Comment Re:Short answer: no (Score 2) 400
Nice graph. You'll have better luck with 'javascript' than 'java script' though.
Comment Nice "helpful" count (Score 1) 432
I find it revealing that the "was this review helpful" counter is near 700, when the other reviews have a count below 10... I, for one, clicked on it, in a futile attempt to teach that hotel about the Streisand effect and how not to treat customers. The hotel didn't even bother to reply to the review...
Comment Non issue with duplicate scrabble (Score 1) 202
The best way to remove luck and improve learning is to play duplicate instead. Letter scores don't need to be balanced.
Comment Cooking for geeks (Score 1) 372
Discover sous-vide, either with a SousVide Supreme (http://www.sousvidesupreme.com/) or an immersion circulator (e.g. http://www.waterbaths.com/products/sousvide_products.html). The supreme is fabulous for slow cooks (3 days beef ribs).
Comment Re:I really don't get the anti-w3schools.com snobs (Score 2) 138
I seriously question the web expertise of anyone who snubs w3schools as a "terrible", "painful" resource for web development. However, there isn't a resource that is more user-friendly than w3schools on many of the web topics.
I seriously question the web expertise of anyone who snubs w3schools snobs. I'll note that experts don't need user-friendly, they need accuracy, both as a reference level and as a guide for best practices. Check http://w3fools.com/ again...
Comment Re:But that's not the real problem. (Score 1) 1651
"If you ditch the need for helmets, more people would start cycling"
I simply don't believe this.
It is clear that mandatory helmets makes bikesharing much less popular. Check what happened in Melbourne. Other places are looking into changing laws for this reason in particular, e.g. http://www.ibiketo.ca/blog/helmets-may-protect-your-head-mandatory-helmet-laws-will-likely-make-cyclists-less-safe If you've never seen the impact of bikesharing on a city, you should visit Paris or here in Montreal; the number of bikes you see in downtown is quite impressive.
Comment He got the results he wanted (Score 5, Informative) 202
At least the message was understood loud and clear... It took a couple of hours and a commit to Rails was made to change the default:
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/641a4f62405cc2765424320932902ed8076b5d38
Comment Re:An example of the whole calss cheating. (Score 1) 437
That's insane. How about the students in the second and third classes that didn't cheat? And about the students in the first class that didn't distribute the tests, what were they supposed to do?
Comment Re:Snobs don't get jobs (Score 1) 897
You need to drop the Microsoft hate if you actually want to be employable.
[citation needed]
Seriously... I am sure I am not the only one with a career in development (20+ years) without any experience on anything Microsoft.
The Proton Just Got Smaller 289
inflame writes "A new paper published in Nature has said that the proton may be smaller than we previously thought. The article states 'The difference is so infinitesimal that it might defy belief that anyone, even physicists, would care. But the new measurements could mean that there is a gap in existing theories of quantum mechanics. "It's a very serious discrepancy," says Ingo Sick, a physicist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who has tried to reconcile the finding with four decades of previous measurements. "There is really something seriously wrong someplace."' Would this indicate new physics if proven?"
Comment Re:That's rich! (Score 1) 171
He's suggesting using the Java virtual machine, not programming in Java. Ruby's current implementation is notoriously slow, although this is resolved with the latest version of ruby (with the production version just around the corner)
