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3631.
by narrator 16y ago
If we constructed the laws of physics merely by observing the planets we could have concluded that a mass rotated around an axis will move in epicycles, which is how the pre-Copernican astronomers explained the movements of Mars. Astronomy
3632.
by narrator 16y ago
To do real science you need a hypothesis, a control and an experiment. Finding correlations in historical datasets after the fact is not really science. It's good for formulating hypothesis but it's not science, at least as described by F
3633.
by narrator 16y ago
You can put it right next to your Apple Pippin.
3634.
by narrator 16y ago
The ascent of foursquare is a big win for Scala and Lift too, given that it's probably the most high profile Lift/Scala project out there.
3635.
by narrator 16y ago
I think this article is a great demonstration of Poe's Law.
3636.
by narrator 16y ago
He's solved the traveling salesman problem in Log(n) time.
3637.
by narrator 16y ago
Well what if you could give your self a brain upgrade via gene therapy? What's so bad about that? I guess many would be upset as it would go against our ideology here in America that frowns on any suggestion that intelligence has innate c
3638.
by narrator 16y ago
I tried to beat the market using all kinds of AI stuff off and on for a number of years. Learned a lot about AI techniques, and became a better programmer, which helped in my day job, but never got anywhere. It's a fool's game. Besides, m
3639.
by narrator 16y ago
Good point. I think the French are the only ones that develop any decent pharmaceuticals outside the U.S. One of the most successful French pharmaceuticals is Tianeptine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianeptine It's sort of a French Pr
3640.
by narrator 16y ago
Looked at that collection. I've read a lot of Austrian stuff and I'd say that Hayek's elaboration of the trade cycle and the dynamics of international currencies are the two greatest works of Austrian Economics. They are not the basics by
3641.
by narrator 16y ago
I picture a hashed biometric identifier that goes in the bottom 64 bits of your ipv6 address, every time you do anything online with any conceivable connected device.
3642.
by narrator 16y ago
No doubt they'll add some special extension that uses perl for the drawing commands just so -- you know -- nothing but Ie9 can parse it.
3643.
by narrator 16y ago
Why anyone would stay at a job like that is beyond me. 12 hour days 7 days a week? That's just stupid. Much rather program mind-numbingly boring business apps and go home at 5.
3644.
by narrator 16y ago
>“The problem is, over and over again, that many very creative young people, who have demonstrated their creativity, can't figure out what the system wants of them—which hoops should they jump through? I think that's the main problem.
3645.
by narrator 16y ago
I worked with an Indian guy for a few years. He said that in India it is extremely unusual for a person to not follow an extremely rigid career track. It's the legacy of the cast system pigeonholing people into various professions. In th
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by narrator 16y ago
Here's a much better article on alcohol: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/par7.htm There are much healthier, perfectly legal, and arguably more fun ways to alter one's neurochemistry than alcohol. If I told you all how to do it though, th
3647.
by narrator 16y ago
Some micro pc that can run DD-WRT would probably be ideal.
3648.
by narrator 16y ago
When I get a compiler error in Scala it's almost always something that would cause a runtime error in a non statically typed language. The downside is that the error messages can be difficult to parse and resolve for beginners. Once I got
3649.
by narrator 16y ago
Scala is actually a better Ruby. All the messy fun stuff that we all love with Ruby like duck typing and monkey patching can be done easily with Scala, except it's all statically typed so it keeps the whole mess under control. For instance
3650.
by narrator 16y ago
This is a preview of the future without oil. The North Koreans lost all their oil subsidies from the Soviets in the early 90s. That's why they had the famines in the 90s, nobody drives cars and why there are no tractors.