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Washington Post editors don't know what 'orders of magnitude' means(slate.com)
2 points by sampsonjs 14y ago|0 comments
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
If they're screwing people over, sounds like it's time for a lawsuit, not yearning for a startup white knight to ride to the rescue.
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
How about some advice from a better writer? Like "Politics and the English Lagnuage": http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm "(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday E
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
If you think solar or nuclear power will bring nigh infinite energy, say "solar/nuclear power will bring us nigh infinite energy." Using the words "asymptote" and "singularitarian" adds nothing to your highly dubious argument. I'm guessing
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
"there is still a lot of petroleum"...... Thank Christ that will never run out.
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Patience and piracy: Why helping yourself hurts good TV(avclub.com)
2 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|0 comments
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Jeff Atwood Podcast(Coding Horror/Stack Overfow discussed near start)(quartertothree.com)
1 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|0 comments
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
LOL @ Jessia not "talking you out of doing something crazy." You didn't do anything crazy, you put up a web page that says "I think Hollywood is doomed!". And that says you possibly might be willing to bet a few grand on someone who agrees
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
Graham's Randian techno triumphalism(teh haxxors shall inherit the earth!) is becoming increasingly asinine I see. Movie studios are in decline? I thought their profits and share prices were public record, once you get past any creative acc
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Zynga falters in debut, sheds doubt on IPO market(reuters.com)
3 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|0 comments
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
Just don't tell me we need to have JavaScript on the server side too, for like, consistency, man.
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High Fantasy For Young Adults(newyorker.com)
1 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|0 comments
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
I have no beef with Google doing this, but "censor" is a fine and accurate word for any kind of voluntary suppresion, even if it's now as pejorative as Nazi. Network TV censors rarely stop an entire show from airing, for that matter. e.g. "
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
I sure as hell care about backwards compatability, along with 93% of the desktop market.
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
Indeed, it actually is widely viewed as a genre for 'hacks', so much so that I assumed he was using the old, non-stupid connotation of the word. See: last Sunday's episode of the Simpsons, which mercilessly mocked Harry Potter and its imita
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Steve Coll - Whose Drug War?(newyorker.com)
1 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|0 comments
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The Deleveraging Myth: Is debt really hurting the economy? (newyorker.com)
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
If you haven't seen it already, this is relevant. And hilarious: http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5633958/star-fox-in-iraq
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Willam Gibson interviewed in the Paris Review(theparisreview.org)
10 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|0 comments
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
It's almost like they think the country has bigger problems. Don't they know Sillicon Valley is the center of the universe?
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
And that is what happens when you throw static type checking and the other safety features of compiled languages out the window, 'cause all the cool kids are doing it.
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Richard Stallman Takes a Holiday(blog.glennf.com)
5 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|1 comments
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The True Story of the Amazon Door-Desk(blog.glennf.com)
1 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|0 comments
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
Excuse me, but the company decides what the titles for positions are, not the applicants. And I'm sure no one with "Software Engineer" in their title ever got laid off. "But the article is really telling you to pick a job where you'll be co
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Pitfalls of Prophecy: Why Science Fiction So Often Fails to Predict the Future(locusmag.com)
2 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|0 comments
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What is the Limit to Human Population Growth?(newyorker.com)
45 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|47 comments
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
From this site's About section: "Since Jesus walked the earth, God specifically used the marketplace and its leaders to advance the Gospel. Our goal is to explore how God has historically chosen the marketplace to transform lives and how He
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A Reporter’s Lawyer: Libel lawyer was needed to publish My Lai Massacre story(newyorker.com)
1 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|0 comments
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
So what would happen if I dropped an Iphone 5 in water?
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
Just read the lecture notes for a CS course that covers this already. It will almost always be a course that also covers the sorting algorithms and basic data structures(what is a linked list, tree, graph, etc.) It won't take that long. As

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