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by navbaker 10y ago
>Oversimplification and popularisation do STEM no favours. It helps no one to believe they understand string theory or climate change when they know barely enough math to add two numbers together. While I understand your general point, I
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by navbaker 10y ago
I love my Windows PC with VirtualBox running any flavor of UNIX I want!
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by navbaker 10y ago
You don't have to spend 100% of your time doing "productive" activities. If watching mind numbing TV is what puts you in a flow-like or meditative mind state, do it!
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by navbaker 10y ago
Thanks, sounds like it's just what I need!
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by navbaker 10y ago
Not sure how this is baity. The jetpack portion refers to an actual example of research done by X and the profit promise portion refers to the hit or miss nature of the research as it applies to Alphabet's main goal of making money. Am
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by navbaker 10y ago
Can I ask where on the personality spectrum you fall? I am quite introverted, but also in a leadership position where, due to being placed in positions of increasing responsibility, have to talk in front of people semi-regularly. I've
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by navbaker 10y ago
I used this for my masters thesis a few years back. It was fairly intuitive, you still need to be comfortable coding to dig into what's going on under the hood, but the visuals of all the pieces hooked up really helps abstract away som
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by navbaker 10y ago
Why is it "Sinophobia" to state a fact about where the server is located?
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by navbaker 10y ago
The Frog and Toad series had some great life lessons.
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by navbaker 10y ago
It seems like they're trying to change their approach to cyber security with the new cyber protection teams [1]. [1] http://www.govtech.com/security/US-Cyber-Commands-Launches-1...
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by navbaker 10y ago
Gotcha, I thought "troll" in this case was referring to verbal behavior. Didn't realize it was more about bad team play.
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by navbaker 10y ago
>The problem is if even one person decides to troll in a game then the rest of the players really have no choice. Why is this? I've played online FPS and RTS games for about 15 years now and have never felt like I "had no choic
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by navbaker 10y ago
Check out games like the tabletop version of X-Com. They've integrated a smartphone app into the gameplay extremely well.
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by navbaker 10y ago
Agreed, it's a good way to get network shows on demand without subscribing to a cable package.
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by navbaker 10y ago
Having had "play a 4x space strategy" on my gaming bucket list for quite some time, how does this game compare to others that I've had my eye on like Galactic Civ 3 or Sins of a Solar Empire?
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by navbaker 10y ago
The information regarding the unladen state of the nachos can be compressed into fewer bits by just saying "chips".
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by navbaker 11y ago
I'm boycotting the New Yorker for failing to mention D&D even once in the article.
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by navbaker 11y ago
It's purely for information dissemination, not trying to get people to be repeat customers or join the Navy. That's what navy.com is for.
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by navbaker 11y ago
The Admiral in charge of the US Navy nuclear propulsion program still personally interviews and has final say on any individual applying for surface or subsurface nuke programs. From what I hear, it's a fairly nerve-wracking experience
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by navbaker 11y ago
As I read this, all I could picture was the skit from Portlandia where the characters went to the farm where the chicken on the menu was raised.
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by navbaker 11y ago
Maybe I was just slow in the uptake, but it took until the end of the book for me to realize the interactions between and lives of the minds were the whole point of the story, not so much the main plot line.
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by navbaker 11y ago
If I'm reading your comment correctly, you're asking why the spies don't rm -rf. That would kill any chance of them coming back to a potentially good source of intelligence.
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by navbaker 11y ago
Overclocked Remix has built an amazing community and collection of music around this idea. Ten plus years after I discovered the site and I still visit once or twice a week to look for new tracks.
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by navbaker 11y ago
I was fortunate enough to take this class with Dr. Denning during my first quarter of my comp sci masters. I had an unrelated undergrad degree and this class was instrumental in prepping me for what was to come.
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by navbaker 11y ago
I've lived all over the US, but went to college in Raleigh and it is still the only place I actively miss.
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by navbaker 11y ago
I took an automata class where the professor talked into the chalkboard and refused to explain why we were required to learn any of the material. It wasn't until later in the compilers course that we had a teacher who actually took the
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by navbaker 11y ago
Any chance of getting access to the old tutorials that consisted of scripts with the boilerplate written, but missing the key functionality? I was really enjoying working through them and digging into the docs, then all of a sudden they wer
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by navbaker 11y ago
I tell people every day that you don't win friends with salad. Glad I finally have the images to go with it!
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by navbaker 11y ago
She won't last once a troll holding a lemon-related patent sues her in East Texas.
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by navbaker 11y ago
Nevada just did the same thing.

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