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Have you done any thinking about hard mode? Getting trapped in a 'deep' pattern (?ight: e, f, l, m, n, r, s, t, w) too soon seems like a problem. But this is way outside my bailiwi…

That's a big fast 'citation needed' for the initial claim. I'm not sure where this idea comes from, but it's wholly false, at least at the myriad of colleges I've worked with, and …

How did ratings replace tips in an actionable way as a consumer?

I have a student who's doing some great work but so far when he's looking to host that work on a VM, gets hit with the "Must be at least 18" limiter. Is there a good cheap/free hos…

Reminds me of CodeCombat https://codecombat.com/play/level/codewarrior (which also allows multiple languages)

I like how Ken Jennings dealt with the 'Go complexity' analogy: "Go is famously a more complex game than chess, with its larger board, longer games, and many more pieces. Google’s …

Remember the "more wood behind fewer arrows"? That's slim Google. Alphabet is Larry & Sergey missing the more arrows.

Really? Lots of people regularly switching their detergent?

"Spotify Free, Unlimited, and Premium accounts are for personal, non-commercial use only." I can't imagine it's being done illegally regularly. It would be way to easy to identify …

"MandlebrotSetPlot" feels a bit too cheat-y

I was about to link this story back to Path of Exile folks given what's happened there. When I saw your post, I looked at your profile - nice that you're here! For what it's worth,…

As these get smaller and smaller, we get closer and closer to a dog pod grid: Aerostat meant anything that hung in the air. This was an easy trick to pull off nowadays. Nanotech ma…

If were're doing great first lines, I think you have to include: Shakespeare's Hamlet : "Who's there?" Kafka's Metamorphosis : "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams…

yes, there are no '57 * 86' examples, which would be counting intersections for quite some time.

If you can't see why that makes sense, I'm concerned for you. You may disagree that it's the right approach, but to say it's not sensible strains credulity. (As to the idea that in…

These laws were established in the 1930s when factories would establish franchisees in (what was to them) low-value regions. As they grew more valuable, they would move into the re…

The way the stores are currently set up (or: at least the one in San Diego), the employees can't sell you a car and they don't make any commission or 'referral bonus' or such. It's…

Texas wanted to be admitted to the union as a slave state. But the Missouri Compromise established the 36°30' parallel as the northern limit of slavery for new states. So Texas gav…

http://monkeys.arelikefacebook.com/ less-than-stellar image retrieval

It's the Shepard–Risset glissando, for what it's worth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone

"It's Mary's birthday in 3 days - send her a birthday cupcake?" I would probably click "yes" if it's Not for every FB 'friend', but there's a 'sufficiently close' threshold where, …

I was really hoping he'd respond to the law school student along these lines: "Well, where in your class did you graduate, and why did you think you'd have job prospects as a lawye…