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by psyklic 18y ago
I'm pretty sure there is a Windows Explorer add-in that makes your GMail account in effect a "web drive". Could this be that?
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Optimizing DB Tables for FB Connect(facebook-developer.net)
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by psyklic 18y ago
third!
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by psyklic 18y ago
The value of most courses isn't in the lecture notes or assignments. Instead, it's in the textbook and feedback received from assignments. Neither of these can be published online on open courseware, in most cases.
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by psyklic 18y ago
This is understandable of course. Go to any nonprofit or charity, and I'm sure that most workers there will justify their job choice as humanitarian, compared to for-profits. Academia is similar. In reality though, many professors (particul
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by psyklic 18y ago
Mathematics and CS are formal sciences, which observe and study theoretical ideas to discover new truths. Biology and physics are natural sciences, which observe and study the natural world to discover models of it.
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by psyklic 18y ago
You are weird ;-) I actually agree with the author on both points. There just isn't a good way of measuring how you use your time refactoring and cleaning code, when you could be fixing bugs or adding features (both of which are always-pres
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by psyklic 18y ago
This is a GREAT article. I love the author's "axiomatic" approach to programming -- these aren't your standard programming tips.
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by psyklic 18y ago
If you want training, I recommend books (which teach you very efficiently). If you want the latest tips, tricks, and ways of thinking, then I recommend blogs (which are highly inefficient).
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by psyklic 18y ago
just as cool is Microsoft's Seadragon demo: http://livelabs.com/seadragon/
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by psyklic 18y ago
People interpret "one kid is a boy" as "first-born is a boy" in my example above (i.e. they selectively choose which kid is the "one kid" -- the one which is a boy), which yields 1/2. People seem to be good at enumerating the "probability s
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by psyklic 18y ago
To be more clear: When hearing this problem, some people imagine -- (one-kid, other-kid): (B,G) and (B,B), hence 1/2. Others imagine -- (first-born, second-born): (B,B), (B,G), (G,B), hence 1/3. Someone needs to write a blog post explaining
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by psyklic 18y ago
The real point of confusion is that people don't realize that BG/GB are two separate states. Like many of the recent blog articles, this one also doesn't clearly explain why you need to consider both BG and GB. Consider: "A person has two k
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by psyklic 18y ago
You could also take a mid-range approach. Give students one free year, no credit card information required. The vast majority of student projects will be very short-lived. If a project actually gets speed and lasts for more than a year, the
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by psyklic 18y ago
The most surprising thing here is the number of posts that say "don't spend the money -- don't advertise." I think that this clearly shows that many people on here are techies rather than businessmen ...
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by psyklic 18y ago
If you only read the 20% you want to read, then according to your first statement you will only remember 20% of that!
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by psyklic 18y ago
For those interested, the article does not mention that the actual code is on the front page of http://www.fbi.gov . That said, despite it being "slightly more difficult" than last year's, this is a very easy code to break for those with e
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by psyklic 18y ago
That's fair. If this is his or her motivation for doing good things, all the better. Well ... there was a scientific debate over whether neurogenesis existed (in adult humans). I wouldn't say they were "stomping all over anyone" ;-)
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by psyklic 18y ago
This analogy is nothing new, and unfortunately it is just the latest analogy of the brain to the latest technological gizmo. The brain was analogous to the telegraph, the telephone switchboard, the computer, and now ... the Internet.
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by psyklic 18y ago
The study linked to says in huge type: "Google Chrome Receives Lowest Password Security Score" In comparatively tiny type it says: "Safari Ties for Last Place" hmmm sounds like biased reporting ...
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by psyklic 18y ago
I agree with Minsky -- "anything computers can't do yet" ;-)
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by psyklic 18y ago
I agree, it's a bit shock-jockish. His point isn't really that PROGRAMMING isn't appropriate, but that parents shouldn't force things on their kids too early.
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by psyklic 18y ago
I came home from school each day and programmed late into the night too. Unlike your friend, my parents DID think I "needed to go outside or something." haha
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by psyklic 18y ago
Poster is correct -- this article is complete BS. The steps mentioned are of course great to do and would increase bloodflow to the brain (which has definite positive effects). But, saying that the steps increase neurogenesis (and even spec
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by psyklic 18y ago
The article's main point is just that languages have started including much larger standard libraries. Larger libraries save time, but they make the programmer's job more "searching for the right function" rather than "writing functions." I
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by psyklic 18y ago
An undo button would be neat in case I accidentally type-in rather than cut-paste, then end up losing what I manually deleted. (I didn't read the instructions, as you can tell!)
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by psyklic 18y ago
He posted the description as a comment which happens to (currently) be below yours.
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by psyklic 18y ago
I love the simplicity of goingtorain. But, umbrellatoday wins out for me because it rarely rains here in LA. It isn't worth me checking each day, so umbrellatoday's text message options seems great -- now let's see if it works.
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by psyklic 18y ago
I tried "Cory Booker," mayor of Newark (recently on The Colbert Report). It asked me the same questions several times but worded differently, and in the end it guessed Obama (though not surprising since Booker isn't as famous). http://www.
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by psyklic 18y ago
It would be better if it didn't always respond "Too many users" -- AFTER having me fill out the "who i am" form.

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