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by rjempson 14y ago
The final sentence sums up the quality of that article. My observations are : 1. Children love preschool. 2. Parents need a break so they have the energy to engage with their children. 3. Children benefit in the long run from the exposur
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by rjempson 14y ago
your friends are a commodity. now that's really nice :-)
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by rjempson 14y ago
The fact this conversation is taking place is very droll. Articles are being written, comments and forums are running hot just because so many people are effectively saying "How dare someone say that my favourite vendor's computer has less
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by rjempson 14y ago
Strange. I am in AU and I upgraded from Win7 - Win8 last year and I only paid ~$30. Maybe that was a short term deal?
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by rjempson 14y ago
It did occur to me that he might be talking about pixels. I can put up with someone telling me to exercise, try a new programming language, break the mold. But I couldn't tolerate someone telling me what resolution to run :-0
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by rjempson 14y ago
I did the original ai-class, plus a couple from coursera, and a couple from udacity. I also have a bachelor's degree. The quality of learning from these online courses totally trumped my in-person degree. For me, the ability to rewind cer
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by rjempson 14y ago
I've followed 2 of those individuals on twitter in the past. Note the tense. I found CH to be particularly tiresome, all show and little substance. Also very much prone to contradictions, he doesn't seem to realize that people remember th
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by rjempson 14y ago
It depends what you are trying to do exactly, but the excel add-in called powerpivot could be useful if you are trying to aggregate data and do adhoc analysis. It is free : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/powerpivot.aspx I have analysed
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by rjempson 14y ago
Pinball rocks. I was an addict from an early age, around 7. I always play a machine if I see one and have time on my hands. Although it is a little frustrating to find most machines I come across have some problems, or have been tampered
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by rjempson 14y ago
I think the most popular answer is sub-optimal. The problem example given is not an issue if you simply use method overloads. eg just add a new method to the original interface and you break nothing : interface ILogSink { Log(Date
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by rjempson 14y ago
Its amazing how much people love their phones. What's the bet the warehouse employees want to supply their own phone, just so they can touch it all day. I was involved in a project where we had to build an iOS UI for wholesale electricity
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by rjempson 14y ago
Thinking about it some more. Is the only practical exploit of this the case where a rogue sysadmin wants to figure out user passwords (without resetting the password and therefore alerting the user)?
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by rjempson 14y ago
I'm not sure there is much significance to this article. It points out "The technique doesn't apply to online attacks, because, among other reasons, most websites limit the number of guesses that can be made for a given account." Same appli
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by rjempson 14y ago
I've quit Twitter 'forever': It dawned on me one day that my real friends are far more interesting and polite. I was tired of reading people's complaints and general drivel. I was tired of taking time to respond to people and getting no int
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by rjempson 14y ago
I've went to quite a few such places in Tokyo 10 years ago. I really liked it, and wondered when the concept my spread.