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by mwcremer 14y ago
They are measuring sperm motility, which is a way to gauge the sperm's ability to fertilize an egg.
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by mwcremer 14y ago
See also "Paxos Made Live" http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/08w-dsi/chand...
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by mwcremer 14y ago
> We don't want conferences censoring presenters because of reputation issues. I think what you need here are different conferences.
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by mwcremer 15y ago
I have struggled with this dichotomy for many years. I still feel that "affirmative action" is inherently discriminatory. But I too can offer no alternative to foster change. Considering the circumstances http://www.samefacts.com/2012/0
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by mwcremer 15y ago
That brings up an interesting question: how do you verify Anonymous' identity?
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by mwcremer 15y ago
Uh, aren't the rings of Saturn almost entirely water ice?
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by mwcremer 16y ago
I can't resist pointing out that you did not in fact prove any such thing... :-)
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by mwcremer 16y ago
Perhaps related? Bartek Bargiel (of iGTD fame) joined Cultured Code in August of 2009. Also, see http://culturedcode.com/status/
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by mwcremer 16y ago
Which suggests Comcast's real aim may be to force Level 3 to peer.
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by mwcremer 16y ago
Unless Level 3 had commits to their customers (e.g. NetFlix), in which case it could be very expensive to drop Comcast users.
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by mwcremer 16y ago
I think Pike's point about "thousands of needless lines of code" is that people do this: #include "foo.h" instead of this: #ifndef __FOO_H__ #include "foo.h" #endif where "foo.h" looks like this: #ifndef __FOO_H__ #define __FOO_H__ /* conte
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by mwcremer 16y ago
A web framework let you work on the back-end, but had the interesting quality that anyone who used it pretty much had to admit it or contact you. I wonder about this. Seems like there are plenty of rails / django / joomla sites out there
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by mwcremer 16y ago
The headline is a little ambiguous, this article is about how to arrange your website menu bar links (and not about how to optimize placing an order in a restaurant, as I first supposed)
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by mwcremer 16y ago
"Necessity, who is the mother of invention." -Plato That said, I'm not sure awesomeness is a function of constraint. Most of the awesome people I know succeed in spite of rather than because of the constraints placed upon them. In this c
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by mwcremer 16y ago
...at jobs that require a four year degree. I think the point of the article is there are plenty of jobs people can do that don't require a four year degree.
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by mwcremer 17y ago
[citation needed]
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by mwcremer 17y ago
Newton had soups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_(Apple_Newton) http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=948
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by mwcremer 17y ago
Counter-point http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-b...
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by mwcremer 17y ago
"The standard libraries that ship with languages have always struck me as kind of odd. Who maintains the quality of these libraries? What happens if that library has a bug? Do updates only get issued with new versions of the core language?
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by mwcremer 17y ago
Finish or Finnish?
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by mwcremer 17y ago
As noted in OP comments, cmd+opt click on dock icon hides others.
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by mwcremer 17y ago
From 2007. Try this: http://lwn.net/Articles/348445/
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by mwcremer 17y ago
Hmm, so why point out gender, especially when combined with superlatives? Kind of undercuts the effect.
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by mwcremer 17y ago
I could live with that, if Gruber didn't make a point of serving up "claim chowder" every time someone else rushed to print a juicy tidbit without checking the facts. If you are going to throw stones... I agree that in general Gruber has w
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by mwcremer 17y ago
+1 for admitting screwed up, -10 for laying it off on his single source. Why didn't he second-source it, like real journalists do?
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by mwcremer 17y ago
There are similar efforts underway: http://www.pushuptheweb.com/
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by mwcremer 17y ago
Note that this is not likely to help with media files (mp3, mpeg, jpeg).