Comment Re:OK enough (Score 1) 300
Violence is a tool. You're just a pussy.
Comment tribes from Ceasar's Conquest of Gaul (Score 1) 722
Helvetii
Suebi
Veneti
etc
Comment Re:Mark Cuban (Score 1) 427
WSJ is a socialist rag, even after Rupert bought it. It's still not as bad as the commentary on Bloomberg, which tends to run to the left of Pol Pot.
Comment The real question is... (Score 1) 191
What happens when you stick the iPhone up your ass? How many bars then?
And iPhone owners can't say they haven't tried, cuz how else would they have put the phone next to their ears!
The Rise and Rise of the Cognitive Elite 671
hessian writes "As technology advances, the rewards to cleverness increase. Computers have hugely increased the availability of information, raising the demand for those sharp enough to make sense of it. In 1991 the average wage for a male American worker with a bachelor's degree was 2.5 times that of a high-school drop-out; now the ratio is 3. Cognitive skills are at a premium, and they are unevenly distributed."
Submission + - Hotmail users get a clean start to 2011 (pcmag.com)
nycguy writes: Hotmail users may resolve to find a better email provider after finding their accounts have been reset, starting yesterday and continuing today. Microsoft's support forums are choked with complaints from users whose accounts have apparently been erroneously reset due to "inactivity", causing all saved emails and folders to be deleted.
Comment Re:well then fuck those companies (Score 0) 794
your argument is null and void.
Anyone who makes this kind of assertion is, at heart, a fascist. So, zeig heil and welcome to the club!
Comment Re:Where is the Constitution? Where is due process (Score 4, Funny) 529
Is the US government out of control and operating outside the bounds of the Constitution?
Thankfully, our President was formerly a professor who lectured on Constitutional law. I'm sure he's going to sort this one out for us ASAP.
Comment Re:Earth to Obama (Score 3, Interesting) 175
Obama is an appeaser in the Neville Chamberlain mold.
There's an important distinction: Chamberlain loved his country. Obama loves the world.
Comment don't worry folks... (Score 1) 227
Bush will hold King Abdullah's hand while Obama bows to him, and everything will be OK.
Comment If only... (Score 1) 244
...Microsoft really would buy Adobe, they could show them how to really make something exploitable!
Comment Re:Put your money where your mouth is? (Score -1, Flamebait) 335
I hate what Muslims have done to the airport/airplane experience. So much so that I am on personal boycott of all Muslims (unless forced to for work). I know it won't do anything but I do it on principle.
I agree.
Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book 306
mykos writes "Remember when the Pentagon said they were arranging a taxpayer-funded, government-sponsored book burning a couple weeks ago? Well, they made good on that threat, purchasing 9,500 copies of the book to be destroyed. The publisher, St. Martin's Press, has redacted anything the Pentagon told them to redact in the upcoming second run of the book. They Department of Defense has not yet paid for the burned books, but says they are 'in the process.' Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. April Cunningham gave this statement: 'DoD decided to purchase copies of the first printing because they contained information which could cause damage to national security.' Whew, looks like we're safe now."
Comment luckily for me... (Score 3, Funny) 483
I put Facebook on my shitlist.
Comment tags and search (find/grep) (Score 1) 235
I would just put each set of experimental data in a separate subdirectory. Within each subdirectory I'd put a file with specific name (e.g., "description.txt") in which you briefly write up exactly what the experimental data is, how it was generated (e.g., if generated by a program, give the arguments and/or pointers to input data), and some keywords to allow it to be indexed/searched. Then I'd use your standard OS search tools to find the description file(s) you're looking for, thereby allowing you to locate your data based on its description rather than some brittle directory hierarchy.
I have a pretty standard setup for generating experimental data in my work. Whenever I run an experiment (which are usually simulations), I have a wrapper script that generates a random (meaningless) subdirectory name, copies my simulation binary and configuration to that directory (so I can reproduce the results later in case either my simulator code or its configuration changes), and prompts me to enter a description of what it is I'm simulating, and asks me to provide some keyword tags. The only way I can find the data afterward is to search the description files from the last step, because the data is otherwise just in a randomly-named directory.
Of course, this scheme depends on you doing a decent job of describing your data and providing keywords, but I don't think you can get around that with any technique. At some point you have to inject some human labeling/categorization. Directories and symlinks are just a pretty restrictive way of organizing things.
I have a pretty standard setup for generating experimental data in my work. Whenever I run an experiment (which are usually simulations), I have a wrapper script that generates a random (meaningless) subdirectory name, copies my simulation binary and configuration to that directory (so I can reproduce the results later in case either my simulator code or its configuration changes), and prompts me to enter a description of what it is I'm simulating, and asks me to provide some keyword tags. The only way I can find the data afterward is to search the description files from the last step, because the data is otherwise just in a randomly-named directory.
Of course, this scheme depends on you doing a decent job of describing your data and providing keywords, but I don't think you can get around that with any technique. At some point you have to inject some human labeling/categorization. Directories and symlinks are just a pretty restrictive way of organizing things.
