terra_t

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by terra_t 17y ago
Where you gonna go? I've lived in some other places, and let's put it this way... there's a reason why people want to move to the US. There are all sorts of things wrong with the US, but it's as bad or worse in every other country, be
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by terra_t 17y ago
Young people today will be old people tomorrow.
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The Lesson of Anthem Blue Cross (nytimes.com)
14 points by terra_t 17y ago|33 comments
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by terra_t 17y ago
Didn't Edison say that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration? I think he's right. I get cool ideas for things to do every day, probably enough to fill a few man years. I've got to filter that stream down to a very small list that
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Small Reactors Could Repower Nuclear Industry(online.wsj.com)
1 points by terra_t 17y ago|0 comments
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by terra_t 17y ago
I've known adults who take stimulants for ADHD. None of them are 'high performers', in fact, most of them are disabled or otherwise unable to hold a job. I'm sure that counterexamples exist, but I've only seem them turn a person who is
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Retrogame hackers patch bug in 1980 arcade classic 'Phoenix'(donhodges.com)
1 points by terra_t 17y ago|0 comments
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Salesforce.com Sponsors "Project Homeless Connect" In San Francisco(projecthomelessconnect.com)
2 points by terra_t 17y ago|0 comments
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by terra_t 17y ago
... tries to overlay his avatar in the physical world with a picture of a purple cow
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20 ad agencies in Belgium go on strike, produce artful protest(aironair.be)
15 points by terra_t 17y ago|20 comments
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Lack of Affordable Health Insurance Is A Brake On Innovation in US(businessweek.com)
6 points by terra_t 17y ago|1 comments
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The Semantics of Dictionaries, Maps and Hashtables(gen5.info)
2 points by terra_t 17y ago|0 comments
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Javascript, Closures and the Arrow Of Time(gen5.info)
1 points by terra_t 17y ago|0 comments
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by terra_t 17y ago
In my mind, Burrows-Wheeler is a clever trick, but it's not clearly superior to dictionary-based methods. bzip2 beats gzip on compression not because B-W is better, but because it has a larger window size and because of the entropy enco