penetrator

Thank you, Google!

"Each expedition pushing farther south was a humble affair involving tiny numbers of small ships."

small, iterative steps

"Soon after the middle of the century, the Portuguese learned by repeated experience how to navigate out of sight of the (northern) Pole Star."

learn something new and integrate

the benefit of expedition was not only about trade, they also learned how to navigate

just raise pro price

I should've gone to The Creative Circus, GA instead of Georgia Tech

New song and artwork every release

I doubt those two are used to gain market share ... maybe openbsd is just pure fun

don't buy ASUS if you're a programmer because of their newer keyboard layout (right_shift, up button, Fn button are aligned)

my right pinky, instead of punching right_shift, always accidently press up button (in vim it's mutable, but in console it throws me out of flow every time)

Older ASUS are fine, they have big, wide right_shift button

if it's all about bots, why the US&UK CTR is 1/10th?

aren't US & UK markets more lucrative too to bots makers?

I suspect someone somewhere has CTR statistics for certain keywords on certain regions and kind of map it out. Bot makers may have ILLEGAL access and probably do it to avoid suspicion.

i sat on an mba class for a week or so, and they taught y=ax+b and talked, talked, talked about this simple linear model the whole week. you guys remember 'beta' ? -- they emphasize as if that variable can explain everything.

i dropped out of that course the next day. i felt mba classes are just too easy and would dull me. it might be better these days, but i doubt it beats the math stats courses i took.

couple years later i talked with a friend who took mba because he was not confident. he said the mba math is joke and does not compare to ee courses he took.

i wonder if the mba uses simple tools to solve hard problems. if that's the case, it's like a bodybuilder try mining with spoon. a lanky guy with pick will produce more.

it's hard for me to imagine that the first apple computer would be have been created if woz insisted on using a large cinema projector, much less two projectors

he hacked a regular tv instead, and that's how apple was born

time for an OpenTED

there was an assignment to print 10000 random number.

a guy used excel, put a formula into cell A1, and drag it to A10000. file-print ... presto ... wait for 200 pages or so

i wrote a one liner matlab and printed the result in about 20 pages

i just happened to know little bit of matlab -- and that's all needed to 'beat' the competition by 1000%

'The decision of whether to buy a lottery ticket shouldn’t be based on the probability of winning, or the expected return of a ticket, but on the entertainment value that comes from imagining a different life.'

sounds like college, s/entertainment/networking

let's not forget about the real tax from winning and the payment. govt always wants his share and the lottery won't pay in lump sum.