teeja

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by teeja 17y ago
Who's never screwed up and lost sight of the long-term for a quick kick? Perspective wasn't built in a day.
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by teeja 17y ago
China's "healthy" respect for education boils down to one standardized test which it uses to assign people to what they'll get to do for the rest of their lives. And censorship of facts because they're inconvenient isn't healthy either. Jus
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by teeja 17y ago
The world hasn't seen any communism yet. A lot of phonies using that banner to grant themselves enormous power -- but, like democracy, yet to be realized anywhere.
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by teeja 17y ago
Ya left out Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... both made possible by "smart" people.
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by teeja 17y ago
I understand that; I'm saying: for an American company, I won't give up my rights at the door. They can insist, and I'll walk away. Forced self-incrimination is not consonant with reasonable liberty. Should that stop at the door of a busi
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by teeja 17y ago
"The development of genuine expertise requires struggle, sacrifice, and honest, often painful self-assessment. There are no shortcuts." Makes sense; a 'solid grasp' is like a solid algorithm: it's not solid until it can handle anything you
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by teeja 17y ago
It's not a great result, but it was private property - I was thrown out of a friend's wedding at the Eagle's because my hair was too long! (collar length!) Kind of pales next to people not being allowed to demonstrate unless they 1. have
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by teeja 17y ago
I want privacy because it's a self-explanatory, daily part of the human condition that every human understands from the time they're small. I don't have to explain it, I refuse to justify my need for it, and I will do whatever I have to do
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by teeja 17y ago
The thing I remember most about Apple ][ is the friendly manual and the shiny,shiny hardware. Wide open, waiting for you to do your mods with a smile... the Woz way.
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by teeja 17y ago
Because this is their chance to make a killing and they don't want to share with the rest of the children. Like most big bad arrogant businesses, the customer is an afterthought. Luckily, the web is awash with alternatives. It's like the mu
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by teeja 17y ago
Haha ... absolutely right on! "They’ve seen this sort of thing happen before - having witnessed Apple’s classic tactic penetrating the market through evolutionary features in the first few revisions of a product accompanied by aggressive an
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by teeja 17y ago
The nice thing about intelligent discussion lists is that you don't have to put up with the 14-year-old humor that infests youtube.
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by teeja 17y ago
This is actually a useful word problem, they only left out one part that would make it more practical: cars cost $50 to rent, vans cost $100 to rent. Now you've got a reason to prefer cars over vans. I (and in my experience most students fe
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by teeja 17y ago
"trying for decades at this point to make a computer that's open, easy to use for everyone, never crashes, etc." The last Mac I bought ran Tiger. Given reasonable maintenance, and good net hygiene, I had one software crash that I know of. I
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by teeja 17y ago
Pay to become a developer. A-ha-ha! Don't see much future in that ! "What got you into programming?" "The thrill of paying all those great companies to improve their product!" (True enough of the great majority of those "100,000 apps" th
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by teeja 17y ago
75,000,000 says that it is a already very successful interface. Which underlines that 'intuitive' isn't a claim, it's a fact. Because the press needs things spelled out.
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by teeja 17y ago
Not only is this an insightful article, but the one it refers to at its bottom is deeply insightful about iPad as a reader ... iTunes LP viewer ... educational potential, etc. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/09/rebooting-the-book-one-appl.
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by teeja 17y ago
Great news. I like the idea of first planning for our long-term goals in space, then executing to achieve those goals. The early years were all about knee-jerk responses to politics and feeding constituencies. Lately we put up a $100bil
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by teeja 17y ago
When Howard got done, 'his-story' was no longer his. So much for the painted-up, lying cheap tart once called history.
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by teeja 17y ago
I can hardly wait until some astute techies pop this thing open and take off its whalebone corset.
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by teeja 17y ago
The dollars aren't for putting the 'X', they're for knowing where to put the 'X'.
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by teeja 17y ago
Here's the WPedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character
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by teeja 17y ago
Since facts can't be copyrighted, and texts have plenty of facts that don't change much between generations, cheap texts in fundamentals could certainly be produced if professionals are hired to update the facts every few years. Texts are
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by teeja 17y ago
An excellent point, and one seldom recognized by those who implement 'tracking' students. The result is only as good as how scientific the test is. Most such tests have high levels of cultural and socio-economic bias that perpetuate the s
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by teeja 17y ago
So what? People do bad science, bad business, bad education all the time , because of unconscious biases, because of pressures to 'succeed', publish, etc. How many people are 'playing the game' in this old world? Not to excuse exaggeration
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by teeja 17y ago
Typical Stallman ... having principles and living by them.
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by teeja 17y ago
Maybe -all- the corporate bookstores will tank. And then the little indies with their low overhead and innate charm could fill the welcome void. That'd be good. Cuz: you can't browse through hundreds of books at Amazon, and make those amazi
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by teeja 17y ago
Will Michelangelo's David survive the future? Oh you mean the Classical Music business . Yeah, it will, because as RiderOfGiraffes says, no recording can capture the ambiance or immediacy of live performance. On top of that, few great conc
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by teeja 17y ago
"Apple got lucky with the iPhone" Yeah,that Jobs just gets lucky ... again and again and again and again. He's like the energizer bunny of luck. Or.
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by teeja 17y ago
I just wanna know one thing: is this singularity gizmo going to get me into a flying car, or not?

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