nijk | 13 years ago | on: You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping
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nijk | 13 years ago | on: You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping
If you will wake up 2 hours earlier and wreck your long term performance for $40-$80/day...
nijk | 13 years ago | on: You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping
Are you familiar with the extreme effect to which sunlight affects human (and other mammals) systems biology?
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
That is someone's theory? That's what 'onomatopoeia' means.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
Could you convert your example to phonetic english? Spelling is one thing, pronunciation another.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
This is the sort of unscientific wishfulness that undermines the analysis.
And is directly contradicted by known animal behavior.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: The Food-Truck Business Stinks
I didn't know about Wafels and Dinges until today. Are they any better than roasting them at home?
nijk | 13 years ago | on: The Food-Truck Business Stinks
Random enforcement is fair play, and efficient. Biased enforcement is corruption.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: The Food-Truck Business Stinks
Interesing. Emitting Grill smell is an externality that should be taxed.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: The Food-Truck Business Stinks
What does affluent have to do with it? Affluent can afford highly regulated trucks. Working class can't.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: The Food-Truck Business Stinks
I actually don't know how ice cream trucks, with their hideous noise pollution, stay on the right side of the law.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: The Food-Truck Business Stinks
This where you win the billion dollar Internet sweepstakes for the first correct use of Beg the Question in a forum post. Well done.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)
There is a paper online that proves fermat's last theorem in this way, by exploiting the C compiler's ability to optimize away non-terminating code that has no observable state changes.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)
Since you don't have a real Turing machine, why would you care? Your computer is not Turing machine.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)
Heh. JavaScript was famously invented in a week.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Was Joel wrong?
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx_mobile.html
100 million account (including me)
4 million paying customers.
Which means, almost none of MS's customers.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Was Joel wrong?
It his hard and unreliable to get G Drive to sync files. Google does backup from your PC to web, and it downloads bookmarks from web to PC.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Prepare for new copyright crackdown: GDP to treat artistic works as investment.
Mods, please fix the completely bogus title. This is about cooking the books on inflation, not copyright.
Everyone, enjoy feeling 3% richer today!
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Was Joel wrong?
He wasn't wrong then. The world has changed. A user has far more computers now than she had then.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Google Glass on Saturday Night Live
Or maybe Brin made an effort to learn English when he came to this country.
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(Aspergers is no longer a disorder, it got rolled into autism.)