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by pushingbits 17y ago
Uhm, it is a problem I have had to deal with on occasion. It is a problem that I've seen other Linux users deal with regularly. I have a non-techie friend who uses Linux and she calls me about every 3rd kernel update because some driver got
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by pushingbits 17y ago
Yeah, I have this preconceived notion that I can plug in my usb wlan stick and have it work. Silly me. And I'm no Windows / OSX fanboy. I do have a Linux box at home. But pretending that Linux works fine on the desktop and that people are t
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by pushingbits 17y ago
Hah. I tried to google it, too. Maybe it's an xkcd reference? http://xkcd.com/305/ www.wetriffs.com
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by pushingbits 17y ago
That was my first thought, too. ('course he probably was 16 years old when he was obese or something)
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by pushingbits 17y ago
No? In my experience intelligent design proponents tend to be better educated than plain old creationists. Moreover in environments where most people embrace science, you are much more likely to find an IDer than a creationist. Intelligent
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by pushingbits 17y ago
I'd say it's more like cognitive dissonance on the part of educated creationists. They have to reconcile the fact that they live in the modern world with the fact that they believe in something that has no place in it.
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by pushingbits 17y ago
Besides, doing so would a PR debacle of epic proportions. Microsoft wants developers to use their technologies (duh). Does anyone seriously believe that they are going to stab those developers in the back after publicly promising to do noth
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The Plague of Amnesia in Software Engineering(googletesting.blogspot.com)
3 points by pushingbits 17y ago|1 comments
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Can You Be Too Perfect?(scientificamerican.com)
18 points by pushingbits 17y ago|9 comments
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by pushingbits 17y ago
As non-intuitive puzzles go I think the hat guessing game ( http://www.relisoft.com/science/hats.html ) takes the cake. I still remember a dailywtf thread where 19 pages worth of people claim that the correct solution is completely bogus (
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by pushingbits 17y ago
Actually, it's 8%. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=667909
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by pushingbits 17y ago
The only similiarities between the Quarterlife Crisis people the article talks about and rioting muslims in France or protesters in Iran is that they are young and unhappy. The reasons for their discontent are completely different. This is
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by pushingbits 17y ago
I'm not sure where you're quoting from, but that's not really what happened. Sokal wrote the text himself as a parody ( http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/li... ).
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by pushingbits 17y ago
The main page is pretty slick, though you might want to think about using at least slightly different styles for the "Considering" and "Looking for" sections. The "get a bigger crowd" options are a really good idea. However, the question/an
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How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project(dobbscodetalk.com)
18 points by pushingbits 17y ago|8 comments