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Comment Re:Lovins is a crank (Score 1) 442

Long history of publications... http://www.rmi.org/ [rmi.org]

There are some real gems in there, among them:

* Urgent Memo to Biotech Pioneers: Life is More Than a DNA Sequence
* Unpublished letter to the Economist (note the use of 'begs the question')
* Applied Hope
* Hypercars, Hydrogen, and the Automotive Transition
* Roadmap for Natural Capitalism

Literally, a guy named Lovins writes papers about applied hope. Great.

Comment Re:I hate to inform you (Score 1) 371

Let's just start getting rid of psotions at random, and see how the wheels of commerce and science moving, That's my point. My "lowly custodian" keeps the trash and conference rooms clean. Try going without that for a few months, and you'll respect what he does for a living. And the exalted pure mathematicians probably wouldn't even have work if there were no applied mathematicians to implement it. Or else .....shudder.... they would have to do the applied part.......themselves

Yes, yes, you are superior to those pure mathematicians and people who don't respect janitor positions. Good job.

Comment Re:I hate to inform you (Score 1) 371

The fact that you called the custodian 'lowliest' belies your claim that you respect them, or consider their position equal to that of programmer.

Besides, my gp post wasn't talking about respect to people, it was talking about whether you respect their position. Pure mathematicians respected Von Neumann the man, even though they considered him an applied mathematician; and applied mathematicians respected Von Neumann the man, even though they considered him a pure mathematician.

Comment Re:Check your arithmatic (Score 4, Insightful) 214

Body temperature is 99F degrees, so 85 is nice and cool.

Pretty sure there aren't many people who agree with you that 85 degrees is nice cool walking weather......if you're thinking about bringing cool water with you, then it's not 'nice and cool'. Also, if the thing that comes to mind is Death Valley ultramarathons, that's an indication that it might not be 'nice and cool.'

Comment Re:Cascade of brown noses (Score 2) 235

At least it has a REST API so you can update Yammer entities with HipzZap and Plinkus. We use them with our federated QUERTOS hive at the shop, which replicates the Yammers to Wo0tgrams for iOS (or Kafoom posts on Android).

You must be a Javascript developer. Polymer beats angular and node integrates with coffescript poorly, but oh my mind is twisting painfully.

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