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by nwatson 11y ago
This is the major signal I've been waiting for ... Apple is losing its cachet. Calvin Klein jeans used to be a fashion item, but when Costco started carrying them, favor had been lost. (No knock on Costco, buck-fifty hot dog and drink
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by nwatson 11y ago
Metaphor. (Or Simile?) ==> That's one core competency for writers, and what will save their jobs from the software-eating-our-jobs phenomenon. Auto-generated sports event summaries, etc., can't hunt when it comes to style.
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by nwatson 11y ago
The presenter brought out a real deceased person's human brain to parade around in front of a TED talk -- ultimate disrespect, trivializing someone's life where slides or video would have done as well.
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by nwatson 11y ago
Birth control and related education are pretty much accessible and relatively cheap for everyone today, at least in the U.S. The costs of prevention are so much cheaper than the eventual end-user cost of an (even subsidized) abortion.
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by nwatson 11y ago
Ask the many Mormon male youths forced out of Fundamentalist Mormon societies where polygamy still is practiced (e.g., Colorado City, AZ); the older male hegemony wants a monopoly on the "upcoming crop" of coming-of-age young wome
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by nwatson 11y ago
I'll be downvoted ... abortion. Most precipitating causes for the procedure are now completely avoidable. The other small portion of uses of the procedure are excusable. To 2010-era ears, to many this sounds like heresy. In 100 year
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by nwatson 11y ago
Action vs desire ... interesting contrast with xtianity: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery. But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
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by nwatson 11y ago
> The firm held a small memorial service for Mr. Gupta, > who was universally liked by his colleagues and whom > several said was so good at his job that he had > become one of the “go-to” analysts. Indeed, his >
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by nwatson 11y ago
For an ancient text dealing with the question of self-control and consciousness, look at a point before the story of the first murder in the pentateuch, where God talks to Cain about his state-of-mind before Cain murders Abel: Then the
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Watch incredible footage of farthest flight by a hoverboard(guinnessworldrecords.com)
1 points by nwatson 11y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 11y ago
Squaring the error makes sense to me ... having an approximation such that a sample is 2 units off is 4 times worse than having a sample 1 unit off. Building your approximation to minimize the square of the error makes more intuitive sense
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by nwatson 11y ago
This would be useful for a not-so-monetizable crowd ... the modern "hobo" population: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/572691/Homeless-hobo-cod... ... and anyone else who cannot afford or choose
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by nwatson 11y ago
You can always use VMWare Fusion on the Mac for Linux and Windows VMs. You'll then have all major platforms covered. Get a 1TB SSD and at least 16GB RAM.
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by nwatson 12y ago
I happen to like the bitter aftertaste of Diet Coke. I prefer it over regular Coke, and I don't think I'm alone. To each their own.
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by nwatson 12y ago
go0gl3.com -- parody, hacker info, or some service
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by nwatson 12y ago
Stonebraker was tech advisor starting in 2001 for Addamark/Sensage, which developed a column-oriented/columnar DB for log aggregation/analysis for security/operations. Stonebraker's own C-Store and Vertica came lat
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by nwatson 12y ago
Interesting presentation at Flywheel in Winston Salem NC by CEO, Pamela Jennings. She also is the new director at the Center for Design and Innovation in WS.
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Construkts – 3d edu-game – match electronic 3d block config in physical world(construkts.com)
1 points by nwatson 12y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 12y ago
Kind of like how most in the U.S. actually pay all their taxes as required without cheating, but we all hear about those few that cheat and so assume we're the only ones playing fairly.
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by nwatson 12y ago
Guess so. That's the premise of "Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter" by Steven Johnson ( http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Bad-Good-You-Actually/
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by nwatson 12y ago
So the drones take off and land from a purpose-built shielded dock/recharger station only when the truck is at a stop light or designated real-time-determined rendezvous where the truck and the drone(s) have agreed to meet or un-meet w
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by nwatson 12y ago
Being early employee with 3% quickly turns into burnt out employee with 0.2% after a couple of funding rounds in adverse conditions with a brand new VP engineering who doesn't have the bandwidth or interest to find out how really vital
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by nwatson 12y ago
The rub is: * the OP will need to pay a lot to buy their vested options when they leave each company * the fair market value of common stock will have probably increased so they'll also need to pay immediate income tax on every gain *
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by nwatson 12y ago
Zenprise founded 2003 acquired by Citrix 2013, product now called XenMobile.
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by nwatson 12y ago
Already been done in 2001-2004: Sensage ( http://www.sensage.com/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensage ), followed by Vertica, etc. All the columnar-storage big-table timestamped data collectors and d
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by nwatson 12y ago
I haven't finished reading whole interview/discussion, but to bridge Coleman's treatment of improvisation vs composition over to the software domain: the "philharmonic" wanted a "waterfall" version of mus
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by nwatson 12y ago
I'm probably too late with this comment ... but if the diameter of the tube is significantly larger than the diameter of the ball, and the initial velocity of the ball is large enough, then the trajectory of the ball as it leaves the &
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by nwatson 12y ago
com aplicação dos dons intelectuais e sociais duma companhia grande do internet eu seria chefão entre a mulherada eu teria muitos fãs e eu as levava pelo mundo inteiro num roteiro no meu avião mais a compulsão de estudar co
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Why You Must Lie on Job Interviews and What You Must Lie About(linkedin.com)
4 points by nwatson 12y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 12y ago
The atomic bombs were not more devastating to Hiroshima and Nagasaki than were conventional bomb campaigns to other similar cities in Japan toward the end of World War II. The damage from atomic bombs did not stand out as extraordinary to

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