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Andrew Trumper posted an excellent analysis of how progress bars are all wrong (and what to do about it).
View ArticleLucid dreaming practice gone wrong
At the bottom right corner of my screen, I saw 29:54. I thought to myself, ah my clock is b0rken, I must be dreaming! But no, it just was my editor telling me I'm on the 29th line (54th character.)
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Scheme allows punctuation marks in its identifiers, which allows for some funky naming convention. One of the most widely adopted convention is to name functions which return a boolean so that they end...
View ArticleWhy privacy matters
Bad week for privacy rights. The two companies which are running toweringly large repositories of private information, Facebook and Google, both messed up in the same week. First there is Google. CEO...
View ArticleAmericans have more investements in each other's health care than Canadians
Little known fact: Health care in America is funded by the government to a greater extends than in Canada. Between Medicaid, Medicare, Military Health Care, and emergency room services for the...
View ArticleCatastrophic Rapid Climate Change
According to Krugman's excellent summary of the consensus amongst economists is that avoiding catastrophic rapid climate change would cost 0.03 to 0.09 percent point of growth per year until 2050. In...
View ArticleFacebook has gone rogue
You can tell Facebook has gone rogue. After they began leaking information that their user had marked "private," they have now elected to leak this information to any websites you visit.They require...
View ArticleClimatologist sues, wants paper to widthdraw its libelous statements
Via Andrew Trumper:It's probably an unfortunate measure of the quality of modern journalism that few of us would be surprised to hear that an editorial on a politically controversial topic contained...
View ArticleApple is the new dictator of my industry
I am distressed at the number of the IT professionals who are taking Apple's claims about the goal of the App Store's no-Flash or other such programming languages policy at face values. Apple's...
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This is why I eat chicken
Here is why I eat some chicken, no beef, I why I won't be eating shrimp anymore.This chart is taken from the fantastic report by the UN, "Kick the Habit, a UN Guide to Climate Neutrality.", page 103....
View ArticleClimate Change Activists: For or Against Nuclear?
On one hand, if you look at France, nuclear has a track record of being inexpensive, safe, environmentally sound (in the sense that much less radiation is released into the environment by a nuclear...
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Dictate to your computer like a pro
Do your wrists hurt? If you program all day, or write prose, or otherwise spend most of your time typing on a keyboard, chances are you'll develop some pain. The intensity of the pain will fall...
View ArticleMeasuring the Effectiveness of Error Messages Designed for Novice Programmers
My latest paper was accepted at SIGSCE. I will be speaking in Dallas in March.If you have any interest on teaching programming to beginners, I invite you to read the pdf. It's an exploration of one...
View ArticleScience is About Strength of Evidence: Climate Change
Not in disputeCO2 absorbs infrared light. Air is mostly blue (it absorbs non-blue light), but it is also complement-of-infrared, in the sense that the CO2 in the air absorbs infrared. You can confirm...
View ArticleScience is About Strength of Evidence: Nutrition
Book reviewEat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating, by M.D. Walter C. WillettEat, Drink and be Healthy discusses a wide range of ways diet affects health. Eat,...
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Exxon does not speak for us at WPI Commencement
It is my pleasure to announce that Richard Heinberg, the Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute, will be speaking as a counterpoint speaker to the official speaker, Rex Tillerson, the...
View ArticleArticles written by the Heartland Institute
There is an anti-climate science article written by the Heartland Institute that's doing the rounds (11'000 facebook-likes, 900 tweets), about Roy Spencer's new paper.Be careful. The Heartland...
View ArticleSimon Johnson, chief economist at the IMF, and the Wall St protests
One thing that truly unexpected thing about the Occupy Wall Street protest is that it finds itself on the same side as the IMF.The IMF is the International Monetary Fund. They are well known for their...
View ArticlePresident Obama Finally Calling Out the Deniers
Obama finally called out the anti-science position of the GOP candidates:“Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It’s true....
View ArticleHow to turn a Python loop into a Clojure 'reduce'
This is my answer to this Stack Overflow question.I wrote a simple stack-based virtual machine in Python, and now I'm trying to rewrite it in Clojure, which is proving difficult as I don't have much...
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