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Very helpful, as I always get a cold when I start to exercise again, and end up giving it away. Also, colds being a phenomenally successful disease, I wonder if not impairing the m…

linked TED talk: "Can we domesticate germs?" http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_ewald_asks_can_we_do... I think there's no reason for infections to be harmful. Why not an infe…

In the aftermath of a wave of criticism, his company collapsed. One breast cancer charity that parted ways with Mr. Pallotta began producing its own fund-raising walks, but the net…

Crows "finding" money is problematic, as it might not be "lost"... intelligence (evolution, flow of water, etc) has a way of finding the shortest path. It seems tricky to specify t…

An editor is more like a "toy" than a "game" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407816 ), because it lacks goals. This “toy” should be the core mechanic of the game minus any go…

True, especially for the many people who make one attempt, fail, and stop. Though if you look at people who make several attempts, and who learn something from each, I think the pr…

Interesting. It also happens with people newly infatuated with OO, esp design patterns . I think this is a natural phase of learning - when you first grasp a new concept, you use i…

interesting linked article about Oxytocin, a hormone and neurotransmitter: http://www.reuniting.info/science/oxytocin_health_bonding

thanks, but Hulu says "not available in your country" :( oddly enough, the colbert report's own site is happy to share it worldwide: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report…

Adam Savage is a very funny guy, and a true geek. That didn't come across for me on mythbusters. "You can only clean up a messy room by picking up one thing at a time, you can't th…

It's the planned spontaneity that makes the "Anyway." slide work. His setup and delivery of this line is so enthusiastic, natural, sincere that it couldn't be planned... yet there'…

There's an issue of need satiation. Once a need is met, further improvements can't be absorbed. Like water when you aren't thirsty, it doesn't matter. Hardware helps performance - …

Examples of successful Strong DSL (ie. standalone) are James Gosling's project for satellite control (I think it was), which he did so that users could make their own changes witho…

I got exactly the same impression from my compilers class, especially for parsing - it's a bunch of techniques, which vary in their applicability. I still have that opinion, after …

Abstracting (too much), it's violated expectations - like broken promises, people really don't like it. Taking a tangential step, computer automation is similar when it purports to…