus.com/Home
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Hearing the Uncertainty Principle(scienceblogs.com)
42 points by jcdreads 17y ago|2 comments
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Write in your most natural voice; and with your canonical spellings. The only British-isms that I have trouble getting my head around quickly are the over-casual dropping of place names and neighborhoods in London. But we Americans grow u

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