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Which is sad.
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Seen on a T-Shirt: Ray Kurzweil must die.
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I have been fortunate enough to work in an environment where fully half of the developers were women. It was in state government, which is to say, outside industry. My strong suspicion is that sex bias has little to do with the work, but mu
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You can probably make more taking care of pets than children.
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"Did I miss a lot of google announcements which are not solid projects?" You mean like Wave?
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Certainly not. A natural intelligence could eventually coalesce from emergent properties of H. Sapiens networked information processing systems, but not within 10 years.
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Also, when you send an email, the content is instantly dead. You can't correct it, you can't edit it, and you can't improve upon it. Generally, when you send an email, there is some context, many times also electronic, and the mail is disco
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I honestly don't see what developing for the web does to encourage smarter applications? Is it things like "If I do this, I have to round-trip to the server over the WAN?" or "If I do this, I have to ask the asshole middle-tier developer fo
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Spend more time outside the aerobic zone without worrying that I'm damaging muscle tissue.
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Wow. This goes against everything I've ever been taught about how to manage your muscles during endurance activities (In my case hiking, cycling, and Nordic skiing), yet, jibes with my experience. And here I thought there was something seri
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8. You write a blog post about burnout.
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"e.g. being reprogrammed between rounds" e.g. learning
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"MS can't ruin it for everyone this time." I think you underestimate them.
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I have found that repeatedly hitting # will cause most phone trees to direct you to a human pretty quickly.
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"Full-Length Movies on Mobiles" David Lynch has commented on how wonderful this would be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0
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"Also what does this say about the possibility of life outside of earth?" A certainty. In fact, we may one day decide that life is just one of the phases of matter, along side liquid, solid, gas, plasma, and Bose-Einstein condensate. Whethe
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Indeed, it turns out to be pretty easy to make amino acids, and they're everywhere. Take hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and water, zap it with lightning, and you get amino acids. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment
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DEFECT12655: Blog poster stretches metaphor beyond the breaking point. Runtime exception.
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If you advertise for rock stars and/or ninjas you deserve every candidate that you get. If you really do need such talent, you are unlikely to find it through classifieds or job sites, but through the network of technical people you know.
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Okay, advertisements fart in the general direction of your brand.
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Is Dean Kamen turning into a Bond villain, or what?
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And advantage of XML is the ability to easily get substructures out of the data using XPath, and/or use XSLT to transform the XML directly to XHTML. So if you expect API users to be doing any filtering of the requested data on the fly at th
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Looking forward to seeing you on Web 3.0, --Jim
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Cell networks are dead meat and they know it, and as such are trying to extract as much bank as quickly as possible before their demise. What troubles me is that if Apple is, indeed going to release a tablet of some description in 2 months,
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The microformat the AP are talking about is described in a little more detail on the AP Labs Wiki: http://labs.ap.org/wiki/hNews
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"We’re having a debate in this country over whether or not evolution is true. They have half a point- evolution isn’t science, not anymore. Today it’s technology." What an excellent point.
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Even if companies decide to entrust portions of their information to the cloud, the single largest obstacle to integration of the cloud to the datacenter is the problem of identity. In order to effectively integrate the cloud, users have to
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1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!
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Please recall the hacker credo "Information wants to be free," then re-read the article.
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This book is available on Kindle, and I've already read the first two chapters. It's quite well done, and colloquially written. I have a weak spot for invented languages, but I haven't heard of half of the ones mentioned so far. Fascinating

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