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by jrapdx3 11y ago
What a great story. Quite heartening to find out about Zotterelli's accomplishments, after all, he started working on Voyager when he was 42. Goes to show, "senior" engineers are very capable of making noteworthy contributi
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> Where homework plays in that equation is unclear, but take it how you will. Sure, in the enriched environment you describe students are more likely to have the motivation to make the effort to learn and succeed. I'd guess you and
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
Pretty good article, as a genuine "old guy" myself the thoughts expressed resonate with my experiences. Key thing is the willingness to keep on learning, accepting the challenge of new ideas, glean from them their essential merit
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Very interesting, if unsurprising that increasing demand on attention reduces efficiency. I suppose that's what I dislike about the busy visual displays installed in new cars, and why I turn it off in rental cars. Hard enough to driv
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
Doubtful that operators of the Panama Canal would be holding up traffic because of the proposed Nicaragua canal. After all construction on that project hasn't even started yet. Furthermore, the new, bigger Panama 3rd set of locks are
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> ...I'm a little envious on anyone who has a talent for drawing. Among the artists I know, some have taught drawing at art schools. They've all said drawing and art talent are altogether separate matters. Drawing is about re
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I agree with all the comments saying there's no short cut to finding out if you have "aptitude" for programming (or anything else). The only way to know is to try it, assessing its suitability is very much an internal matter
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My experience with MS re: the SP2 was quite different. I bought the SP2 in Dec 2013, within a week it was ruined by a failed MS firmware update. The SP2 began randomly waking up from sleep mode, annoying, and hazardous when it did that st
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Don't know about we learn much about the difficulty of drawing beautiful faces, however the images of the artist's work were impressive. The traditional boundary between "art" and "illustration" isn't hard
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The problem I have with this kind of research are the intrinsic ambiguities regarding "depression" and its treatment. Depression is notably heterogeneous in its characteristics and origins. Even when careful diagnosis declares t
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> ...an "eslisp-html"-macro that compiles to an HTML-templating function... Here's the gist of it so far ... What do you think? Interesting! Similar to Scheme templates: (let* ((admintype (...)) ...
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
To my taste, Lisp's hierarchical list notation is by far the most natural, intuitive way to represent HTML. I exploited this Lisp feature to create a web server using Scheme and C (a 5-year project). While my server still works well, i
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
Not nearly as aged as Ms. Beskind, still I'm glad to read that getting old isn't always a barrier to creativity and contribution. I like the idea that retirement doesn't have to be permanent, one can start again, make use of
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
The drought is affecting several western states, including Oregon where I live. The severity here isn't (yet) as extreme as in California, but it definitely is having palpable detrimental effects on water supply and agriculture in par
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Yeah I noticed that too. However, with current Firefox the "Reader View" worked well, and I was able to read the article just fine.
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
What fortunate timing, next week I'm spending a few days in Ashland, OR, and will enjoy the theater at the world-class Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Parallel to the article's discussion, in college I was interested in science and o
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
Most of the really accomplished men and women I know in medicine have a wide range of interests, often including artistic pursuits. In fact it's quite a tradition among medical practitioners to take it very seriously to play a musical
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
That's curious. Running Win8.1 and Task Manager lists Task Manager with subprocess Task Manager, anyway, using variably 0 to ~1.0% CPU, 0.3% memory. How "truthful" these stats are, well I guess that's another question
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
The article was interesting and entertaining too. Good (and bad) committee outcomes happen as described, when one or a few individuals seize the initiative, setting out their ideas in a more or less finished form. Other committee members
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
Color me skeptical, I have some doubts about that NYT piece. I did take a look, and indeed I had trouble with telling shades of green as presented. However, the image of color patches was quite blurry, color mottled and totally ambiguous.
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
Color perception is a subject that's fascinated me for a long time. Humans are visually rather unique, as unlike most other mammals we are able to see beyond yellow into the orange and red spectral range. That's probably attribut
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
As soon as the article brought up plans of carriers to expand LTE into the unlicensed 5GHz band, I immediately thought about the implications for current users of WiFi. Specifically that high-powered LTE would overwhelm the signal output b
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
I live in Portland where curbside recycling is a long-established tradition. A number of years ago the rules changed, instead of the homeowner separating plastic, glass, paper, etc., all of these are put into the same bin. Separating the
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
No one has mentioned the very Lisp-like nature of Tcl, and that includes the property of homoiconicity. This makes many programming patterns easy to implement in Tcl. Increasingly Scheme/Lispy features have been added, which makes it
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The images on those magazine covers shown in the article bring back memories of life growing up in the Arizona desert long before it became so populated. As a kid I could hike for miles in the wilderness, among huge saguaro cactus and all t
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In the medical practice world, marketing of pharmaceuticals has been an incendiary subject for some time. The common gist has been that medical practitioners are too easily influenced and merely hearing what a pharma company rep has to say
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
The sound of rain is very familiar to us living west of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest. When it rains more days than not in a given season, for many locals the sound of rain is often not exactly "soothing". As a qualified
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
FWIW after reading this article, and comments here, I decided to check on the gmail account of a small not-for-profit organization I belong to (I'm the unofficial IT guy). I was shocked, there were 4127 spam messages, and just 98 unre
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> ... so I really skipped over all of the details at the end. I'd like to give a better explanation of both the parsing step (to an understandable degree) and the interpreter itself, so that it is easier to follow along and implemen
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The article starts out with a simple, incremental approach, pretty easy to grasp the concepts all the way through the discussion of the lexer and digesting the program input. Then all of a sudden the density of the material accelerates dram

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