teeja

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by teeja 14y ago
"Simple observation of consumer behavior has shown over and over again that people simply don't care..." Depends on who's doing the research, doesn't it? Because my repeated observation for 25 years is that, when people become aware how t
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by teeja 14y ago
Great choice. There's software to remove the DRM from books, of course ... but the best way to remove it is to shop at places that don't use it.
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by teeja 14y ago
The program might benefit a lot from better timbres. It's hard to appreciate (or not) other features when the tones are so pallid, so impoverished.
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by teeja 14y ago
Even if noone is ever able to pry open the box and decode it, it may have meant something to the author. Edit Sherwood's work on it is an enjoyable read. http://www.edithsherwood.com/index.php
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by teeja 14y ago
Anybody who's never made a mistake with zero-indexed arrays, raise your hand!
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by teeja 14y ago
I'm going with Walter Miller's 'Leibowitz' future. The technology to do much else will be lost as a result of economic disasters and unending upwelling of ignorance. (Cf 2012 election) Global warming and searise and the resulting turmoil wi
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by teeja 14y ago
Javascript's best feature is that almost any routine can be written without objects. And those that have to be there are hidden from sight like objects should be.
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by teeja 14y ago
Sounds great. SC -badly- needs curation like this, and the ultra-simple interface is fine so long as the music is too. Good luck!
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by teeja 14y ago
Great question and project. As young teen, if I'd had to choose between the internet as it exists today and going to school to learn, there'd be no contest. I'd like to see many more websites for self-directed learning arise. They'd let stu
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by teeja 14y ago
My grandma puts a donut in one of two boxes, closes both, gives one to each of us. You leave for Mars and, at an agreed-upon instant, I open my box. Now I know what is in your box, and you know what's in mine. No faster-than-light, no myste
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by teeja 14y ago
The whole upvoting/downvoting concept seems to be aimed at recreating communities where the majority can shout down any minorities. At the village level. A fear tactic aimed at making you subconsciously consider whether what you say will pl
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by teeja 14y ago
I can't think of anyone I'd want to know that much about. It's more likely that a pervasive sharing "thing" will propel many of us to re-embrace privacy to avoid the boredom.
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by teeja 14y ago
After I look at what careful study of great geniuses of the past and high culture did for us in the 1940s and ever since, forgetting the bulk of it (less technical stuff) is probably best. Most of the (intellectual) past is an albatross.
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by teeja 14y ago
Master it in 10 days? Forget most in 10 more.
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by teeja 14y ago
Compressed bucket-ranges works fine for random date, but if the data are skewed in some way (e.g. normal-curve shaped), the bucket-sizes must be adjustable. An alternative method is to use one bucket into which all values below a limit (e.g
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by teeja 14y ago
Given Musk's vision for the future, MCT clearly means Mars Colonization Transport.
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by teeja 14y ago
Totally misleading headline, crap science journalism. They didn't "uncover" anything, just invented a new (untested) hypothesis.
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by teeja 14y ago
I use few "social" web links, maybe 1%. He fails to mention bookmarking. Most of the traffic I generate comes from bookmarked or search engine URLs. (I may or may not be unusual in that I surf with referrer turned off.)
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by teeja 14y ago
Jobs knew one thing: Quality is job one. If it wasn't quality, it wasn't included. Maybe this helps them remember that.
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by teeja 14y ago
No they didn't find a "streambed". They found a bunch of clasts, with pebbles that wind couldn't move. Perhaps they were moved by something solid rather than liquid. Perhaps that was some kind of ice. It's tiresome hearing of the "piling ev
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by teeja 14y ago
>Try to take advantage of that price and import it to the US and you'll find the cost is higher. A college I did graduate work at has a huge auditorium named after a man who made tens of millions of dollars throughout the early 20th cen
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by teeja 14y ago
<i>Reading is an unnatural act; we are no more evolved to read books than we are to use computers.</i> That assertion caused me to frantically control-W. In how many ways is it, alone, bankrupt? What are we "evolved to" do?
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by teeja 14y ago
I think the cleverest line in the movie is about what a herd of geese sounds like.
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by teeja 14y ago
If hardware were designed intelligently, switching to another frequency band would be a matter of a different daughterboard.
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by teeja 14y ago
In many densely-populated US urban areas, Wi-Fi is already completely- (often over-) occupied with contending users. This is to be expected considering the trickle of "public airwaves" which the public can currently access. Alternative freq
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by teeja 14y ago
You can always leave a degree unlisted on your resume. But you may feel like a fool doing it, and an even bigger fool for having to do it. Because "overqualified" is the loneliest number.
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It'll be a while before I'll take medical advice from a machine that "thought" Toronto is in the US.
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"Microsoft took the opposite approach and came up with event bubbling. They believed that the event should begin at the actual target and then fire on the parents and so on up to the document." Not original with Microsoft. Appeared in Apple
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Conversations with other students and faculty are a critical part of a college education. Certainly indispensible for sci-tech. Decades later I'm still remembering valuable tips and tidbits that profs threw at me during out-of-class discuss
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I think it's an amazing piece of work (seen the video? whoa). As a former science teacher and longtime coder and netizen I'm guessing it'll become a web-standard and a legend quickly.

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