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by dissenter 18y ago
The media has been placing the blame for the imperfect oath on the Chief Justice, but the fault appears to be with the President. In the clip of the Vice Presidential oath the first phrase is "I [name] do solemnly swear..." Both the Justice
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by dissenter 18y ago
You're approaching it from the wrong perspective. English is the lingua franca. If your colleague were really nice, he would translate his message into Hindi, but that isn't an effective use of time. Neither is writing in Simple English. Le
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by dissenter 18y ago
On a related note, whuffie is not a new invention. There is no difference whatsoever between whuffie and money. They are perfectly synonymous. I get the feeling the author, and many of his readers, seem to believe that he has created someth
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by dissenter 18y ago
Really? I take your point to mean that two smart people can communicate better using obscure vocabulary when they are communicating only between themselves. High baud necessarily implies higher average information throughput, so there would
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by dissenter 18y ago
Wrong answer. (Though a true statement.) The tests are scaled differently. That's all there is to it. http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/GRE/pdf/gre_0809_interpreting...
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by dissenter 18y ago
Funny, I heard a rumor that the only people who got 800s on the verbal section were foreigners. (Read: people who can't speak English.) The explanation was that they were the only ones willing to invest enough time to form-fit the ETS's met
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by dissenter 18y ago
Yes, and let's not forget that a generalized test is still useful at the graduate level, for a variety of reasons. The one that comes to mind when you mention subject tests is that people sometimes switch disciplines. I have several friends
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by dissenter 18y ago
Airline recap: entirely focused on operations, always on the brink of collapse. Operations consist largely of optimizations problems, so lots of attention is paid to these problems (peanuts vs. pretzels). For whatever reason customers are n
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by dissenter 18y ago
It's bad scholarship. A political ideal is an extremely complex object. All he's done is cherry-picked five filters through which to view it. He's taken a very big n-dimensional object and inspected a handful of the shadows it casts. Does
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by dissenter 18y ago
Sure. Here's the execution tree necessary to "Hello World" in Cocoa---at least as given in the Apple tutorial I followed. It's possible to cut it down, but only after you've digested all of the material Apple lays in front of you. main(
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by dissenter 18y ago
rationalization / post-hoc. If you were setting out to make the next MySpace or Craigslist, would you consciously decide to make it ugly as a competitive advantage? Ugly designs happen by accident [re: neglect] and in spite of the underlyi
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by dissenter 18y ago
Having just learned Cocoa, I can tell you that you are not stupid, the design of Cocoa is stupid. Design patterns are stupid, hence baking them into a language is stupid. And Interface Builder is very stupid. Fortunately Objective-C isn't a
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by dissenter 18y ago
Any material that requires only 5-10 minutes of unbroken concentration is too superficial to be worth your time. If you can, take something else, if you can't, consider taking a bad grade and focusing on something else anyway. The suggestio
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by dissenter 18y ago
1. Rerolling the dice is still a faster (and thus better) way of solving this problem. 2. He could've used the time he spent writing that article to release a free dice rolling iPhone app that implements his special Settlers roll. It could
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by dissenter 18y ago
Writing this I actually had the Nobel prize for Literature in mind, which I feel, along with the Pulitzer, has been largely coopted for political reasons. Were I to suggest to a person of average talent the surest way to a Nobel prize (in o
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by dissenter 18y ago
These days the best way to get a Nobel is to devote yourself to liberal politics.
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by dissenter 18y ago
OK, I'm going to send you a list using XML. Now how do you propose we do that? This is entirely the problem. The XML didn't solve anything. We still have to negotiate the terms of the transfer. We've agreed to use XML, true, but we are sti
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by dissenter 18y ago
XML is an embarrassment. It solves no problem: not even the problem of agreeing on how to represent data. The only thing it does is give programmers something recognizable to fiddle with, however irrelevant to the problem it may be. Most re
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by dissenter 18y ago
Generations from now our scholars will be lumped in the same category as alchemists and geocentrists---much to their discredit.
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by dissenter 18y ago
The bubbles represent the size and importance of the field. This is an accurate depiction of what science is like today. Science and Nature are filled with articles about medicine and biology and chemistry and physics and so on. These a
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by dissenter 18y ago
It's obvious, to me at least, that hygienic macros are generally preferable to unhygienic ones. It's also clear to me that macros are an atypical way of thinking about programming. And yet I have a hard time seeing what advantage they yield
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by dissenter 18y ago
There is still debate over whether slaves worked harder even than other paid farmhands. The last great volley (slaves do) could be said to have won its author a Nobel Prize.
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by dissenter 18y ago
There are two common ways to justify patents: 1. They help the public by encouraging inventors to publicly document their inventions 2. They protect and encourage inventors by giving them control over intellectual property You've taken Posi
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by dissenter 18y ago
>This might be better titled "Chronic sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor" The original title is better. It makes perfect sense. It expresses the same meaning. He is clearly referring to the phenomenon of sleep deprivation and not
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by dissenter 18y ago
I once read this suggestion and was very surprised by the result when I applied it. My 'equity valuation' of someone was often in direct contrast to my 'general appreciation' of them as a person, and to such an extent that it was difficult
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by dissenter 18y ago
Times change, and America is much more corporate than it used to be. When a market becomes saturated innovative people will look elsewhere to make their mark. I don't want to spend my life managing a business. I want to make some money and
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by dissenter 18y ago
Calculus is designed as a gateway for all of our quantitative students, our future engineers and physicists in addition to our computer scientists, and so it's already forced to wear many hats. Changing it isn't something we can do lightly,
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by dissenter 18y ago
Whenever I read about Bill Gates's philanthropy I always feel slightly depressed. I get the distinct feeling that he is using his money in a way that maximizes social approval, rather than in a way that maximizes benefit. I haven't spent ve
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by dissenter 18y ago
> competition bad? No one is saying competition is bad. The point is we don't need all our geniuses competing with PayPal---it shouldn't be that hard in the first place. Let someone else do it. >You have very strong opinions on wher
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by dissenter 18y ago
Have to agree. The same sentence caught my attention. I can only speak for the East Coast, and in microeconomic terms, but Google has definitely put a hurt on the market here. They are worse than all of the banks put together. The cream of

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