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Funny how now matter where they start out, just about everybody who attempts to take on the 3x+1 problem eventually ends up in pretty much the same place: http://xkcd.com/710/

On the subject of "slightly" shady, let's not forget Barclay's enabling (via a questionable naming rights deal) of neighborhood-killing, taxpayer-fleecing eminent domain abuse, eit…

So where do coffee, espresso, & teas (black, green) fit into his Harm Matrix?

Here's a related article about the SSTK debut: http://seekingalpha.com/article/916861-ipo-preview-shutterst...

Not quite there yet, hopefully, but I am occasionally feeling some numbness and tingling in certain spots, and would really like to make sure my condition doesn't "tip" into full-b…

Ach so!

But the phrase so muß auch sometimes is used in causal contexts; for example: Sind zwei Zahlen gegen irgendeine Zahl prim, so muss auch ihr Produkt gegen dieselbe prim sein. [1] Or…

For senior positions, I will ask a question early in the 5 minutes that is a complete tangent and has little to do with their goal. A star candidate will politely refuse to go down…

What bunkum. OK, let me qualify: Vinyl (when played on commodity equipment) does, almost unavoidably, suffer mild (or worse) analog degradation. This is why (if you're of a certain…

That's because CDs, as everybody knows, just don't deserve any better. Vinyl, meanwhile, practically calls out to be not only protected, but loved .

Umm, polite sarcasm, anyone? The fact of the matter is, the hypothesis that "whiteboard skills == mondo real life developer skillz" is pretty much an unspoken, and utterly unquesti…

Heresy!

Well the trick is not to "memorize" the rational approximation, but to derive it (or rather, the CF approximation to it) directly from first principles, i.e. using the analytic pro…

invulnerable to dirt and damage Yeah. Who'd'a thought they'd end up being even more perishable, & way more disposable than vinyl....