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by rauljara 16y ago
Slightly off topic: I've recently gotten to the point where I feel comfortable and productive in Vim. I know emacs is worth the effort to learn if you're replacing most editors out there. But does anyone have any opinions on whether it's
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by rauljara 16y ago
Awesome. I'm very glad that there's a free online version, as well. Oddly, that makes me much more likely to purchase the pdf. Now, if only Rails 3 were finished.
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The reason this person was rightly sent to remediation is not that she disagreed with her teachers on a scientific matter. The reason is that her only justification for disagreeing was religion. In any science (and psychology definitely f
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by rauljara 16y ago
It's the classic desire to believe that you have complete control over your life. By looking down on people who are having a rough time you can re-enforce the view that you are doing well because of decisions you made. tkahn's profile ment
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by rauljara 16y ago
I find articles filled with contrived examples of what not to do not particularly helpful. In my experience, very, very few people write comments that dense (or at least I have been blessed not to work with them). However, plenty of peopl
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by rauljara 16y ago
What Manjoo wishes Steve jobs would have said: 'He could have admitted a problem, offered a fix, and said, "We're sorry for any trouble we caused you."' What Jobs said: 'To our customers who are affected by the issue, we are deeply sorry, a
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by rauljara 16y ago
Q: Are you willing to make an apology to investors? Steve: You know we hear from customers who love this phone and have a great experience with it, and we're doing a lot to help them with any issues they're seeing. To investors, you know, y
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by rauljara 16y ago
The problem I have with this sort of line of reasoning is that it views research in an entirely economic light. It opens with a quote about how scientific research is not a public good, and a suggestion that publicly funded research might h
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by rauljara 16y ago
Those telescopic eyes look kind of awesome. But it does sound like the technology still has a long way to go. Only two thirds of people saw "notable" improvement. Meaning one third saw no improvement (or possibly even deterioration) afte
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by rauljara 16y ago
I have no problem believing Gruber believes it. And I have no problem believing whoever told Gruber believes it. And no offense to your gut... but there are just too many ways for numbers like these to be messed up. Maybe it was 503 on o
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by rauljara 16y ago
What's really amazing is how right he was about how much was wrong at the time. The thing he missed is that a lot of those problems could be solved (and many have since been). But I think he can be forgiven for that. The people who had th
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by rauljara 16y ago
There are many reasons to be skeptical about the claims the article is making. Correlation vs. causation, and the experiment's relation to executive compensation both seem obvious angles of attack. However, the fact that the study support
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by rauljara 16y ago
Didn't see the original. But even if I had, I imagine I'd be much happier to see a duplicate of this than yet another "original" news story about the iPhone's antenna.
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Really? Are you seriously comparing maybe 2 bars of lost reception that many people have been unable to replicate, IF you hold the phone a certain way, to a product that could kill you. And not in a "cigarettes can kill you" sort of way,
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by rauljara 16y ago
This is not true. The original iPhone and iPhone 3g only had 128mb of ram. The 3gs has 256mb. http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/17/iphone-4-confirmed-to-ha...
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by rauljara 16y ago
You miss the point of the article. The article isn't saying that retrofitting 75,000 homes would "cancel out" the spill. The article is saying that the that would have been produced by that well could be saved by retrofitting 75,000 homes
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by rauljara 16y ago
The hunt for the higg's boson reminds me of the attempts to measure the speed of the earth using light beams. Everything we thought we knew about physics told us that we should be able to measure the speed the earth was orbiting by measuri
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by rauljara 16y ago
This article points out that people screwed up, which is fine, and also pretty obvious, considering the size of the screw up. But what about BP's corporate culture that would allow people to screw up this badly, and this many times? Isn't
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by rauljara 16y ago
Thank you. That was the explanation I was looking for. My next question then, is whether this flexibility to sell instantaneously is worth the risk of near instantaneous drops of 700+ points in the dow, as happened a couple of weeks ago.
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by rauljara 16y ago
My understanding of why the stock market is supposed to be good for society is that it encourages investors to invest in companies that need more capital. It has the nice side effect of allowing people to buy high value assets that are lik
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by rauljara 16y ago
Excellent article, but I think it's important to point out that in both his examples (his own sales and the theater) the products/shows are being compared to products/shows that are vastly more expensive. Even after raising his price, qlab
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by rauljara 16y ago
So much knowledge freely available. There's so much it's hard to know where to start looking. Anyone care to point out any books available through these links that they've found helpful? Aside from MIT's open courseware (which is general
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This argument could eternally be applied to computers. Why buy now? In just 18 short months, there will be one that is twice as fast. Are the 18 short months up? If you waited just 18 more, you'd get doubly as fast again!
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Well, with any gene, it takes the proper environmental factors for it to be expressed. So while very few people would argue that height isn't largely genetic, most people also accept that it takes proper nutrition in order to grow tall. S
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by rauljara 16y ago
When I was a psych major, we dealt with questions like these all the time. I think the author raises excellent points, but presents a rather limited view of the social pressure that people can exert. "We should blame and stigmatize people
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by rauljara 16y ago
He shows that apple is in a position to make safari the next ie. I'm not really seeing any evidence here that apple is, in fact, making safari the next ie. In fact, the first several paragraphs of are all full of evidence that apple is em
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It's not entirely clear that BP didn't screw up beyond the normal pale, but he is right that if you live in a society run on fossil fuels, this shit is going to happen. The problem is, that people who are trying to move to a society not run
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by rauljara 16y ago
Very cool, but like all games, some flaws. The biggest one I saw was that some of the test inputs are less rigorous than they should be. The level that says your robots have to end with double blues, I could design a conveyor system that
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by rauljara 16y ago
When my intro to genetics teacher in college explained to us how aging in cells worked, he told us that one of his professors had explained to him that a "cure" for aging was about 10 years away. But that had been more than ten years earli
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by rauljara 16y ago
Neat. Anyone know if there's a good way to do elliptical orbits using CSS3?

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