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by psranga 17y ago
You did not mention what your father's out of pocket expenses were. In the Canada example, out of pocket was $0.
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by psranga 17y ago
What is your point? Even sadder to see this thing upmodded so much. I would have thought this would be languishing at -2 or so.
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by psranga 17y ago
My wife works in development. Her theory is insightful and simple: she says mortality from disease (even until age 20) is VERY high for poor people (I know of a poor 10-yr old who died of rabies in India, which is extremely uncommon amo
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by psranga 17y ago
Great news for facebook et al! This must mean that they're going mainstream. Attracting the cool crowd as a business strategy is overrated imho.
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by psranga 17y ago
The only time eating beef makes sense wrt energy efficient is if they are raised on soils/climates incapable of producing food crops humans can eat (i.e., grassland with low rainfall). FYI: people in the rest of the world do eat the way in
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by psranga 17y ago
I wish the article had more facts and was more scientific. Blanket assertions like "we'll need 5 billion more cows" do not convince me. Anybody read about John Jeavon's work? I just bought his book (How to Grow More Vegetables) a couple of
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by psranga 17y ago
I'm curious whether this will take off (my prediction is that it will not). People who are serious setting up an online shop, presumably are also (a) hardworking, and (b) smart. Hence I predict they will be OK with investing the time to lea
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by psranga 17y ago
I would have thought Oracle would have been a safer choice What's 3 extra engineers to a behemoth like Oracle? ("Two out of the three developers making this move have families; we want to make sure JRuby will get to the next level, and we h
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by psranga 17y ago
This is impedence mismatch between you and the community. Your readings and experiences have caused you to form some opinions about how the world works (i.e., connections are very important), but most people here think that connections don'
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by psranga 17y ago
Wrt create and bitdiddle, downvote seems like the appropriate response. It appears that create is factually wrong, and bitdiddle was saying something irrelevant about stock price. Wrt your comments on the 1984-Amazon-copyrights thing, I thi
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by psranga 17y ago
He talks about not crossing an ethical line and then says he's going to post the documents! To posters drawing a comparison to newspapers like NYTimes, Wikileaks etc: ask yourself what public interest is served by these documents being made
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by psranga 17y ago
People have told me that they check up the references of the surgeon. i.e., surgeon is the most important factor.
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by psranga 17y ago
Remember that modern civilization ENABLES many people to attain high positions. So I would not consider this expectation to be totally unrealistic. There are SO many ways in which to excel and influence society in the modern world that
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by psranga 17y ago
As a test, I've been using Bing as my default since their launch and I don't miss Google yet. Bing is a very good product, imho.
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by psranga 17y ago
Beginner question: does this involve a lot of memory copies which can result in performance problems. "world state" sounds like every data structure in the program.
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by psranga 17y ago
You're partially right. I tried both Quicken and Money last year. As a s/w developer, I could immediately see that Money was suffering from years of neglect. I predicted that it would soon be cancelled and that was one of the reasons I stuc
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by psranga 17y ago
Some interesting tidbits such as the fact the moon landers could land on autopilot (feature never used), autolanding of space shuttle never used etc.
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The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by psranga 17y ago
IMHO, this is the future of transportation. 20 miles one way should be sufficient for a HUGE proportion of workers (you'll recharge the battery at work). Have any of you converted a regular bicycle to electric DIY-style? I see articles ab
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by psranga 17y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Is it free or not? ==== from the FAQ ======== How much does Utilium cost? The Utilium platform is free for instructors and students. If you adopt and deliver a ready-made Study Pack to your students, there is a co
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by psranga 17y ago
I'm pretty sure it usually means other things. I know for sure that there are Chinese people named 'Bing'.
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by psranga 17y ago
I agree. My bad. I appreciate the clarificaiton.
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by psranga 17y ago
A lot of the stuff presented here is mainstream practice in Tcl (e.g., new constructs, dbg evaluation). Tcl is seriously underappreciated language. In my programming whenever I see myself writing blubber (I like that word), I just factor it
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by psranga 17y ago
The reasons listed are "ability to market the product, produce the technology, manage/recruit a team, think strategically etc". It's good to see he didn't list crap like confidence, firm handshake etc. I think it's valid to not fund teams/f
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by psranga 17y ago
I've also observed this; I summarized it as: It's possible to be analytical without being scientific. Good to hear that I'm not alone.
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by psranga 17y ago
Interesting. I thought the color scheme was very important because you only get 30 seconds or so to convince a first-time user to stay for the 31st second.
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by psranga 17y ago
What I meant to say is that the goal of all protections granted by society (including the right to hold physical property) is based upon the assumption that the right/protection will help society in the present or the future.
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by psranga 17y ago
Even if it didn't handle commits across subtrees, I would still find this useful. I would be ok if this (or an addon) tool detected commits that that spanned subprojects and invited me to split that commit. IMHO, the correct workflow should
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by psranga 17y ago
Yes. Read up on copyright and patents: they exist to provide incentive to create , not to allow the creators to profit. So if the ActiveX control inhibits future creations, that is enough to for we the people (through our govt.) to take
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by psranga 17y ago
Thanks for the link. It seems weird that you test a dynamic language like Javascript by writing code in a statically typed language like Java. http://code.google.com/p/webdriver/wiki/GettingStarted I hope they come up with a scripting use

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