Back in the days of dot matrix printers and fan-fold paper, when programs were generally more linear and debuggers less sophisticated, I found that sometimes...
... Programming is not about computers, but about logic. The computer is merely a medium for computations (logic and math) I think what's different today is...
... That possibly goes back to the thing Alan was talking about: programming "with your eyes shut", or without thinking. For all sorts of problems, once I've...
These two articles had a nice 'progstoney' feel to them.. Speculation on how Kerviel committed his deed. Based on my very limited experience, this sounds...
... Damned if I know. Some system of lies I guess? I know money is meant to help people do commerce. Because it's better to trade gold for goods, than...
``Indiana University researchers are studying a ground-breaking theory that young children are able to learn large groups of words rapidly by data-mining.'' ...
Well how does this compare to suggestology they demonstrated learning 300 words with their method, 500 for experienced users and their experts were going for...
There's an article <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/magazine/17play.html?pagewanted=1&ref\ =science> in the NYTimes (registration required) discussing the ...
Have you ever noticed, that people tend to gang up to do the wrong thing? The story usually goes like this: Inventor A, says a new cool idea. Random Crowd...
... [..] ... Ordinary folk F, G and H, who have fairly usual aspirations (earning a living, keeping their family happy), and no particular need to assert their...
... That's a whole lotta reply. Anyhow... I agree with you that running around trying to make people feel better... is not being caring... it's just... some...
How about manufactured schizophrenia in the 1800 - a group of stooges follows the mark chatting about their personal stuff and scaring them in 1990 infra sound...
I think it got a bit discussion here before ... the answer to that is Ghost Not -its a way lot easier to manufacture piles of knot poop and therefore most...
... I think this is happening. (Example: open source types have changed the playing field in the realms of software and online services.) But I also think it's...
... As Laing might have said, "just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you." ;-) Which isn't to say that some people aren't seriously...
... Well if you don't understand what a "Zen Master" is... why talk about it? Referring to someone else's definition is tricky, because other people can...
... I didn't say I didn't understand it, I said I couldn't easily define it. (It could be argued that nobody understands a state they're not in, but if so most...
... That's not really useful definition. Basically what you are doing is heresay. "It must be true, because someone else said so". How do you know there's any...
... I don't, but extrapolation from what I can already experience suggests it, particularly as extrapolations I made a couple of years ago are already being...
... Not really... one has no meaning without the other... if anything the fire is more important. But ultimately I like to get the best of both, not half of...
it seems to me that sometimes the inventor sets out to destroy the invention to get into the crew bent on doing that... so this is not an everybody persons...
Rat Park <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park> ``Rat Park was a study into drug addiction conducted in the 1970s by Canadian psychologist Bruce K. Alexander...
... I've seen another test like that one before, so I knew what to look for this time. Honestly, I failed miserably to see the gorilla in the first one I saw....
... The first time, I got distracted by the bear and lost count of the passes. Luca....
Luca Pellicoro
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... No, but like you I had a suspicion of what was going to happen. Also, let's be honest, I have a pathological disinterest in team sports, so I would never...
U.G. Krishnamurti, lovingly called UG by his friends and admirers all over the world, is no more. The end came on March 22, 2007 at 2.30 pm in an apartment...
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