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That is not my experience at all. To be clear, that is they were bad and they have gotten better. I’m also pretty strict about plan-then-code, so maybe that helps. I realize it’s o…

Imagine a city where the schools woefully underserve minority students. Despite equal budgets etc. there is a persistent gap, probably due to income gaps but that’s not the point. …

GWB got heat for extralegal extraordinary renditions. Obama solved it by just killing them. I guess we can’t ask the dead guys if they’d prefer to go to Guantanamo.

For a large compulsory survey course, a well written multiple choice test should suffice. If the test is well constructed, teaching to the test should cover exactly the required ma…

Give the author a break he is hopefully coming to the realization that your job is not where you should find meaning. If your in a role where it might, some doctors, some teachers,…

Yeah - I kept looking for the meat of the argument. The graph of random data looks a little correlated and I’d love to know why. That being said I loved the mercury/Glasgow explana…

If that’s truly the case, why aren’t they offering to be absorbed by national labs. That’s what we do for dangerous biological and nuclear work. Oh wait they want options and share…

What’s the point though? To save prospective renters time? I’ve lived here for 30+ years, rented for more than 20 and why would anyone ever rent an apartment without seeing it in p…

Honestly my takeaway from this is that simple experiments like this are very important in identifying how brains work. I am admittedly a fanboy of Feynman, but I believe these kind…

The Visible V-8. That made it well into the 70s.

When I was a kid, my friend's dad was an engineer at Grumman, and he took us to see a test in their supersonic wind tunnel. The most prominent memory, is how unbelievably loud it w…

“What can I do to resolve this?” “Hmmm. I cannot go back in time, but if you’d like I can sit quietly with a contrite look while you spew abuse at me for 10 minutes. Does that work…

“Are there any ambiguities, open questions, or hidden assumptions in spec? Please think deeply.”

The aggravating factor is that in the event of an incident there’s simply not a feasible means of evacuation.

I happened to read Trollope's The Way We Live Now , which is a fantastic take on the railway mania, at the height of the dot com bubble. Really increased the enjoyment to read abou…

But they were largely convicted and jailed. One absolute moral abomination of a human is responsible for pardoning them. (Thanks founders!) The disparity in sentencing is likely th…

> FOSS licenses were obviously written in the spirit of sharing with humans. That may be true, but I don't think it's obvious. What don't I know about the history of OSS?

Pretty sure even under DPA, taking without fair compensation would be a violation of the takings clause of 5th Amendment and wouldn't withstand legal scrutiny. If they wanted to ge…

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It was required at my first job in 1989, for entry level actuaries. In fairness, part of job performance was passing the actuarial exams, the first two of which were calculus and s…

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Why aren’t you still there?

If he were my Uber, I would tip so much.

My understanding was that your body was absorbing some amount of whatever electromagnetic stuff passes through you for the image. And the techs have told me it’s nothing to worry a…