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I would personally introduce mathematics into a CS curriculum through heavy use of computer graphics. Having an application for the knowledge makes it suddenly relevant.

If it quacks like a blog...

> because everyone is free to do whatever they want.

Citation needed.

> It's rare to find the man who realizes that everything he fails at is ultimately his own fault

Incompatible with the other claim.

If other people are free to do whatever they want, they are free not to cooperate with you. If you fail to get Megan Fox to want to engage in mating behavior with you, it may well be due to circumstances beyond your control, like not being her "type".

We aren't free. We have a lot of built-in unconscious drives that push and pull us in one direction or another. Our decision-making process is wired up through genetic happenstance and upbringing. Our parents, schools, cultures, and religions programmed us to a large degree and then turned us out into the world.

Sounds like a job for the Fun Police.

"Observance of 'Fun Time' will be strictly enforced."

> Facebook chat is a heavy erlang user

Heavy? They must be going by Facebook's user base, not amount of code (the system is a hybrid of multiple languages) or even actual usage (they just launched it, I doubt everyone has switched over from IM yet, if they ever will).

That's ironic in an Alanis sort of way.

Exactly why I posted it.

[ ] I really don't think... that's going to help.

[ ] Yes! Of course! That explains everything!

[ ] His site is messing up his site.

[X] Item #5489342 on the "Barriers to BulletBall Success" list

...shower?

A friend sent this to me. I thought it was a great lesson for entrepreneurs.

If I could channel that kind of determination...

If the above link doesn't work, try YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOw2yWMSfk

The official site: http://bulletballgames.com

Portable ACs tend not to actually... work.

> proposed

Being the key word. I think the more likely explanation is night workers eat more junk food since all the normal places are closed. They don't grab a salad, they grab drive-thru or donuts or similar all-night crud.

Day workers do that too, sure, but not exclusively.

About Thinking Machines:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Thinking-Machines.aspx

Surgery to implant a sense of humor?

It was causing me sleepless nights as well.

RosivdaXobni.com still available.

Ask.

> Surgery to give you 20/20 vision = OK, Surgery to give you 145 IQ = not ok?? Why?

In my case, both would be downgrades.

It has nothing to do with safety, it has to do with PR for the so-called war on drugs.

If they were legal it would be easy to find a doctor to supervise your enhancement regimen, making it safer. As it is, people still take them, without medical supervision.

And sports profit from that. How many millions did Baseball make off McGwire and Bonds breaking the home run record? Fan interest went way up. And NFL players are plenty juiced.

There are numerous types of steroids, with different side-effects and levels of safety. Then there are banned substances like HGH, which is extremely beneficial with no significant side-effects for most people in reasonable dosages.

Further proof it's a PR stunt and not about safety: Weed is banned. It's about a million times safer than getting sacked by one of those linebackers. If they care about safety they should switch to Flag Football.

Aren't insomnia and excitation the point?

Funny to see insomnia listed as a side effect of Provigil.

If you don't own them outright then your financial obligations actually give you less freedom. When you have nothing to lose, that's when you swing for the fences.

I don't really find that people get burned out working on their own thing. It instead seems to be when trying to do what other people think they should.

I nearly spit out my pacifier and fell out of my high chair when I saw PG modded below zero several times in one thread -- about Arc of all things.

It seems to be seasonal. Around YC application deadlines, even his offhand comments get praised as fonts of celestial wisdom.

So the constituency of the community here tends to whip around randomly like a man in a nude suit riding a dangling firehose, spraying mud and rocks everywhere.

Your 35 cutoff seems ridiculously arbitrary and ageist.

If anything, more experience means more exposure to more ideas and thus gives you an advantage in coming up with something innovative. There is more cross-pollination.

This is a function of time and effort and so only loosely correlated with age.

Isn't that a mouthwash?

A chat server? Yawn. And it's not for 70 million people at once, that's user base, not simultaneous logins.

AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, GroupWise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, SameTime, XMPP, Yahoo, this is a solved problem.

The only reason this is considered impressive is because so many other services have set the bar so low. This isn't rocket science, it just requires thinking ahead and designing for scale.

> vitamin B12

Cobalamin is added to any number of foods (usually in the form of cyanocobalamin), including bread, cereal, orange juice, soy milk, veggie burgers, soft drinks, and on and on. It is produced by bacteria.

I know multiple mothers who have breastfed while on vegan diets. It is trivial to get B-12, simply by taking a multivitamin, which they should do anyway regardless of diet (starting with prenatal preparation including folic acid supplementation).

I would suggest doing more research on the subject of veganism and discontinuation of spreading further misinformation.

> The point is that study after study shows that with just a tiny portion of animal protein, they end up a whole lot smarter.

You're confusing two separate issues. The key factor is that treating malnourishment of impoverished and starving African children is beneficial. This has nothing to do with whether they are fed concentrated protein from animals or plants.

> Your kids need animal protein right up until their brains are done developing. It doesn't have to be very much animal protein, as little as a teaspoon a day does the trick

This is utter nonsense on multiple levels.

1. Biochemically it doesn't matter what the source of the amino acid is. You can supply all essential amino acids from combinations of any number of plant sources.

2. "Vegetarian" does not exclude animal sources, as it typically includes milk and eggs. Vegan does, but that doesn't matter anyway, as per #1.

3. "A teaspoon" -- where did you come up with that rule of thumb? This is obviously superstition.

4. Brains require fats (especially DHA and EPA) and glucose. The human brain is 60% fat. Glucose is the fuel. Omega-3 fatty acids (DHA and EPA) can be supplied directly through microalgae oil, or converted from ALA in flax, walnuts, and other sources.

5. Human breast milk is only 5%-10% protein (by calories), yet during breastfeeding is when a human grows proportionately the fastest.

Stop with your protein myth and ridiculous child abuse nonsense.