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by Dilpil 17y ago
If anyones looking for an old school frustratingly hard yet incredibly rewarding game, I would like to nominate ninja gaiden for the xbox. It is incredibly hard, yet always feels fair, and rewards clever strategy rather than /played time.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Lets not post links to cnn anymore. They tend to be misleading, and rarely involve more than surface analysis of the situation. The statistics involved are often either inaccurate, irrelevant, or both. The methodology used to create the
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Is the EC unhappy with the lack of consumer choice, or are they unhappy with the course consumer choice has taken? Consumers WANT to have applications bundled with their OS. In the minds of the average computer user, there is no difference
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Am I the only one wondering if this graduate student has been a graduate student for all 10 years of the study? That is pretty brutal.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I've been noticing recently that law and computer science have a great deal in common. For instance, to accomplish a 'small' or 'trivial' task in either field is often not as easy as an outsider might assume.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
People in these lines of work generally aren't in it purely for the money. The money is an important part, as it legitimizes them as the victor, but generally there's an appetite for risk and excitement.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
1.9 million doesn't sound like too much for several years of work by multiple lawyers.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
The point of credibility meltdown: "The modern American creationist, interestingly enough, no longer takes scripture as sufficient reason to believe the Biblical account of the origins of the world. The debate is, instead, conducted on the
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by Dilpil 17y ago
The author makes a several interesting points, but then many of his conclusions come out of nowhere. It is certainly of note that lower class children are admonished more than encouraged, it is certainly of note that America and Britain do
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Indeed I do. MIT grads are automatically understood as smart. I can often convince people after a few minutes of conversation, but I do not always get those minutes.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Believe it.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I'm guessing the way they got this statistic (if they didn't make it up completely, which they may have) is by asking the question "Would you use the expression 'to bing it' to mean 'to search for something'", and most people responded with
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Indeed: if this is repeatable, it is repeatable in private and charter schools.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I'm not sure hackers do love cash more than a challenge.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
There are probably quite a few MBA students scrambling for internships right now, atleast one of them has to be decent.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
The only thing better than ridiculous coding standards are the fanciful explanations for them.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Rumor has it theres a coding standards manual floating around at IBM that forbids the use of pointers. In c++. Yes indeed.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Indeed, I almost laughed when I saw the URL.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Sounds alot like the contract a mafia don has with local business owners. He keeps the neighborhood orderly, so you don't have to deal with thugs. He keeps everyone respectful. Business isn't possible without respect. If you are unhappy wi
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Keep in mind, it worked out for the car bosses.
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The Next Bubble(finemrespice.com)
5 points by Dilpil 17y ago|0 comments
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Lesson: Where there are losers, there are winners.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I would imagine only 'accredited investors' are allowed to participate.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Is this enough evidence that the public stock markets have become so over regulated as to make the costs of being a public company outweigh the benefits? If not, what would be?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Why worry about eternal intelligence in the universe?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
The trick is to convince yourself that moral is a made up concept. Once you do that, a plethora of efficiency increasing tactics become possible.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
If it was an llc, they would not be responsible for the wages except in extenuating circumstances I believe.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
A reassuring chart: http://blogs.payscale.com/salary_report_kris_cowan/2008/07/l... Computer Science and engineering students seem to get about $20,000 more in starting salary on average. Using the data on median salaries ( http://www.pay
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by Dilpil 17y ago
How is inflation relevant to this calculation? Both career paths will presumably be paid with the same currency.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I'm a big fan for XNA for messing around. It lets you draw with minimal BS. And the tutorials actually work.

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