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by mirkules 16y ago
I don't know about exotic conjectures by Erdos (nice one, btw), but in elementary school I distinctly remember in second grade my dad ripped my He-Man comic books because I failed a test in my math class. After that, two things happened: 1)
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by mirkules 16y ago
I was born and raised until age 12 in an eastern European country, and I will tell you that I was shocked when I first set foot in an American classroom in 6th grade - they were learning "longhand" division, something I did in grade 2. Wh
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by mirkules 16y ago
I think the GP's isn't to discredit the Montessori method via counter-example, but rather to show that people have been successful long before the Montessori method came about (as you mentioned) and will continue to be successful and produc
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by mirkules 16y ago
This conversation brings to mind Neil deGrasse Tyson's quip about Titanic, the movie (the fact that they used the "wrong" sky): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICsgjqVvtM0 But I think little things like that do make a difference, even if i
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by mirkules 16y ago
I like the idea of showing point totals for comment threads. Entire threads (and subthreads?) with the highest total points could be near the top, which would indicate that those are the most interesting without revealing individual comment
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by mirkules 16y ago
This reminds me of the "boss key" in video games ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key ) Nicely done!
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by mirkules 16y ago
If I understand this correctly, it's all about finding a best-fit model for the change in infection rates after X amount of years. There could be a number of factors at play (environmental, political, religious), but the "correct" cause of
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by mirkules 16y ago
I always wonder how they actually test if a vaccine against lethal diseases is successful in humans. I can't imagine there are volunteers who sign up to be injected with a vaccine and then get injected with a live HIV virus, just to see if
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by mirkules 16y ago
This is where I was leading with my original question. If the IMs are contested, what happens then? Do we go to the ISP? What if the session is encrypted? Do we go to the IM service provider? Ultimately, the burden of proof should be on C
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by mirkules 16y ago
How did the court verify the authenticity of the IMs?
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by mirkules 16y ago
How do you find out the threshold anyway? It seems like it's a mystery for some reason (unlike, SO for example, where it's all spelled out)
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by mirkules 16y ago
I am so glad they got rid of the link preview in the URL bar (like they had in the RCs) and instead put in on the bottom left. Usually, I have tabs open that change their title when something happens (e.g. Gmail Inbox(1), or Facebook), and
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by mirkules 16y ago
"Make the check out to my name." I was being sarcastic.
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by mirkules 16y ago
Whoever figures out a way to convey sarcasm in text is going to make billions
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by mirkules 16y ago
Looking back, it's easy to get influenced by talking heads. For God's sake, I used to listen and nod my head to Bill O'Reilly (for shame!)
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by mirkules 16y ago
I've been working at a large company for the last 7 years, recently quit to join another large company. I have always had projects "on the side," but those have (so far) never led anywhere, and I can only dream of joining a startup -- Why?
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by mirkules 16y ago
The Public Computers section is really interesting. Homeless people that come in to do webcasts? Kinda cool. People changing keyboard settings to Russian? Pfft, everyone knows the real evil genius is in setting it to Arabic -- not only is i
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by mirkules 16y ago
As far as FGOTD: OpenFeint contacted us to use our game for FGOTD - we didn't really apply or anything like that. However, word of caution - any time your game is free, you will get bottom-feeders expecting everything (this is a different d
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by mirkules 16y ago
As someone once told me, "Internet Explorer is the application I use to download Firefox"
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by mirkules 16y ago
I thought the same - if it weren't for your comment, I would still be laughing. Brilliant!
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by mirkules 16y ago
I've used OpenFeint. Integration is a breeze, and their staff are really responsive and friendly. Plus you get a the benefit of their Free Game of the Day promotion.
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by mirkules 16y ago
It's true that none of yahoo's answers are fact, but I would like to point out that almost everything on the internet should be taken with a grain of salt (ahem, wikipedia). That said, your skeptic meter should be higher with yahoo than wit
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by mirkules 16y ago
For programming tasks, I am happy to see SO. But for other life inquiries, such as "why does my dog sleep at my feet", I get decent answers from Yahoo. In fact, I never viewed SO as a Yahoo! competitor, but a good complement - their audienc
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Apple's Security Coding Guide(developer.apple.com)
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by mirkules 16y ago
It's 40 hours * 52 weeks, according to http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/manyear.asp Although, I think that number is closer to 40 hours * 50 weeks (vacation included)
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by mirkules 16y ago
I was wondering the same thing. It's not to say I'm dismissive of Sebastian's thoughts -- this particular one actually kind of resonates with me -- but I do find that his posts lack perspective. Compared to Derek Sivers' posts, for example,
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by mirkules 16y ago
I would want automatic updates too, but only if they didn't break every existing SDK on your machine. This is currently not the case, so thanks, but no thanks.
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by mirkules 16y ago
How do we "release" objects...? Just kidding, awesome tutorial, I was looking for something like this, thanks.
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by mirkules 16y ago
I didn't say that rubber rooms are a problem in Providence. I'm saying that examples like those in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere are indicative of the state of public education as a whole. I'm saying that I support almost any means ne
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by mirkules 16y ago
Absolutely agree. I was appalled when I saw the article about not being able to fire teachers and instead putting them into "rubber rooms": http://www.theblaze.com/stories/disgraced-teacher-enjoys-wel... http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_loc

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