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by jmj42 14y ago
i do this a lot too, specifically because it signals that I'm busy. I generally enforce the headphone rule, and even when not listening to something, the fact that it signals that I'm not to be disturbed is exceptionally useful.
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by jmj42 14y ago
She is. I'm of the opinion that you can never start early enough. My daughters (I have 2) have been playing with "engineering toys" since about age 3. One latched onto engineering big time (see above) and, at 12 years old, has even selec
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by jmj42 14y ago
Yup, familiar with the program. I actually spoke with the STEM outreach director for our middle school about a year ago. She was interested, but school policies would have made it difficult to get an FLL team up and running (she had looke
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by jmj42 14y ago
I did! My youngest daughter (12) has an interest in robotics, so the excuse was perfect. I've played with the NXT kit as much as she has, and we're already talking about getting an EV3 kit for her birthday. (I'm excited).
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by jmj42 14y ago
Actually, I found both of those suggestions to be perfectly reasonable. I try to shoot for 4 weeks when giving notice. If my employer doesn't want me hanging around that long, see point 3. Note: I've never been contractually obligated t
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by jmj42 14y ago
I agree. We bought a mindstorms kit for me daughter a year ago (she has engineering aspirations). I have to confess, I've had as much fun with it as she has.
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by jmj42 14y ago
>What they are scared of is that Tesla sets a precedence for other manufacturers to follow suit which would then put a lot of people out of work. No. What they're afraid of is that Tesla sets a precedence for other manufacturers to fol
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by jmj42 14y ago
I can't up vote this enough. Things from _way_ outside of my confort zone, just from the last week due to my kids (I have 2 teenage girls): Coaching Softball (I generally dislike base/softball) Sewing Marathon training teenage interperson
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by jmj42 14y ago
Most big corporate research labs did good work. PARC, Bell Labs, IBM Research, Sun Labs, even Microsoft Research have all done "good stuff." Much of it critical to today's understanding of technology and computer science. Certainly PARC h
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by jmj42 14y ago
> in their later years they were really quite progressive in their outlook and approach. This is a common misconception about Sun. In fact, they were quite progressive from the beginning. They embraced a hybrid open/closed model from
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by jmj42 14y ago
I remember, at age 8 or 9, being so proud of myself for having developed an app that played a couple of complete songs using SOUND in tandy basic on our first PC (an 8088 w/ a whopping huge 10MB hard drive). My father (an amateur singer), u
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by jmj42 14y ago
I noticed that too. As the house was lifting, I pointed out that the computer should be a next cube. If not, they did it wrong.
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by jmj42 14y ago
yeah, I thought NBC's coverage was horrible. Do they really believe that the majority of the world actually needs _all_ of the imagery explained? I mean, who doesn't know who that lady on the umbrella, flying out of the sky is (for exampl
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So, who really did invent the Internet?(latimes.com)
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by jmj42 14y ago
I have to agree. While my current laptop is a Macbook (and inertial two-finger scrolling is awesome), I've been using Thinkpads for years (I actually have two for home use), and nothing beats the Trackpoint. It's fast and efficient, and y
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by jmj42 14y ago
Miserable, but not dead? I'll take it.
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by jmj42 14y ago
I, on the other hand, hand a completely different experience with my provider (Mediacom). Their rules (at the time - about 5 years ago) seem to be: 1. We do DOCSIS 2.0, be aware. 2. We will not support your third party modem (i.e. if it do
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by jmj42 14y ago
I don't think the change is that slim. Elon is the type of person who knows his limits and pushes them. His goals tend to be grand, but, with effort, achievable. I'd be more surprised if he didn't reach the moon or Mars
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by jmj42 14y ago
The power to govern is, in effect, speech, so by limiting ones ability gain political influence, you are limiting speech. The ability of small political parties to gain representation in government is, I believe, a good thing, even (perhaps
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by jmj42 14y ago
"I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write." --Voltaire (1770) There is _nothing_ "to be said for not giving a platform and a voice to every nutjob out there." The balance must alway
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by jmj42 14y ago
...and UIUC has one of the top CS programs in the country (on many lists it's the #1 CS program at a public university). Around here (I live near uiuc) Bill Gates is famous for declaring that MS hires more UIUC grads than any other single
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by jmj42 14y ago
That's not relevant. Th U.S. export restriction does not apply to language, ethnicity, country of origin, etc. It applies to _sending_ export restricted items to (in this case) Iran. Any sale at a brick-and-mortar store in the U.S. does n
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by jmj42 14y ago
They are starting to show up on realtor for-sale signs. There's one I drive by on my way to/from work that scanned a while back. I landed on the realtor's page about the house (which, BTW, was way out of my price range).
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by jmj42 14y ago
I, too, am a parent (of two teen-age daughters). I agree with the parent. "Think of the children" is almost always an appeal to an emotional response to gain support for laws that are generally an attack on adult behavior. These laws are
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by jmj42 14y ago
We had a small private k-8 school in my home town that employed this same model (White Oaks School Monticello, IL). I considered sending both of my children. Sadly, tuition was a little out of reach for us. The school is closed now (they
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by jmj42 14y ago
I think, on the other hand, that it's a very interesting thought experiment. While the realities of the original question are a bit absurd, the question does give one the opportunity to think about and discuss some interesting legal edge c
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by jmj42 14y ago
This sounds like IntelliWheels, a UIUC startup. If it is, I don't think the FDA process has been that big of a obstacle. I was at another startup at UIUC's incubator when IntelliWheels spun up, and it looks like they are on track to meet t
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by jmj42 14y ago
It's probably mor like 1/2 that (engineers). I live in Champaign (Wolfram's HQ), and know several current and former employees. Mathematica development is split into two main groups. The Math Kernel group has about 20-30 engineers, and th
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by jmj42 14y ago
Oracle claimed that the APIs were under copyright protection (there was also a claim or two about code, but that was resolved in phase one). This decision means that the Structure, Sequence, and Organization (SSO) of an API is not eligible
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Dear Einstein, Do scientists pray?(seriouscat.com)
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