julius_geezer

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by julius_geezer 16y ago
More power to him. When I was young and skinny, I started noticing effects at a sustained 60 miles/week. I really don't think he's setting a dangerous example, because most people trying to emulate him would find that something gives--joint
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/William_Butler_Yeats/3...
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
"The science is clear, for example, that although the female brain isn’t designed to compartmentalize personal feelings the same way a man’s brain does, a woman can--if she chooses--force a calm demeanor when she is starting to feel defensi
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
The once and present (or is it once and future?) governor's father made that proposal 40 years ago...
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
"What I’m trying to emphasize is the increasing lack of critical thinking instigated by easy access to information that can be readily searched for on the internet." Thirty years ago & more my college French teacher told me that her stu
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
School districts in New Jersey aggressively police residency, using detective at times, though I don't know that it has ever come to the point of a criminal case there. My impression, from an article or two in the NY Times years ago, is tha
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Or sometimes don't. For sufficiently large joins, a hash join that ignores indexes can save you and a nested loop on the index kill you.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Next up: Why "Why X Y or Superior" considered harmful.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
I use emacs, and almost always write for Windows. If I need a GUI, I use PythonCard.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
A relative who works in an HR-related field sees a lot of persons with Phoenix degrees, and is generally not impressed.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
cheeseship?! Better edit that one quick before the Pythonistas get you.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Actually, I learned it chiefly because what it would do for me on Windows: a REPL plus access to COM. Need to bash around Excel spreadsheets & do funky regexp stuff? Done. Do I like it? A lot? You bet. But I didn't pick it up out of som
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Now your edit is a phrase that would make a great tee shirt!
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
De Tocqueville made similar remarks, obviously based on the history of War of 1812. For that matter, consider the Civil War: Grant and Sherman were out of the service at the start,
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
"philosopher and technologist": ACM offers a paper on "Ontological approach toward cybersecurity in cloud computing". Evidently the PHB is more on target than usual.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
"Under the pre-1978 copyright law, you could now teach history and politics using most of Toynbee's A Study of History (vols. 7-10 were first published in 1954) or Henry Kissinger's A World Restored, or stage a modern adaptation of Erich Ma
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
It appears to involve a pop-up offering to let me download Google Chrome. I should have known the Googlers would be in on this...
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
My sample of the US is not large, say between 50 and 100 households in a country of 300 million persons. It tends to be skewed towards the more educated middle to upper middle class. (That is, towards more or less the NY Times demographic.)
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Read only the Zadie Smith one, thought it was a crock.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
There was a very good piece on this posted to HN this fall. Wish I could remember the source...
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Balderdash. Mr. Rendell should get out for a walk and do some calculus to calm himself down.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Has Gates's influence in primary education been helpful? That is not clear to me.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
With all due respect to Spielberg and Lucas, who are so proficient at what they do, is "genius" really the word? I think of Joe Theismann and "There are no 'football geniuses'. A genius is somebody like Edward Einstein."
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
I had to Google for the terms, making me, I suppose a Trogdolyte programmmer....
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Your spelling is correct.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
I use it on some old Sun machines where it was easier to install.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
One can put together a very fair rogue's gallery from Time Magazine's persons of the year. For the top dozen or so, Mark Zuckerberg is not fit to unlace their jackboots.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Ah, yes. I spent five or ten minutes this year examining a washing machine problem my wife reported. The problem: her husband had turned off the hot water feed while he tightened the connection, then had failed to run it back on. I believe
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
I want that Think Different poster with Uncle Joe.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
I'd have thought Borders a little better. What metropolitan area are you in? I'm in Washington, DC, so comparing B&N in Bethesda and downtown with Borders on L St. or occasionally Silver Spring or White Flint.

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