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by mikebike 14y ago
I think we'd be better served using such styles in scientific journals more often. As an example, here's a wonderfully written article by the late statistician, Jacob Cohen: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sternh/courses/210/cohen94_pval.pdf
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by mikebike 14y ago
This Stallman quote (transcript from an interview) may be instructive here: "And the issue doesn't really arise for software that goes in a watch or a microwave oven or an automobile ignition system. Because those are places where you don't
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by mikebike 15y ago
This article suggests that shopping around for, say, knee replacement surgery, is not so simple: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/how-much...
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Comparing Floating Point Numbers, 2012 Edition(randomascii.wordpress.com)
1 points by mikebike 15y ago|0 comments
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by mikebike 15y ago
They are tied together because of fundraising. American universities raise a lot of funds through alumni donations. Sports programs provide a mechanism for alumni to continue to feel connected to their alma mater, which increases the likeli
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by mikebike 15y ago
It's funny because it imagines what the reviews would be like if these papers were reviewed today. The object of ridicule is the current state of peer review in computer science.
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by mikebike 15y ago
It's looking good for Buffett: http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/11/21/hedge-funds-kiss-...
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by mikebike 15y ago
Obligatory Tao of Programming reference (by Geoffrey James) < http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html&#62... : There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the progra
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by mikebike 15y ago
An interesting example of going too far the other way (favoring readability without enough thought to writability) is Applescript. It's very easy to read, even for those without too much programming experience. But it turns out that it's ve
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There is No Profit in Education, No Competitive Advantage to Better Learning(computinged.wordpress.com)
2 points by mikebike 15y ago|0 comments
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Annals of transparent banking, Citi edition(blogs.reuters.com)
1 points by mikebike 15y ago|0 comments
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410 Gone - Thoughts on Mark "diveintomark" Pilgrim's and _why's infosuicides(hanselman.com)
12 points by mikebike 15y ago|1 comments
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Acquisition Lessons from a Galaxy Far, Far Away [pdf](dau.mil)
3 points by mikebike 15y ago|0 comments
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The nastiness problem in computer science(cacm.acm.org)
10 points by mikebike 15y ago|1 comments
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by mikebike 15y ago
In this case, the monkey "borrowed" somebody else's camera, without permission, and took the picture in question. If I steal somebody's camera, and take photos with it, do I still own the copyright?
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by mikebike 15y ago
Aren't they brutal to the grad students working as research assistants in the lab?
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by mikebike 16y ago
"With notably rare exceptions..." http://crookedtimber.org/2011/03/30/with-notably-rare-except...
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IEEE's five-point plan to address open access(theinstitute.ieee.org)
3 points by mikebike 16y ago|0 comments
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by mikebike 16y ago
How smooth is the Nook Color for navigating around an academic PDF? When I've played with one inside the store, it seemed a little jerky when zooming on the Nook Color manual PDF.
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by mikebike 16y ago
There's a commercial computational chemistry software package called Gaussian that uses Linda: http://gaussian.com/g_prod/linda.htm
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by mikebike 16y ago
Yipe! Were you able to negotiate the bill down at all when working out a payment plan, or did the hospital end up charging you the full amount?
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by mikebike 16y ago
Isn't price fixing is done for U.S. Medicare payments to doctors, hence the constant wailing over the "doc fix" issue? I can imagine a scenario where the age for Medicare was lowered slowly over time to cover more and more people. (Unlikely
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by mikebike 16y ago
I've never understood the meaning of the "retail" rates. How many people are there who can afford to pay these rates and also don't have health insurance?
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by mikebike 16y ago
He worked at Netscape as well. His LinkedIn profile is: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-lopp/0/1/642
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by mikebike 16y ago
This might be changing... The Secretary of Defense announced a few months ago that he wants to cut contractors by 10 percent a year for 3 years: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/08/th...
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by mikebike 16y ago
Ezra Klein on why health care proponents are not too worried about this: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/12/is_the_h...
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by mikebike 16y ago
Fallows is the closest thing the U.S. has to a public intellectual.
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by mikebike 16y ago
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/the-principle-of-le...
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by mikebike 16y ago
Gruber doesn't think they will be using Xserves: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/22/gosling-java-mac...
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by mikebike 16y ago
None of the mechanical engineering packages (finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics) I've encountered explicitly support Ubuntu. Typically, it's RHEL that is explicitly supported.

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