trothoun

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by trothoun 12y ago
If you think QA is ever complete, then it is clear you have never worked on a QA team. You can always come up with new ideas on how to break things.
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by trothoun 12y ago
If this really was his personal decision, then he would have written the press release, and the chairwoman would have issued a press release expressing support.
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by trothoun 12y ago
This is going to come back to bite us when the political winds start blowing the other way. I'm disappointed in how short sighted our community has proven itself.
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by trothoun 12y ago
Umm... there was some collaboration. But characterizing it as "free" seems rather optimistic. Even the present reduced degree of collaboration represents, I think, a much closer tie to between the two countries space programs tha
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by trothoun 12y ago
And even scientists can really only be be deeply familiar with the experimental basis for a few narrow fields of study. For all the rest, they too have to take it on faith.
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by trothoun 13y ago
I used my clamshell feature phone to login to my home pc via ssh. Granted, the typing experience was pretty painful, but it did work. People seem to forget that 'app stores' have been around a lot longer than the iphone. It&#x2
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by trothoun 13y ago
Demos like this are cool, but they make me think that we'll never see a non-toy visual programming tool. Even a fairly simple bit of logic quickly becomes an incomprehensible soup of interconnections. edit: Thinking about it a bit mor
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by trothoun 13y ago
I think this is why all of our recent presidents seem so similar once they are in office. They all have the same dirt on them. As with information revealed in the pentagon papers, I don't think we have much hope of decent governance
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by trothoun 13y ago
Yeah, I have to agree I tried looking up demographic information about Chongqing and Chengdu and while they do seem to be growing, I didn't see anything that could explain a growth of that magnitude. Maybe it's an artifact of som
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by trothoun 13y ago
Germany is both a big importer and a big exporter of dairy products. I guess this indicates that there isn't any substantial cost associated with cross border trading of these products?
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by trothoun 13y ago
For a good motivated treatment of calculus I'd recommend going back to Isaac Newton's Principia. It is surprisingly accessible, and really quite beautiful.
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by trothoun 13y ago
Fortunately, TI continues to provide this to many students.
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by trothoun 13y ago
It's not just on "factory farms" where animals raised for meat are considered temporary. If you are going to slaughter a pig in 18 months, you probably are going to be disinclined to form emotional bonds to it.
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by trothoun 13y ago
It may not be a hoax, but it is definitely wishful thinking.
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by trothoun 13y ago
Like SEO :)
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by trothoun 13y ago
Presumably that 1% is continuously depleted by facebook's detection and deletion of fake accounts and continuously replenished by the creation or subversion of new accounts. A high turnover rate may drive the proportion of fraudulent
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by trothoun 13y ago
This is also why Brazil is heating up so much in terms of start-up interest. It has a large population speaking the same language with significant income and a single government. And its government tends to be somewhat less nervous making
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by trothoun 13y ago
With the notable exception of 1968 Democratic National Convention[1] I'm having trouble finding any news coverage of multiple injuries at a RNC or DNC. Care to provide references? --- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by trothoun 13y ago
Also, a possible visit from the FBI for incitement.
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by trothoun 13y ago
They also like cases that are purely questions of law, they tend to avoid cases that have unresolved questions of fact.
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by trothoun 13y ago
The other thing is, it's not just the US that benefits from the status quo. Lots of allies get to ride on their coattails.
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by trothoun 13y ago
Shame appears to be the spiderman emotion. Interesting.
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by trothoun 13y ago
> So it is indeed ambiguous, and it would make sense to clean up, in a vacuum. hmm... that seems analogous to saying that it's proper behavior for a compiler to silently delete references to uninitialized variables.
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by trothoun 13y ago
Hasn't it been something like a decade since Sprint was last profitable? How do they have the money to do this?
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by trothoun 13y ago
Not to nitpick but artificial selection in plants started a lot earlier than Mendel[1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture#Developm...
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by trothoun 13y ago
I found this[1] one to be particularly reassuring. [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/NROL49_pa...
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by trothoun 13y ago
Would examples of large, unsuccessful marketing campaigns, be equally strong evidence that marketing does not affect our perceptions of cultural norms?
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by trothoun 13y ago
If the urls are guessable then someone could harvest images without having been given urls by authorized users.
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by trothoun 13y ago
Maybe they could do something like the Spirit and Opportunity rover's balloon mechanism to make it safer in case of accident. It would still be heavy, but it wouldn't be hard and it would have much greater air resistance so it wo
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by trothoun 13y ago
Maybe they are building a blacklist from the applicants and will post the real job description later. If this were true I would be more at peace with the world than I presently am.

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