tcskeptic

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by tcskeptic 13y ago
This is entirely contrary to my experience. My kids have slightly looser controls in the summer, tighter during the school year and it just doesn't work like that. My kids watch a range of stuff, have a range of friends, and all have s
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by tcskeptic 13y ago
A total allowance of 9 hours per week is hardly being forbidden to engage with popular culture.
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by tcskeptic 13y ago
> If there is no way to effectively regulate it to ensure that the children are getting a real education, then yes. There are many places in the US where this "real" education is entirely unavailable in the public school system
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by tcskeptic 13y ago
Yes, this exactly, and observed in practice. Layoffs in non-union shops are not done by seniority (Talking manufacturing here) they are done by relatively objective measures of employee "goodness" things like attendance, piece pr
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by tcskeptic 13y ago
Based on this I would think that the conversion rate on the TURBOTAX offer to subtract the cost of the service from your return for a HUGE 100% fee (meaning the cost of that method of payment is as much as the tax service itself) but allows
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by tcskeptic 13y ago
This sounds interesting, but I'm not sure what it means. Could you explain what Google should have done more fully?
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by tcskeptic 14y ago
From the "Attendee Procedure for Handling Harassment PyCon 2013" https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/harassment-i... "Note: Public shaming can be counter-productive to building a strong community. PyCon does not condone nor pa
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by tcskeptic 14y ago
I'm not a Paleo dieter, but I am familiar with the gist of their claims. I do not understand how this study is a response to those claims. The 137 mummies studied are from "Individuals from ancient Egypt, ancient Peru, the Ancestral Puebl
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by tcskeptic 14y ago
I'm not a huge fan of the lessons drawn here, it feels forced. I think the two key takeaways from Shawshank are 1) "Get busy living, or get busy dying." and 2) "Hope is a dangerous thing, hope can drive a man insane." I see these as compl
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by tcskeptic 14y ago
Gelsinger spoke at my high school graduation, he was an alumnus of my high school. This would have been around the time that he was running the Pentium Pro project. What really struck me about his story was that he had graduated from the
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by tcskeptic 14y ago
What a ponderous, pretentious load. This strikes me very much as a list of "Books I want everyone to know that I think everyone should read" which is very different from the stated title. Is Origin Of Species really a better choice than al
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Apple blocks Java 7 Mac plugin in OS X(9to5mac.com)
48 points by tcskeptic 14y ago|51 comments
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by tcskeptic 14y ago
I don't see enough numbers in the link to do the analysis, can anyone tell whether this is more due to iPhone slowdown or due to Samsung consolidating premium Android device market share with the Galaxy S III? In other words, is the iPhone
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by tcskeptic 14y ago
I understand the advice to quit because of the agonizing process involved, but worse than that for me is the idea that this parameter is hard coded, and even with this change in place that limitation still remains. NO WONDER the change pro
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by tcskeptic 15y ago
Every time they rebrand or kill a technology that they rolled out with great fanfare, I become less and less likely to trust them with an investment. (This is true both for consumer stuff and for development stuff ) Product rationalizatio
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by tcskeptic 15y ago
And I think the real point of contention was that Eric Schmidt was a member of the Apple board starting a year before that and as such had seen early iPhone prototypes. That in particular is what Jobs was angry about.
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by tcskeptic 15y ago
(The phrase is toeing the line, as in to put one's toe upon the line)
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by tcskeptic 15y ago
Define valid. The reason in the giant organization that I work in is broken internal applications. The number of internally deployed web apps that were targetted for IE6 and nothing else is truly astonishing. And the speed with which th
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by tcskeptic 15y ago
Fundamentally I don't think you can motivate people. We may actually be saying similar things, but I think you can only really demotivate them by treating them in a psychotic, demeaning or inhumane ways. Motivation on the other hand is
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by tcskeptic 15y ago
Myth #3 – Introverts are rude. Introverts often don’t see a reason for beating around the bush with social pleasantries. They want everyone to just be real and honest. Yes, this is often called being rude. It may be true that by this gu
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by tcskeptic 15y ago
Many of them thought they were doing something about their health. They thought they were "eating right".
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by tcskeptic 15y ago
Yes, newspapers keep obituaries of significant figures on file and updated.
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by tcskeptic 15y ago
This is neat, is sort of reminds me of a desk I have hade my eye on: http://www.bluelounge.com/products/studiodesk/ I'd really like to see one that is counter height so that I could sit or stand as desired.
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by tcskeptic 16y ago
When helping people construct passwords I always guide them to use an acronym from a favorite line of a song (or bible verse, or poem depending on audience) and then add a symbol and a number. So for example if you really like Led Zeppelin
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by tcskeptic 16y ago
I don't think that is all there is to it. The page says they are filled with "Phase Change Material" (which I would guess is some sort of wax) that melts at !40F. I don't know why that would be better or worse than a lump of metal though.
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by tcskeptic 16y ago
Actually I think it really is a case of "scienceyness" vs. science.
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by tcskeptic 16y ago
not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it and getting it home and realizing that there is one good track and 9 shitty ones. Yeah, good old days.
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Attack on VP8 faces 'antitrust probe'(theregister.co.uk)
5 points by tcskeptic 16y ago|0 comments
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by tcskeptic 16y ago
From the article: " Yes, we can all agree that the displays are seriously cruddy and the overall build quality and design, for lack of a better work, suck, but at this point we've just come to expect that for a tablet under $300. " Defini
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by tcskeptic 16y ago
Thanks, I missed that totally.

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