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by smhinsey 17y ago
i was debating with myself whether or not history was being included under the humanities umbrella. there is definitely some irony in well educated scientists/engineers loudly proclaiming the futility of the study of history. (as is being d
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by smhinsey 17y ago
haha, yeah, that is an embarrassing mixup. i even use it under linux and os x these days.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I am a big fan of Envy Type R.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
how does that help with OTC drugs, or do you mean that this will push those to require prescriptions too?
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by smhinsey 17y ago
is there similar software out there anywhere else? i am kind of stunned if this is the first attempt at solving this problem. it seems like a niche that might be dominated by an obscure commercial package but i didn't have much luck with go
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by smhinsey 17y ago
i think if someone decided to lobby the issue such legislation would have a decent chance of making it into law, but you can't legislate engineering. real-time monitoring of all retail sales in the united states is quite an undertaking. and
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by smhinsey 17y ago
> Although I'm usually a more or less rational person For what it's worth, we are nowhere near that sort of real-time reporting for things like pseudoephedrine. At the pharmacy near me they are still having you sign a giant 3 ring binde
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by smhinsey 17y ago
he didn't miss the point, that is contemporary "journalism." in other words, the story is skewed towards the most controversial possible angle. it beggars belief that, after dozens of stories on the topic, each with its own universe of comm
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by smhinsey 17y ago
It seems like you're asking for something like what Wolfram has built.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
is that quote meant seriously? certainly it's obvious that the analogy doesn't work. we do have signs plastered around the countryside that are recipes for driving, they just actually include the ingredients. i would think the same applies
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by smhinsey 17y ago
how old is hulu? frankly i am pretty impressed with how far it has come already. while they may be terminal regardless of what they do, it is encouraging that they are at least starting to bleed off some inertia and change directions. [edit
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by smhinsey 17y ago
i'm not sure that this is a matter of "getting it" or not. it seems like a contractual reality that may change over time, but as of now, it prevents them from distributing everything to everyone, so i am hard pressed to blame the networks f
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by smhinsey 17y ago
illustrator or equivalent, most likely. most infographics are custom in publications of that size.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
i'm really curious to see what the price point is for this, if it's real. i imagine those screens aren't easy to come by.
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by smhinsey 18y ago
i realize it sounds like i'm setting you up, but just google the phrase "goat rental."
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by smhinsey 18y ago
i can't tell how much of what you wrote is intended as hyperbole, but assuming you were straightforward in your intent, i believe you're overreaching. it isn't easy for outsiders to break into the mainstream media, but it happens. recent ex
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by smhinsey 18y ago
this is potentially huge over the long run, as the article implies, but to state it more clearly, it frees future versions of windows from a significant degree of the legacy burden borne by the line up to version 7. not only does this give
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by smhinsey 18y ago
big in-store interactive displays. in this instance since they're talking about real estate, probably some sort of listing browser they can throw in the lobby or take to the mall or whatever they want.
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by smhinsey 18y ago
> It seems like ORMs like Hibernate are moving to have as much complexity as the database they map. this seems to be a result of the desire to support the increasingly sophisticated concepts provided by the underlying databases, creatin
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by smhinsey 18y ago
that's called a sprite, that giant jquery ui file with multiple images, in case you want to find more info.
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by smhinsey 18y ago
if i am not mistaken, you can get into similar trouble in javascript with object.prototype. it's interesting that you don't hear much about that, but maybe people just don't expect as much from it.
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by smhinsey 18y ago
i think that has less to do with their nature as weekly papers and more to do with the kinds of advertising that they carry. for example, the weekly dig in boston probably runs 75% or higher of advertisers that either wouldn't or couldn't a
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by smhinsey 18y ago
that such an audience exists is certainly the bet that a lot of longer form journalism is making, particularly the newsmagazines. i work for one who has been struggling with its identity online since the early days of the internet and it se
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by smhinsey 18y ago
Up until fairly recently, the only way you could get any reasonably useful feed of the AP wire was via NNTP. I think in my case their RSS feeds went public several weeks after our site launched, but all of my discussions with their technica
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by smhinsey 18y ago
if the rumored 8x11 "textbook" model kindle comes out, i think it'll be perfect. as it is now, its not too great. i thought it would be an ideal technical library, but don't expect to get a lot out of code examples or images. the readabilit
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by smhinsey 18y ago
I agree with this. It's a hugely impressive product, but the syntax is rather off-putting. I also feel that the default settings it installs with aren't too great because you can't run scripts in files without changing the environment -- th
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by smhinsey 18y ago
Relative to offline journalism, the amount of work that gets done by online-only outlets is small, but it's certainly not zero. Look at places like Slate (disclosure, I work for Newsweek, and we share a corporate parent with Slate) and Salo
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by smhinsey 18y ago
It probably is okay to duplicate a calculation 4 times, all other things being equal. At the same time, I'd say it's probably a sign of other problems. If you need to reuse a calculation, that calculation is part of your application's domai
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by smhinsey 18y ago
i am a native speaker and it's not entirely clear to me either but i would feel safe in venturing to guess that it's a reference to the false positive rate
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by smhinsey 18y ago
i have no real basis for making this claim, but i suspect that it's more along the lines of "master carpenter" or the equivalent.

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