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  1. Also let her record the stories. Let her be involved now. That way she can ask you question while you are still here to answer.

  2. Tell your stories, your life history, what you remember about your own parents, grandparents, brothers or sisters, and about her. These stories will allow your daughter to stay connected with you. These stories will show your values. These stories will help her know a little more about herself. Tell every story you can think of. Then not only will she connect with you but also your grandchildren, and great-grand children in future generations.

  3. Re:What he really said on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    It's also because they are often dependent on the CS guys to get the computer to crunch the numbers for them.

    As a CS person I have been in a unique position to study broadly. To program for a scientist you have study until you understand at some degree what is going on. It program for finance the same is true. As a CS person you have a framework of how to make the computer run, but to understand what the computer needs to do you need to understand the science, business, medical, finance, statistics, math, language, and any other wide variety of topics. It's one of the things that attracted me to computer science in the first place is a love of learning. I've used my programming skills professionally in bio-medical sciences, cryptography, mathematics, business, meteorology, and other fields. In my hobbies I've use CS in electronics, physics, biology, art, physical fitness, navigation and language art. I don't claim I'm an expert in any of the individual fields, but there is an above level of exposure to a greater degree of knowledge. Of course that might be that I love learning, not something that having a CS degree gave me or being able to program.

  4. Re:Yes! on Could Fossils of Ancient Life From Earth Reside On the Moon? · · Score: 2
    Funny that those to areas of Government spending are both mentioned (research and development, and infrastructure) in the Constitution, while most of the last are not. You'd think the founders were thinking when they wrote the document. Excerpt from the constitution Article 1 Section 8,

    "To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

    To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"

  5. Re:Standing desks on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    My standing desk consists of a wide board laid on top of two 5 gallon buckets which costs a total of $10-15? Why would you ever pay $700-$1000???? Are we so far away from simple ingenuity?

  6. Hiring a CPA is like buying money and time. on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 1

    I remember doing taxes one year. I'd spent all day at it. I was unsure I'd done it properly and came out owing around $100 in taxes. On the suggestion of a friend I hired a CPA. He gave me a 30 minute interview, took my various tax related papers, had me sign a few things, and that was it. In a week or two he reported back to me saying I'd be receiving a $1,500 tax return. It only cost $150. It's the best investment I've ever made. I have never done my taxes without a CPA since.

  7. My own experience. on If the Programmer Won't Go To Silicon Valley, Should SV Go To the Programmer? · · Score: 1

    I've worked from home for about 14 years, and my software has worked from home for at least a decade. We work well "together" and have been successful. The remote work place has some challenges, but we've adapted. When offering remote support to customers we all are better at it and have a good idea what can be understood and how to go about the work.

    One of the big advantages is having the space needed to really think free from distractions of coworkers. I'm definitely more productive.

    If your employees won't work unless they are watched you have a management problem not a worker problem. Your employees obviously don't feel the success of the company is to their own advantage. They obviously don't feel like your giving them enough, and I don't necessarily mean money. Does the job make them feel important? Do they feel like they are contributors? Are you as a manager undermining the good they have done?

  8. A solution on The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think one of these would be helpful in an open work space.

  9. Re:Computer careers and gender on New AP Course, "Computer Science Principles," Aims To Make CS More Accessible · · Score: 1

    A lot of boys interested in football have problems relating to other people too.

  10. Most intersting part on Material Possiblities: A Flying Drone Built From Fungus · · Score: 2
    Personally the most interesting part is the design of the air frame not the materials. The three motors embedded in the airframe is interesting.

    The idea that you could send one of these drones in a sensitive environment and leave it there seems off. Yeah, the air frame biodegrades, but not the motors, electronics, and the most toxic part the battery.

  11. Re:Am I the only one? on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    Your not the only one. I'm also a software developer that rarely work over 35 hours a week. In fact, even during a push the boss usually sends us home before we'd go home ourselves. He always says that he doesn't want us to do stupid things to the code while were tired.

  12. This is what works for me on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 2
    I'm a father of 8 with 4 girls and 4 boys. One of the best ways is to take them out of the cities and into the wilderness, and help them see what is there. To be most effective you need to know what's there yourself. Study the geology of the area, the plants, the animals, the lichens, mosses, mushrooms. When you see something you don't understand ask questions and find the answers. When your children see you learn with a relish they can't help but be curious. Get good at seeing the small and the large so you can point it out. Be good at asking questions. I've found my girls and my boys naturally interested.

    Don't just focus on "science" or you'll kill all interest. History is just as important. Science of itself isn't nearly as interesting as adding the human side to it. The stories of how the great ideas of our times came about and how those ideas have been used can make the knowledge come to life in a way that science by itself cannot.

  13. Constitutionality on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: 2

    Where in the constitution is the president granted power to offer government money to anyone? Oh, it's not there, that's congress's duty.

  14. It's just search on Google To Lease and Refurbish Naval Air Base For Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    It's the next logical extension of internet search. "...to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before"

  15. Re:I think Brooks had it with on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 1

    You mean "camera flare thrower" right?

  16. Re:Wishful thinking on A Library For Survival Knowledge · · Score: 1

    There's a big problem with raw materials. All the resources that are easy to get are gone. No more near surface iron, copper, zinc, tin, lead, etc.

    Try the local land fill.

  17. Is it fission or fusion? on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm not sure this article is even talking about fusion or fission. The last paragraph of the article is just wrong where the author says that submarines and aircraft carriers carry large fusion reactors. They of course do not. They carry fission reactors. So the author confused fission and fusion once why not twice?

  18. Better pictures of the tomb on Giant Greek Tomb Discovered · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is a better article with actual pictures

  19. Programming on Type 225 Words per Minute with a Stenographic Keyboard (Video) · · Score: 1

    This would be an utter disaster for programming. I think I'll keep my QUERTY.

  20. Re:Very original on Grad Student Rigs Cheap Alternative To $1,000 Air Purifiers In Smoggy China · · Score: 2

    What un-American??? Seems like he took a leaf out of Benjamin Franklin's book. When Mr. Franklin discovered a more efficient wood burning stove he didn't patent it for the purpose of making sure it would be widely accepted. His design is still being used.

  21. Has anyone considered on Russia Prepares For Internet War Over Malaysian Jet · · Score: 1
    It seems to me that the US and Russian leaders are just drumming up public support for an all out war. First it was Syria, then Crimea, and now this plane get shot down. I wouldn't be at all surprised if our dear POTUS and Putin are working closely together to escalate the situation and are just laughing at all the pawns jumping onto the national bandwagon.

    I also wouldn't be surprised if the CIA really shot the jet down, or were somehow involved with both sides.

    Reading the news from the US, Ukrainian, Russia, BBC, Israel, and China I can't help but think there is something deeper going on. They all are saying about the same thing, though assigning blame according to their own national propaganda.

    If public opinion becomes strong enough and national hate is built to sufficient levels in both countries war is going to happen, and millions will die.

    Please people don't get sucked into to the nationalist propaganda!

  22. NSA not NASA on NASA Launching Satellite To Track Carbon · · Score: 1

    Its just a typo in the article. Really it's just an NSA project to track you and since your tinfoil hats aren't carbon there's nothing you can do to hide. Except maybe crawling in a pile of pencils.

  23. Re:Thanks for pointing out the "briefly" part. on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    Well with this logic just keep insulating until your start sequestering carbon right?

  24. Lack of diversity on Yahoo's Diversity Record Is Almost As Bad As Google's · · Score: 1

    I'll bet 100% of their employees are human, I mean shouldn't they be hiring monkeys, and parrots too. Talk about bigotry. They must be Animalphobic.

  25. What if? on SpaceX To Present Manned Dragon Capsule · · Score: 1

    It's hard to tell from the picture, but they looked lined up. What happens if a front seat rider spews during take off. I'd hate to be seated below.