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I've been through Clojure Programming, The Joy of Clojure, and Programming Clojure, and this is the one I'm recommending. The review hits on many of the reasons, but I also particu…

I don't have a handle on the Python implementation landscape, but the various Rubies all regularly contribute to rubyspec[0] and report on how they're doing. And with rvm[1] it's i…

Not only does Safari work, it uses this user agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Sa…

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I'm guessing it's internal, but made one of their marketing teams. ( http://www.notesondesign.net/inspiration/advertising/google-... )

Whatever comes of this paper specifically, it's been a very entertaining couple of days to watch this unfold.

I only looked at the colors/fonts/seo section, and the quality there is abysmal. Web safe colors shouldn't really be a concern anymore. This was the real winner though: http://cent…

See also this story of a biologist thinking that even fruit flies have free will: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1532077920070516

I was thinking about legal monopolies or companies barely profitable by virtue of tax credits/breaks or companies that don't have to follow certain costly regulations for some (leg…

Perhaps FexEx and UPS could "destroy" the USPS if they didn't have to worry about guaranteeing relatively quick delivery for envelopes from Kirby, WY to Boone, TN for the same inex…

This isn't copy protection, or even watermarking to identify who's "leaking the source". Hand-copying text is error-prone, and copies are often made from copies, so there's the cha…

Did you mean that you personally didn't like it? Or that it was objectively bad or unworthy of acclaim? Yes, there are people who think that Catcher in the Rye was "a load of rubbi…

Typically, this sort of pattern means that "low income" includes low income students across all races, that's the only selection criterion for that group. The "white" group will in…

Why would courting a woman need to be couched in terms like "creating attraction", and why would it need to be as efficient as possible?

But the fact that "many psychological studies suggest" that intelligence (not IQ specifically) is changeable makes this a different scenario than outright lying to students as in y…

In that case, /([^@]+)@(.+$)/.match("foo@example.com")[0] returns the whole string matched by the expression, and [1] and [2] return the first and second groups. That's why the thr…

It seems like it would only work for subjects where students have the capacity to figure out errors on their own. It would be disastrous in a foreign language class if you were tol…

The stripe is perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic field of the galaxy and not in line with the ecliptic plane. The interview I heard here ( http://ww.npr.org/templates/t…

They're mostly gimmicky because they were all made for a middleware contest. Even their gimmickiness doesn't really go against the goals of the contest, the primary one being "to e…

In a slight twist, and one that may only work for small classes of highly motivated students, I took a set theory class where the professor would sneak an impossible question into …

There are a couple of reasons I'm not a huge fan of plans like this. I have a friend running for state legislature under a similar goal (though only district residents would vote o…

I used to work for a online golf tee time company, and you're absolutely correct in saying that building a better online reservation system wouldn't be that hard (the bar is pretty…

From your first post (and my real contention): > Placebos aren't working better because people have more faith in medicine, they're working better because of the Hawthorne effect; …

To be blunt: citations needed. The article not only talks about conditions that are clearly mental (depression) and ones that are arguably mentally related (IBS), but also ones tha…