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by msg 16y ago
It's been flat for a decade, so why now? The Seahawks are in trouble, so he's turning to other interests?
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by msg 16y ago
15. My son is autistic and would score quite a bit higher. I'm a programmer but I love talking, jokes, and making friends.
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by msg 16y ago
Like other social sciences, software engineering is an under-specifiable domain for double-blind studies. TopCoder might be a good example of how far you can take it. It provides a wealth of interesting comparisons that extend to the group
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by msg 16y ago
Don't harsh on this. Analogical reasoning is where scientific theories come from. Well, perhaps from there and from elegant math. I thought it was a very interesting metaphor, and you can start thinking of diseases of the national infrastru
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by msg 16y ago
I usually have two passwords: A stupid one that I only use on stupid sites, and a good one that I use on crucial ones (Gmail, Amazon, bank). There's no relationship between the good and bad passwords, so I feel more confident that I'll be u
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by msg 16y ago
Or a 13/80 difference, which is in the 15%+ range. It's a rounding error on a total time of many seconds, but not in the realm of the very fast.
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by msg 16y ago
My sister and parents recommended this to me: http://www.mistakesweremadebutnotbyme.com/ Time to go get it I guess.
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by msg 16y ago
The execs do know. They just don't have options that will make as much money for their shareholders. So instead they fight a slow rearguard action. Their time is passing. But for how long? Times X billion dollars per year.
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by msg 16y ago
Heroin restricts your range. Joy increases it.
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by msg 16y ago
You speak like someone who doesn't understand Christianity from the inside. Knowing God is its own reward. The Christian life is not a video game. Heaven is not an Achievement. Suffering is not inconsequential.
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by msg 16y ago
"You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shir
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by msg 16y ago
As I said to you earlier, why can't I, the user, download whatever data my friends make available to me, subject to whatever privacy controls the data is already under and (perhaps) to load restrictions or resource availability? http://new
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by msg 16y ago
Ridiculous. Facebook could whitelist only the user, not any proxy, to download whatever data friends already make available to users inside the boundaries of privacy controls. This is only sensible since it's already exposed to the user. If
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by msg 16y ago
Here is the real problem with moral statements by scientists as scientists . The task of science is, roughly, explaining observation in reference to proximate causes and systematizing those causes as completely and minimally as possible. T
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by msg 16y ago
What fraction of the market is underserved by Firefox not working on OSX 10.3 and earlier? Meanwhile what fraction is underserved by IE9 not working on Windows XP? I have no objection to your numbers as long as we also compare apples to app
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by msg 16y ago
Right, but you have to take another step back. As you say, it's good that Microsoft moved away from Silverlight because it didn't gain traction and was wrong for the market. But before we laud them for moving away from yet another high-prof
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by msg 16y ago
bug report: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=+too+X... Words are getting clipped.
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by msg 16y ago
How about Dick Hamming's thing at Bell Labs about crediting programming help in scientific papers? (from You and Your Research) I also did a second thing. When I loaned what little programming power we had to help in the early days of comp
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by msg 16y ago
It does say you need a valid credit card, which should deter most people who aren't out to ruin their credit rating. Maybe businesses can mint multiple CCs without dinging their rating but it would be riskier for them...
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by msg 16y ago
Or, as Lane puts it: "The underlying principles are universal. Even aliens need mitochondria." Right, midichlorians are in all living things of sufficient complexity. Episode 1 was onto something? Kill me quickly.
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by msg 16y ago
If you want an eye-opening education, go read Mini-Microsoft (including the comments). Some groups are better than others but... The performance review system causes corporate politics and backstabbing that beggar the imagination. MS has Da
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by msg 16y ago
The Racket IDE should pick a sensible default for the language and add a first-time only launch dialog.
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by msg 16y ago
This is what spoke volumes to me. In my mind, ParishNetwork.org was intended to be a place where you could meet other people who attended your parish. But a lot of the users expressed a desire to be able to interact with users from other p
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by msg 16y ago
Where they'll get their foot in the door is closed campuses. I bet the military could run this on the base and keep the liability issues in the family. Similarly, perhaps a large corporation would license it. Or even better, airports.
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by msg 16y ago
It's ideal for Nethack. Infinite thinking time is enforced by the platform.
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by msg 16y ago
In other words nirvana. I prefer to wake up with a goal that is too big for one lifetime.
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by msg 16y ago
I was interviewed in the valley a few years back. I didn't try to go to Google but I did go to Stanford on a free evening. I had some idea of trying to find the CS department, or maybe Knuth's house. It was a little late though. Instead I e
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by msg 16y ago
On the contrary, you currently get far more leverage out of your money by participating in the (US) political system and flashing cash than you do by apathy. And the more money you spend, the less risk there is. Why is there no net neutrali
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by msg 16y ago
Aren't you assuming that all you can do to protect your 50k is vote? And that all votes are independent? What if you could spend 25k mobilizing your side in the election? Or running an issue ad? You gain it all back and then some.
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by msg 16y ago
There are a couple of Greasemonkeys to lengthen shortened URLs. Hopefully they will be updated soon. http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=expand+URL+shortener...

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