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Relevant video of Philip K Dick discussing this very matter recorded at Metz sci-fi convention in France, 1977:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXeVgEs4sOo

Trying cutting down on wheat based foods. If you are troubled at night, don't have any dairy before going to bed. In fact have your last food several hours before going to bed.

Has Elon Musk ever said that he intends to land on Mars this way? I know that he has mentioned Grasshoppers launching cargo into orbit and returning.

Run your code in Production. Scaling. Robustness. Error Handling. Correct logging. These will all keep you up at night until your code is correctly engineered.

I think the editor must have removed the prefix "Preschoolers" from the title.

I can't believe that most people here haven't see the Dymaxion Map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

It's not a matter of winning or loosing. The pre-unicode mix of character sets was a mess when it came internationalization. Try truncating a Japanese Shift-JIS string in C. That will learn you..

How to win. Get in the middle of the 0 and drill a small hole with your own missiles up through the 0. From now on you will be safe and most of your shots initially will hit an invader. Once you get down to the last one it is a matter of timing.

If they break through the 0 and you are in danger, move under another safer part and drill a hole again.

I completed 9 levels and decided to give it a rest.

Those who remember this family of Software might see some similarity ;-) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userland_Software#Frontier Just look at the article for protocols that they introduced and popularised.

There's lots of other cool stuff under the hood that you probably won't notice at first, like:

- It's a not just an outliner but it's also a outlined chat/collaboration tool. - It's not just an outliner but it's also a Javascript programming environment. i.e. you can execute functions that that you write in the outlines. - It's not just an outliner, it's a front end to your blogging platform.

Also, don't worry about connecting it to Dropbox. It sandboxes all it's activities under the Apps/Fargo folder so won't go crazy with your files.

Already there is a lot to try out and hopefully this will be the new frontier that we have been waiting for.

I didn't and have had people say to me that they don't connect with current colleagues.

I also don't connect with recruiters until I have announced that I am leaving. I'll happily chat with them via private messages or give an alternative email address.

There is no benefit in the default behavior of having the system send all your contacts, including your boss and HR colleagues that you have made a new recruiter friend today.

My biggest gripe with LinkedIn is that recently, I made the fatal mistake of letting it look at my Gmail contacts. Getting suggestions for contacts who are already using LinkedIn was the intention but they invited anyone who had ever mailed me!

Up until that point, my contact list was limited to people that I personally knew and could recommend. Now, months later, I am still getting successful "contact accepted" replies from people that I barely know. I.e everyone who ever contributed to any mailing list that I was ever subscribed to.

I even got replies from people asking why I contacted them. I have no idea how many people remain to accept my invitation or even who they are.

What a disaster. It has changed for me, an early user of the site, what was a useful database of the people I know, to now some random connection of strangers.

The worst part is the link to connect to Gmail still appears and I'm sure that it doesn't clearly indicate what it's intention is. So, if you have connected with an email provider in the past be wary of allowing it to connect again.

And yes, if you let any site connect to your personal data, expect the worst outcome...

They corrected the title: "Photosynthesis-like process found in insects": "The original headline of the piece incorrectly implied that the researchers had discovered evidence of photosynthesis in aphids. In fact, photosynthesis requires carbon dioxide to be 'fixed' and turned into organic compounds."

That's exactly how I felt at 7 in 1975 : http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/viking/viking-20060714.htm...

Google Maps is one of my most used applications. Especially, in Tokyo, it is a lifesaver for finding routes or train times using the train system or by foot. The maps are excellent.

If it disappears, I will definitely get the Google maps application and if that is not available, an Android phone to supplement my iPhone.

I'm curious, how did you justify the return on investment of developing this? In most business situations, "Use Zoom to make the font bigger" would have been the boss reply.

I almost always have to seed Version 1 as a stealth project or weekend project. Version 2 is more likely to be approved once it has been shown useful.

OmniFocus: I love the way I can assign a todo to location context and have it pop up automatically when I next visit that place.

In the end, the app or site doesn't matter, it just matters that you have one list that is always available. I'm still looking for a waterproof for the only exception to the single list.

1) Work with a large company for a few weeks. You'll see hundreds of areas where there are inefficiency and problems to be solved.

2) ...

3) Profit.

I have become an Data Analyst after many years in Software Development. As a team we are studying the DAMA DMBOK c.f. http://www.dama.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3345 which is the Data Management Body of Knowledge in order to become certified Data Management Professionals.

A Data Analyst might not be exactly what you want to do as you might be analysing a large Enterprise's data to find out about it's data's quality, what is the definition of the meaning of the data and whether it is the master data or a copy or derived from some other data etc.

It looks very a dry area of study initially but an awful number of real world problems are problems with data that fall into predictable patterns.

"Do I continue down the path of steady, stable employment in a field I don't hate but am not passionate about, or do I make the jump into a field that I love but doesn't offer the level of perks that my current job affords?"

This is the challenge of leaving a local minimum and getting out of your comfort zone.

May the Source be with you!

I have upgraded and a all of the CPU hogging problems I have been suffering recently have gone away. I am very happy with the upgrade so far.

I can't make the Bounenkai so I'm looking forward to up voting the Shinnenkai..

C.f Lion Kimbro's free Ebook "How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think" http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/nb/

Nice to see y'alls!

Doctors were quizzed, "Do you want to use a checklist?", they answered, "No.". "Do you want someone who is operating on you to use a checklist?", they answered, "Yes.".

If you read the book you'll find that almost everyone hates checklists but when used they cut down on mistakes and human error. The surprising discovery is not that they work, but the reluctance of people to use them...

Yeah, Goya looks like and tastes like something you should definitely not eat but is a great food when cooked, despite it's bitter taste.

Make sure one of the ads is for Firefox... :-)

#space when there is a shuttle launch or other interesting live NASA TV coverage

It can be advantage not to be fluent in English sometimes.

I have met many Japanese programmers who could not speak English but could read enough to figure out APIs from English documentation.

They were really great at debugging and figuring out difficult code that was originally written in the US as they did not get confused by broken comments and mislabeled variables. i.e. "cnt" didn't strike them as meaning "count" they looked at how it was currently used by the program without supposing that originally it was meant to hold a "count" of something.

I enjoyed reading the code from "Hacking RSS and Atom" by Leslie M. Orchard (ISBN: 978-0-7645-9758-9). There's a lot more to it than just RSS related code and if you read the book you get the explanation too.