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by michaels0620 15y ago
Very nice. I hope political/public policy groups pay attention to the lesson Tufte pushes throughout the rest of his other books which is to avoid presenting the data in way which mislead or obfuscate what the data is. Political/public poli
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by michaels0620 15y ago
One of the major issues with slides is that too often they are designed to be usable without the presentation. Often times they are emailed to people who were not in attendance. You end up in the worst of both worlds: a presentation where t
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by michaels0620 15y ago
Should explain things adequately for anyone interested. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/deb... *EDIT: Hit submit too soon...
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by michaels0620 15y ago
Reactive programming seems like an excellent model for game programming (I know Haskell uses Yampa for this). I am surprised there isn't a canonical Scala implementation that is easily available. From my searching on the web, it looks like
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by michaels0620 15y ago
While not flimsy, they do not need much pressure to deform and flex. If you type heavily the table may bounce a bit. Not much, but enough to be distracting. Keeping your laptop closer to the side with support might help.
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by michaels0620 15y ago
I always thought that they should do home pick up & delivery 3 days per week but adjoining regions would have different days. So region A would get mail M,W,F and region B would get mail on T,Thurs., Sat. The mail carrier would alternat
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by michaels0620 15y ago
Agreed, and I also don't think that the transaction indicates the person had some sort of insider information about how the deals in Washington would work out. Based on all of the public information out there (comments from ratings agenci
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by michaels0620 15y ago
It's not the same thing. As the article discusses, it's not just that the name is sexual but that it refers to an act that victimizes its subject because they are unaware it is happening.
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by michaels0620 15y ago
Georgia also works great as a large, italicized header when paired with a smaller sans serif body text.
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by michaels0620 15y ago
Does this validate negative self talk that most people say you shouldn't do? Let's say someone ( cough me cough) has a lot of weight to lose. I could approach it as either "I've eaten pretty well this week, I can keep doing it" or "Jeez, I
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by michaels0620 15y ago
Lift ( http://liftweb.net/ ) is the most widely adopted Scala web framework. Scalatra ( https://github.com/scalatra/scalatra ) is another that is based on Ruby's Sinatra.
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by michaels0620 15y ago
More likely that he wouldn't want someone emailing the person telling him that he is being tracked.
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by michaels0620 16y ago
Same here. Was an exchange student in Sweden for a year. What a great country!
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by michaels0620 16y ago
Why choose? :) I am watching the game (Packers just scored) while working on a hobby game project.
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The AOL Way: Broken, battered and hopeless(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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by michaels0620 16y ago
I've been in the company of really smart (and likable!) Heretics and they tend to go out not with a bang but with a whimper. It's sad to watch. They may be even be right but their persistent negativity and challenging of the status quo (eve
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by michaels0620 16y ago
The anklet is fantastic. I wonder how many things of this type you could wear and integrate the information at once. For instance if you had the Northpaw and something on your other ankle that buzzed in the direction of the nearest wifi s
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by michaels0620 16y ago
I find point 3 (OOP Rules) an interesting conclusion. It seems like there is a greater push towards data driven game development and component based entity systems that have a more functional or procedural feel than OOP. It seems that peopl
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by michaels0620 16y ago
Burn out is always a potential problem, but it's great when the programming you do at work makes you a better programmer which makes your hobby work better which in turn makes your work programming better, etc.
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by michaels0620 16y ago
Thanks, I will take a look. It's these sorts of stories that I think would have made the points in the book stronger.
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by michaels0620 16y ago
The interesting thing about stoicism is that most of the surviving texts (Letters from a Stoic, Meditations, The Handbook) are extremely readable. Letters from a Stoic particularly is fascinating. Making the connection between what Seneca t
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by michaels0620 16y ago
I've read the book and while I enjoyed it, there were a couple of things I wish had been included. I wish the author had included more contemporary examples of stoicism in practice. He mentions Admiral Stockdale's experiences but does not g
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by michaels0620 16y ago
It's also slowly getting a foot hold in Pharma. I think the large Pharma companies would love to get out from under the expensive SAS licenses.
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by michaels0620 16y ago
I wonder if this will ever get bad enough that we'll see people start to use trains again, even if it does take significantly more time. Of course, if rail were ever to get popular enough again, they'd just institute the same scanning proce
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by michaels0620 16y ago
Here is his page on the Le Morte d'Arthur project that he references. http://www.erasmatazz.com/page78/page397/LMDNotes.html
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by michaels0620 16y ago
I played it for 5 minutes and then seriously considered getting a pencil and paper to start drawing out a map like I used to do. I forgot how addictive these games were!
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by michaels0620 16y ago
Does anyone know if there is going to be a video of the talk available? I haven't been able to find anything so far and as a Java dev currently getting my feet wet with a Scala hobby project, it seemed like an interesting presentation.
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by michaels0620 16y ago
One of the main things that distinguishes sparklines from other small graphs is that they are "word sized" and can be integrated into a line of text. Because of this, the graphs tend to be wider than they are tall and also have a very clean
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by michaels0620 16y ago
I find it interesting that in limiting the account, they still allow deposits but not withdrawals along with a threat of keeping the money. If they were truly concerned about that something fraudulent was going on they would not allow peopl
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by michaels0620 16y ago
This stack looks to be described at a much lower level then LAMP which (as you point out) makes it more confusing. At the very least, they could consolidate HDFS, Hue, HBase, and Hive into just "Hadoop".

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