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by qohen 13y ago
Just in case you were wondering: From http://www.panarabiaenquirer.com/about/ IS IT REAL? No. It’s made up. All of it. Yup, even that story. As the Middle East’s premier source of SATIRE (much like The Onion, The Dail
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by qohen 13y ago
Note that boardgamers often use Monopoly as an example of the sort of dice-driven games that can go on too long that they're trying to avoid (though I recently found out that the correct rules are to auction off a property passed on by the
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Why Michael O'Hare left Babylon 5(blastr.com)
90 points by qohen 13y ago|37 comments
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by qohen 13y ago
There aren't that many 47 year old female undergraduates, let alone in computer science. And, in addition to describing her own experiences at UCLA, Bateman, is publicizing stories of older women going back to school in STEM subjects, as yo
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by qohen 13y ago
Bill Karwin's "SQL Anti-Patterns Strike Back" presentation on Slideshare.com presentation is worth checking out -- it's 250 slides long, covers 4 kinds of anti-patterns (in queries, DB creation and the design of both DBs and applications).
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by qohen 13y ago
For the curious: I started the process of trying to cut a door in the wall between my restaurant and nightclub in February 2011. It is now February 2012, and we still don't have the necessary permits and have not yet begun construction. If
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by qohen 13y ago
TIL BitBucket is run by Atlassian (i.e. the JIRA people). Links to save you time, if you're interested: https://bitbucket.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitbucket
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by qohen 13y ago
A book -- in fact, the book -- that covers this sort of thing is Richard O'Keefe's The Craft of Prolog , which, like Sterling & Shapiro's The Art of Prolog , is put out by MIT Press.
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by qohen 13y ago
He knew all the tricks, etc." Apropos: Monty Python's "Piranha Brothers" sketch, specifically, @ 1:35 of part 2 (but watch it all): Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64aVHzoSdaI Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aihjThGabYY
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They do this now in the US as well, using 7-Eleven convenience stores equipped with a set of Amazon-branded lockers that has an ATM-like device in the center -- you type in a PIN that opens the specific locker holding your package, as shown
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Must-See new Audi commercial: Zachary Quinto vs. Leonard Nimoy(youtube.com)
1 points by qohen 13y ago|0 comments
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by qohen 14y ago
Sacha Baron Cohen smarter brother If you're referring to Simon, the psychological researcher, that would be his cousin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Baron-Cohen#Personal_life...
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by qohen 14y ago
This includes subway, buses, commuter-rail and boats. Details: http://www.mbta.com/rider_tools/transit_updates/
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5:40AM EDT: all Boston MBTA Service suspended till further notice(twitter.com)
1 points by qohen 14y ago|1 comments
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by qohen 14y ago
In the specific context of courtesy (or, more specifically, the context of wishing people a good morning), I think this more recent rabbi may have the final word, based on his experience at Auschwitz: The rabbi, now in his eighties, told m
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by qohen 14y ago
Again in moderation I was reminded of some cautionary voices from this: http://www.laweekly.com/1999-03-18/news/the-go-club/full/ , an interesting LA Weekly article (1999) about the Korean female reporter's experience at a Korean Go Clu
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by qohen 14y ago
Joss is going to be busy directing big budget sci-fi/fantasy/awesome movies for a while. With low budget Shakespeare/awesome movies mixed in between, e.g. his just-released Much Ado About Nothing , briefly reviewed here (and the trailer'
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by qohen 14y ago
Perhaps because I've had my own odd experiences with online and offline commerce, as well as having read about others' on FatWallet.com, I may tend to see red flags where others don't. For example, in my experience, online inventory doesn't
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by qohen 14y ago
One point I haven't seen anyone discuss yet in the comments below: the author mentions that, after seeing that the phone was sold out, he kept refreshing the browser till he got a copy of the webpage that allowed him to buy the phone. I'm w
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by qohen 14y ago
(In fact, the only thing Steve perhaps can be criticized for, in my view, is for using the word, "unequivocably" -- which is non-standard -- instead of, "unequivocally", when writing his apology. :-) http://english.stackexchange.com/quest
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by qohen 14y ago
> Someone who bullies women programmers Whoa...slow down there, hoss. Steve explained that his tweet about @harthur's replace utility was not meant to disparage its author, or its code, but was meant to express his feelings about Node
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by qohen 14y ago
I remember an anecdote of a bagel delivery man that calculated I expect it was about Paul Feldman -- it was a very interesting story -- the guy was an MIT-trained economist who, in frustration at getting nowhere at a certain point in his
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by qohen 14y ago
Unlike the UK's ever-so-compassionate National Health Service: "Hospitals Letting Patients Die to Save Money" [0] "Top doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year" [1] "I wanted to burn down the hospi
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Dread Cthulhu Leads His Cult to Milestone Year(boingboing.net)
5 points by qohen 14y ago|1 comments
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by qohen 14y ago
This is the first new OOTS comic in about 3 months. Rich Burlew announced the new strip on Dec. 31 and describes how updates of his Dungeons-and-Dragons-inflected stick-figure web-comic will be sporadic, given that his thumb is still not 10
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"The Order of the Stick" web-comic has returned (after author injury)(giantitp.com)
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It's not limited to techies. This is something each of us experience in ourselves, our own sacred journey. It's not limited to techies...but, to put it in techie terms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... :-)
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by qohen 14y ago
> As a german the question is rather what is not a german-style board game? http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Ameritrash
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by qohen 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-style_board_game As mentioned in the article, and here in the comments, the term "Eurogame" is often used to describe them: http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Eurogame (That term, in fact, redirects t
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by qohen 14y ago
Well, there was also Anoushka, his Grammy-nominated, sitar-playing daughter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoushka_Shankar

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