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Since you're using Biblical language, I just want to point out that you're not Biblically accurate. Murder isn't the original sin.

Yes. But I'm adding that learning methods should be explicitly taught, to where they become second nature to the student.

I'm may be a little off-topic here (but I don't think so). In my opinion, elementary school (grades K-5) should really focus a good deal on rote memorization, but only if this focu…

They're telling us that iPhones are going to be getting so big, we're going to have to buy it its own custom pocket.

I worked for a small company that had a project with Bloomberg. We went to the office downtown, and being the clueless Upstate hick that I was, I saw the text-based UI up on a scre…

I'm nostalgic for an old World Wide Web (which never really existed, thanks to GeoCities and such), and wish that we could form a sect of "Puritans," break away from the High Churc…

I'm 58, and have needed reading glasses for the last 10 years. Want to try something fun? Increase your default text size on your iPhone, and then just watch how many apps — native…

Back in 2011, Apple removed apps that crowdsourced warnings about DUI checkpoints. It remains Apple's policy today. According to Grok, "In March 2011, four Democratic senators—Char…

Is Objective-C discussed at all?

Unless I'm mistaken, I remember some years ago the Apple Store blocked a DUI Checkpoint app. Has that changed?

My understanding is that your characterization is true of the Articles of Confederation, but not true of the Constitution. The federal government's power is delegated from the peop…

I'm not going to downvote you. But Rawls never applies. Rawls is a big scam. At root, it is relativism wrapped up in the august raiment of state-of-nature social contract theory, w…

Exactly. Children belong with their parents. And if their parents don't belong here, then Q.E.D.

I anthropomorphize A.I. not for its sake but for mine. I figure that my brain has evolved to interact with other humans, so maybe my thinking is better stimulated when I pretend I'…

The fact that this would require a constitutional amendment makes me think this is more about collecting names to later pester for money than anything else. I wouldn't even take it…

It's sad that late-binding languages like Objective-C never got the love they should have, and instead people have favored strongly (or stronger) typed languages. In Objective-C, y…

Sunny's. I know it was actually a dance bar. I hung out a lot at Rooney's and sometimes the OMI. On the one side of Sunny's was a gym. On the other side was a Sears catalog showroo…

Graduation weekend 1989 at SUNY Fredonia, my housemate's father was visiting. We were four guys sharing an apartment right next door to the biggest party bar in town. At some point…

OOP dweeb here. Since "Door" is an object, shouldn't the behavior be encapsulated and accessible to the client only via messaging? Then, we have "open", "close", "lock", and "unloc…

So, the trick here would be to purchase a ticket with a major airline, pack a no-no in your carry-on, and then bypass TSA security by adding yourself to the Known Crew Member list …

As my good fortune would have it, I'm called to jury duty two weeks from now. I doubt I'll be sat though. Should I be, I'll keep the above in mind.

"Candid Camera" required people to sign a release for the scene to be aired, no?

I agree. Inflating the money supply (for example, via cheap credit policies) distorts the economy and creates malinvestment. Unadulterated consumer demand is eclipsed by the artifi…

I also don’t understand people on a tech forum not being more sympathetic about the economy’s troubles. Is tech not in a recession? That’s ludicrous. Tech is in a bad way.

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