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So simple that only a child could do it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA-dMSDPFhA

I don't think you understand what "Not invented here syndrome" means. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here What I mean is that Google always has to do things the Goo…

It does certainly smack of "Not-Invented-Here Syndrome," but compared to the Dilbert like project management culture of my job I rather admire it. I've just been getting in to gene…

Holy %*&% -- I didn't know kuro5hin was still around... Seems like semantic web stuff today is Prolog on the network. I still need to learn it at some point.

Wow. Not often you see troll bait featured as an actual post.

Sorry for the generalization shimi. I thought for awhile about how to express that idea and couldn't think of a good way. But you're right, education and/or intelligence are not th…

I always thought this kind of thing was always done by uneducated postal workers and the like. Pretty disheartening to see a fellow engineer act so stupidly. Time to reconsider get…

If you're stuck in windows like I am at work you really need to try MS Powershell. It works great. I'm just as comfortable with it as I am with bash at home. It's object based scri…

Dell has billions in cash too; they get that way from not spending... Crazy times to be looking for work knock on wood

Strang is the man. I actually bought this textbook to supplement my Calc III textbook because I was having a hard time (prof being crap didn't help). So I bought this text (which h…

I think he's saying that he IS an Apple employee (that eats at BJ's) not that he overheard it. The the patent link below seems to indicate that he's dead on.

Based on what you wrote you would hate Courant and Robbins What is Mathematics? , too rigorous. I think you would enjoy Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg and Ca…