waterlesscloud

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4501.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
I await the explanation of this little detail.
4502.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
Great, so now all we need is to run this in the released data and verify if the graph was produced with the code commented in or out. If there was released data, that is. The point being we only know how the code looks in that file, we don'
4503.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
It's in response to the climatologist trying to get him to publish anyway. He was being pressured to make his data fit.
4504.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
This is interesting too- "I really wish I could be more positive about the Kyrgyzstan material, but I swear I pulled every trick out of my sleeve trying to milk something out of that. It was pretty funny though - I told Malcolm what you sai
4505.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
What's the benefit to me as the user though? It's neat, but does it have any actual effect on anything?
4506.
Birmingham Defends Website Against ‘DIY’ Critics (Citizens make own website)(headstar.com)
2 points by waterlesscloud 17y ago|0 comments
4507.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
There's an interesting page linked there, wikipedia's internal Newbie Treatment Study. Good to see they're at least considering they might have a problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Newbie_treatment_at_C...
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Subject lines: Amazon's lessons on discounts and frontloading(email-marketing-reports.com)
2 points by waterlesscloud 17y ago|1 comments
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CodeWriMo(weblog.hypotheticalabs.com)
1 points by waterlesscloud 17y ago|0 comments
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Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't make it go away(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by waterlesscloud 17y ago|4 comments
4511.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
Read a program that's at least a few hundred lines long in Haskell. Now read it in Lisp. Readability counts!
4512.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
I wonder if you'd get the same effect with powerful used cars that cost much less. I tend to think you would.
4513.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
Yeah, I loved that one. Does provide some perspective. On the other hand, I kept thinking how thrilled he must be that his game is going to be a huge movie, since he really wanted to be a filmmaker all along.
4514.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
Tsunamis? Climate change is responsible for earthquakes now?
4515.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
The idea of 30 million piano-playing Chinese isn't important because we need piano players. It's important because the fact that someone can take piano lessons implies a certain level of economic status beyond day-to-day survival. It impl
4516.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
Why not?
4517.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
Yes. If you listen to what everyone is telling you without evaluating it for yourself, you are indeed a fool.
4518.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
Feynman reportedly tested at 125 on an IQ test in high school. Which just indicates how completely useless that test was.
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The birth of the giant component (Why staples clump together)(bit-player.org)
4 points by waterlesscloud 17y ago|0 comments
4520.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
But... Paper checks don't actually move money around, computers changing numbers in electronic ledgers do. A paper check is just a device to trigger that process. I'm not sure this story makes any sense to me.
4521.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
Wow, the Algol-68 spec really is impenetrable.