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More power to him. When I was young and skinny, I started noticing effects at a sustained 60 miles/week. I really don't think he's setting a dangerous example, because most people …

http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/William_Butler_Yeats/3...

"The science is clear, for example, that although the female brain isn’t designed to compartmentalize personal feelings the same way a man’s brain does, a woman can--if she chooses…

The once and present (or is it once and future?) governor's father made that proposal 40 years ago...

"What I’m trying to emphasize is the increasing lack of critical thinking instigated by easy access to information that can be readily searched for on the internet." Thirty years a…

School districts in New Jersey aggressively police residency, using detective at times, though I don't know that it has ever come to the point of a criminal case there. My impressi…

Or sometimes don't. For sufficiently large joins, a hash join that ignores indexes can save you and a nested loop on the index kill you.

Next up: Why "Why X Y or Superior" considered harmful.

I use emacs, and almost always write for Windows. If I need a GUI, I use PythonCard.

A relative who works in an HR-related field sees a lot of persons with Phoenix degrees, and is generally not impressed.

cheeseship?! Better edit that one quick before the Pythonistas get you.

Actually, I learned it chiefly because what it would do for me on Windows: a REPL plus access to COM. Need to bash around Excel spreadsheets & do funky regexp stuff? Done. Do I lik…

Now your edit is a phrase that would make a great tee shirt!

De Tocqueville made similar remarks, obviously based on the history of War of 1812. For that matter, consider the Civil War: Grant and Sherman were out of the service at the start,…

"philosopher and technologist": ACM offers a paper on "Ontological approach toward cybersecurity in cloud computing". Evidently the PHB is more on target than usual.

"Under the pre-1978 copyright law, you could now teach history and politics using most of Toynbee's A Study of History (vols. 7-10 were first published in 1954) or Henry Kissinger'…

It appears to involve a pop-up offering to let me download Google Chrome. I should have known the Googlers would be in on this...

My sample of the US is not large, say between 50 and 100 households in a country of 300 million persons. It tends to be skewed towards the more educated middle to upper middle clas…

Read only the Zadie Smith one, thought it was a crock.

There was a very good piece on this posted to HN this fall. Wish I could remember the source...

Balderdash. Mr. Rendell should get out for a walk and do some calculus to calm himself down.

Has Gates's influence in primary education been helpful? That is not clear to me.

With all due respect to Spielberg and Lucas, who are so proficient at what they do, is "genius" really the word? I think of Joe Theismann and "There are no 'football geniuses'. A g…

I had to Google for the terms, making me, I suppose a Trogdolyte programmmer....

Your spelling is correct.