1 month ago
wearehugh : Nirvana out of American reach | The Australian
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4 month ago
adamrg : On Being Neutral - Mr. Moses suggests that neutrality in the classroom is a fallacy because neutrality is a fallacy and pretending not to have an opinion is just going to inspire a lack of opinion if your students.
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18 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Can't Programmers.. Program? - Why Can't Programmers.. Program?: "A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with masters' degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks."
nelson : Some can't program - I had this experience at Google, too; a frightening number of applicants simply can't write code
cameron : Why Can't Programmers.. Program? - What is fascinating to me about this post is not that people can't program; this is assumed. What is fascinating is the fervor with which people solve/argue about the FizzBuzz problem.
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19 month ago
jimray : A peek inside the WSJ editorial board - The WSJ puts a video camera inside their editorial meeting. Wow, a bunch of white dudes aping Karl Rove. Fascinating.
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24 month ago
cameron : An Inconvenient Lunch (by Christopher Kimball) - Chris Kiimball gets accusatory on our collectively fat asses: "The enemy is not the school systems, the food companies, or government: it is ourselves."
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37 month ago
plasticbag : "Newsreader Michael Buerk has said "almost all the big jobs in broadcasting are held by women" who "decide what we see and hear"." - "All [men] are is sperm donors, and most women aren't going to want an unemployable sperm donor loafing around and making the house look untidy."
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46 month ago
Paul Hammond : Blackbeltjones/work: Tony Stark on Etech - I feel like I've been around those blocks quite a few times now, and I want some genuine outbreaks of the future
plasticbag : Mr Jones on Tony Stark on ETech - "The line up for 2005's Etech has been posted, and so far it seems like the same people talking about the same pet subjects. Not many 'genuine outbreaks of the future' so far." Plus, I'm a Beatle. Which is nice.
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46 month ago
deusx : Blogcritics.org: Star Trek is finally back! - "If you've given up on Star Trek in general or Enterprise in particular, you owe it to yourself to give it another look."
Adam Gessaman : Star Trek is Finally Back - He's right. These last few episodes have been the best of classic Trek and the best of the new series.
Kayode Okeyode : Star Trek is finally back!
plasticbag : Blogcritics say Star Trek is finally back! - And you know what - I agree with them. Once last season's ghosts were exorcised, it's actually started to be a watchable and interesting piece of TV again. My name is Tom Coates and I am a geek.
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