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by youngian 17y ago
I would imagine they don't publish things that they cannot verify as probably true, or things that aren't newsworthy. On the other hand, here's something they did publish: a leak of their own donor list. http://www.newswiretoday.com/news
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by youngian 17y ago
I believe the graphs are all post-voucher numbers. In other words, those below the red line are the ones who qualified for the vouchers, thus the jumps in ownership. The punchline is that while computer games increased substantially because
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by youngian 17y ago
Unfortunately in this case the attack was accurate. The article starts with a correct but not novel explanation of dumb political games, then veers abruptly into libertarian cheerleading. The author mentions things like "too big to fail" bu
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by youngian 17y ago
http://code.google.com/p/trash-cli/
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by youngian 17y ago
So how do you write a test for a case you couldn't foresee? You don't, but once you discover it, you write a regression test to make sure it doesn't come back. However, IANATDD, I am not a test-driven developer - I don't see any reason to
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by youngian 17y ago
I usually hate TL;DR comments, but if someone provided a short summary of the argument here (and for bonus points, a critique of the argument's strength), I would be very grateful.
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by youngian 17y ago
Yeah, this screams microformat. Indicates a specific type of content, but doesn't have to make it into the spec and can be administered in a decentralized fashion. http://microformats.org/
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by youngian 17y ago
The point is that those things are/were still in "draft" specification and so it's asking for trouble to implement them in a way that will prevent changes to the final spec. I'm sure once the standards are finalized the prefixes will be dro
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by youngian 17y ago
Agreed. Here's an interview with Isbell: http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/lynne_isbell_book_... From the pop science summaries I thought she was full of crap. But the details are actually quite interesting, and I can see why she
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by youngian 17y ago
The knee-jerk answer is that the IE team's ideas often seem to come from a crack pipe. Not to say that every single one of their ideas has been bad, or that everyone else's ideas always turn out great, but IE has a lousy track record. There
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by youngian 17y ago
This was in reference to the pre-edit version, where he said it was to be based on IE6. In comparison to that prospect, an IE7/8 mishmash is oddly comforting.
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by youngian 17y ago
Please be wrong. Please be wrong. Please be wrong.
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by youngian 17y ago
This is something that OSS folks in general need to work on. People forget that tone does matter. Speaking your mind is good, but speaking your mind in a caustic fashion doesn't help your cause. Especially when the issue is a complex domain
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by youngian 17y ago
I liked this. There's a touch of empathy there for "stupid" users. But it's not denying the serious problem that these people represent, especially when they're in government, writing policy to control an entity that they aren't even close
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by youngian 17y ago
I disagree. Clarity was hurt. This title suggests multiple schools "out", which doesn't make a lot of sense (did the schools band together to out their gay friend? Or a corrupt politician?). Yes, obviously I can figure out what he meant.
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by youngian 17y ago
School's Out, Forever . "School is out" contracts to "School's out", with an apostrophe to indicate the contraction. I could not bring myself to read an article about education being pointless that has a grammatical mistake in the title, n
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by youngian 17y ago
I think this is a very neat project. I'm also curious what other alternatives exist for making simple, straightforward presentations in something that is not powerpoint.
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by youngian 17y ago
I still do have lofty ideas about writing interesting articles on mine, but amusingly the post that has attracted by far the most traffic is http://blog.iangreenleaf.com/2009/03/rsync-and-retrying-unti... , a simple little bash script for
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by youngian 17y ago
Which gender is . Your gender is how you identify, so unless you are lying to a researcher who asks you what gender you identify as, it's objectively verifiable.
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by youngian 17y ago
Why couldn't patio11 be speaking of gender? In fact, I think a study measuring gender would identify with even more accuracy, although data collection would be harder (you would need the authors to report how they identified). Anyways, the
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by youngian 17y ago
Poor old Arc90 needs to get some better hosting. Their server always seems to be coughing up blood. And Google doesn't have this one cached yet :(
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by youngian 17y ago
http://code.google.com/p/trash-cli/ I don't know, maybe if you're old-fashioned you won't like the trash metaphor, but I love it. And every so often I just do trash-empty 30 to clean out anything older than a month.
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by youngian 17y ago
Bold. This makes me really happy. Comments sections are the cesspools of the Internet, so it's great to see someone say "This is going away until you think about what you did wrong." P.S. Yes, I'm aware of the irony in that I'm commenting o
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by youngian 17y ago
It's not really about what we think would or wouldn't have been great. Watterson felt that a Hobbes toy wouldn't be true to the spirit of the strip - I'm sure he had his reasons, though I don't know what they are. And to choose that faithfu
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by youngian 17y ago
"Q: What led you to resist merchandising Calvin and Hobbes? A: For starters, I clearly miscalculated how popular it would be to show Calvin urinating on a Ford logo. . . . Actually, I wasn't against all merchandising when I started the stri
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by youngian 17y ago
Everyone in the world would have loved a Hobbes animal. He could have made a mint off of that. Which makes his decision not to merchandise one of the most impressive displays of artistic integrity I know of.
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by youngian 17y ago
I'd be very interested to hear your results. I too am an over-pronator and while I'm curious about barefoot running, I'm hesitant to take the plunge without some knowledge of how it will affect my feet (+shins and joints).
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by youngian 17y ago
If I was an evil person working for the marketing department of an evil mega-factory-farm, I would hire you right this instant on the basis of that last comment alone. Evil genius.
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by youngian 17y ago
Awesome! I've been thinking about this recently. It's nice to have this coming from the perspective of someone with a definite online presence but no business empire or social marketing pyramid. Like he says, maybe you just want to know wha
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by youngian 17y ago
That paper is great! Why can't more public policy be based on sensible metrics like this? ( http://web.mit.edu/mariya/Public/Exploring%20Pharmacology%20... )

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