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Re:You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @04:32PM (#5670575)
What is the difference between a disorder and being a dick? What if I have Assholegers? Is that less acceptable than Autism? Why?
(Aspergers is no longer a disorder, it got rolled into autism.)
Re:You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @04:29PM (#5670562)
If you will wake up 2 hours earlier and wreck your long term performance for $40-$80/day...
Re:You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @04:27PM (#5670557)
Are you familiar with the extreme effect to which sunlight affects human (and other mammals) systems biology?
Re:Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @04:14PM (#5670486)
That is someone's theory? That's what 'onomatopoeia' means.
Re:Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @04:12PM (#5670471)
Could you convert your example to phonetic english? Spelling is one thing, pronunciation another.
Re:Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @04:10PM (#5670457)
This is the sort of unscientific wishfulness that undermines the analysis.
And is directly contradicted by known animal behavior.
Re:The Food-Truck Business Stinks
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @01:20PM (#5669362)
I didn't know about Wafels and Dinges until today. Are they any better than roasting them at home?
Re:The Food-Truck Business Stinks
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:39AM (#5668654)
Random enforcement is fair play, and efficient. Biased enforcement is corruption.
Re:The Food-Truck Business Stinks
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:35AM (#5668635)
Interesing. Emitting Grill smell is an externality that should be taxed.
Re:The Food-Truck Business Stinks
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:33AM (#5668617)
What does affluent have to do with it? Affluent can afford highly regulated trucks. Working class can't.
Re:The Food-Truck Business Stinks
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:27AM (#5668580)
I actually don't know how ice cream trucks, with their hideous noise pollution, stay on the right side of the law.
Re:The Food-Truck Business Stinks
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:26AM (#5668571)
This where you win the billion dollar Internet sweepstakes for the first correct use of Beg the Question in a forum post. Well done.
Re:Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)
on Monday May 06, 2013 @05:03PM (#5664767)
There is a paper online that proves fermat's last theorem in this way, by exploiting the C compiler's ability to optimize away non-terminating code that has no observable state changes.
Re:Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)
on Monday May 06, 2013 @05:00PM (#5664747)
Since you don't have a real Turing machine, why would you care? Your computer is not Turing machine.
Re:Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)
on Monday May 06, 2013 @04:52PM (#5664697)
Heh. JavaScript was famously invented in a week.
Re:Was Joel wrong?
on Monday May 06, 2013 @10:21AM (#5662546)
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx_mobile.html
100 million account (including me)
4 million paying customers.
Which means, almost none of MS's customers.
Re:Was Joel wrong?
on Monday May 06, 2013 @10:17AM (#5662519)
It his hard and unreliable to get G Drive to sync files. Google does backup from your PC to web, and it downloads bookmarks from web to PC.
Re:Prepare for new copyright crackdown: GDP to treat artistic works as...
on Monday May 06, 2013 @10:14AM (#5662501)
Mods, please fix the completely bogus title. This is about cooking the books on inflation, not copyright.
Everyone, enjoy feeling 3% richer today!
Re:Was Joel wrong?
on Monday May 06, 2013 @10:07AM (#5662450)
He wasn't wrong then. The world has changed. A user has far more computers now than she had then.
Re:Google Glass on Saturday Night Live
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:26PM (#5659818)
Or maybe Brin made an effort to learn English when he came to this country.
Re:Google Glass on Saturday Night Live
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:24PM (#5659811)
Does he find the concept of a keyboard, using our amazingly skillful hands to punch out letters, equally ridiculous?
Re:Enstitute, an Alternative to College for a Digital Elite
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:19PM (#5659784)
Vocational training costs less than 0.25 of college costs. So you can get retrained every 10 years in a new skill.
Re:How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:10PM (#5659750)
"the" language is then more of a loosely couples family of languages.
Re:How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:09PM (#5659746)
That is a lie. Some of the arguments are provided as global variables like $_, (no need to remember its name, since its value will be implicitly used whenever you omit a necessary argument) whose value is decided by something akin to Clippy choosing what seems most handy.
Re:How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:04PM (#5659728)
"Proper" MVC fashion.
Re:How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:03PM (#5659722)
It is insane to claim that R is a language of repeatable science.
Python is barely better.
None of these languages come anywhere near a reliable verifiable formal model of what they claim to compute.
Re:How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @04:59PM (#5659715)
You tried to make a too-strong statement and then backed down when honesty got the best of you. Perl has a philosophy, not a design.
Re:How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @04:58PM (#5659712)
Perl 5 has no spec, just a bunch of features that seem helpful. It has a philosophy, not a design.
Re:Taxodus – mapping assets offshore
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @04:57PM (#5659704)
FL has no income tax because it doesn't want retirees to rip off wage earners. It is clearly not a play to attract portable businessz since it has almost none.
Re:Taxodus – mapping assets offshore
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @04:55PM (#5659695)
If you don't want someone spending our money, you just don't give to them. You don't need to hide money to accomplish that goal. Marriage is a joint partnership, and anyone is free to not enter into one.