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Schopenhauer knew this - fulfilling our biological urges (to pair off and multiply) is in no way related to human happiness. Where biology and happiness butt heads biology is more likely to win.
I always saw Searle's Chinese Room as more of an attack on the Turing Test. Here is a room that will pass the test, yet is in no way intelligent.
Quality of girl counts for a lot.
I just learned enough awk to alter a tiny script written by someone else. It's so going on the resume.
Seriously - just apply to anything that sounds good - if they really are decent and the position is junior - or if it is a senior position it doesn't revolve around that particular technology - you can learn on the job.
for loops.
That's what she said.
Why the third degree?
Is no one else going to comment on how ridiculously long his tie is?
I haven't found a UI I liked that wasn't in a text editor.
improve Scribd so it doesn't mangle pdfs.
That is a truly horrible file viewer. Allow the user to define how they want their files. No lock in - whoever did this is evil or a moron.