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901.
Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java (free)(markwatson.com)
26 points by sown 18y ago|6 comments
902.
by sown 18y ago
There are good things and bad things about unions but painting them all as somehow bad is a bit extreme. Of course, there are Japanese auto unions as there will be in China. As the son of a man who was a APWU union man who worked himself to
903.
by sown 18y ago
I'd feel better about an analysis from an expert on manufacturing and so forth, which I get the impression neither you, pg or me are. I dunno about throwing "innovation" around on cars; I think people use that word without caution or really
904.
by sown 18y ago
At the bottom I'd scratch out the story of how I helped reverse engineer a major enterprise software suite made by MS. Would that help?
905.
by sown 18y ago
How terrible. :( It's hard to imagine a foreign competitor having this same problem: running into a rough patch for a couple of years and then all of a sudden looks at bankruptcy. I just want my volt.
906.
by sown 18y ago
OK, election is now over. Can we get back to hacker news?
907.
by sown 18y ago
"Therefore, it is not qualifiable that entrepreneurs should not feel they should be represented by some economist or expert in finance who has entrepreneurial experience." They're not really supposed to receive representation in a cabinet p
908.
by sown 18y ago
And by keeping taxes and regulations light and minimal. But no more than that. I would like to point out that our government's investments in education and energy haven't gone very well, though its investment in general research probably
909.
by sown 18y ago
Finance != Economics.
910.
by sown 18y ago
I totally agree with your sentiment. The government, if it wanted to bail out the banks at all, should have attached some good strings to the money. Oh, well. :(
911.
by sown 18y ago
"That's what capitalism stands for." I think that is something we tell ourselves even though it is not really true. We live in some amalgamated economic system built on various rules of thumb, tradition and what ever else works to at least
912.
by sown 18y ago
I also like that it is heavy on data. Also, I get tempted by their master's program that I don't qualify for.
913.
by sown 18y ago
Electoral-vote.com was pretty accurate, too. http://electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Maps/Nov03.html Chris Bowers wrote, "So much information is publicly available now that a few nerds obsessed with poll numbers are much better sources for
914.
by sown 18y ago
In the minds of many, I guess, CTO usually relates to business. Since this is government, though, I wonder what he will do to protect civil rights in cyberspace. Should he appoint a Chief Cyber-rights Officer, too?
915.
by sown 18y ago
Don't. Alt-tab or ctrl-alt-arrow around windows on a ssh session to a terminal somewhere running lynx, links or elinks. I always run screen and sometimes will lock it if I really need to but for the most part the best way to banish temptati
916.
by sown 18y ago
Human bodies are not evolved to sit idle in office chairs for exceedingly long periods of time. All the science points to a reasonable diet and exercise as being important. It's just that most hew-mahns don't like to.
917.
by sown 18y ago
Because it ruins the damn game. Do you play WoW?
918.
by sown 18y ago
I understand that was common terminology back then. Usually doing rote plug-n-chug calculations.
919.
by sown 18y ago
This is the sort of thing I worry about cloud services...it's not that I don't already do this at home on some level with an ISP but what kind of freedom (if you pardon the use of that term) in computing do we have if Google/Amazon/MS just
920.
by sown 18y ago
b-b-but...THE CLOUD!!!
921.
by sown 18y ago
And I meant to post this: http://www.newsweek.com/id/166659
922.
by sown 18y ago
Sometimes I wonder if this will ever happen to silicon valley. The tone of the article is very ... final.
923.
The Demise of Chrysler(newsweek.com)
2 points by sown 18y ago|2 comments
924.
by sown 18y ago
I'm not joking. :(
925.
by sown 18y ago
A fat loser who stays at home or work all the time, plays warcraft nonstop and pines after girls he knew in high school 15 years ago.
926.
by sown 18y ago
There's a company ( http://www.ultimasports.co.uk/canam/index.html ) that sells kit super-cars. According to them it takes 40 - 80 hours to put together what is essentially a car that is 95% as good as some Italian machine but at 10% of the
927.
by sown 18y ago
My favorite part is how the kids are put in some kind of caged away from the robot for their own protection (or the robot's)...
928.
by sown 18y ago
But, alas, you get no credit...
929.
by sown 18y ago
Christ, you grammar nerd-nazis. This is why people don't like geeks. Did you ever sort out if Kirk or Picard was better, too? Did you READ the letter?! Jerry Yang isn't in the business of doing whatever pleases you and as evidenced by the
930.
by sown 18y ago
I've never tried any of them either but have met some devout followers: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/ergo/kinesis.html

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