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"Stop looking works for two reasons.
One, already mentioned, when you are looking, it's hard to meet a new girl without doing something stupid out of infatuation, excitement, hope or despair. If you let these emotions take control, they will keep..." [
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7 days ago
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"Christ, what an asshole.
If you give the same asshole vibe in person as you do in writing, and you were sneaking in my class, I would decide that you needed to be taught a lesson and advise my director that he prosecute you for theft of service...." [
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13 days ago
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"Read "On Writing Well" by Zinsser, especially Chapter 12 on interviews, and Chapter 21.
Every outstanding teacher has a special sauce. What is his? What has he discovered about giving a good lecture that nobody else is knows (yet)...." [
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2 weeks ago
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"Logitech is a consumer electronic company that also does speakers.
Bose is a marketing company that employs some engineers to come up with gimmicks that sounds good in an ad. They also do speakers.
Altec Lansing is a speaker company that also..." [
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"Breaking your articles into pages makes a huge difference on how much information you get about your readers from the your server log. If you have many pages, you can distinguish between readers who looked at the title and moved on from those who..." [
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"I do research on programming languages, on type systems in particular. The most beautiful connections between program languages and natural languages I ever encountered involve delimited considerations.
Chris Barker's paper on Continuation in..." [
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"There are two questions related to this that show up on askMe.
1- "I tried to fix my girlfriend's computer, as a surprise, and now it won't boot anymore, and I think all her data is lost. Help me fix it before she comes back. I have an hour...." [
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2 months ago
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"Standard deviations = sqrt(1/n * sum[(xi - mean(X))^2])
Mean absolute deviation = 1/n * sum[ | xi ? mean(X) | ]
Everyone works with standard deviation. Why? The formula for mean absolute deviation is simpler, no?
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2 months ago
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"I can't seem to find any actual legal or economic basis for saying that companies must be unethical to profit.
Economically speaking, the contrary is true. The belief that profits are unethical created 50 years of economic misery in India...." [
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2 months ago
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"I lost the usage of both of my wrists to the pain you are feeling now. I am dictating this message with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, because it would be too painful type it directly.
Go read this post I made about a year ago to another fellow with..." [
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4 months ago
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"In high school, mathematics feels of rote learning and execution. I loved math. I was good at it and I felt its power. It wasn't until University that I discovered it is also a creative endeavor. You need creativity to make a difficult proof go..." [
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5 months ago
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"If I'm not mistaken in your central question has not been answered yet. What are Smalltalk, OCaml, Lisp, Prolog, and Haskell well suited for?
First, fear not, none of these languages has anything to do specifically with math.
I wrote many..." [
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5 months ago
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""Not Responding" means your program may or may nor have gone into an infinite loop. Unfortunately, neither Windows nor anyone can tell whether it has. c.f. The Halting Problem...." [
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5 months ago
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"At the same volume level, you get: I=V/R, so half the resistance, twice the current. P=IV, so twice the current, twice the power, and so 6 dB more sound. To convert from Watts to decibels add 6 dB for each time you double the power.
You should..." [
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5 months ago
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"You should remember it is quite remarkable that self-made programmers exist at all. A self-made chemical engineer would be laughed out of the resume stack.
I believe you have severely under-estimated the difficulty developing professional-level..." [
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6 months ago
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"In order to step away from television, you have to step towards something.
It might be studies, work, a hobby, a project. Once television is out, you will have a whole of free time. I won't just fill itself by itself.
The couch in front of..." [
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7 months ago
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"I have a friend who keeps a log of how he spends his workdays at a 15 minutes granularity. It started back when he was a contractor, as a way to justify his time to his client. It became a tool to keep laziness in check, and to evaluate the quality..." [
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9 months ago
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"I've been in a lot of pain the last two weeks while using the computer. My right wrist just seems to be giving up.
This is ringing alarm bells to me. If it seems like your wrist are giving up, they already have. Wrist pain is not normal at all,..." [
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10 months ago
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11 months ago
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"A talk given at Google, by Merlin Mann, titled Inbox Zero, lasts one hour and will help.
Then you should read the book Getting Things Done, or at least read its Wikipedia entry...." [
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"Call bars and ask them if they have an apartment on the 2nd floor they haven't been able to rent because of all the loud noises from the bar." [
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"When I look at the statistics, I wonder how I survived 5+ years of commuting on a scooter without a scratch.
My father taught me to ride as if I was invisible. During my scooter years, I learned to be an intensely defensive driver.
The Hurst..." [
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"How to become better at programming...
How to become better at go...
How to become better at chess...
How to become better at math...
How to become better at intellectual puzzles...
...for dummies.
Coding is hard. The usual tricks for..." [
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"The statute of limitation is is 1/5 of the length of the relationship. In your case, it's about a week. He's in the clear.
The only thing worse than an ex who believes he has right to veto all your future lover is an ex that gets in bed with your..." [
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"porn up, rape down, apparently.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=913013" [
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"Cooking for Engineers' great kitchen knife test says buy a
Tojiro DP F-808 21cm Gyoto Chef's Knife for 50$.
I did, and it was great, and I bought another one for gifts...." [
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"Welcome to your first breakup. Yup, it hurts like a mofo, yup, it does that for everyone, yup, it's amazing anyone ever falls in love again after going throught that. But they do. The triumph of hope over experience.
Now is a good time to learn..." [
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