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by jfruh 15y ago
I guess what I meant is not the code people write to conduct the research, but the actual results of that research. As in, you can't copyright a fact. You can't copyright a beaker or a flask. I know there's a lot of debate within the scien
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by jfruh 15y ago
Uh, telling you that the way you make a living is unethical is not the same as wishing harm upon your children. You may not agree with his ethical system (lord knows I don't, it's bonkers) but everyone's economic activities are subject t
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by jfruh 15y ago
The three ways it does that is that ... (b) you have a set of skills that makes you a valuable asset to the US ... You wouldn't find it insane if colleges or employers made the same decisions. The problem is that there's a major disconnec
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by jfruh 15y ago
A good time to remind Americans how insanely difficult it is to get into the U.S. legally: http://reason.com/assets/db/07cf533ddb1d06350cf1ddb5942ef5ad...
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by jfruh 15y ago
"Ideally, what I would like (and I think most people would like) is something of the form factor of a MacBook Air (thin and light), that has a detachable touch-screen that can run apps written for iOS or Android, and when the screen is conn
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by jfruh 15y ago
As someone who used to live in SF and now lives in Baltimore, this question strikes me as pretty funny.
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by jfruh 15y ago
Psychologists actually have to recalibrate the scoring of IQ tests every few decades in order to keep the average at 100 -- and they need to do this because the scores are going up. I tried to get a psych friend of mine to explain this, be
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by jfruh 15y ago
This is a great piece, and it gets to the contradiction at the heart of the new trend/buzz around creative people using the Internet in various ways to make an end-run around traditional publishing infrastructure in all industries. It's th
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by jfruh 15y ago
Don't know about Denmark, but I believe in some countries with a similar situation by law they have to round to the nearest multiple of the smallest denomination coin, so it evens out. Of course, if you pay via credit card or bank card othe
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by jfruh 15y ago
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxjlw4AnIX1rn1xxfo1_250.gi...
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by jfruh 15y ago
Well, good luck stealing his identity now.
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by jfruh 15y ago
I learned in high school on electric typewriters in '90 or '91. It was an elective then, but I certainly hope it would be a requirement today Still the only skill from high school that use every single day. I was someone who had already don
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by jfruh 15y ago
I don't disagree with you, but I wonder if this situation would be covered by the law as AFAIK dental coverage isn't part of the plan. It boggles my mind that medical conditions that arise your teeth and gums (which, as this anecdote illus
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by jfruh 15y ago
Median income in the West in 2010 was $53K, according to the Census Bureau (via Wikipedia), and since "the West" includes California I'm betting it's lower in Portland. Considering he says he's only working 25 hours a week, 1,000 a week is
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by jfruh 15y ago
Every election cycle I think, this is the year that the big business/libertarian and social conservative/religious wings of the Republican parties finally break up, but it keeps not happening, though I think it's the dynamic behind the let'
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by jfruh 15y ago
Sooo ... how locked into Apple's ecosystem are books created in this way? The notes say: • Submit your book to the iBookstore for sale or free download with a few simple steps* • Export your book in iBooks format to share on iTunes U or to
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by jfruh 15y ago
Most technical books don't really need editors. Um, no? Knowledgable editors make any sort of writing easier to read and use -- especially crucial if you're talking about textbook-style material, which is specifically about someone with
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by jfruh 15y ago
Reason 4 Why Windows Phone Will Make A Big Splash In 2012: "Zune Is Baked Right Into the Operating System" hahahaha
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by jfruh 15y ago
Aw, someone at the Economist is a sci-fi nerd: all the subheds in the story are titles of Isaac Asimov stories (or spoofs of said titles).
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by jfruh 15y ago
But there won't be desktop Windows 8 ARM users, so you'll have to re-engineer it twice? Unless there's some quick and easy way to write code that compiles to both architectures without fuss. But even then you essentially have to build two
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by jfruh 15y ago
I think there are some places where comments work great and some places where they descend into vitriol and nonsense. I totally respect decisions that go either way. It really depends on the subject matter, your own tone (which definitely
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by jfruh 15y ago
It would be interesting to see numbers on how often people who tell pollsters they are "considering" a course of action in a survey actually follow through. I never know how seriously to take that sort of data. Based on what I know about
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by jfruh 15y ago
Traditionally when I've freelanced in the past I've billed hourly (varying rates, depending on what the client will bear) but I've read some convincing stuff that billing that way in essence punishes productivity. If you figure out how to
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by jfruh 15y ago
"In this case, Google were subjected to this activity through media that encouraged bloggers to create what appeared to be paid posts, were often of poor quality and out of line with Google standards. We apologize to Google who clearly didn
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by jfruh 15y ago
How exactly is Java ME an "operating system"?
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by jfruh 15y ago
If you needed more proof that Gingrich isn't the foreward-thinking futurist he always claimed to be, it's that he didn't buy newtgingrich.com years ago.
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by jfruh 15y ago
And most importantly Americans are highly mobile; Michiganders can head off to Chicago or Atlanta so while the prospects for Michigan itself remain bleak, people aren't trapped. Hmm, don't Spaniards legally have the same ability to move t
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Microsoft quietly moving into iOS ecosystem -- so why not Android?(itworld.com)
1 points by jfruh 15y ago|0 comments
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by jfruh 15y ago
My college girlfriend's dad's first language was Chinese and he would often refer to either her or her brother as "it." "Tell it to come down for dinner!"
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Meet the strange bedfellows who could stop SOPA(itworld.com)
1 points by jfruh 15y ago|0 comments

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