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Same here. I'm with Heisenberg, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first."

Its the 80-20 rule in effect. Most optimization happens either by choosing the more efficient implementation or by better use of IO (see Efficient Persistent Data Structures). By t…

Twitter is working when proxied through Europe. Not working on the west coast of the US.

Global Variable? Make it go away!

To me this feels more like the head of the KKK suggesting that we should have a national conversion about the proper place of blacks in society.

It is not very obvious that this is an active site on the page.

Ok, I'l be candid, I never feel very confident in my ability to separate news from hype when it comes to medical innovations. Can someone with some experience in the field give me …

Are we sure that this should not be Carbon Monoxide rather then Carbon Dioxide. CO2 is the ideal result of complete combustion of a hydrocarbon. The only way it can be too high is …

Here is a good rule of thumb. Three feet is about the swing of a car door. If you can park next to another car and your passenger can get out without denting the car next to you th…

22 other states say 15 MPH is reasonable in that situation. Our Governor was not so sure and would not let the bill through with an actual number in it.

I commute by bike in city traffic daily. With a standard 13' lane a passenger vehicle can pass a bicycle riding comfortably in on the right edge of the road with 3 ft' clearance an…

Starting Tuesday, there is. California's "Give me three" law goes into effect. However in a standard 13' wide lane a passenger car and a bike not forced off the right curb by parke…

Check your privilege driver dude.

Water in SoCal _is_ very expensive. The problem is that by the time you make it expensive enough for the country club set to need to conserve, the rest of us can't afford to flush …

Most could come from the money diverted from existing anti-poverty programs. The rest could be made up by the increased taxes collected on the jump in spending by those receiving t…

Generals are easy to fire and rarely have direct effect on the day to day operations. A new general may attack today instead of tomorrow, but it will be the mid-ranking officers wh…

BASIC on the TRS-80. I was 8.

excepting that the logic at the end of the article is justs as incendiary -- and just as flawed.

The most sited example is ActiveRecord where finders can be auto-generated. For example `find_by_name_and_address` will be defined on the fly the first time it is used in code. Ano…

Hot Dog! The best Americans (US Citizens) are the children of immigrants. I wish I had a way to prove this, but for now take it as my opinion. By and large immigrants (legal or no)…