torial

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by torial 16y ago
"I don't think scientist are so much hurt as lost: when you have years of evidence pointing in one direction, and someone replies with a completely unscientific argument (take a lot of pseudo-science for example) what is he supposed to do?"
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by torial 16y ago
Basically it includes some screenshots of the supposed effectiveness of the Airport scanner... e.g. a nude woman, then has the images inverted. I didn't read the article too closely, I'm not sure that the author understands those images ar
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by torial 16y ago
I'd take the imperfect studies listed in the article I provided over two anecdotes. However, for the scenario of using TDD with the Sudoku, where it was done with less chaos, other anecdotes are there: http://johannesbrodwall.com/2010/04/
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by torial 16y ago
I've been following the TDD stuff as an outsider, and hands down the article that makes me consider it with the least skepticism is this one: http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/10/07/tdd-derange... I'm sure there are issues w/ the
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by torial 16y ago
I think the problem with that is prior art has already been established :-/
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by torial 16y ago
What you want is fish oil capsules with "enteric" coating. That gets rid of the fish burps. Agreed, I tried downing some fish oil by spoon (which was lemon flavored as well) and could do it longer than 5 days.
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by torial 16y ago
This image popped in my head when I saw your comment: Makeshift hammer hits toe, ancient man yells "Owww". Everyone around him knew what he meant. He points at hammer, says "Gru", and his toe "uf", and voila, everyone that was around him
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by torial 16y ago
Just worth highlighting this (as a lot of discussion seems to be on the bullets and contradictions): Rules of the game The aim of the game is to get across the intellectual battleground unscathed. There are two types of injury you can suffe
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by torial 16y ago
That was an excellent quote. I also found this to be a great quote: "My skunkworks project was beginning to look real with help from these professionals as well as others in graphic design, documentation, programming, mathematics, and user
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by torial 16y ago
Short Answer: Python idioms are intuitive to me, whereas many statically typed idioms are not -- so it is easier for me to learn new concepts using Python. Long Answer: For me, part of it is syntax. I have found that using Python has enabl
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by torial 16y ago
Oh, I don't know. When I've encountered code that I say sucks, it was for code that had single letters as variables in massive function, didn't believe in breaking logic into discrete functions (this was primarily in VB/ASP, so it wasn't f
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by torial 16y ago
The TED talk was far better than the BBC article. Thanks for the link.
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by torial 16y ago
For some of these, I've found if Disc Menu on the remote doesn't work, then fast forwarding does. But it isn't 100%. There are some DVDs which are truly a pain :-/
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by torial 16y ago
The best part of the FAQ was: A tarball and a mailing list? Really? Aren’t you going to have some kind Web 2.0 "Veracity Overfow" thingie? Veracity’s web presence will have more of the modern menities later. The Veracity server needs more
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by torial 16y ago
Is there access to the info w/o registration? If so can you point me to it?
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by torial 16y ago
If it is fossil with an easy to use interface that would be a definite value-add!
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by torial 16y ago
If IDE is your primary hang up -- go with IronPython, which has integration into VS.Net : http://www.ironpython.net/tools/ (including intellisense).
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by torial 16y ago
Do you keep a master reference of topics and links? Or are you getting this list by searching. One of the above links has references by you to the bottom two as well...
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by torial 16y ago
Cobra ( http://cobra-language.com/ ), a python derivative that also an up and coming language. Love the syntax refinements, the built in unit-testing, contracts, etc... all around a great language.
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by torial 16y ago
Henry V (Branagh version : to do battle w/ code) Glory (if feeling overwhelmed but need to do the right thing) Searching for Bobby Fisher (inspires creativity)
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by torial 16y ago
For more details the research article: http://people.csail.mit.edu/bsnyder/papers/bsnyder_acl2010.p...
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by torial 16y ago
When I was evaluating Fossil about 1 year ago, compared to git and mercurial -- one of the requirements for my company was that it support large files. All of them supported large repositories, but easily ran into issues at about 10 MB for
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by torial 16y ago
There is another video from the same series that is more impressive, with the treadmill going fast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xL8gRJ5F6k&feature=relat...
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by torial 16y ago
For an example of healing, from wikipedia: "The adoption of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire drove an expansion of the provision of care. The First Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. urged the church to provide for the poor
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by torial 16y ago
The only drawback that I think should be mentioned w/ Teamviewer is that it is only free for non-commercial use. As a RDP replacement it is awesome -- a friend and I troubleshoot problems that way sometimes. But it isn't free for those th
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by torial 16y ago
I don't know -- two of the jobs I had were right next to a bus depot. It was actually a risk :-D
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by torial 16y ago
Wow, I didn't see any of those terms implied in the article. Sweaty palms, heightened cortisol -- sure. The title is plain misleading.
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by torial 16y ago
Looks like decorators were after the article was written: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/ E.g. 2/28/2003 vs 6/5/2003
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by torial 16y ago
At the very bottom: View document source. Generated on: 2003-02-28 11:59 UTC. I was thinking I'd seen this before -- a long time ago. How much still applies?
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by torial 16y ago
I couldn't find the sentence you were referring to in either article. In particular I searched for "secret" and "the secret". The essay from the OP seems to be what you are talking about wrt innovation. The FiveThirtyEight link provided i

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