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The tone in that post by Feldman makes my skin crawl. I hadn't heard of him before but I don't think I could ever read anything he's written now. Is he always like that? ICK.

Yes, but what's important is the rate. Power is the measure of calories per hour (or joules per second). Fat (and food in general) is extremely energy dense, but that energy can on…

You only get that result in python by importing the decimal library. The standard behavior in python is (.1 + .2 == .3) == False However, your code example makes the excellent poin…

This reminds me distinctly of this onion article: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694 It's great that he doesn't watch television (except that he does, he just gets it throu…

I agree. I doubt I'll be able to invest the time to truly compete. But I definitely plan on creating something on the simpler end for fun. And if I can get a bot going that doesn't…

The standard starcraft AI was always pretty pathetic, even after Blizzard's attempts to make it more challenging. My guess is that in the subset competitions (1 - 3) the sc AI woul…

I think this is a great idea. I haven't read more than the description page yet, so i don't know if it's possible either, but I think that if it is possible then that would be a gr…

Your comments ring very true to me. My father decided he'd rather stay in a relatively low chemical engineering job rather than push up the corporate latter into a black tie manage…

I don't have any references for you, but my middle school and highschool required graphing calculators. And they very strongly pushed the ti-83+, claiming that students would be ho…

From the Freehacker article I surmise that it's Plura Processing ( http://www.pluraprocessing.com/ ) "[...] in fact was announced on the Digsby blog as an official way they are goi…