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Incidentally, I came upon this restaurant site. Now that is a restaurant site done right: http://www.porte-sainte-claire.com/#home

10 minutes? What planet do you live in and how much is the rent for a one bedroom? :) If I wait 10 minutes I consider myself lucky, usually more like 30.

Make sure you wget :)

If you read carefully, I think that email was sent after they were supposed to meet at the coffee shop.

It's easy to make claims about branches of history that never occurred. It seems like an absurd scenario where computers weren't widely adopted, but it's not really so absurd if you think about it.

I wonder why they are not offering ogg vorbis support. Is it just not as popular? Are the files typically larger? Either way, it's a glaring omission imo.

I am surprised Apple didn't sue Finland for copyright infringement.

Agreed. The author has way too much time on his hands.

Hahaha this post is a troll.

There's a reason why the expression "feeding" the trolls is popular. Trolls only exist if you let them.

I will argue that simple text editor does not usually equal simple + powerful. Most "simple" text editors (think Notepad) are just plain simple.

Emacs seems quite simple to me, actually. Intimidating at first, sure. Complex to master, but simple to use.

Then again, there's an obvious difference between something that is difficult to learn and something that is difficult to use. In fact most tools require training at first to use them, and Emacs is not any different.

The above goes for me as well. You might not have meant for it to be that way, but you just happened to use a pattern of sentences used by people with hidden criticism quite frequently.

There's been a lot of comments saying something to the effect of "this guy does not understand the difference between full-time employees and contractors" or "people doing manual work should be paid less than employees."

Yet the author mentions:

"I found this social arrangement interesting, and ... decided to investigate the rationale behind Google’s decision to exclude the yellow badge class from most privileges the company has to offer, despite the fact that their labor ...[is] being contracted to Google by another company just like ... other informational laborers, the kitchen staff, the shuttle drivers, the custodians, and more."

It seems like what piqued his interest was that there seemed to be a disparity between the benefits of this particular group of workers and other normally considered low-skill work like the others he mentions.

string=? :)

Great--they should fix Linux Chrome's full-screen address-bar issue now.

Was anybody else annoyed that the video spent too much time showing the audience/presenter instead of the screen?

Follow up/related question: She mentions that the slides would be uploaded online. Where?

> The 55 miles is still at odds with Tesla though. On their website (http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/roadster-efficiency-and-rang...), at the bottom of the article they display a chart that claims a range of 75 miles even if the vehicle is topped out at 125mph for the entire charge.

You have to remember though, it would probably spend more energy braking and speeding up again than it would going top speed steadily.

Another important point you make is that Clarkson is indeed notorious for being opinionated and biased. The viewer must accept that to watch Top Gear. I think Tesla is over-reacting. Clarkson is not a friend of the environmentalists; they should have known that going into it.

And don't forget: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/karaoke.html In fact, for those that have not done so yet, just read his entire website: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/

Took Fundies a few semesters back and looking to take compilers with him next spring (they cancelled it this semester). Agree with what was said so far.

I don't teach math the way you are thinking about it though. What I mean by math is more like the way of thinking and not specific math concepts.

I mean they learn boolean logic but really it is more of gaining comfort with defining and working with functions, domain, range, and variables.

This has to be one of the biggest perks to being a Northeastern student. See some of you there!

I saw Conrad's talk a few months ago and I couldn't agree more. In fact I am attempting to put his theory in general by teaching math through programming at the moment.

I wanted to add a caveat to your confidence point though. We need to engender the right kind of confidence. A lot of kids are already confident, even arrogant. Yet it's completely unfounded since they are not actually acquiring human capital.

We need to promote the kind of confidence that comes from taking a hard problem, banging your head against it for a week, solving it, and repeating. The kind of confidence that comes from previous hard work.

It's not just that more class time in the summer would--if used appropriately--lead to more learning. It is also that better-off students learn much more over the summer than their poorer counter-parts. Thus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_learning_loss

But "controlling for poverty" is the same as saying "if you assume that the US was something else without some of its key flaws then"... Do you see that this line of thought goes nowhere?

While I agree that too much of a good thing is a bad thing, I disagree with the spirit of the article. Yes, children should not be adults. But let's face it, America's percentage of overbooked, stressed, kids is nothing compared to the overwhelming masses which are under-challenged and not interested in school or learning. The U.S. is so far behind in education--having school years much shorter than the top countries like Finland and Japan--that overworking our kids should be the last thing we are worrying about.

Malcolm Gladwell makes a point about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerted_cultivation] Concerted Cultivation in his book Outliers that I think is very appropriate to the topic at hand.

One more thought: If a child from China read this article, he would probably laugh. I say, work our kids harder! Damn punks...

I was wondering about this; why does it matter that it just launched...