steve-howard

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   by steve-howard 15y ago

   Not to tell too much about my life and the lives of those close to me, but two hours a week is the crisis setting. If a therapist tells you anything of value about the way you think or behave, it takes some time to think about what that ca
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   by steve-howard 15y ago

   You no doubt know that that "interview" was a complete fabrication. Please don't present it as fact.
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   by steve-howard 15y ago

   4 sessions a week is always excessive. It's not that people don't need the help -- it's just that you need more time to process information.
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   by steve-howard 16y ago

   Furthermore, the judge said that if you follow Myriad's logic, elements should be patentable, and the lawyer basically agreed. Rather than "Myriad wants to patent the periodic table," the real issue here is "if you buy their bad logic, you
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   by steve-howard 16y ago

   The summary is that new videos are being transcoded to WebM, whereas the rest is going to take a while. The fact that the transcoding is already partially underway and I haven't noticed any difference probably speaks well for how the trans
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   by steve-howard 16y ago

   I almost never _have_ to go into work (though my boss has requested that I spend some time there because others tend to need me for things), but the thought of being alone for a whole day gets me out the door. I love what I do, but people
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   by steve-howard 16y ago

   Indeed, I have no idea why bloggers are so insistent on using gray-on-white quotations.
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   by steve-howard 16y ago

   Glassdoor.com is supposedly anonymous; the Microsoft employees surveyed would have been self-reported.
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   by steve-howard 16y ago

   I'll admit, I read the first couple pages' worth then skipped towards the ends. This bothered me: "An ATF agent posing as an arms dealer spent weeks trying to wheedle Diveroli into selling arms. Diveroli refused, but he couldn't resist br
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    Thanks, I guess I never looked beyond the claims of the high-school survey of European history. There are still, no doubt, plenty of examples of people achieving certain results at the expense of more important ones (treating people like p
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    Additionally, I don't think anyone was criticizing the book on the basis that working kids like slaves doesn't produce academic results, just that doing so may be harmful and unethical. Even Mussolini got the trains running on time.
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    Thanks to hashbangs (or really just the prevalence of Ajax-only sites), it's now a lot harder to tell whether two pages with #something in the URL are effectively the same.
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    The side benefit of prepared statements, perhaps even more importantly if security is not really your concern, is that you don't need a password page that looks like this (this is really the password requirements page for my school): A pass
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    ctrl-u/ctrl-y is good if you only want to do that for one thing at a time.
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    In the same way as .tv is for Tuvalu.
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    I've never heard anyone complain about Google Apps' accessibility at Northwestern. The only issue we've had with it is that it became unavailable with no explanation or information last spring for about a week, and the best the IT departme
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    I was looking around recently for some information on antidepressant medications. A lot of them have nasty side effects or leave people "happy but empty" and I was curious whether there was any advice regarding these things. One answer wh
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    Aaah, but it's in "the cloud," and the user of the software can't change even the binaries.
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    It may be a good idea to let the user know that if they click the links.
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    And as short as a day waiting for the mail or even a trip to the video store can be, having streaming video means Netflix has something to kill time _right now_. I'm not a movie afficianado and neither are most people I know, so the fact t
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    Assuming that people actually use the "down" buttons, I can envision visiting a spammy link and wanting to go back to the search results page and kill a result.
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    As a friend of mine pointed out when I complained: http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.bigtincan.android.adfree... I'm not going to comment on the ethics, just noting that there is a "solution." (Also: requires root)
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    Harvard covers full tuition for low-income students: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/03/harvard-increa... "Families with incomes above $120,000 and below $180,000 with assets typical for these income levels are asked to contrib
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    UChicago gives a speech every year entitled "The Aims of Education" to its freshman class. One quote from a while ago: "There are no aims of education. The aim is education. If -- and only if -- you seek it... education will find you." Fr
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    If the People's Daily is an official government newspaper, how is the ban "rumored"?
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    Seems that there's a <title> in the original text where the text stops. Apparently the HTML wasn't escaped on that line.
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    Good, but cp -l is for hard links and cp -s is for symlinks. Most of the time people want the latter.
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    by steve-howard 16y ago

    C++0x, which already has a few partial implementations (including VS2010's), does have lambdas.