teaquaffer

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by teaquaffer 18y ago
I don't follow- what do you mean?
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How To Get My Job(jerrypournelle.com)
23 points by teaquaffer 18y ago|4 comments
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by teaquaffer 18y ago
I've found that a lot of times there _is_ a little switch in my head. Every once in a while I'll be banging my head against a problem, but if I stop and ask myself "how would a physicist solve this?" I can figure it out. It takes an effort
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by teaquaffer 18y ago
Try reading it as an adjective with an understood noun, kind of in the spirit of an "understood subject."
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by teaquaffer 18y ago
Is the problem that you spend to much time online, or that you don't like what you're working on?
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by teaquaffer 18y ago
How about other Google services, gmail, documents, etc. ?
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by teaquaffer 18y ago
No errors, no problems. Reader was fine this morning, and last night too. I'm running Firefox. Are you running anything like greasemonkey? Anything that would modify the results? Can you try another browser?
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by teaquaffer 18y ago
> Was it Durkheim who said that the first purpose of any large organization is to perpetuate itself, and only secondarily to accomplish whatever mandate it may have? I'm not sure about Durkheim, but I am a big fan of Pournelle's Iron L
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by teaquaffer 18y ago
My 6 year old neighbor keeps getting in trouble for asking questions in school. His dad asked the teacher, "aren't you supposed to ask questions?" The teacher's response: "I don't like being questioned."
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by teaquaffer 18y ago
A lot of people are horrified by this idea. I'm not sure it bothers me. I think market forces will let it sink or swim. If channel 1 has forced ads, and channel 2 doesn't, then channel 1 better be a lot more interesting, or I won't watch
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by teaquaffer 18y ago
But where is the gulf between Mac and PC? For Linux and Mac/PC, the gulf might be where SuSE went. I liked SuSE, but once Novel bought them it seems like they tried to move toward Pop and slid into the "gulf". So, PC on one peak, Ubuntu on
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by teaquaffer 18y ago
It's a map of Neurotic People. "based on data on hundreds of thousands of people compiled by psychologists, Jason Rentfrow at Cambridge University and Sam Gosling at the University of Texas" From a book called Who's Your City, by Dr. Richar