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by meej 12y ago
Wikipedia explains. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely
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by meej 12y ago
Both news.com.au and nypost.com are owned by News Corp, so it makes sense that they share content.
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by meej 12y ago
The BBC did a story about David last fall. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23758087
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by meej 12y ago
I've had that idea about INTPs and INTJs too. I am in the camp that being aspie is a different way of being, not a disorder.
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by meej 13y ago
Both terms have been in use for a long time. When Frank Luntz was a republican strategist he suggested the party use "climate change" exclusively because he believed it sounded less threatening. http://www.skepticalsci
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by meej 13y ago
Hear, hear! I got my graduate degree in an online program that was a dozen years old with a starting cohort of 120 people, synchronous lectures, and campus visits once a semester. it was online but it was not a MOOC.
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by meej 13y ago
Even if an ID is free, the documentation required to obtain one may not be free (like a registered birth certificate, for example). Expired licenses do not work as ID under Texas' new ID law. There was a particularly egregious example
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by meej 13y ago
Screen resolutions were smaller then.
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by meej 13y ago
Why not, indeed? Jon Carroll publishes an article in the SF Chronicle most Decembers asking his readers to do just that. http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/The-Untied-Way-e...
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by meej 13y ago
i agree. robert anton wilson put it well: "like what you like, enjoy what you enjoy, and don't take crap from anybody."
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by meej 13y ago
A study published this spring in the Open Journal of Pediatrics indicates that it may have increased congenital hyperthyroidism on the West Coast of the US, however. http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?Pa
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by meej 13y ago
I've noticed some people will use the terms "black hat SEO" and "white hat SEO" to distinguish between sleazy and not-sleazy SEO practices.
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by meej 13y ago
more anecdata: I attended a small engineering college in the Great Plains. A good number of my classmates ended up at defense contractors after graduation. I did a co-op at a company that does a lot of defense contracting, and I could hav
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by meej 13y ago
Thank you. This one is relevant too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Sleep_debt
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by meej 13y ago
I logged in today just to upvote this comment. I have long wondered about people who dismiss concerns over semantics. How can we communicate clearly and honestly with each other if we can't agree on what words mean? Here is an anecdote ab
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by meej 13y ago
I got so sick of meaningless skill endorsements that I decided to delete all the skills from my profile. I posted an update that I did this, and one of my former coworkers replied, "Now I want to endorse you for honesty." And yet I am stil
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by meej 13y ago
Do you read Paul Krugman at all? I cut his blog out of my information diet a while ago, but before I did, he was beating the "lack of demand" drum pretty loudly.
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by meej 14y ago
That's Onswipe, and it's my least favorite thing about browsing the web from a mobile device lately. It's slow, the ads have become really irritating recently, and there's no way to preemptively tell a site you don't want to use it.
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by meej 14y ago
RSS aggregation is simple to replace, but feed browsing history and the search might be impossible to replace.
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by meej 14y ago
Nice! I am a diehard Slackware user, but this gives me ideas. Thank you!
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by meej 14y ago
Between Google retiring stuff and Twitter's ongoing war against client developers, I'm seriously considering just packing up and self-hosting everything I care about on my VPS.
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by meej 14y ago
I actually know someone who did this, hahahaha. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/tell-google-not-di...
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by meej 14y ago
What if the chemical imbalance is a symptom of depression, and not the cause?
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by meej 14y ago
How might this compare with HackPad?
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The Current State of Ownership - On The Media(onthemedia.org)
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by meej 14y ago
No, it's pretty clearly a parody of Slavoj Zizek with a PLT focus.
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by meej 14y ago
"I think a code of professional ethics around software engineering is long past due." I can think of several existing codes of ethics that might apply to software engineering. For starters, the ACM Code of Ethics was adopted over 20 years a
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by meej 14y ago
Well done. I happened to visit kernel.org earlier this week for the first time in many years and I was surprised at the dated appearance.
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by meej 14y ago
It's like I'm sayin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cyJNOH8kX8
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by meej 14y ago
Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi's _All Your Worth_: http://books.google.com/books/about/All_Your_Worth.html?id=S... (Yes, that's Senator Elizabeth Warren.) The Balanced Money Formula they present in the book is the most realistic

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