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by jleader 16y ago
Not sure what the status is now, but for a long time Microsoft intentionally limited the file-sharing (and printer-sharing) capabilities of their "home" class OSes, to avoid cannibalizing sales of their "office/server" class OSes.
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by jleader 16y ago
Depends whose opinion on importance you're using for prioritization. If you postpone things that aren't important to you, but are important to your boss, that's not going to go well. If you postpone things your boss doesn't care about, in o
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by jleader 16y ago
From my experience as a Caltech undergrad, there was a "tragedy of the commons" in some of the larger classes. A student had a choice of doing the work early entirely on their own, or waiting until their classmates had started working on it
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by jleader 16y ago
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Scrappy/lib/Scrappy.pm#DESCRIPTI... says: "Scrappy (pronounced Scrap+Pee) == 'Scraper Happy' or 'Happy Scraper'; If you like you may call it Scrapy (pronounced Scrape+Pee) although Python has a web scraping fra
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by jleader 16y ago
As long as the VP who championed the purchase remains in charge of the aquisition...
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by jleader 16y ago
I've worked at companies where accounting was needed to qualify for R&D tax credits, which required tracking what percentage of developers' time was spent on particular projects. My bosses at those times said something like "we have to
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by jleader 16y ago
I can't believe no one's mentioned http://xkcd.com/810/ about training sock puppet bots to make relevant contributions to the conversation.
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by jleader 16y ago
Previously discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831817
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by jleader 16y ago
I'd been told by a competitor on the show that timing the button press correctly was an underappreciated part of the game. If you press the button before you're allowed to (before Mr. Trebek finishes reading the question) your button is loc
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by jleader 16y ago
When I was in highschool in New Jersey in the 1970s, right-on-red was legalized; a classmate realized that this meant that under light traffic conditions, if he faced a red light while driving down the highway, he could turn off onto the ju
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by jleader 16y ago
Wait, are you listing Bill Gates as someone who was "born to nothing"? Seriously?
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by jleader 16y ago
Any one else notice the motor/pump trailer spewing white smoke? I assume it's a souped-up reorganized pwc, with a 2-stroke engine? Clever hack, though.
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by jleader 16y ago
Note that they've pulled down all the other delicious blog posts; the source for this page still has a "previous" link in the source to ' http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/tags-return-to-the-bo... , but it's gone, as are the rss and at
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by jleader 16y ago
Whether he said it or not, he definitely practiced it. For many years, Feynman taught an informal seminar for freshmen at Caltech, called "Physics X", at which he offered to answer any physics questions the freshmen could come up with.
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by jleader 16y ago
I assume you're right; my memory of a talk I heard almost 30 years ago is unlikely to be completely correct.
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by jleader 16y ago
"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion." -- George Bernard Shaw Edit: note that the article only claims a maximum of 93% of economists agreeing on any one of the items.
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by jleader 16y ago
Someone once recommended "Infinite Dimensional Analysis: A Hitchhiker's Guide" by Aliprantis and Border, with the claim that "solving problems in high dimensions can be approximated by assuming infinite dimensions". I haven't yet summoned
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by jleader 16y ago
I once heard Richard Feynman give a talk where he mentioned that in grad school he would challenge the pure mathematicians to give him their hardest, most abstract problems, and he'd often solve them by thinking up a physical analogy about
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by jleader 16y ago
I have a login, but still can't see the bug. I assume I don't have sufficient permissions on my account.
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by jleader 16y ago
jdietrich is saying that DM's content is most relevant for particular long-tail search terms; if you edit your query to an apparently equivalent search term, you can find more relevant content. Presumably, as Google's query re-writing gets
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by jleader 16y ago
"dial tone" "punch a clock"
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by jleader 16y ago
I was oddly tickled to see that acavax.lynchburg.edu is now serving http, with an index page whose last modified date is not quite 10 years ago.
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by jleader 16y ago
nperez (author of the darkpan-schmarkpan post) may not be a contributor to p5p (Perl core language developers' mailing list), but a quick glance at http://search.cpan.org/~nperez/ shows that he's contributed some interesting code to the P
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by jleader 16y ago
I'd characterize these posts as "Last year, Perl developers and users debated the relative merits of backwards compatibility vs. innovation". All of the participants care about backwards compatibility, just to differing degrees. Keep in mi
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by jleader 16y ago
How come there's a "thank you" for a Los Angeles map, but I don't see it on the site?
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by jleader 16y ago
But that's just my point: my son, in 5th grade in a US public school, hasn't gotten "one homework assignment after another requiring them to cut, paste, draw, and color". In fact, last year, he didn't score well enough on a math test, so h
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by jleader 16y ago
I'm not sure what to say about this; my son is in 5th grade (in California), and his experience doesn't really resemble what you describe. A plurality of his classmates are 1 or 2 generations removed from East Asia, but relatively few of t
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by jleader 16y ago
> It seems that every teacher feels the need to assign an hour a day. Some school districts (including Arcadia, California, where I live) set standards specifying how much time different grades should spend on homework "on average". Fo
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by jleader 16y ago
That's a funny coincidence that you'd mention that particular multiplication "fact". I never successfully memorized the whole 10x10 times table in elementary school. I memorized a subset initially, and did the others by factoring and re-g
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by jleader 16y ago
I'm pretty sure I saw a guy lift out a large vertical rectangular object from in front of the engine, fairly early in the video. When it was put back in, he reached way down in between it and the engine, like maybe he was re-attaching the

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