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Been done many times, and that stuff is gradually purged from indexes by user feedback.

probably a Serb/Croat "ije" thing.

No, they normally never control for anything that smells of class (like income) because if they do, the health effect disappears. There was a good recent case or rerunning a study and controlling for …

I think this is the most important question regarding online games on Linux, and aren't most games online these days? I think that the solution is radical: I think that as much much time and effort sh…

I own tools that I love and tools that I hate.

MochiWeb is a web server, not a web framework. People use nitrogen(1) and webmachine(2) over it. Nitrogen is a pretty fully featured framework, and webmachine is a really light layer that bakes in htt…

That argument is about not giving bittorrent traffic first priority, and not offering AK-47 scholarships.

drivers

People are mostly still using XP because they said Vista was a horror show, and the upgrade path from XP to 7 is either extremely difficult or impossible.

I was pleasantly surprised by Windows 7, and it doesn't make me physically ill to use or support like Vista did. It's like a cleaner, stable XP. But that's the problem, really. I didn't love XP - in f…

And most of the current mp3 players, as far as I know. iPods are the broken ones.

The N9 is the next in the series after the N900, and aside from a lot of very cute UI changes, and a lack of a keyboard (which was relegated to the N950), it still runs on Maemo (though branded MeeGo)…

They really need to, and a large portion of the populace seems to be fighting for it. Also, I'm not sure that we can blame Greek public debt for the rise in interest rates that's actually killing the …

Do we really want to stand on the shoulders of giants looking down, flipping people off?

I think that xkcd was about overreacting to someone being wrong on the internet, and was making fun of the people who (all of us at times) start flaming with extreme prejudice when they see it. I am p…

"everything in their power to make file-sharing as inconvenient as possible" != a lot Their power is very limited, so really all they've been doing is nipping around the edges. Their goal is to expand…

You're making psychopath mean what you want it to mean. I've rarely heard anybody say that psychopaths don't understand emotions in other people. That would be autism. Also, anarchists aren't the peop…

Yesterday, as a last resort after a day and a half of unproductive frustration, I printed out a bunch of code from five or six different (too tightly coupled!) files that I was trying to refactor, spr…

I agree, and take it further. Psychopathy is a label looking for a definition. It's defined as the opposite of any of the qualities that we associate with the root "human". They're normal people excep…

And in addition, countries like Greece couldn't deflate themselves out of their trade deficit because of the Euro; their only choice would have been to lower nominal wages somehow, which is pretty muc…

No, Anonymous is better than the black bloc. Anonymous does things on their own, in such a chaotic way that the people who they are supporting can disavow their actions pretty easily. Whereas the blac…

No, he said that he was told that it was 3000 pages long, but never saw it, which was the point.

Pharmacists are state licensed, and granted special privileges based on that license; they don't get to be the final say about what they will or won't do. I don't see a problem with the other three. I…

That's the link that I needed most in this world right now. Thanks for posting it.

The problem with this blog is so obvious that I'm suprised that I haven't seen it in the comments yet (I probably missed it), but you can't use a random selection of photographs for this if you want t…

I'd say that if you're thinking about doing Phoenix, save the money and just learn from all of the random resources online - and whether you went the autodidact route instead of Phoenix or after learn…

He didn't add in community college with for-profit fake college ("people who can be relied on not to know enough to perform"), he just said that students from Stanford and MIT are generally more capab…

It's a trait particular to humans to announce the end of history every 20 minutes or so. Something in us tends unswervingly towards credulous millennialism, ready for us to all transcend into light or…

The bangs are especially good for dodging the really heavy homepages of some sites. For example, !bgg.