wickeand000

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by wickeand000 14y ago
I would say that the "opening your mind to grammar" is true of learning any new language. Obviously one like Latin where the grammar is very different than English might be more effective on that front, but with any new language you are for
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by wickeand000 14y ago
The return of the blink tag?
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by wickeand000 14y ago
Although I don't agree that the name "Drake" is an issue, I do find it interesting that an even more apt name for an application of this type might be "Usher"!
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by wickeand000 14y ago
I believe I read this in Bill Bryson's `A Brief History of Nearly Everything', which is a great book if anyone is interested in the history of how scientific discoveries are made and how credit is taken for them.
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by wickeand000 14y ago
I have really internaized this recently; more specifically I have made sure to think about my code from an outsider's perspective and address complaints this person might have.
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by wickeand000 14y ago
I was thinking about this just yesterday. I think Google's spam blocking accuracy is just a reflection of their advertising acuity. The better their advertising becomes, the better they can fight spam because they know what you want, and by
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by wickeand000 14y ago
The headline should read: "Fish Use Laws of Physics, Become Mirrors."
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by wickeand000 14y ago
I think that the news article is a result of the Sixty Minutes Episode that aired yesterday on Huawei. The points I got from their report were: 1. Huawei (like many Chinese companies) works in close partnership with the Chinese government,
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by wickeand000 14y ago
The article's statement that these bikes wouldn't get stolen didn't really assure me, so I looked at the stats for my city's bike sharing service. According to one news report: > One bike went missing the first year and it was later rec
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by wickeand000 14y ago
Only if you take 'ten' to be a number in base 10. /s
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by wickeand000 14y ago
You can always tell a left-handed person when they say they like a pen because it dries quickly!
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by wickeand000 14y ago
Nope, In the US it is illegal to deface currency for any reason. ---------------------------------- Title 18 United States Code, Section 331 Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lighten
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by wickeand000 14y ago
Here is the comparison between different web browsers. Note that the image does not even load in IE8, so it is not included. http://i.imgur.com/ibi7I.png
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by wickeand000 14y ago
I think my current terminal window is prior art...
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by wickeand000 14y ago
I would assume their 'anti-gaming layer' is perfectly adequate. Admins and employees have stated multiple times that much time and effort goes into making sure that Reddit is run by actual users posting content they want to. This is affirme
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by wickeand000 14y ago
I agree with you, but you can see that this test only had a moderate correlation with successful hiring. In the same way that screening for free-throw percentage doesn't provide the best catch-all way of hiring basketball players, an IQ tes
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by wickeand000 14y ago
Richard Feynman answering the question "How do magnets work" in an informal pick-your-brain type interview: "I can't explain that attraction in terms of anything else that's familiar to you. For example, if we said the magnets attract like