trothoun

If you think QA is ever complete, then it is clear you have never worked on a QA team. You can always come up with new ideas on how to break things.

If this really was his personal decision, then he would have written the press release, and the chairwoman would have issued a press release expressing support.

This is going to come back to bite us when the political winds start blowing the other way. I'm disappointed in how short sighted our community has proven itself.

Umm... there was some collaboration. But characterizing it as "free" seems rather optimistic. Even the present reduced degree of collaboration represents, I think, a much closer tie to between the two countries space programs than ever existed during the cold war.

http://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/coldWarCoOp.html

And even scientists can really only be be deeply familiar with the experimental basis for a few narrow fields of study. For all the rest, they too have to take it on faith.

I used my clamshell feature phone to login to my home pc via ssh. Granted, the typing experience was pretty painful, but it did work. People seem to forget that 'app stores' have been around a lot longer than the iphone. It's just that the earlier versions of app stores, carrier decks, were managed by carriers who cared a lot more about preventing apps from interfering with their business than they did about providing their customers with good, useful apps. And they ran on operating systems that were customized or custom written by carriers who saw them primarily as a marketing tool useful for pushing their more expensive services.

http://www.midpssh.org/

Demos like this are cool, but they make me think that we'll never see a non-toy visual programming tool. Even a fairly simple bit of logic quickly becomes an incomprehensible soup of interconnections.

edit: Thinking about it a bit more, whats lacking in all the examples of visual programming I've seen is a clean way to build abstractions. It would take a while to learn to efficently read and style visual code just like it does with text based code. That I think i could get used to. The thing that I find alarming is the prospect of manipulating an ever growing graph.

I think this is why all of our recent presidents seem so similar once they are in office. They all have the same dirt on them. As with information revealed in the pentagon papers, I don't think we have much hope of decent governance until the cancer is excised.

Yeah, I have to agree I tried looking up demographic information about Chongqing and Chengdu and while they do seem to be growing, I didn't see anything that could explain a growth of that magnitude. Maybe it's an artifact of some interpolation method he's using? The source data he linked to seems only to go to 2000, so I'm not sure where the data for 2005 - 2015 came from.

Germany is both a big importer and a big exporter of dairy products. I guess this indicates that there isn't any substantial cost associated with cross border trading of these products?

For a good motivated treatment of calculus I'd recommend going back to Isaac Newton's Principia. It is surprisingly accessible, and really quite beautiful.

Fortunately, TI continues to provide this to many students.

It's not just on "factory farms" where animals raised for meat are considered temporary. If you are going to slaughter a pig in 18 months, you probably are going to be disinclined to form emotional bonds to it.

It may not be a hoax, but it is definitely wishful thinking.

Like SEO :)

Presumably that 1% is continuously depleted by facebook's detection and deletion of fake accounts and continuously replenished by the creation or subversion of new accounts. A high turnover rate may drive the proportion of fraudulent activity on facebook still higher.

This is also why Brazil is heating up so much in terms of start-up interest. It has a large population speaking the same language with significant income and a single government. And its government tends to be somewhat less nervous making (at least in some regards) than China's.

With the notable exception of 1968 Democratic National Convention[1] I'm having trouble finding any news coverage of multiple injuries at a RNC or DNC. Care to provide references?

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Conven...

Also, a possible visit from the FBI for incitement.

They also like cases that are purely questions of law, they tend to avoid cases that have unresolved questions of fact.

The other thing is, it's not just the US that benefits from the status quo. Lots of allies get to ride on their coattails.

Shame appears to be the spiderman emotion. Interesting.

So it is indeed ambiguous, and it would make sense to clean up, in a vacuum.

hmm... that seems analogous to saying that it's proper behavior for a compiler to silently delete references to uninitialized variables.

Hasn't it been something like a decade since Sprint was last profitable? How do they have the money to do this?

Not to nitpick but artificial selection in plants started a lot earlier than Mendel[1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture#Developm...

I found this[1] one to be particularly reassuring.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/NROL49_pa...

Would examples of large, unsuccessful marketing campaigns, be equally strong evidence that marketing does not affect our perceptions of cultural norms?

If the urls are guessable then someone could harvest images without having been given urls by authorized users.

Maybe they could do something like the Spirit and Opportunity rover's balloon mechanism to make it safer in case of accident. It would still be heavy, but it wouldn't be hard and it would have much greater air resistance so it would fall slower. Or maybe they could have helium canisters that inflate a balloon big enough to offset a portion of their weight. It'll probably be difficult but it seems like there are a lot of possibilities to explore.

Maybe they are building a blacklist from the applicants and will post the real job description later.

If this were true I would be more at peace with the world than I presently am.