joelberman

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by joelberman 11y ago
I think public education is completely broken and has gotten worse over the years. Other countries seem to achieve better outcomes for a lot less money. Perhaps they do not have such poor parenting that allows their children to hit others
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by joelberman 12y ago
I learned to meditate in my late teens (I'm 68 now), to fight depression and low self esteem. It was very hard for me to meditate, and I still sometimes have trouble getting into a meditative state. But I usually spend 20-30 minutes
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by joelberman 12y ago
I entered the Navy in 1967 and went to IBM 029 school in San Jose sometime in 1968. And I also took a 1401 SPS/Autocoder course at UC Davis that year. A few years later I learned BAL on a 360 and they still had 026 keypunch machines.
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by joelberman 12y ago
You are assuming the company knows who the dead weight is. I have seen more than a few times that someone is laid off, and only after he or she is gone do their managers figure out exactly what they did. Usually to their chagrin that ther
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by joelberman 12y ago
Use these synonyms if you do not like engineer. synonyms: originator, deviser, designer, architect, inventor, developer, creator; mastermind "the prime engineer of the approach" If you do not think that engineers can be creative
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by joelberman 12y ago
Isn't the content paid for by advertisers in exchange for your eyeballs? Wouldn't Aero increase the eyeballs? Wouldn't the advertisers be happy about more eyeballs? First the engineers run the company, then the marketers, t
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by joelberman 12y ago
For continuity to work, it should be obvious that what you are working on must be stored somewhere other than the machine you have turned off. The obvious place is on iCloud. Just do not enable continuity if you do not want to enjoy is fe
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by joelberman 12y ago
I do not want to spend the time to learn new things unless they are directly related to my work. So systemd was a PITA for me, but now I am fine with it (BTW, I have used UNIX since the late 60's so have seen a lot). This project loo
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by joelberman 12y ago
It is highly likely that software-driven games could have a bug. Therefore the casino could have decided that electronic machines are too risky. Or they could have paid for some kind of insurance. I think the casino, just like many banks
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by joelberman 12y ago
You should not define a market by a product. THe value of this is so that you do not have to pull bigger and bigger phones out of your pocket. It is not a watch, it is an easily seen notification device and simple input device. I think t
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by joelberman 12y ago
I love my primary care doctor who is also my cardiologist. He is amazing. Explains everything, and is never rushed. The only negative is sometimes he is off schedule. I just had open heart surgery and that was also wonderful. The techs
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by joelberman 12y ago
Not the same, but in the same vein this blog caught my attention. http://borealexpat.blogspot.com/2014/08/deconstructing-finni... Complex rules that just seem natural.
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by joelberman 12y ago
Two uses of quantum effects are 1. Generating random numbers, 2. Entangling bits to detect "man in the middle". The point of this discovery is to decide whether it improves the security of smartphone communications. If yes, it wi
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by joelberman 13y ago
I usually wake around 6:00 and check my mail. For me the best is a short summary of stories on email, say the first 4-5 lines of each item, and clickable. If a web page was customizable, that would be fine too, but as the OP says, if you
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by joelberman 13y ago
These reckons you mention. Over the years I have come across people suggesting the same approach to a problem. It makes sense in theory and it should work. Yet it doesn't. And I cannot explain why it does not work. Queueing/t
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by joelberman 13y ago
It is a data point. Look at skills needed in dice or monster, look at tiobe.com look at languages on github and you get a picture of the fashion of the season. Most larger companies use keyword analysis to pick which resumes to look at.
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by joelberman 13y ago
Every article I read about Bitcoin has a picture of a metal bitcoin in it. I guess that is to make sure very few people get the point of what bitcoin is.
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by joelberman 13y ago
If you accept natural selection as a theory, the answer is obvious.
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by joelberman 14y ago
You may be correct but I like to follow the money. Since it is not a product that is sold, the value must have been in Google learning what we like to read. Google did not learn anything new about our interests from Reader and therefore it
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by joelberman 14y ago
How many phone OS do we need? I think the reason we have so many is the same reason we have so many different power connectors and screw heads. Because too many A$$hats are alive.
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by joelberman 14y ago
http://www.betterplace.com/ Buy the car, rent the battery, turn in a spent one for a charged one in a few minutes.
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by joelberman 14y ago
Here is a better approach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
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by joelberman 14y ago
I'm 66. I first retired at age 59 from a tech job with great benefits and healthcare for life. Got bored out of my mind, and went back to work at another tech company. Retired last July. By October I was again ready to work and am now w
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by joelberman 14y ago
The comments seem to prove why the map is useful. What would you like your countries word to be? Work to that end. Or find a word you like and emigrate.
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by joelberman 14y ago
If you overlay the Congressional districts I bet you can see the impact of Gerrymandering on some of these maps. When a party can receive well less than 50% of the votes and attain well more than 50% of the house seats you must congratulat
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by joelberman 14y ago
Goggles, statements like "Macs and IOS have very dumbed down interfaces. That works well for many people who want to check their email and surf the web without having to learn anything at all." stop me from reading the rest of your post. I
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by joelberman 14y ago
Sometimes it is necessary to have that to get things going. But of course it does not scale. 30 people are not too many for one manager. When you go international and the number of employees is in the middle hundreds he will need to dele