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by jleader 14y ago
Tabs are great, until you try to explain to a non-programmer why your tool doesn't parse their file correctly, even though in the word-processor they're using as a text editor it looks identical to another file that parses correctly.
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One moderately popular college calculus textbook (by Prof. Apostol of Caltech) introduces integrals before derivatives.
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"WMFR has no control over Wikipedia servers, and no more control over Wikipedia content than any other volunteer editor." Fixed that for the GP.
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"Rich people don't get that way without providing something people want." Well, to be precise, some ancestor of the rich person at one time provided something (some) people wanted. Not all rich people are "self made", even if you accept tha
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by jleader 14y ago
I don't think the GP is criticizing the article, he's using the article to criticize Rails. Not so much "nothing to see here" as "well, what did you expect from Rails?". (I'm explaining what I think the GP meant, not my position; I'm an old
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by jleader 14y ago
I suspect there are spam-filter considerations. Also, some email clients distinguish between "email addressed directly to me" and "email I happened to get through some mailing list or bcc".
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by jleader 14y ago
I don't know much about Singapore, but I think it's worth pointing out that while sometimes Facism can be effective, more commonly Facism claims to be very effective, and punishes those who publicly say otherwise.
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If you were developing technical products in 1921, the process of tanning leather was probably very relevant, as were questions about the density of different kinds of wood, the sources and production of various metals, etc. Just as a progr
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I found the test very interesting. You have to keep in mind that Edison was a prolific inventor, who at the time was in the business of disrupting as many industries as he could. From that perspective, he was looking for people who knew a l
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by jleader 14y ago
Well, from an archival point of view, jwz's blog post I expect will last for some time (I believe he understands the value of durable URLs). On the other hand, either Google Code or the Xee project have managed to break the direct link that
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by jleader 14y ago
Actually, you just waited until we'd almost forgotten your earlier post...
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Either cheat, or change the rules (i.e., solve a related but easier problem).
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by jleader 14y ago
"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." -- John von Neumann For what it's worth, I have sometimes manipulated complex numbers as (a, b), usually when using them as 2-D vectors. But I make no claim
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by jleader 14y ago
You keep talking about "commercial speech" being different from "non-commercial speech", as if that explains your claim that "If you aren't happy with my book, I will refund." (claim A) is a safe thing to say, but "I'm serious about refundi
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by jleader 14y ago
Statistics provides a wonderful set of tool for summarizing the opinions of a large group of people, but if you use it to determine your interactions with one individual instead of looking at the reactions of the person in front of you, Y
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by jleader 14y ago
Never take advice from someone who thinks it's meaningful to talk in terms of "what women want", as if there's this undifferentiated mass with a unanimous set of values. If you haven't noticed that different women want different things, and
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by jleader 14y ago
One problem I've seen people encounter when hiring "solid entrepreneurs" is that the "entrepreneur" may be very used to doing everything themselves, and to making all the decisions. Sometimes, this makes it very hard for them to cooperate w
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by jleader 14y ago
ifttt.com has a dropbox-to-flickr recipe ( http://ifttt.com/recipes/6804 ). Their dropbox channel provides 2 triggers, one for any new file in your public folder, and one specifically for new photos in your public folder (it doesn't say exa
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by jleader 14y ago
Have you been to a Unitarian Universalist church? Definitely not right-wing. I've also read about left-wing Catholics and Baptists (two cases where the main organization is generally seen as right-wing, but there are significant left-wing g
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I like the low-effort way this can be used to hear only about jobs that you're likely to be interested in. Very cool!
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Are those 13 all software engineering interns? The coverage I've seen doesn't say how many designer interns, community manager interns, or editorial interns Square has. I'm honestly interested in finding out. Not to mention that in nearly 3
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Less likely to be online at the time?
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I suspect laptops also don't get as many hardware upgrades. While many people probably never open their desktop enclosure, some do, and I suspect a far smaller percentage open up their laptops. (Edited to remove mention of overclocking, aft
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I wondered about that too, and one thing that occurred to me was that if they get popular, they've got access to combine data about their users across all the source and sink services the users use. That is, they can get all my readily avai
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by jleader 14y ago
But 4-5% increase in faculty expenditures since 2001 only produces a 60% increase. If the biggest line-item increased by 60%, why did the budget overall increase by 80%? Something else must be growing a lot faster than faculty expenditures!
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"the expenditures of the academic division at UVA have increased about 80% since 2001...In-state tuition has increased about 275%." This says to me that some other source of funding (state subsidy?) has just about disappeared, is that right
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Sales people instinctively understand that you can't just rationally provide value to your customer; you also have to persuade the customer's decision-makers that you're providing value. At BigCo, this means you can't just do what's good fo
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Many TLDs already have restrictions, and are not 100% "open for the public". There's been controversy about whether .job is enforcing its restrictions correctly; .edu is strictly limited to US accredited 4-year secondary educational institu
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by jleader 14y ago
Maybe we (or our software) needs to start requiring the period on the end of fully-qualified domain names? That way "test1" is a local name (relative to the default search path), and "test1." is a TLD. In theory, that's already the way it w
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But the rules about the application process have been public (and changing, and generating controversy) for years. Did you really think companies were going to pony up almost $200,000 for a TLD application, and then "share" it with the worl

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