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by mynameishere 18y ago
The #1 guy on the leaderboard submitted this? Makes me think he's using a submit-bot.
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by mynameishere 18y ago
"How many programs do you have running?" Dang, I sometimes have 2x that much going at once, and not all little stuff either. Like, 5 eclipse instances and Visual studio, 7 or 8 shells, 10 notepads, 3 or 4 mysql prompts, 2 remote desktops, F
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by mynameishere 18y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22testing+the+crawl+time+of+... 19 minutes in.
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by mynameishere 18y ago
They should scan a violinist playing a fully-rehearsed piece. I wouldn't be surprised if the "decision making" parts of the brain never light up. That doesn't mean that the piece isn't played according to conscious decision. It becomes mind
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by mynameishere 18y ago
For a start, unless you're Google, attracting talent is hard. Why do people keep parroting this? It's much harder to use a return code badly Return codes are almost always ignored. In straight C, errors are a real pain. They just are. I
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by mynameishere 18y ago
An old joke. (Almost) every one of these could be used to advertise condoms. (Go over the list, if you don't believe me.)
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by mynameishere 18y ago
A friend of mine moved to a ski resort. The peer pressure did the job.
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by mynameishere 18y ago
His biography (one that's out of print now).
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by mynameishere 18y ago
Is there really a large enough pool of people out there who would be good teachers Keep in mind that the labor pool is controlled by a cartel. Remove the certificate (and other) requirements and you have a very large pool. Allow people wi
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by mynameishere 18y ago
Back when I subscribed to Forbes, I remember an editorial suggesting how wonderful China's gender problem was...think of all the female-hungry Chinese engineers we can import into the USA! No shit, Forbes magazine said that. It was then tha
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by mynameishere 18y ago
The poem was written as a cynical comment about Frost's friend Edward Thomas who was unpleasantly bemused by it. Thomas was the first to not get the joke. It is popularly interpreted literally, as inspirational and individualist, but criti
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by mynameishere 18y ago
NT is solid. They just have it loaded down with cruft. Vista is the equivalent, at a minimum, of Windows version 12 — preceded by 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, NT, 95, NT 4.0, 98, 2000, ME, XP Wow, what ignorance. NT and the earlier Windows version
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by mynameishere 18y ago
Marijuana is a plant containing many chemicals, and this article refers to one of them. So, the word "Marijuana" shouldn't be in the headline. When chemicals are actually useful, they tend to be legal, as with Marinol (thc) and cocaine (as
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by mynameishere 18y ago
people facing a massive die off due to something like smallpox might view it as a crisis First, "There is no crisis" refers to birthrates, not smallpox. Second, by "crisis" I mean existential crises, not personal. Even the black plague wa
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by mynameishere 18y ago
My god, I could barely stand to skim that. So, so much nothingness in so many words. A few points: 1. There is no crisis. Certain conditions produce certain effects. When smallpox is introduced into a population, the population declines, bu
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by mynameishere 18y ago
too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Those things, of course, are all that pop pyschologists ever look at.
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by mynameishere 18y ago
The staff of PUP interviewed 23 Harvard graduates, alumni and faculty, asking each “Why do we have seasons?”...The PUP interviewers found that 21 of the 23 interviewed could not explain why we have seasons, a topic that is taught repeatedl
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by mynameishere 18y ago
And frankly I don't know what you're talking about with that "global cooling doom" nonsense Welcome to the internets, an exciting place for you to learn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling The data quickly contradicted the glob
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by mynameishere 18y ago
Occam's razor demands Occam's razor demands that, if the temperature of the earth has shifted wildly throughout its entire history , then it will continue to do so, today and tomorrow. Occam's razor demands that the usual suspects are tr
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by mynameishere 18y ago
http://www.powerset.com/explore/go/which-tennisplayer-beat-a... "Sorry, there were no results for your query: which tennisplayer beat andre agassi"
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by mynameishere 18y ago
Why don't they just disable whatever was causing the problem? Too many friends? Okay, disable the ability to add more friends. Too many emails? Okay, limit the number of emails. Stupid.
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by mynameishere 18y ago
Joel's Inc Magazine columns compared to his blog writing Most of his articles have been inferior re-writes, to the point that I'm not sure why nobody at Inc. has caught on. Maybe they don't care, but I'd be pissed.
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by mynameishere 18y ago
http://www.jinfo.org/Fields_Mathematics.html 25 percent of fields medal winners vs. 0.227 percent of world population. >100x difference. [discussion of statistical signfigance omitted.] Nature vs. Nurture is a stupid discussion, as "
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by mynameishere 18y ago
The purpose of feature writing is to tell a complete story, not provide data as fast as possible. War and Peace in short: Napoleon invades. Gets kicked out.
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by mynameishere 18y ago
Duh, Bill: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=download+moviemaker I thought I'd try to install it to see if they streamlined it, but it turns out it was part of SP2. I guess I never needed to know about it...
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by mynameishere 18y ago
I can see all the hangers-on trying to skin bands, since they can vanish in an instant, but you'd think that companies would want to cultivate groups. Give them a free-and-clear 75 cents per album or whatever. How hard is that? And then if
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by mynameishere 18y ago
Yeah, I read that. The alternative would be: Hire a team of 1st rate sys admins, set up mail servers. Total cost: Maybe 1.5 million a year.
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by mynameishere 18y ago
Email is a solved problem, and it's mysterious to me why a school system wouldn't just throw up a few servers and be done with it. Google can now data mine millions of students for marketing purposes, and charge them for the benefit. I don'
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by mynameishere 18y ago
And who doesn't love the UPS? I'll bet they're the most beloved company on earth. They're like the mail, except that instead of delivering bills and subpoenas, they deliver Christmas presents year-round.
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by mynameishere 18y ago
What were the disadvantages again? The students are 32 flavors of vanilla? Something like that. I went to a poor school and the students were 32 flavors of shit. So think about that the next time you open your mouth to complain.

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