michael_dorfman

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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
I don't think that referring to a single anecdote as a "nail in the coffin" of a position while complaining of the lack of "actual studies" in support of that position is terribly consistent.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Actually, what grandmother got was something different: the problem of overloading the "=" operator with variable setting. If you instead use, for example, arrows (as Knuth does in TAOCP) the problem goes away, and grandmother is no longer
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
It's at #12 now. The ranking algorithm is very sensitive to early votes, so a few votes in the first hour or so can make a noticeable difference in where the story ranks.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
You're not going to reach your potential if you tire yourself out beyond repair. Pace yourself. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Sounds like you are reinventing the ExPhil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examen_philosophicum
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
What? The article is about direct quotes from politicians. There are a lot of things you can blame the media for, but this isn't one of them.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Therapy isn't necessarily aimed at getting you to settle with where you are. It's aimed at making you happier, and that may very well require making changes. If you feel like you're drifting towards suicide, therapy is really the best id
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
It's good that you're reaching out for help, but what you need is advice from a psychologist/therapist/psychiatrist, not random hackers. Go get some help. I wish you luck.
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IPad 3 with retina display coming Q1?(wired.co.uk)
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Could the OP please add [1996] to the title?
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
YC companies have the ability to make job postings, which also appear here: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs , and have no comments/discussion.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Only if that's your business model. The New York Times paywall seems to be earning them a fair bit of revenue, and they're more than happy to give you the three or four articles a month you'd read there for free-- you're not their target ma
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Having a generic brand name doesn't mean other companies can do that, as there is no legal term defining generic brand names (i.e. a brand name that became synonymous with a product). Actually, it means exactly that-- as you can tell by t
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Because once it become generic, other people can start selling products called Photoshop. Suddenly, there'd be Microsoft Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop and Canon Photoshop and who knows what else, and they are afraid they'd lose their domin
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
No, the Channel 4 YouTube channel is also not viewable outside the UK. Pity, that.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
What I want to create is a mobile app, nothing fancy, and see if I can sell the mobile app. Because it's such a simple idea, that's where my fear comes from. If it is a simple idea, and is making money, it will be copied. There's a not
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
"On Error Resume Next" does not do what you think it does. It ignores the error, and marches blithely on. That is very different than "continuing where you left off, once the error is handled."
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an amazing resource. Anyone even casually interested in philosophy should check it out.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Not Pink Floyd; the obstacle there isn't the label but the band-members, who want their works to be sold as whole albums and not individual tracks.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Really? It got my Devanagari letters surprisingly well.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
The relationship between sarcasm and irony is subtle; sarcasm often makes use of irony, but is characterized by its "biting" nature. The quote from my daughter is ironic and sarcastic; the quote about "caring less" is ironic, and may or ma
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
The phrase is usually used ironically: "I could care less" is used to mean the opposite "I couldn't care less". Similarly, when my daughter says "Nice hat, Dad", she is not actually complimenting me on my choice of haberdashery, but rather,
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Well, in Vermont, at least, the "season" lasts for a couple of weeks at most, so it is only the larger producers who would separate the early sap from the late sap; I had a small stand of trees, and just collected everything for the season,
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
I've explained this at more length elsewhere in this thread, but the short version is that maple syrup (and maple sugar) were originally a substitute for sugar (which was more expensive, and could not be grown locally in North America), so
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
European maple trees won't help you, either; it is only the "sugar maple", native to North America, which is capable of producing syrup. Unfortunately, even in the US, the sugar maple is getting squeezed out of its ecological niche by the
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
The grades are based purely on color, which aligns pretty directly with flavor. If you like the maple flavor, Grade B is definitely the best; Grade C is too dark, and is only for industrial use (it needs to be cut with sugar-water to be pa
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
It's really not that complicated. Maple syrup was originally a locally grown (American) sugar substitute. As such, what was valued was a neutral flavor, i.e., something that tasted as little like maple as possible, and as much like sweet l
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
The Facebook terms of service say that you need to be 13, so I stuck to that. I don't think this is encouraging anyone to desire forbidden things; she desired Facebook because she thought it would be fun, and had to wait because those were
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Guilty as charged.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
It doesn't have a purpose; that's the point. It's modelled after the handle on larger jugs, which permit the user to hold the jug-- but that makes sense on a gallon jug, and not on a half-pint jug.

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