The media has been placing the blame for the imperfect oath on the Chief Justice, but the fault appears to be with the President. In the clip of the Vice Presidential oath the first phrase is "I [name] do solemnly…
You're approaching it from the wrong perspective. English is the lingua franca. If your colleague were really nice, he would translate his message into Hindi, but that isn't an effective use of time. Neither is writing…
On a related note, whuffie is not a new invention. There is no difference whatsoever between whuffie and money. They are perfectly synonymous. I get the feeling the author, and many of his readers, seem to believe that…
Really? I take your point to mean that two smart people can communicate better using obscure vocabulary when they are communicating only between themselves. High baud necessarily implies higher average information…
Wrong answer. (Though a true statement.) The tests are scaled differently. That's all there is to it. http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/GRE/pdf/gre_0809_interpreting...
Funny, I heard a rumor that the only people who got 800s on the verbal section were foreigners. (Read: people who can't speak English.) The explanation was that they were the only ones willing to invest enough time to…
Yes, and let's not forget that a generalized test is still useful at the graduate level, for a variety of reasons. The one that comes to mind when you mention subject tests is that people sometimes switch disciplines. I…
Airline recap: entirely focused on operations, always on the brink of collapse. Operations consist largely of optimizations problems, so lots of attention is paid to these problems (peanuts vs. pretzels). For whatever…
It's bad scholarship. A political ideal is an extremely complex object. All he's done is cherry-picked five filters through which to view it. He's taken a very big n-dimensional object and inspected a handful of the…
Sure. Here's the execution tree necessary to "Hello World" in Cocoa---at least as given in the Apple tutorial I followed. It's possible to cut it down, but only after you've digested all of the material Apple lays in…
rationalization / post-hoc. If you were setting out to make the next MySpace or Craigslist, would you consciously decide to make it ugly as a competitive advantage? Ugly designs happen by accident [re: neglect] and in…
Having just learned Cocoa, I can tell you that you are not stupid, the design of Cocoa is stupid. Design patterns are stupid, hence baking them into a language is stupid. And Interface Builder is very stupid.…
Any material that requires only 5-10 minutes of unbroken concentration is too superficial to be worth your time. If you can, take something else, if you can't, consider taking a bad grade and focusing on something else…
1. Rerolling the dice is still a faster (and thus better) way of solving this problem. 2. He could've used the time he spent writing that article to release a free dice rolling iPhone app that implements his special…
Writing this I actually had the Nobel prize for Literature in mind, which I feel, along with the Pulitzer, has been largely coopted for political reasons. Were I to suggest to a person of average talent the surest way…
These days the best way to get a Nobel is to devote yourself to liberal politics.
OK, I'm going to send you a list using XML. Now how do you propose we do that? This is entirely the problem. The XML didn't solve anything. We still have to negotiate the terms of the transfer. We've agreed to use XML,…
XML is an embarrassment. It solves no problem: not even the problem of agreeing on how to represent data. The only thing it does is give programmers something recognizable to fiddle with, however irrelevant to the…
Generations from now our scholars will be lumped in the same category as alchemists and geocentrists---much to their discredit.
The bubbles represent the size and importance of the field. This is an accurate depiction of what science is like today. Science and Nature are filled with articles about medicine and biology and chemistry and physics…
It's obvious, to me at least, that hygienic macros are generally preferable to unhygienic ones. It's also clear to me that macros are an atypical way of thinking about programming. And yet I have a hard time seeing what…
There is still debate over whether slaves worked harder even than other paid farmhands. The last great volley (slaves do) could be said to have won its author a Nobel Prize.
There are two common ways to justify patents: 1. They help the public by encouraging inventors to publicly document their inventions 2. They protect and encourage inventors by giving them control over intellectual…
>This might be better titled "Chronic sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor" The original title is better. It makes perfect sense. It expresses the same meaning. He is clearly referring to the phenomenon of…
I once read this suggestion and was very surprised by the result when I applied it. My 'equity valuation' of someone was often in direct contrast to my 'general appreciation' of them as a person, and to such an extent…
The media has been placing the blame for the imperfect oath on the Chief Justice, but the fault appears to be with the President. In the clip of the Vice Presidential oath the first phrase is "I [name] do solemnly…
You're approaching it from the wrong perspective. English is the lingua franca. If your colleague were really nice, he would translate his message into Hindi, but that isn't an effective use of time. Neither is writing…
On a related note, whuffie is not a new invention. There is no difference whatsoever between whuffie and money. They are perfectly synonymous. I get the feeling the author, and many of his readers, seem to believe that…
Really? I take your point to mean that two smart people can communicate better using obscure vocabulary when they are communicating only between themselves. High baud necessarily implies higher average information…
Wrong answer. (Though a true statement.) The tests are scaled differently. That's all there is to it. http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/GRE/pdf/gre_0809_interpreting...
Funny, I heard a rumor that the only people who got 800s on the verbal section were foreigners. (Read: people who can't speak English.) The explanation was that they were the only ones willing to invest enough time to…
Yes, and let's not forget that a generalized test is still useful at the graduate level, for a variety of reasons. The one that comes to mind when you mention subject tests is that people sometimes switch disciplines. I…
Airline recap: entirely focused on operations, always on the brink of collapse. Operations consist largely of optimizations problems, so lots of attention is paid to these problems (peanuts vs. pretzels). For whatever…
It's bad scholarship. A political ideal is an extremely complex object. All he's done is cherry-picked five filters through which to view it. He's taken a very big n-dimensional object and inspected a handful of the…
Sure. Here's the execution tree necessary to "Hello World" in Cocoa---at least as given in the Apple tutorial I followed. It's possible to cut it down, but only after you've digested all of the material Apple lays in…
rationalization / post-hoc. If you were setting out to make the next MySpace or Craigslist, would you consciously decide to make it ugly as a competitive advantage? Ugly designs happen by accident [re: neglect] and in…
Having just learned Cocoa, I can tell you that you are not stupid, the design of Cocoa is stupid. Design patterns are stupid, hence baking them into a language is stupid. And Interface Builder is very stupid.…
Any material that requires only 5-10 minutes of unbroken concentration is too superficial to be worth your time. If you can, take something else, if you can't, consider taking a bad grade and focusing on something else…
1. Rerolling the dice is still a faster (and thus better) way of solving this problem. 2. He could've used the time he spent writing that article to release a free dice rolling iPhone app that implements his special…
Writing this I actually had the Nobel prize for Literature in mind, which I feel, along with the Pulitzer, has been largely coopted for political reasons. Were I to suggest to a person of average talent the surest way…
These days the best way to get a Nobel is to devote yourself to liberal politics.
OK, I'm going to send you a list using XML. Now how do you propose we do that? This is entirely the problem. The XML didn't solve anything. We still have to negotiate the terms of the transfer. We've agreed to use XML,…
XML is an embarrassment. It solves no problem: not even the problem of agreeing on how to represent data. The only thing it does is give programmers something recognizable to fiddle with, however irrelevant to the…
Generations from now our scholars will be lumped in the same category as alchemists and geocentrists---much to their discredit.
The bubbles represent the size and importance of the field. This is an accurate depiction of what science is like today. Science and Nature are filled with articles about medicine and biology and chemistry and physics…
It's obvious, to me at least, that hygienic macros are generally preferable to unhygienic ones. It's also clear to me that macros are an atypical way of thinking about programming. And yet I have a hard time seeing what…
There is still debate over whether slaves worked harder even than other paid farmhands. The last great volley (slaves do) could be said to have won its author a Nobel Prize.
There are two common ways to justify patents: 1. They help the public by encouraging inventors to publicly document their inventions 2. They protect and encourage inventors by giving them control over intellectual…
>This might be better titled "Chronic sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor" The original title is better. It makes perfect sense. It expresses the same meaning. He is clearly referring to the phenomenon of…
I once read this suggestion and was very surprised by the result when I applied it. My 'equity valuation' of someone was often in direct contrast to my 'general appreciation' of them as a person, and to such an extent…