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Re: The End.

pius — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:12:57 -0000

What a ride it's been, ladies. Truly the end of an era.

As someone who's had the privilege to see you add an extra bit of laughter and light to the lives of so many women (and those of us men lucky enough to be spotted by Christie and Jess), I must admit to a bit of mist in my eyes reading this.

Thanks for everything! See you at the reunion party, on my yacht or yours. No tan jackets allowed.

Re: Couch of Christie: Fall and Love (or the Secret of Thanksgiving)

pius — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:41:19 -0000

Great piece, very sweet.

Re: Hiring via API

pius — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:47:51 -0000

Agree completely Matt ... now let me into the Ship private beta! ;)

Re: Coffee House Talks: If this past week has taught us anything, it's that the GOP has entrenched itself as the party of hate

pius — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:23:20 -0000

I literally couldn't agree more.

Re: Ask Jess: There Is No Reason That You’re Single

pius — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:43:09 -0000

Great article, Jess!

Re: BP stanches the gushing of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, begins pressure testing

pius — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:56:09 -0000

"In all seriousness, this process has been very poorly handled by BP, and the part where they come out of as heroes for fixing their own disaster is infuriating."

I agree. I do think, though, that BP's liability in this matter will be inescapable under this administration. We'll see.

Re: The Senor: Did David Visit PLHD or Not? Yep, I’ve got an update!

pius — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:16:11 -0000

That's epic, I'm glad it all worked out. BTW, I liked the mention of the rational actor model ... always good to let your nerd flag fly every now and again. ;)

Re: Ask Jess: Orianthi Shows Us Why You Shouldn’t Juggle Multiple Men

pius — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:01:24 -0000

In my experience, the key is being willing to walk away and asking her to make a choice when the time is right.

If the girl's sincerely interested, she'll pick you. If not, either she's too messed up over the old thing to move on or, well, she's just not that into you. Either way you've got your answer.

Re: Top 5 Things You Should Never Say on a First Date

pius — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:54:11 -0000

"This is definitely just a cold sore. Not herpes. I think."

LMAO, so much fail there, I don't know where to begin.

Re: DatingGirl: When Traveling Together Goes Wrong

pius — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:52:22 -0000

I think you learn a LOT about someone when you travel. It's like an amplifier: red flags that may have been too subtle to see before loom large, while great qualities that you may have taken for granted come out in spades.

Re: This Week in Arizona Racism...

pius — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:33:02 -0000

wow.

Re: 25% of BP's market cap disappears in 4 days of trading

pius — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:12:31 -0000

Good point. They actually only have $12 billion liquid. And they want to give $10 billion of that away as dividends.

Re: 25% of BP's market cap disappears in 4 days of trading

pius — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:22:04 -0000

Eh ... 100 billion dollars will buy a lot of clean up.

Re: FiveThirtyEight gets acquired by the New York Times

pius — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:43:30 -0000

I agree. Plus, I think the NYT is increasingly pursuing a more data-driven approach, so it seems like a great fit to me.

Re: The Nuremberg Defense of Racist Slurs

pius — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:38:50 -0000

Brilliant comparison. Hard to believe anyone would buy this excuse here.

Re: The CEO of BP "wants [his] life back."

pius — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:19:46 -0000

I just updated the post to reflect that, thanks.

Re: The Supreme Court's New Miranda Rules - Maybe Not So Bad

pius — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:14:52 -0000

Thoughtful analysis, makes sense to me.

Re: New Comment System

pius — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:42:56 -0000

trying to syndicate to Facebook again ...

Re: New Comment System

pius — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:10:57 -0000

What do you think so far?

Re: Tar balls found off Key West, FL suspected to be from BP Oil Disaster

pius — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:21:40 -0000

That was a great read, thanks! I'm going to link it up a little later.

Re: Why does the Semantic Web feel so over-engineered?

pius — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:17:11 -0000

"adding more stuff is always easy, so RDF doesn't have a killer feature here."

The killer feature is that the properties you add can actually have meaning because they can be related to existing ones. For instance, if you add a field called "lname" to your database, that doesn't have any intrinsic meaning to any system in the real world except perhaps your own.

With RDF, on the other hand, you can say lname owl:equivalentProperty foaf:lastName. Suddenly systems that know what foaf:lastName is actually know what "lname" is. I'd call that a killer feature.

Re: Why does the Semantic Web feel so over-engineered?

pius — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:08:35 -0000

"how about if we make things simple now, and add complexity later if we see we need the complexity?"

OK, but what competent ontologist actually disagrees with this? As a matter of fact, this is the best practice for developing an ontology. You're supposed to start with an existing ontology that is a "decent fit" for your use case and then only specify new properties and classes as you need them. Even when you specify new properties and classes, you're supposed to anchor them to those of existing ontologies. How is this over-engineered?

Re: Tar balls found off Key West, FL suspected to be from BP Oil Disaster

pius — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:28:09 -0000

Interesting, I'll look that up and update the post. Strangely enough, I just heard today that the oil has been confirmed to have hit the Loop Current. So I'll need to investigate and make sense of what's going on ...

Re: Joe Sestak defeats Arlen Specter in PA Democratic Senate Primary

pius — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:36:10 -0000

Plus there were local factors. Specter's campaign very much felt like big city machine politics out of Philadelphia and Washington, whereas Sestak's campaign felt a lot more like that of a traditional PA grassroots Democrat.

Subsequently, Sestak destroyed Specter in Allegheny County, Lawrence County, and pretty much all of Western Pennsylvania (where I'm from).

I think Obama saw the handwriting on the wall and wisely stayed out of it near the end. He was in Youngstown, OH yesterday (just a few miles from Western PA), yet he specifically did not stump at all for Specter.

Re: Joe Sestak defeats Arlen Specter in PA Democratic Senate Primary

pius — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:34:00 -0000

I think there are too many confounding variables to tell much of anything for sure. :)

That said, Arlen was unbelievably brazen in how he described his party switch when he made it. At the time, I specifically thought "He's gonna get wrecked with this in the primary." Sure enough, he did. He had the lead until this ad came out with that footage.