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I suspect that the issue here is that either the VP was insecure or that the engineer said it in an accusatory way (or both). In all likelihood, the engineer meant "that approach/i…

Depending on how large the company is, how it is structured, and how long they have been around, it might be the first time they've had to facilitate this exact transaction. It is …

The optimal mode of locomotion in an aquatic environment (at least for medium-to-large animals that find themselves neutrally buoyant) represents a similar evolutionary minima/desc…

And any hands for Google Reader? I don't think any other tool has had that level of impact on my content consumption, prior or since. It was everything it needed to be and not anyt…

Speaking for myself; one of the most meaningful pieces to me was understanding the "why". For example, if you read a cookbook, it will tell you precisely "what" to do. A good cookb…

I think this is particularly true in the sense that woodworkers (like software people) can make much of their own tooling in their native media. Nothing I've seen on youtube is a b…

Absolutely not. I suspect that the folks in admissions had more than enough 800's (from all walks of life) to choose from admission-wise. Their balancing act was trying to offer co…

I'm glad this distinction got teased out. I find that it rarely does. When people discuss the merits of Diversity (capital D), the implication is that they are referring to the val…

I read an article a while back, probably a couple of years (sorry, I can't find/cite). The observation in the article paints this "theft" in what they perceived to be a cultural di…

Barcelona is particularly awesome in this respect. Historically, it was a few distinct villages. Then during a period of growth each of those separate areas were connected by a mod…

I had the odd, but unique, experience of taking "Computer Engineering" and "Formal Logic" (a neurology/history-of-thought course) during the same semester. One observation from tha…

...and phone number and physical address and all of the other "real-life" metadata that is commonly defined but disparately stored/leveraged/shared.