julius_geezer

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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Well, or grist for an archaelogist of the 21+nth century.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
I wonder whether HN, the NY Times, the Economist, etc.haven't any unproductive fascination with Higher Ed stories. I find it a much more interesting fascination than (say) the NY Times's fascination with parochial NY (and usually) Manhattan
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Experiences with SIP libraries?
1 points by julius_geezer 16y ago|0 comments
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
It does not beg but it does demand the question, Why should I care that much? I've essentially given up on "problematic" and "actionable"...
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
It has been a while (decade?) since I went to OOW. But as I recall I had no trouble finding technical sessions, if not at a level to engage Tim Bray. Many were about making your database run faster & better; some about using Oracle's fa
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
"A year ago, journalist Lenore Skenazy caused a media sensation when she let her 9-year-old ride New York City’s subway by himself." a) Outside of how many acres of Manhattan? b) Which lasted until when? The next silly-ass story for an ADHD
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Back in the dinosaur days I worked with DG minis running AOS/VS, a Multics descendant. From time to time an operator would run the equivalent of cd /; rm -rf, halting everything. The neat thing about the delete command was that would zap th
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
The book _Reporting at Wit's End_, a collection of New Yorker pieces by St. Clair McKelway, leads off with a profile of Joseph Brophy, for many years chief fire marshal of New York. Quite interesting on arsonists, both the professionals and
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
About 1980, David Owen wrote something like this, "Punks in Pinstripes", for Harpers. Doesn't seem to be out there via Google.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
The tube of lubricant I bought this summer for a lock said that it contained graphite, which is known to the state of California to be a carcinogen. I think that there should be points awarded for the most serious sounding post to the origi
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Memory works best structured. Knowing that there were two US VPs who served as such for different presidents gets you a few hundred points on Jeopardy, but is otherwise kind of pointless; knowing how this happened tells you something about
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Never heard of a booster for this. Will ask at my next physical.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Of the big names the author dragged in (and that I recognized) none was in any way that I can identify a collectivist. Most lived or flourished before socialism was named.
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Joe Nocera on Hurd & HP(nytimes.com)
24 points by julius_geezer 16y ago|3 comments
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
When you list Elizabeth Gilbert and Tony Robbins, you make it plausible that TED is the new Renaissance Weekend, if you remember those. Or maybe the new Aspen State.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Ah, yes, the American soul according to D.H. Lawrence: cold, stoic, isolate, a killer. (That would be Natty Bumpo.) I find this sort of piece unhelpful. It is full of generalities that seem more or less plausible, yet which can't be verifie
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Education is hard to disrupt or change because it is labor intensive. I really don't see any way to substitute technology or other capital improvements for skilled labor there. Nor do I think you can easily disentangle parenting and culture
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
I tend to have them only if I've received them in change from a vending machine at the post office. I can't say that I have a preference one way or the other. Back 30 years ago I longed for the Washington Metro Farecard machines to accept t
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
How is OLPC going? I had the impression that it had turned more or less into a dead end. The paper book has its problems. A lot of those printed from the late 1800s on used acid-pulped paper, which become brittle and disintegrates. On the o
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Good for the poster.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Indeed. I found myself doing the math to figure out how Trudeau could have been prime minister for almost half the author's life.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
For "the true" read "worst of the".
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
The story itself is moving, as heroism in a good cause will be. But making art requires more than such a story as its point of departure. The movie has what I regard as Spielberg's usual flaws: a taste for cheap trick, the quick laugh, the
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
I ride the bus to work most days. A lot of the drivers like to gun the engine when they can and stop quickly. This is annoying in a low-slung bus and would be scary in one with a high center of gravity. Much of the route has old, beautiful
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Indeed. Hollywood spends too damned much time trying to get period details right & omitting what matters. Steven Spielberg puts enormous effort into the visual details of films that are hollow at the center (Saving Private Ryan, Schindl
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
The novel _Cane River_, inflicted on us by a neighborhood book club, had what purported to be facsimiles of backwoods Louisiana newspapers of the late 1800s, with typography that looked to me like 1970s phototype. I was pretty well inured t
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
What version of web browser? Damn, some day some black hat will invent the user-agent header and we'll all be toast.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
Some code is plain old awful. Some such code I have left in place without rewriting because life is just too short. And what exactly does "At this point I wasn't decimating things all together" mean? Should "decimating" be "denigrating"?
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
It sounds pretty bush-league.
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by julius_geezer 16y ago
It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you know that isn't so that does. That is a canard, often repeated but without basis in fact.

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