teeja

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by teeja 13y ago
It's more like a , you might get killed by a car if you step into the street kind of theoretical. Or the drip of a water clock will fill the container in 8 hours kind of theoretical. Or a don't plant too early or your people will starve kin
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by teeja 13y ago
Reliable statistics on the lung cancer danger of smoking have always been difficult to find ... particularly for second-hand smoke ... possibly because it's easier to blame cigs than to find real numbers for the hundreds of carcinogens we
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by teeja 13y ago
The rewards of working on spec (like those of volunteering) have alway been ... speculative. Promises and manufactured illusions can be difficult to distinguish. The ability to listen to your heart and gut may prove invaluable.
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by teeja 13y ago
In my experience Google buys something, lures people into using it for years, lets it languish without improvements for years so long as it serves their purposes, then kills it off. Whether they're "working against the potential of the open
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by teeja 13y ago
A great time to raise these questions. What reason have we ever had to trust any of these "authorities" (let alone the deteriorating state of the field, e.g. the recent Turkish fiasco)? Without a firm answer for that question, SSL is reduce
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by teeja 13y ago
Given a choice between the fun of 8-bit programming and the stodgy functionalism of a mere OS? hmmm... let me think. (1MHz @ 4 cycles/instruction = 250K instructions.)
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by teeja 14y ago
But all the others are stupid, incompetent programmers. It started at MIT. Just kidding! (sort of). But have a look at the Jargon Appendix ( http://catb.org/jargon/html/pt03.html ) - especially The Story of Mel ( http://catb.org/jargon/html
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by teeja 14y ago
Of course they might "destroy US utilities", which is why some of us appreciate them so much. Of course they won't destroy hydro or wind plants. There was a time when power generation "had" to be centralized, just as AT&T "needed" to ha
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by teeja 14y ago
Back up to 82 ... end of the milking machine for today.
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by teeja 14y ago
While a bitcoin may be worth $nnn, is that the case for 0.0005 bitcoin? It could develop that the little pieces are seen to be a liability, and people might decide they're worth less than 0.0005 * $nnn. Which creates the 'risk' you're loo
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by teeja 14y ago
Might sound callous, but when people want something so bad that they'll commit suicide when it doesn't work out, that's a serious mistake. Lots of things don't work out, but you can't get to the ones that do if you're gone.
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by teeja 14y ago
I felt the same way when (as a ][-user) I got to the bookstore and had a look inside those thick volumes called "Inside Macintosh" or whatever. And the same way when it took me two weeks to figure out how to set a Mac serial-port for MIDI b
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by teeja 14y ago
Works for Berliner-style lateral-cut grooves, wouldn't work at all with vertical-cut records like Edison's!
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by teeja 14y ago
If they really have the chops and motivation (wishing for it doesn't make it so), it may be a valuable life experience for them to give it a try. If they "succeed" they've saved years of expensive tuition. If they "fail", then they'll have
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by teeja 14y ago
I don't grok why they'd even try to inject their code into a webpage you requested. Why not simply create a separate page that you see BEFORE, that you read and acknowledge receiving, and then finish sending the requested page?
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by teeja 14y ago
I'd suggest that the difference is that Zen (at least in some schools) is after a meta-cognitive experience (by definition inexpressible in concrete terms) which transcends (even short circuits) cognition - whereas the aim of Western phil
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by teeja 14y ago
Great comparison, thanks.
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by teeja 14y ago
Reads like an advert.
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by teeja 14y ago
But "Synergize the Planet" doesn't really have the same punch.
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by teeja 14y ago
It's because WP is an encyclopedia, not a bulletin board. If people aren't literate enough to understand text well-enough to restate it in their own words, do you really want them adding that text to WP? It may be obviously wrong, it may be
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by teeja 14y ago
... proving that lower-level employees can be assets whose skills improve the bottom-line as well.... That was proven long, long ago. Somebody forgot.
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by teeja 14y ago
* You're not the lone ranger, many of us have been there. You're right, you're not in a good place. * ANY job, if you can pare down/get help with your living expenses, is a plus, especially now. Discipline yourself to save to go to the plac
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by teeja 14y ago
Savings would be a good thing, but I don't think the banks care to pretend they want to encourage savings any more ... au contraire. The 5% interest passbook savings rate - which the Depression/lWW2 generation enjoyed - "encouraged" savings
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by teeja 14y ago
Agreed, the RSS feed can be really hard to find on many sites. There are lots of decent external apps, but I'd guess that most of today's web audience prefers consuming in the (already familiar) browser. Seems the situation might be a gol
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by teeja 14y ago
Really. This has gotten to be a serious problem with science-reporting lately. Headlines suggest deterministic certainty, article itself says, for example, "probably a speeding comet, US scientists say." (Not even "some US scientists" or "h
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by teeja 14y ago
Anyone else got the feeling that the US still hasn't gotten over a serious case of the jitters yet?
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by teeja 14y ago
I'd like to add 3 !!! after that last part, and add ... especially if people warned you ahead of time that they just fired ("lost") half their employees last year, and you shrugged.
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by teeja 14y ago
My experience with Blogger began after G acquired it, and it never changed (over a few hundred posts) ... just languished, like someone got a new toy and got tired of it. "Embrace, extend, extinguish"? Maybe, or was there no potential profi
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by teeja 14y ago
No offense, but in which universe does copy-and-paste require nerdship? (Do we really need more people online who can't handle that or find someone to help them?)
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by teeja 14y ago
I never found a Reader I liked until I began using KDE's <b>Akregator</b> (works fine in Mint XFCE as well) a few months ago. Very easy to use and add feeds to (nerdship not needed). I follow three-dozen podcasts and blogs d

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