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by 7402 13y ago
...then your friends are dishonest, and their dishonesty raises the price I have to pay when I buy a product from Apple. Did you criticize them when you found out they did that?
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UC will open its research to the public -- for free(mercurynews.com)
1 points by 7402 13y ago|0 comments
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Boongoggle Goes Boom: Palantir Software vs. US Army Data Platform(newrepublic.com)
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by 7402 13y ago
> And they're much less likely to ask you to sleep in the office overnight.... They will know for a fact that the only reason you're doing that is to make up for goofing off during the daytime A long time ago, an engineer who u
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Dynamicists vs. modelers - A Cultural Analysis of Climate Skepticism(judithcurry.com)
2 points by 7402 13y ago|0 comments
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Digital divide - SJSU online college course experiment(mercurynews.com)
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by 7402 13y ago
I once pointed out, to a former grad school roommate, a big fat general relativity textbook sitting on my bookshelf. I said that even though I didn't use it any more and had forgotten its contents, it was hard for me to throw it out. "Of co
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In 1949, He Imagined an Age of Robots(nytimes.com)
73 points by 7402 13y ago|17 comments
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by 7402 13y ago
One of their rules seems odd. To "Feign" means to pretend. Do they mean that people actually pretend to be surprised about someone's lack of knowledge? I would have thought the more common problem is when people are honestly surprised abo
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by 7402 14y ago
trxblazr, you have demonstrated poor judgement. Sift Science is trying to make a small attempt at filtering some of the inevitable spam that results from a public job posting. You spoiled it. Why? For what purpose? To show how smart you are
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Ask HN: What does "Recent Grad" or "New Grad" mean?
1 points by 7402 14y ago|2 comments
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by 7402 14y ago
There may actually be a good reason why you're feeling guilty. And it may in fact be a better plan to do something else. You can try the following thought experiment: suppose you follow through on this new business, spend 6 months working o
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by 7402 14y ago
There is a special event that happens in the lifetime of a growing company. That event is the first time a person walks into an office, picks up a computer, and leaves without anyone particularly wondering why someone they have never seen b
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by 7402 14y ago
This is a silly remark. Harvard doesn't care at all about the popular rankings of colleges, because no one picks Harvard just because they read it got a good rating in US News. And Harvard isn't proud of itself because it has a high graduat
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by 7402 14y ago
Maybe the problem is that the VERY FIRST question you ask is, "Are you open to remote workers?" I've always found that to be kind of a turn-off when I've interviewed people for software engineering positions. It's NOT that it's not an impor
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by 7402 14y ago
Gamma radiation is not "higher energy" than alpha or beta radiation. And the energy of particle is not by itself significant as far as radiation damage is concerned - what matters is how that radiation is deposited in you as the particle pa
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Doonesbury on college students staying in or dropping out(gocomics.com)
2 points by 7402 14y ago|0 comments
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Test Driven Development Cargo Cult(ntoll.org)
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Cabbie Used 'Voodoo' Trick to Prevent a School Shooting(abcnews.go.com)
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by 7402 14y ago
When someone casually states that he has an "80gb collection of pirated music," I assume he feels that the act of copying contrary to the wishes of the copyright holder is either a good thing or, at worst, ethically neutral. For those of us
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Analytics may have delayed Romney concession speech(news.yahoo.com)
3 points by 7402 14y ago|0 comments
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by 7402 14y ago
> Jeff is doing it wrong. A to-do list should be for things that you need to do, not thing that you'd like to do some day. Please. I think a certain amount of humility is called for when making claims about how someone ELSE could improv
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College ranking: "Statistical absurdities and inherent mendacity"(budiansky.blogspot.com)
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by 7402 14y ago
Yes. I use the 'Atomic Web Browser' for that. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atomic-web-browser/id34792941...
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by 7402 14y ago
Context matters. (See, for example, http://hollister.ca.gov/Site/html/gov/office/police/document... ). Interpreting "Legal speak" is not like a compiler checking syntax. It's more like interpreting a project's specifications in a way tha
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by 7402 14y ago
"California Vehicle Code 10852. No person shall either individually or in association with one or more other persons, willfully damage or tamper with any vehicle or break or remove any part of a vehicle without the consent of the owner." T
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by 7402 14y ago
Makes sense. So if the proposition is that a technical co-founder is to work for equity but no salary, perhaps that already shows the non-technical founder has failed the test of bringing in enough money to start the business.
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by 7402 14y ago
For a job on my team? When we have to ship a product and have a deadline? Of course I'd turn them away. There's a difference between being an employee and being a founder. For a start, I'd want an employee who can work well with others, doe
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by 7402 14y ago
Yes. http://www.notaplex.com/can-app-be-used-external-keyboard
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by 7402 14y ago
I launched http://www.notaplex.com for the iPad: "Nota plex - write notes, lists, and outlines." None of the note-writing apps that were available were what I wanted, so I learned iOS programming and wrote this one. Also I got to use old-

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