m_myers

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by m_myers 16y ago
I came here to say the same thing (even worded the same way in my head). Why are people so fixated on college degrees -- even if they've already built a profitable company from scratch? Is it to prove something? If so, what?
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by m_myers 16y ago
Like the episode of Monk where an eccentric rich fellow wrote hundreds of volumes of his diary talking about his treasure. Nobody can figure out what his clues mean. Turns out he wrote them with gold ink .
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by m_myers 16y ago
Have you seen their TV and magazine ads? Their ads are the only reason I do not use them.
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by m_myers 16y ago
Yep, they say they are working on it right now. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/80390/why-does-it-sa...
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by m_myers 16y ago
You are betting that you will have large bills. Your insurance company is betting that you won't.
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by m_myers 16y ago
Here's a table of speeding laws, for anyone else who's wondering about their state: http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/laws.html
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by m_myers 16y ago
Judging from the other content advertised on the page, the Daily News is not a master of subtlety.
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by m_myers 16y ago
"Whom shall I fear?"
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by m_myers 16y ago
His Twitter feed is worth a read too, if it's legit (I guess he's not notable enough to rate a checkmark): http://twitter.com/kenjennings "@IBMWatson, I'm-a let you finish, but homo sapiens is one of the smartest species of all time."
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by m_myers 16y ago
It's rather like people who buy a book just so they can burn it. If I'm the publisher, that's my cue to reprint as fast as possible.
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by m_myers 16y ago
It certainly is. It's very nearly the same strategy that took Sun to the dizzying heights it enjoys today.
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by m_myers 16y ago
Yeah, that always bothered me when I played Frogger too.
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by m_myers 16y ago
See also the Texas Turnaround for highway frontage roads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_U-turn
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by m_myers 16y ago
Where "S.O" is shorthand for "answers.onstartups.com"?
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Government investigation: No evidence Toyota electronic throttles malfunctioned(reuters.com)
54 points by m_myers 16y ago|42 comments
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by m_myers 16y ago
IT WORKS!
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by m_myers 16y ago
Yes, but it's hard to judge things that you have no reference frame for. There's another story about the Grand Canyon. Apparently the first Spaniards to reach it estimated it to be a couple hundred feet deep, and thought the part of the Col
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by m_myers 16y ago
How do they know it's huge? From their point of view, it could be the size of a bird. The story goes that the Huaorani called Nate Saint's plane a "woodbee" before he landed near them. After all, it flies and it buzzes.
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by m_myers 16y ago
Probably not too many that .museum didn't break already. How many people use a regex that actually captures all possible URLS?
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by m_myers 16y ago
As a non-employee I can't post specifics, but it's a lot less traffic.
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by m_myers 16y ago
In my area, gas stations must tell you if they have ethanol in their fuels. Those that do, do it with tiny stickers on the pumps. Those that don't, put big signs by the road advertising their 100% gasoline. A lot of stations which sold E10
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by m_myers 16y ago
A lot depends on habits, sure. One can develop expensive or inexpensive habits. Ours were mostly inexpensive, I suppose, but I never thought of them that way. Practically nobody I knew had a brand new car, so it didn't seem unusual that we
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by m_myers 16y ago
Here's a good explanation (or several, actually) on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40480/is-java-pass-by-ref...
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by m_myers 16y ago
That's just the thing: It's never pass by ref. References are passed by value . If it were pass by ref, you could make a parameter point to a different object and it would still be visible after the method had returned.
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by m_myers 16y ago
> And no, $60K is pretty tight for a family of four anywhere in the US. That's... not true. I came from a family of eight who never had more than $50k income (no health insurance), and I don't remember ever even having to think about it
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by m_myers 16y ago
Wait, did you just say $30/hour is low ?
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by m_myers 16y ago
I've been watching for them to drop into my price range for over a year now. Are they really worth the premium?
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by m_myers 16y ago
Caltech actually doesn't even have a football team. They did this in a game between Washington and Minnesota.
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by m_myers 16y ago
Cal Tech wasn't even in the game. They were just located in Pasadena (a suburb of Los Angeles), where the game is played every year. This is similar to the way MIT has often "hacked" the annual Harvard vs. Yale game, once even planting a we
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by m_myers 16y ago
There was a similar poll on Stack Overflow two years ago. The results are graphed here: http://imgur.com/MEw6h Source: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33970/how-old-are-yo...

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