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One thing I really appreciated as an non-practicing observer was the frequent reminders to consider safety concerns, e.g. try a door knob before forcing it, take care with how padl…

And you make less industrialized, more labor intensive forms of producing eggs or milk more economical than higher industrialized, lower labor forms.

Similar tool available for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/converter/ Just started using it, happy to be able to excise that bit of pervasive ignorance from…

Keep in mind that read-string, eval, and load-string are all exploit vectors. Read-string exposes you to the #= eval macro, which can execute arbitrary code at read time, as well a…

Verizon has so much bandwidth to get in and out of their network for broader internet bound and broader internet originating traffic. Netflix has to come in the off ramp that all t…

Clojure: Java is too complected.

The media industry created a way to sustainably undergo the capital expenditures necessary for high quality studio recording, and the mass production and distribution of physical m…

The example cited makes two decisions which are not articulated explicitly but are decisions one can make and which have benefits and costs. They are: 1) The function correctly exe…

One of Clojure's fundamental opinions, asserted by the language eagerly, is that vector quantities should be treated as values the way scalar quantities are in most languages. Spec…

The way I read it he's proposing two things: 1) Refer to the analysis of Root Mean Square Error always by that name. (RMS is already often used in certain jargon instead of stddev)…

The core point is the same: With sufficient test coverage, you can change one variable (Python 3 vs 2) and control for all others. Tests are not an end, they are a means to an end;…

BTC aren't quite tulips, but the criticism is well founded that it isn't yet a good currency. A perfect currency would possess the following qualities: Perfectly Fungible Perfect L…

The ring is still ambiguous. It is never characterized properly as a totem (Cobb never uses it awake, that we see). If you interpret it as a symbolic representation of his mental a…

As I read the article, the address is owned by DPR and the FBI seized the associated wallet.

Communist countries dictated by political fiat where labor resources were allocated, what industries would be engaged in, and how the capitalized wealth of the country would be rei…

In practice, Southwest airlines has one class of passenger. Everyone rides in steerage, but you can pay a little extra to jump at the front of the line and pick your favorite steer…

Objectifying women is rarely an act that people embrace with a conscious perspective or decision. It's a way of behaving that most people engage in because the culture they occupy …

When you include the women as a perk in an effort to tempt engineering talent, it's easy to interpret the mindset of the author of using women as objects. Even if the author ISN'T …

Say it's the exact same mechanism as evacuation slides. Patents in the U.S. since 1995 have had a term of 20 years, prior to 1995 it was a term of 17 years. The slides were initial…

He got whacked because he was being dismissive of people's objection to a business decision. He compared the business decision to engineering limitations (vacuums need AC out of pl…

There's a growth in both supply and demand, let's call them ds and dd. ds is relatively constant, though every 4 years it halves. dd is stochastic and gets influenced by how many w…

The recent spike in price is due to a recent drop in supply. The amount of BTC awarded from successfully mining was recently cut in half from 50 to 25BTC, and the difficulty rate h…

Communication happens over HTTP at the wire level, and we use the Server Sent Events standard ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events ), and particularly browsers' EventS…

full disclosure: I'm a Relevance employee and have been working on this a great deal. Pedestal provides a few distinguishing values in this space overall: - Same language on the cl…

I think there's a nice case of posterior-prior art.