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by kscaldef 16y ago
Maybe you should consider a plumber. Or at least a Brita filter.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
The self-portrait in mirror says to me: I have no friends who have ever taken a picture of me, and I'm so embarrassed about this online dating thing / have so little self-esteem that I can't ask someone to take a couple pictures of me, or e
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> Portland is not a good example of American urban planning gone awry. As it's probably one of the most sensible cities in the US. Mostly, but there's really 2 Portlands. Downtown & the eastside are dense, mostly flat, walkable and
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> It's got to the point where I'm trying to figure out how to make new friends at an age where it doesn't happen by accident. Clubs (not the music type), Meetup.com, user groups.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
True, but you'd be surprised how many self-taken photos there are on OKC; either the notorious MySpace shot or the truly sad "self-portrait in bedroom full-length mirror".
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's a bit of both. The same reasonably-skilled photographer is going to take better photos with a SLR than with a camera phone. The better tool lets you use your better skills. (And even someone with no skills at all is going to get bet
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Just off the top of my head: * access to reference materials * virtual manipulatives for math education * testing & spot quizzes * educational games * visual programming environments like Logo or Scratch (m
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by kscaldef 16y ago
In my experience, managers are actually more constrained during the annual review cycle. They tend to have very specific quotas for promotions and raises. One large company I worked for literally had a bell curve for raises that managers ha
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Problem solving is not the same thing as brainstorming. Brainstorming is deliberately loosely structured and undirected. A group of engineers huddled around a whiteboard or a monitor are exactly the opposite: highly focused on the details
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> Being an "old fuddy-duddy," while without a settled meaning, I think basically is a way of saying that an old person is acting childish or unprofessional Hmm... that's almost exactly the opposite of what I think of when I hear that te
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> It's just easier to get critical mass in the cities. That's absolutely true. I have some personal experience trying to get critical mass around a local-social application, and I've seen a number of others, and it's very hard in most
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's a bad habit, but people (including me) often say "New York" when they mean "Manhattan". The population density of Manhattan is 70,951/sq mi (27,394.3/km2) according to Wikipedia.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> New York is the capital of food, fashion, music, finance, diplomacy, culture and news It's also full of humble and modest people ;-) I appreciate the fine rantiness of the post (and the one it's responding to, for that matter), but I
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Uh.. that's not just New York. Basically, anyone who's not in the industry views everyone who does "computer stuff" as one homogeneous group.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'd be curious to hear in what sense you consider online dating sites failures. Your assertion that advertising in other media makes them a failure is, well, just that; an assertion. I don't have any numbers on the financials of the compa
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by kscaldef 16y ago
We've seen problems with compensation linked to short-term company performance. Test scores and most metrics like you're proposing have similar problems. Nobody cares about test scores; we care about long-term success of students into adu
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by kscaldef 16y ago
earplugs, sleep mask, ambien.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
The situation with emergency exit seats varies from airline to airline. Many won't let you reserve one in advance, or only allow preferred or full-fare customers to reserve. JetBlue (once again) charges $40 if you want to reserve one.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'm less certain these day, where video games are so sophisticated that no neophyte can hope to replicate them; but I grew up in an age where kids learned to program writing Zork-clones in BASIC.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
"at least as of a year or two ago". So, maybe, as other people have pointed out and as I've already acknowledged, the situation may have improved.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
You can pay $40 for an "Extra Leg Room" seat on JetBlue.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
There was definitely a lot of discussion of these issues going on the last time I was playing around with Erlang, so it's quite possible progress has been made. My recommendation is to take my comments with a grain of salt, and comments on
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Erlang SMP is successful on one axis (ease of writing correct and reliable concurrent problems), but it seems to me that the argument in the article was about the performance costs of the model. And, at least as of a year or two ago, Erlan
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'm not entirely convinced. I have a number of actual, real-life friends who I communicate with almost exclusively via Facebook. I don't know their email address, and in some cases I don't know their phone numbers. If Facebook went poof
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> An inexpensive ($15) blade grinder (“whirly-bird”) is sufficient for making drip coffee While this much may be true, using a french press with a blade grinder is a recipe for nasty sludge at the bottom of your cup. There's just too m
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by kscaldef 16y ago
For me it brought to mind the discussions a few weeks ago about standing desks. Would simply working standing be sufficient?
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The Men Who Stare At Screens (why going to the gym might not be good enough)(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I guess there's some question of what "FU money" and "rich" means to you. Does it mean never working again? Does it mean working but not having to worry about your salary (for example, opening up careers like teaching that you might not ha
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I tend to go with NPR and The Economist. Both are biased, but their biases are relatively mild and out in the open (and, more-or-less in opposition to each other).
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Technically, I think Firefox is the rewrite of the rewrite.

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