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by msluyter 16y ago
Where are the 80k$-120k$ offers coming from, geographically? The reason I ask is that 80k in S.F. is roughly... 50k in Austin, TX. 120k in S.F. is roughly equivalent to 70k in Austin. (Based on Salary.com's cost of living calculator.) 50-70
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Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who runs the "Track Your Plaque" program and the Heart Scan blog ( http://www.heartscanblog.org/ ) has identified sugar as one of the primary factors contributing to heart disease. He advises his patients t
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Incidentally, if you really want you can get around this by opening a new incognito window in chrome. Sort of a pain and perhaps not worth the effort, however.
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My girlfriend is an appellate court attorney, and one thing I've learned from her is that the people who get royally screwed in the courts are often those that try to do it on the cheap, either through self-counsel or more often, by hiring
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This is a better essay than the title suggested it would be. Although it makes an interesting point, it seems somehow incomplete to me. There's an important distinction between beliefs that can be falsified and those that can't. Science, ge
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The company I work for uses a Tomcat/Struts/Oracle stack, and I'd love to find something less painful to use, but which is still java based (moving to a different language here would probably meet too much institutional resistance.) The art
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I agree that these types of questions can lead to false positives, but what about the negatives? Don't these have some value as filters? After all, if I can't answer a simple question like string reversal, it suggests that I can't code AND
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<fanciful-speculation> That's why I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple, with its superior hardware/software integration, on the forefront of the consumer robotics revolution. </fanciful-speculation>
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I had a similar thought the other day while using an automated paper towel dispenser. "Isn't this primitive robot?" Yet, I'd never really thought to apply the term "robot." It'll be interesting to watch the evolution from dumb/single-purpos
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I think it's an interesting idea, but I went and took a look at the course on Web Programming and found it somewhat lacking. For instance, the section on HTTP links to the W3C documentation on POST/GET/etc... which is ok, but very dry readi
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TL;DR: it's a new way of publishing books on thinner paper that makes them lighter and smaller. In no way a threat to the Kindle.
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I want to learn all sorts of new things, but my problem is mostly an inability to decide on what to learn next. For a while, I was looking at Django, and then decided Rails probably had more traction, but then thought "wait! Perhaps node.
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And there are a lot of subtle little ways in which a developer can drift into this state. For example, not bothering to document how systems work, or opting to make band-aid patches to brittle systems rather than refactoring. After a while
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by msluyter 16y ago
I once asked an ethnomusicologist if any common factors existed across all musical cultures and he said that about all he could point to was: a) some concept of a tonal center and b) the interval of the 5th remained fairly constant, despite
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by msluyter 16y ago
Why are there seven notes? Is this due to an property of the ear? The 7 tones that make up a major scale are basically a cultural artifact of western music (which goes back to gregorian chant). Other cultures have more/fewer tones.
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It was unclear to me whether the article was a confabulated cautionary tale or an allusion to an actual event. But either way, hard to take seriously without more context.
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I also ran across this, and on the error page, neither of the links for Apple support worked. It sometimes amazes me that a company that's generally as polished as Apple can still suffer from bugs like this one.
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The dual display is sorta neat, and makes me wonder if there's a way to link two iPads via Bluetooth to achieve the same effect?
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by msluyter 16y ago
It was Godel, Escher, Bach that got me interested in computer science in the first place. Good to see that in the list.
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by msluyter 16y ago
I'd just like to note that Robin Hanson's blog is generally quite thought provoking. He posts on a variety of topics relating to psychology and economics, often from the viewpoint of status competition and signalling. Really fascinating stu
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Next up, an app to see who's monitoring you on Breakup Notifier... "Three people are waiting for you to break up! Click here to find out more!"
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The iPad and iPhone are especially dangerous when it comes to accidental downvoting. Separating or enlarging the arrows would help those of us with fat fingers.
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I'm curious if there is any model at all under which bookstores will survive. Presumably, used bookstores can hang on for a while. Perhaps the future is some sort of mix of new and used books, along with a coffee shop and diversified invent
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by msluyter 16y ago
As an ex-classical musician, I can attest to your first point. However, the science Ph.D. glut seems to be generating more angst these days than it used to. I attribute this in part to rising tuition costs and greater student debt loads and
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IMHO, some arguments can be highly productive, but I think it takes a certain amount of rapport to effectively argue with someone. I've had discussions with friends where we began with one set of positions, and by the end had swapped positi
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Weird. I get the error "Sorry, you need 20 karma to create a poll, " despite having karma of over 1000. Perhaps this still has some bugs.
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I work in database centric (Oracle) organization and we've never attempted unit testing at the database or even pl/sql level, for many of the reasons mentioned. Additionally: 1. It's hard to achieve any form of dynamicism in the database. Y
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Reminds me of the tiny phone gag from Zoolander: http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/856357878/
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I have a problem with 3d in that my eyes never converge, period. I have keratoconus and have had surgery in my left eye, the end result of which is that my eyes have different vision levels, the left being much better than the right. My rig
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I was just thinking about the fact that much of my work requires me to pause for a short time -- while building my project, or running a query, or launching the huge honkin' java webapp and waiting for 10 billion classes to initialize -- bu

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