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Stroustrup Interview (1998)(odgaard.org)
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by stavrianos 16y ago
I did this once- it's a lot trickier to get that set up when you haven't got disk brakes, lemme tell ya. The chains wore out a lot faster than I expected, to the point that it wasn't a practical solution.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
My computer science education has been a schizoid mixture of classes geared to the practical, which I think of as "engineering" classes, and classes geared to the theoretical, which I think of as "computer science" classes. The latter are n
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by stavrianos 16y ago
Granted only a fraction would have paid. This is a tracked, measured accounting. I'm pretty sure that the RIAA/MPAA just make numbers up wholesale.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
Definitely want to live as long as I possibly can. If at any point that stops being true, it's because I screwed up.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
bicycle discovered constructed entirely from wood: proves metal not required for transportation http://www.leevalley.com/newsletters/woodworking/2/3/article...
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by stavrianos 16y ago
http://xkcd.com/808/
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by stavrianos 16y ago
Australia, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't even have a denomination smaller than the nickel.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
This is not a true rationale- it's a kneejerk reaction. The mention struck me as a joke, not a serious comment. This is already more analysis than the joke deserved.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
I have the belief, largely anecdotal, that transgendered people tend to adhere to stereotyped gender roles rather more than people in general.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
I skeptical of this. For one, a goodly chunk of those making people feel ashamed of not having goals are probably in the no-goals demographic themselves. Most of the ten probably have better things to do.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
China is like a sociopath in a room full of schizophrenics.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
Check me on this, but isn't encryption basically a solved problem? In which case, isn't it a little late for this? We have the encryption, there is no backdoor, and legislation won't make it so.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
Having only one chain drastically simplifies the derailer problem, I should think. Also, you spend half as much on gears and chain.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
at any rate, I genuinely thought it was interesting
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by stavrianos 16y ago
Homes might be disadvantaged by the presence of an alcoholic. A friend of mine came from a home like this- her father spent truly stupendous amounts on alcohol. There was never enough money afterwards.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
Shot in the dark, foot size is correlated with overall size, which is correlated with childhood nutrition, which is correlated with socioeconomic status
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by stavrianos 16y ago
Uh, guys... you found the rain on earth . This is where you saw it. Just sayin'. There should be some kind of rule that evidence is only strong enough to support a theory of equal or lesser weirdness. "Bacteria reproducing at 121 degrees"
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by stavrianos 16y ago
you're assuming that the 77% all have the same thing.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence. No-one has ever observed electric blue swans. How likely do you think it is that they exist? If this seems like an unfair question, that's kind of my point.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
even with the obligatory "so far" tacked on the end, I think that's pretty significant
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by stavrianos 16y ago
I know a fact about "zygote machines": they are the only machines we know of that have ever successfully constructed intelligence algorithms.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
If the wealthier spouse ceases to be wealthier throughout the process (hypothetically, because of astronomical lawyer's fees), are the tables turned?
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by stavrianos 16y ago
eating what the locals eat, beware of endemics. If you're in rural India, do not drink the tea sold at road-side carts.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
this looks to me like one of those security things that can only work because it isn't used widely. Won't a carrot defeat this? If adoption becomes widespread, the trick will be known and therefore useless.
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by stavrianos 16y ago
It's a cool idea, but I'm skeptical. This strategy does nothing to prevent the creation of a killer app. All it does is prevent the creation of a killer app on the iphone . If we assume that someone somewhere is gonna drop an app-bomb, for
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by stavrianos 16y ago
the fact that "width" and "height" aren't the same character length
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by stavrianos 16y ago
Being smart does not protect you from being stupid.
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they've got root
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by stavrianos 16y ago
a good deal of that might constitute stronger evidence than attending a lunch date, and therefore validate belief. Lunch makes a good testing bar, above which other proofs may pass.

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