Viewing profile — jcdreads

I like that everyone is trying to make something like SQL that reads more naturally to them. More alternatives is good! SQL is a widely accepted standard, and has strictly defined …

My response to this question or to "Are we there yet?" has always been, "Yep, we've arrived! Hop out!" Best delivered while the car is still at speed for maximum frustration. (Also…

I miss DabbleDB greatly. I once made a real meals-and-visits schedule signup sheet app for a sick relative (dozens of folks signing up for slots over days, etc.) in about 20 minute…

Generation [ obviously.

Any wrist-mounted Fitbit will do this, even the tiny ones without a screen. I've been using one as my only alarm for about a year, and it works great. Disclaimer: I work for Fitbit…

I have rolled an extensive (purpose-built) general data quality system at work, and would love for there to be a general purpose tool that does the same sort of thing. I would love…

Fanta is one kind of coke that I didn't see much growing up. My brother and I used to argue about whether Orange Fanta counted as a coke. He thought it wasn't, because it was orang…

It is almost entirely big city. Most American cities, considered by themselves, would be over there on the left with Washington. Here's a visualization of this; mostly bluer cities…

The Project Euler problems might be right up your alley. They are little programming exercises that start easy and rapidly become harder. Along the way you figure out enough math t…

Ah. My refusal to read press releases about scientific papers when the original is available bites me again. The press release is definitely less useful, and the quoted coauthor's …

a) Didn't downvote. Downvoting ones discussion partner seems rude. b) It is possible that I'm being dumb: where in http://www.stanford.edu/group/hadlylab/pdfs/Barnoskyetal2012... i…

It's sarcasm. (viz. George Carlin, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGOBm2J4tn0 at about 2:20 in; the whole thing is classic Carlin at his most abrasive.)

The authors do not say "drastically lower our population very quickly" anywhere in the paper. The closest I can see that they come to saying this is in the conclusion, where they t…

Full text of the speech: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/wellesley/2012/06/youre_...

Why choose?

_"At any time"? Do you mean "With a court order"?_ A National Security Letter would do just as well, and at least two years of data need to be at the government's disposal. Without…

http://xkcd.com/933/

Primary source: http://www.quantumnano.at/

Without addressing the merits of either copyright or patent protection, I believe you're confusing the two. Folks around here tend to believe that software patents are bad; the vie…

I was amazed watching the video of Bret V. using a tool like this, but even given those expectations I'm impressed with how cool this is to use. Thank you very, very much for showi…

This is fantastic! I've been ephemerally plotting my GPS tracks for a few years (though I'm only up to about 1.6M points), but the thought of publishing my tracks on the open inter…

Drivers in most U.S. states (I can only speak for VT, PA, and MA) are required to carry liability insurance in order to drive legally. The amount varies. Robot drivers are a new an…

Anyone thinking of doing Swing programming (or, indeed, Swing programming at all) should check out the seesaw library: https://github.com/daveray/seesaw It makes a great deal of th…

Thank you very, very much for this. Note: Installing failed for me until I replaced git:// with https:// in two places in script/deps. Then it worked.