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Texas Students Revolt Against Mandatory RFID Tracking Chips(informationliberation.com)
43 points by toomuchcoffee 14y ago|33 comments
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Clearly he isn't a crank, and I didn't mean for a minute to imply that he was one. I just found the design aesthetics of his web page to be an... interesting coincidence. But that said -- just trust your gut instincts here. There's a long
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Wow. Not only has he just demolished the ABC conjecture as a mere afterthought to his pathbreaking research into inter-universal Teichmüller theory... he's also an awesome Geocities-style web designer: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
We tend to hire people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field and experience with C or languages that target the JVM, but we are open-minded in our search for critical thinkers who are passionate about techn
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
http://www.techspot.com/news/49975-how-ants-have-used-the-in... If you look at http://donttrack.us/ , it says your data "can potentially end up" in those places, not "will be sold to..."
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How ants have used the Internet's TCP algorithms for ages(techspot.com)
3 points by toomuchcoffee 14y ago|0 comments
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
It's just that he seemed to be patting himself (or, his, uh, "class") on the back a bit too much. Also, however you slice it, it's kind of gauche to do that on a day with (in however a tepid and toothless fashion, by international standards
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
The title of the Reuters article is of course utterly misleading, in that it simple-mindedly equates "no difference in vitamin content" with "no healthier than." The key disambiguating sentence appears on the second paragraph of the articl
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
So, how 'bout a day off just for The Entrepreneur? On which he not only doesn't have to work, but he also gets "paid", i.e. the mechanic down at the garage, the Starbucks barrista, the immigrant office cleaner who empties his trash and pol
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Note only does the DOL page not mention the stiff competition faced with the May 1st date, it doesn't even mention what is uncontroversially regarded as the main impetus for the federal labor holiday, namely, as a gesture of appeasement in
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Graph algorithms and graph analysis in Dolores Park on a Saturday? This job's way too hard for you, man. You should be thinking about Photoshop instead. Then you'd have something to check on that form on their hiring page, at least. Besi
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
TL;DR -- of course Ph.D life is sketchy, from numbers-game perspective. But it's like acting, being a writer, a musician, a star pastry chef, or anything else that's not merely a vocation, but rather, a calling . The only reason to go
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
I found an incredible programmer there for $11 an hour to complete and maintain the Windows MMS Snapin, and it’s been my little secret ever since. Yeah - don't mess with those $12, $14 an hour shysters. That's the ticket!
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
The Cupertino company says the content is “objectionable and crude,” according to Apple’s latest rejection letter. "We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write F-U-C-K on their airplanes... b
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Yeah, this is basically the behaviour of a nut. Now, that's not fair. The candidate may have had a weak stomach, or lacked a sufficiently preternatural sense of cool to people-skill his way out of each and every awkward social situation.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Nothing against the artist or his project (which sounds kind of cool), but really, the title of the NS article is kind of ridiculous, now isn't it: "Visual interfaces for writing musical notation means anyone can be a composer." "Drag-and-d
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Pair Programming is Like an ‘Endless Bad Blind Date’(betabeat.com)
2 points by toomuchcoffee 14y ago|0 comments
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
...or where the field will be reborn, once they come up with the appropriate definitions that make this problem tractable.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
"Develop a mathematical theory to end, once and for all, humanity's fatal attraction to War; to the glorification of State power, and to the ideology that ends always justifies the means; and in particular, to the perceived need to dominate
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
"Modern?" They were way ahead of us.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Talk about unrequitted empathy.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
He definitely read those mails. He just doesn't care, in the slightest, if he happens to annoy you. So he sees no reason to respond.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Oh, they read , quite a lot. The problem is that they're not only devoid of any sense of ethics, but almost completely tone deaf to how they actually come across to the target audience they're allegedly trying to recruit for something or
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Not necessarily a dick move... just sloppy Web 3.0 engineering as usual
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
(1) is probably the meatiest (2) sounds intriguing, even though it's "just math." Care to elaborate? (3) it's always better to pick your own problems if at all possible. makes you unique, and besides, given all the attention dolloped on "
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Not surprising. It always seemed like the campaign against Assange was more about an attempt to, in their lingo, "substantially degrade" the coherence and operational effectiveness of, rather than to outright neutralize, either him or his
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
If only it were true!
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Going by their their output, it would seem that a fair amount of "programmers" just happen to have gotten sucked into this programming thing, some way or another.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Umm, "lines"?
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Agile is best practices around iterative and incremental development. It's not a standard, it's a marketing term. Because it's not a standard, criticizing it is like criticizing "good ice cream". What's good ice cream? Any damn thing you'd

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