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Escape from my golden handcuffs

"We work in a sort of strange field where intelligence and ability are highly prized, but some of these same qualities made some of us victims of aggression and abuse earlier in li…

Excel is really, really bad at what it does. It won because of Microsoft's former monopolistic position. Lotus was much better. Most of the heaviest users of spreadsheets just buil…

I see most people in our democracy voting for what they "know" over what they have evidence for.

Kiss her now!

That's nothing. The Øresund (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98resund_Bridge ) was built Lego style in Spain, shipped piecewise and assembled on site.

"Creative approaches to maths are usually verboten in education" I will quote this.

TB = TeraByte RAM = Random Access Memory I would have thought TB and RAM were easier than RHEL and NUMA.

Couldn't agree more! I will quote you in the future.

This. I agree completely. Get a bright kid to know other, possibly brighter kids in an environment that values them.

Yes, it is. I was involved in this kind of things before dropping my Ph.D. Have a look at biobricks, for example: http://biobricks.org/

An associative array: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_array

Couldn't agree more! English bizantine writing system is a major drag. Sadly a spelling reform doesn't seem possible at the moment.

They are middleware, They enable others to make something, build something.

You cannot change a fundamental law if you have a Democrat or Republican agenda. You need a broad consensus, only achievable if you focus on the big issues. Say that you are trying…

Elections in Spain are not rigged, but the quality of Spanish democracy is very low. There are three main points: 1. Electoral Law: In Spain votes are counted according to D'Hondt …

This is exactly what I was going to say.

I+D => Research and Development Subvention => The government gives you free money if they believe that your startup is "good". In practice, there is some corruption (example: I wil…

It's a trap! (Sorry, couldn't resist)

My brain, mostly.

Same thing happening in Spain, I left in 2007.

This question was originally asked at Barrapunto, a Slashdot clone in Spanish: http://preguntas.barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=10/10/27/1045237 I'm interested to see what HNers thin…

The main reason for your downvotes is that you are not waving the U.S. flag. Also, you go against the idea that only democracy can deliver prosperity. Both things will earn you dow…

It took some fiddling with my old email archive but I found it, Joe Hudson was my teacher: http://www.pronunciationlondon.co.uk/joe.html http://www.anenglishaccent.com/author.html …