James Tauber

Boston, MA

Age: 39

Entrepreneur and Pinax Lead Developer; Web Standards and Open Source Guy; Movie Producer and Digital Cinematographer; Composer and Music Theorist; Greek Scholar and Doctoral Student in Linguistics

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What basis do we have for certainty in current scientific theories?

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More Modern Reimplementations of TeX

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Annotating a Django queryset with a left outer join?

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Is Science about Truth or Adequate Models?

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Are there any machine-readable databases of chord progressions available?

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12 votes

Improving OFFSET performance in PostgreSQL

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Is the simulation hypothesis outside of science?

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10 votes

How many hours of practice total are typical for different piano grades?

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10 votes

What characters are good to start with when designing a typeface?

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