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nijkon You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping

What is the difference between a disorder and being a dick? What if I have Assholegers? Is that less acceptable than Autism? Why?

(Aspergers is no longer a disorder, it got rolled into autism.)

nijkon 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...

nijkon 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?

nijkon Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’

That is someone's theory? That's what 'onomatopoeia' means.

nijkon Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’

Could you convert your example to phonetic english? Spelling is one thing, pronunciation another.

nijkon 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.

nijkon The Food-Truck Business Stinks

I didn't know about Wafels and Dinges until today. Are they any better than roasting them at home?

http://m.ny.eater.com/archives/2008/04/fw_wafels_dinge.php

nijkon The Food-Truck Business Stinks

Random enforcement is fair play, and efficient. Biased enforcement is corruption.

nijkon The Food-Truck Business Stinks

Interesing. Emitting Grill smell is an externality that should be taxed.

nijkon The Food-Truck Business Stinks

What does affluent have to do with it? Affluent can afford highly regulated trucks. Working class can't.

nijkon 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.

nijkon 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.

nijkon 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.

nijkon Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)

Since you don't have a real Turing machine, why would you care? Your computer is not Turing machine.

nijkon Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)

Heh. JavaScript was famously invented in a week.

nijkon 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.

nijkon 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.

nijkon 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!

nijkon Was Joel wrong?

He wasn't wrong then. The world has changed. A user has far more computers now than she had then.

nijkon Google Glass on Saturday Night Live

Or maybe Brin made an effort to learn English when he came to this country.

https://www.google.com/search?q=emasculating

nijkon Google Glass on Saturday Night Live

Does he find the concept of a keyboard, using our amazingly skillful hands to punch out letters, equally ridiculous?

nijkon Enstitute, an Alternative to College for a Digital Elite

Vocational training costs less than 0.25 of college costs. So you can get retrained every 10 years in a new skill.

nijkon How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)

"the" language is then more of a loosely couples family of languages.

nijkon How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)

That is a lie. Some of the arguments are provided as global variables like $_, (no need to remember its name, since its value will be implicitly used whenever you omit a necessary argument) whose value is decided by something akin to Clippy choosing what seems most handy.

nijkon How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)

"Proper" MVC fashion.

nijkon How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)

It is insane to claim that R is a language of repeatable science.

Python is barely better.

None of these languages come anywhere near a reliable verifiable formal model of what they claim to compute.

nijkon How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)

You tried to make a too-strong statement and then backed down when honesty got the best of you. Perl has a philosophy, not a design.

nijkon How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)

Perl 5 has no spec, just a bunch of features that seem helpful. It has a philosophy, not a design.

nijkon Taxodus – mapping assets offshore

FL has no income tax because it doesn't want retirees to rip off wage earners. It is clearly not a play to attract portable businessz since it has almost none.

nijkon Taxodus – mapping assets offshore

If you don't want someone spending our money, you just don't give to them. You don't need to hide money to accomplish that goal. Marriage is a joint partnership, and anyone is free to not enter into one.