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1981.
by tensor 16y ago
Tenure is not all it's cracked up to be. Today you are looking at being 40 before you acquire tenure. Sure, some people get it earlier, but I believe on average the numbers come out to roughly 40 or late 30's. In those prime years before 40
1982.
by tensor 16y ago
A thief could still very easily brute force your password if you actually follow the instructions on the card. I suppose you could get creative with how you interpret the card. Security is tricky.
1983.
by tensor 16y ago
That is a classic philosophical question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_movens
1984.
by tensor 16y ago
And I haven't. But I do like the rest of the technology in the iphone/ipad. Thus, I will complain. Bad feedback is better than no feedback.
1985.
by tensor 16y ago
How do you get around bias in peer review? Journals use blind reviews so that reviewers feel free to express their real opinions without the risk of damaging their professional relationships. Increasingly, double-blind review is being used
1986.
by tensor 16y ago
In my experience, journals are still essential to the peer review process and are the primary way in which work is disseminated into the larger community.
1987.
by tensor 16y ago
Computer scientists are often mathematicians more than anything else. It is similar to calling a laboratory scientist a "lab technician."
1988.
by tensor 16y ago
I disagree on the less signal part of your comment. To me, it looks like more and more signal. Since search, we've seen maps, mail, reader, chrome, android, app engine, big table, google docs, wave, google voice, a google branded phone, g
1989.
by tensor 16y ago
Still wish he'd elaborate more though on how the abstraction level of a language would not help a programmer do better work. Is it enough to just proclaim "There are no super programming languages, only super programmers" for it to be true
1990.
by tensor 16y ago
From the abstract: "Conclusions: For early adulthood, findings did not support commonplace or expert opinion that exercise behavior has a favorable influence on sleep. Rather, the findings lend support to the importance of cognitive process
1991.
by tensor 16y ago
It's vastly more meaningful than peoples anecdotal evidence.
1992.
by tensor 16y ago
I would guess that Floyd-Warshall has affected far more people than Tetris has, despite the fact that most people do not recognize it. Personally, I would rather have a positive impact on the world than simply be recognized. Hundreds of yea
1993.
by tensor 16y ago
As others have said, you pay a LOT to get that tenured position. You also risk a lot. Imagine being 32 and just starting a tenure track position. All your friends in industry are already earning nearly 100k and have been earning decent sala
1994.
by tensor 16y ago
This is absolutely incorrect. We know way more about good diet and the effect of nutrition than we used to. We do not know everything, but claiming that nutrition science is not useful is horribly wrong and misleading. If you are offering d
1995.
by tensor 16y ago
That is simply a lack of hardware acceleration. Something that HTML5/JS apps do not have either. At least for flash, you can expect it to have hardware acceleration eventually. The bottom line is that you have the option to use flash, or no
1996.
by tensor 16y ago
Absolutely wrong, if you are talking about apply for grant money. If there is one thing that the government loves when giving out grants, it's strong industry support and/or clear impact on society. The view you saw more likely comes from t
1997.
by tensor 16y ago
They don't belong in the real world in the sense that people get paid in the real world. Meanwhile, most academics go into debt, earn very little, and work long hours trying to genuinely contribute something to society as a whole. This is
1998.
by tensor 17y ago
I do not find this to be true at all. But to each his own.
1999.
by tensor 17y ago
We all have vastly inflated images of ourselves. Every single person.
2000.
by tensor 17y ago
The idea of a touch-only PDA device has been around in science fiction literature for decades. Perhaps nobody expected a company to implement it when Apple did with the iphone, nor did they expect Apple to to be the one doing it. But the id
2001.
by tensor 17y ago
Although in that sense, they were in fact forced to drop the DRM due to competition. You can put any music from any source on an iPod.
2002.
by tensor 17y ago
To be honest, the majority of the passive-aggressive attitude that I see is coming from iPad supporters, not enthusiasts. I say that I am disappointed in it because of the App Store and suddenly I'm the one being called a luddite, being a
2003.
by tensor 17y ago
I am personally saddened by the iPad being locked down because Apple does make really nice hardware and software systems. It's something I'd probably really like to own and use, but sadly being able to install third party software myself
2004.
by tensor 17y ago
Somehow mac laptops remain functional and malware free despite not being locked down by apple. They've remained this way for many, many years. I'm not sure how much more real world evidence you need that this argument is not good. The truth
2005.
by tensor 17y ago
I think many people fully understand this. When people rave about, say, haskell being nearly as fast as C, what they mean is that you can write much higher level, and thus shorter and more concise, code in a way that can be automatically
2006.
by tensor 17y ago
I think it would make for a more interesting test if they took brain images of the subjects reasoning about new statements rather than established facts. As you point out, it is a reasonable hypothesis that what they are measuring is simp
2007.
by tensor 17y ago
He did not. Both Apple and Microsoft used designs originally from Xerox Parc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i...
2008.
by tensor 17y ago
So it can be circumvented just by unplugging a cable. I guess it can work for multiplayer games, but then don't most of those require valid accounts some where online in the first place? At any rate, it's much kinder to legal buyers than mo
2009.
by tensor 17y ago
The problem with this is that in reality you will be missing the "ShowDonationOptions();" and the "offerDegradedExperience();" will be "offerNoExperience();". Plus, adblockers will likely find a way around "user.usingAdBlock()". Ultimately,
2010.
by tensor 17y ago
You imply that by being a scientist, you are untrustworthy, and that being a layperson without expertise makes you trustworthy. This idea seems quite backwards. A lay person can make any sort of corrupt claim without any repercussions. Mean

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