Comment Re:Possible badges for good code (Score 1) 353
UHF! Only saw it once, probably 15-20 years ago, and still remember that line...
UHF! Only saw it once, probably 15-20 years ago, and still remember that line...
I can highly recommend Ben's book "Bad Science". I bought a copy for each of my family members for the holidays. It gives a very realistic overview of the current state of medical research, both from the "mainstream" and "alternative" medicine worlds.
Well, I am a statistician, too.
I hesitate to say too much about a poll where I am not privy to its final aims, but it seems quite plausible that the point of this poll was to decide who Americans admire the *most*. It looks like they got a pretty clear answer to that question. It would be very hard (i.e., require so many respondents) to design a poll powered to differentiate between each possible candidate at some alpha level.
So, I don't share your criticism of this poll as much as the summary in this article.
I've been able to stop watching almost all television, save live sports. One American football game or baseball game is about 3 hours including the breaks, so it's easy for the TV time to start adding up. I usually don't even care which team wins, I just enjoy the contest.
Living alone, I often just have the TV on while I do other things, like clean or cook.
Get ready for McLizard.
Cool, I actually used TiddlyWiki before I found org-mode
Plus, I use it for more than just organizing information. Like writing reports and authoring HTML and PDF content with embedded R code for example, which obviously is not the point of TW.
Org-mode is essentially to organizers as Emacs is to text editors, i.e., slowly becoming a platform of its own.
Two org-mode posts at the exact same minute
All this and it's Free Software, too. The mailing list and community is one of the most responsive out there. I've heard many people say that learning emacs is worth it just for org-mode alone.
Check out http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.php for more use cases and tutorials/talks. Incredible piece of software, cannot recommend it enough.
Emacs org-mode (http://orgmode.org). Your life in plain text. Nothing else compares.
You sound like you'd benefit highly from Emacs org-mode (http://orgmode.org), which functions not only as a day planner and TODO manager, but a plain text authoring system. You can export to many targets, including both LaTeX and HTML. If you haven't seen it yet, definitely check it out, the community is great and the project is growing daily. The latest big inclusion is the ability to embed executable source code for literate programming.
UHF reference! Totally forgot about this awesome movie until now.
Didn't their society end up collapsing? Yes, the human race went on, but with quite a gap in the ideals of that culture.
Well, it's $5 a month. Lots of people spend about that at Starbucks every *day* of the week, so I don't it's really a show-stopper price...
No, we use 'x' over here, too.
Well, no one was born knowing what the equals sign represents. In fact, it's been around only for 500 years. My personal opinion is that until we start forcing graduates of US Education programs to take at least a little math beyond passing out of algebra, the cycle is doomed to repeat.
FTFA, 'Parents and teachers can help the students. The two researchers suggest using mathematics manipulatives and encourage teachers "to read professional journals, become informed about the problem and modify their instruction."'
Uh huh, see point 1 = 1 + 0 above.
The Lund's grocer I shop at in Northeast Minneapolis does it just this way. Another reason I feel justified spending 20% more for my food
The fact that they bag your groceries is another reason. It's common in MN to have to do it yourself.
Happiness is twin floppies.
