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What would be the point of all this? Step 1 is the illegal part, and the other steps don't erase that.

heh, that's an old paper: http://www.flownet.com/ron/eg-rg-faq.html

The forced-login isn't to improve product quality, it's to make more money on ads. StackOverflow/Exchange works great without forced login to view content.

You are allowed to throw away the instructions.

Your opinion is common, but it reflects a waning creativity of a person growing older, not a major change in LEGO

"the decline of American inventiveness” is assumed without any sort of proof.

Technic and Mindstorms are absurdly expensive compared to TinkerToys, and I think pricier than Meccano.

I don't know that LEGO really pushed out TinkerToys though.

He's right that LEGO is rather inflexible, as far as building structures and mechanisms. You need to mix in non-LEGO materials to build simple machines.

Soon to be the national policy from the Federal government.

Because programmer recruiters are searching for intelligent talented people, people who can walk out if they don't like the job. Military recruiting is capturing suckers, and signing them onto to multi-year contracts.

"we" who? You gotta pick: a draft, recruiting, or less war machine

Set limit = 10M, log request sizes, when you start seeing requests with size >1M, consider raising limit.

Not "instinctive", but "sensible". Saying "excuse me" or "passing through" would work just as well.

Silly that the announcements give so much attention to scores going up (due to a change in scale) and not to the content of the change. It would be trivial to keep the scale magnitude the same by multiplying by a factor ("old average frontpage post" / "new average frontpage post") or applying a logarithmic transform.

Makes me think that they are intentionally kicking up dust around the scale change, to draw attention away from the substantive changes to weighting/ranking.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/5goxk4/upcoming_ch...

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5gvd6b/score...

HRC and DJT were born in 1946. They were college-educated adults with years of career experience before it was reasonable to expect someone to have computer experience, and before the popular GUI computers were in use the general public.

What's better than Maven to solve the problems Maven is used for?

median is wrong metric for an asymmetric distribution.

Federighi focuses on selecting for "interest", but not talent.

Almost everyone can do some kind of math. For the same amount of discipline and effort, some people can prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and some people can prove Fermat's Little Theorem.

And everyone can coast. Some people can get as far as Calculus without really trying, and some people can only get to basic arithmetic without really trying.

But no one can just wander up to a whiteboard and solve a unproven theorem from intuition alone.

Neilsen Norman Group writes articles that convey important technical information in very easy to understand language. Reading their writing makes me feel smarter, and I think it's more than a feeling.

In the past it requires that you report the data to the local permitting board.

That's a lot of saltiness over a kid who took apart a clock and re-assembled it without breaking it, following in the steps of Richard Feynman.

it's unclear how the act of purchasing a product works -- it might require the buyers phone to be near the item when it leaves the shelf

It turns out the most people aren't interested in complex strategies to steal a grocery items while under intense video surveillance with ID verification.

> because somebody would be able to steal a product by discreetly removing a tag and then walking out of the store.

That's already handled in grocery -- people can mess with regular barcodes if they want. it's a known cost of business

Alfie Kohn's book is about bribes being a bad strategy, not quite about punishment being a bad strategy.

The two are related, though. The article here is explaining how meaningful, relationship-building positive-reinforcement is an effective strategy.

Alfie Kohn's work is easy to misinterpret -- the title of his book mentions "gold stars" as a bad idea, but misses the meaning of a gold star. A gold star isn't a bribe in the sense of an "incentive program", it's a tangible expression of appreciation* -- which is what the article here argeus in favor of.

*as long as the star is its own reward, not some sort of currency used to buy rewards.

wait, and try again later. kids don't hold grudges forever.

Ideally, at that point the child is smart enough that you can reason with them, and at that point your "tricks" (aka civilized behavior) has made enough of a molding effect on their personality and relationship with you.

"literally"?

If some tips work and some tips don't, then nurture matters, but it is correlated to nature.

If nurture didn't matter, tips would be totally irrelevant.

> “Companies should share de-identified scenario and dynamics data from crashes and near-misses,”

That's a limited request for information sharing, and in line with how NTSB handles airplane incident today.

Google has also been paying people to drive StreetView vans around the world for 10 years. Don't know how much driving data comes back from that though.