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by redcap 15y ago
I was thinking more of the web stuff that people do, so may be overstating my case. There are cases where you really need to make things safe - NASA's Apollo rockets and medical equipment to name a few. Also, when I talk about suing enginee
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by redcap 15y ago
The problem I have with "software engineering" is that it's not real engineering. Sure you might do thinking to create proper requirements, design, build a prototype, build the real thing and iterate, use agile or whatever. But comparing pr
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by redcap 15y ago
> Why would leaded gas in 1980 cause more problems than leaded gas in 1950? Larger population and rising wages lead to more cars on the roads and hence more pollution?
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by redcap 15y ago
Not Clinton, but you could make a case that Gore was responsible. There is a lot of noise laughing at him for supposedly saying he created the Internet, but he did co-sponsor an important bill in 1988, and was honored with a Webby Award in
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by redcap 15y ago
11. Real entrepreneurs ship Guy went on to say that if you have jumped curves, then "Don't worry, be crappy" - it's ok to be a bit crappy in this case. The example he gave was the Apple laser printer as a revolution over the daisy printer.
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by redcap 15y ago
A question for those who are up to date with their particle physics: how does one know that the neutrinos detected were the ones that they actually sent? Is it based on the direction they were sent from and the amount of neutrinos received?
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by redcap 15y ago
While this is a big deal for anyone hosting data in Japan, I question why it had to be in Tokyo. The earthquake in March suggest that it might be prudent to have data retention in other areas of the country. While Tokyo is a big city and th
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by redcap 15y ago
A frowny is a defacto (Western) Internet standard indicating sadness or disappointment. In Japan you could possibly write ;_; You could also look upon it as a relation to Apple's "Sad Mac" that's been around for probably more than 20 years.
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by redcap 15y ago
While I don't know about Chinese, in Japanese 大 means 'large' and 便 can be read as 'faeces'. So perhaps the name for Debian in Chinese is actually "big poo".
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by redcap 15y ago
You say McD is more popular in Asia than Subway. Please bear in mind that Asia is larger than just China. The "worse name" you mention here is only relevant to China and has no relevance to the rest of the Asian market.
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by redcap 15y ago
Feedback using Firefox 6.0.2 - no meaningful feedback when mousing over a tag. - mouse scroll wheen controls the window's menubar, not zooming in and out. Disconcerting for someone used to Google Maps. - clicking on a tag takes a relatively
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by redcap 15y ago
The zeitgeist of the 80s had a lot of concern about Japan becoming "number 1" - US manufacturing was falling behind and people thought that Japan was top of the world technologically. So while the authors are Japanophiles, they certainly ta
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by redcap 15y ago
I'm not on Lion, but I use an external keyboard with a 2008 MB and recently it's downright slow. So much that if I type after a long break it doesn't pick up on the keystrokes properly. Is that what you mean by slow?
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by redcap 15y ago
For reference, when Japan's Fukushima number 1 NPP reactors started going pear-shaped, there was no robot in Japan that they could use to enter the facility. They had to turn to either a US or French robot to enter the reactor.
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by redcap 15y ago
and they really have gotten a heck of a lot better at reducing collateral damage - compare ww2 carpet bombing to the Iraq "Shock and Awe" campaign - the civilian population were pretty much fine. So I agree with you that "killing people bet
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by redcap 15y ago
In Australia, there's a much bigger market for lamb (meat) than there is for mutton. The reason for this is that mutton is supposed to smell a bit funny, and lamb doesn't. In any case, you can get some really tasty lamb dishes down under (e
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by redcap 15y ago
So if you're a tester or a UI interface person or a sysadmin whose work shouldn't really mean worrying about the big O order of algorithms - should these people also be asked questions about algorithms? The comments at the end of the blog p
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by redcap 15y ago
The author talks about being asked a question regarding web elements when he was leaving the Search team for the Developer Relations team. A commenter talks about being asked algorithm questions despite being interviewed for a sysadmin role
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Confessions of a custom-essay writer (2010)(chronicle.com)
81 points by redcap 15y ago|30 comments
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by redcap 15y ago
For reference, the story about the essay writer is here: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329/
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by redcap 15y ago
While writing in and of itself is not connected to field knowledge. You really need to be a good writer to be an effective communicator. One of the university degrees I did (effectively an arts degree) involved doing a lot of essay writing
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by redcap 15y ago
So you just have to severly emotionally abuse someone and that's terrorism? I guess that means AQ don't have to set the bar so high. Yes this was a combination of criminal acts, but calling it terrorism is nothing short of hyperbole.
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by redcap 15y ago
You should only double-space if you use a typewriter. If you use a computer to write your text, and especially if it's going online, one space is all you should need to use.
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by redcap 16y ago
Author mentions nuclear/acid rain, there are no reports of this. I'm following NHK as well as more lucid western stories and all of them have the Fukushima reactors as worst case not as bad as Three Mile Island, let alone Chernobyl. For Eng
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by redcap 16y ago
While we're at it, can we please: - change electric theory so that it's a flow of negative charge and not positive. - get the US to use SI units instead of Imperial or whatever they think they're using.
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by redcap 16y ago
Implementing an undo feature is certainly harder than just providing a popup, but I think at least for me using a popup is a reflex and we should at least think about using an undo feature. I agree with the author that habitual responses to
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by redcap 16y ago
You're right, probably better to say that it's a reason why corporates shouldn't be given the right to privacy except for trade secrets and the like.
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by redcap 16y ago
That's the one, ta.
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by redcap 16y ago
In the last year or two I remember reading about a UK company who sucessfully argued for either a right to privacy or a right not to have specific information published. This information was about some horrendous pollution that the company
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by redcap 16y ago
Seconded - the Quora response is excellent and suggests/hints that the pressure from parents is one reason why suicide is high among Asian-American females.

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