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by keating 18y ago
I would personally introduce mathematics into a CS curriculum through heavy use of computer graphics. Having an application for the knowledge makes it suddenly relevant.
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by keating 18y ago
If it quacks like a blog...
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by keating 18y ago
> because everyone is free to do whatever they want. Citation needed. > It's rare to find the man who realizes that everything he fails at is ultimately his own fault Incompatible with the other claim. If other people are free t
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by keating 18y ago
Sounds like a job for the Fun Police. "Observance of 'Fun Time' will be strictly enforced."
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by keating 18y ago
> Facebook chat is a heavy erlang user Heavy? They must be going by Facebook's user base, not amount of code (the system is a hybrid of multiple languages) or even actual usage (they just launched it, I doubt everyone has switched over
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by keating 18y ago
That's ironic in an Alanis sort of way.
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by keating 18y ago
Exactly why I posted it.
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by keating 18y ago
[ ] I really don't think... that's going to help. [ ] Yes! Of course! That explains everything! [ ] His site is messing up his site. [X] Item #5489342 on the "Barriers to BulletBall Success" list
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by keating 18y ago
...shower?
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by keating 18y ago
A friend sent this to me. I thought it was a great lesson for entrepreneurs. If I could channel that kind of determination... If the above link doesn't work, try YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOw2yWMSfk The official site: htt
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20 points by keating 18y ago|37 comments
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by keating 18y ago
Portable ACs tend not to actually... work.
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by keating 18y ago
> proposed Being the key word. I think the more likely explanation is night workers eat more junk food since all the normal places are closed. They don't grab a salad, they grab drive-thru or donuts or similar all-night crud. Day work
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by keating 18y ago
About Thinking Machines: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Thinking-Machines.aspx
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by keating 18y ago
Surgery to implant a sense of humor?
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by keating 18y ago
It was causing me sleepless nights as well.
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by keating 18y ago
RosivdaXobni.com still available.
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by keating 18y ago
Ask.
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by keating 18y ago
> Surgery to give you 20/20 vision = OK, Surgery to give you 145 IQ = not ok?? Why? In my case, both would be downgrades.
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by keating 18y ago
It has nothing to do with safety, it has to do with PR for the so-called war on drugs. If they were legal it would be easy to find a doctor to supervise your enhancement regimen, making it safer. As it is, people still take them, without m
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by keating 18y ago
Aren't insomnia and excitation the point? Funny to see insomnia listed as a side effect of Provigil.
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by keating 18y ago
If you don't own them outright then your financial obligations actually give you less freedom. When you have nothing to lose, that's when you swing for the fences.
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by keating 18y ago
I don't really find that people get burned out working on their own thing . It instead seems to be when trying to do what other people think they should.
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by keating 18y ago
I nearly spit out my pacifier and fell out of my high chair when I saw PG modded below zero several times in one thread -- about Arc of all things. It seems to be seasonal. Around YC application deadlines, even his offhand comments get p
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by keating 18y ago
Your 35 cutoff seems ridiculously arbitrary and ageist. If anything, more experience means more exposure to more ideas and thus gives you an advantage in coming up with something innovative. There is more cross-pollination. This is a funct
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by keating 18y ago
Isn't that a mouthwash?
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by keating 18y ago
A chat server? Yawn . And it's not for 70 million people at once, that's user base , not simultaneous logins . AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, GroupWise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, SameTime, XMPP, Yahoo, this is a solved p
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by keating 18y ago
The only reason this is considered impressive is because so many other services have set the bar so low . This isn't rocket science, it just requires thinking ahead and designing for scale.
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by keating 18y ago
> vitamin B12 Cobalamin is added to any number of foods (usually in the form of cyanocobalamin), including bread, cereal, orange juice, soy milk, veggie burgers, soft drinks, and on and on. It is produced by bacteria. I know multiple
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by keating 18y ago
> The point is that study after study shows that with just a tiny portion of animal protein, they end up a whole lot smarter. You're confusing two separate issues. The key factor is that treating malnourishment of impoverished and

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