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by RK 16y ago
There's really a night and day difference between CookieSafe style cookie management and what Chrome offers in terms of usability. CookieSafe is much nicer and no Chrome extensions seem to offer anything similar.
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by RK 16y ago
Maybe you should retitle it as Ask HN: What are your experiences with Amazon DevPay?
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by RK 16y ago
I find this a little hard to believe, because American licensing and board exams are expensive and usually are taken over the course of many years. For example, the licensing exam (USMLE) has 4 parts, one of which involves travel to the US
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by RK 16y ago
From the about page: The Global Community is a content driven social networking site that has the functionalities of most common social networks. It is a place to share with others using pictures, music, and video. It is a place to chat, a
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by RK 16y ago
Here's my human macro for all you high school/college students: "Expand these bullet points into a 5 page paper" Even though it mentions things that are along the lines of correction, this could pretty easily be moved into the realm of crow
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by RK 16y ago
I think when you're BSing, you're allowed to make any claim you want.
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by RK 16y ago
Can anyone give a quick overview of how viewing time on a page is estimated?
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by RK 16y ago
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by RK 16y ago
By training I am a radiation physicist and actually do know about particle beams hitting people. The LHC beam would certainly give someone an appreciable radiation dose, although the secondary synchrotron X-rays would probably be worse than
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by RK 16y ago
There sure are a lot of votes for Donald Duck (Kalle Anka).
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by RK 16y ago
Yeah I missed that he mentioned it. I pretty much started skimming when the gist of the article seemed to be that the author was karma-whoring by writing about patio11 in detail, instead of writing a general article about maximizing your
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by RK 16y ago
Yes, and didn't he already say he had a post-BingoCardCreator project that he was working on?
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by RK 16y ago
I thought one of the best quotes from the interview was Telling people to be careful is not effective. Humans are not reliable that way. ... You need a solution that's not about making people perfect.
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by RK 16y ago
The startup I was working for until recently (building scientific hardware) was founded by a couple in their 70's. They basically sunk all of their retirement money into it. I can't say that it was the best financial move in the world, espe
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by RK 16y ago
Java. Maybe because I'm sitting in the CS dept right now? :) The results are definitely reflecting the geolocation of my IP (I'm not logged in and have cookies off).
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by RK 16y ago
Can you clarify what he means by get on committees in the quote "Tattoo this list somewhere you won’t forget to look. (1) Publish academic papers. (2) Go to conferences. (3) Get on committees"? I'm (hopefully) quite near the end of my PhD
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by RK 16y ago
For the general LaTeX user, the WikiBook on LaTeX is pretty useful. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
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by RK 16y ago
When I first mentioned Diaspora to my Greek friend, the first thing he said was, "is it a social network for Greek people?"
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by RK 16y ago
I seem to be the only one on the Internet that likes Coke better with high fructose corn syrup than sugar. I will say that most of the "sugar" coke I've had is from Europe, rather than the Mexican coke (which seems to have a label listing "
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by RK 16y ago
T-mobile USA is (AFAIK) the only US provider that is making unlocked phones better deals. They provide two service types: with contract and without contract with the latter being cheaper.
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by RK 16y ago
I vaguely recall a story about this that said they were using auto-tune at Paul McCartney's actual concerts. Which would not surprise me if it is becoming a standard, simply because it is easy to do nowadays.
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by RK 16y ago
The Paul McCartney live release last year Good Evening New York City was the first use of auto tune that really made feel like things were getting bad. I think it got a lot of press because it was Paul McCartney of course. I assume for li
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by RK 16y ago
Netflix is probably the only pay service that almost everyone I know in the US has.
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by RK 16y ago
But it's kind of a fuck you to everyone else.
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by RK 16y ago
I think a very common tip increasing strategy used by people serving food is to give discounts. If I'm selling you something for $10 and you'd normally tip $1 and I give it to you for $8, you are much more inclined to tip me $2-3, because y
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by RK 16y ago
The neglect I've seen from tenured faculty is usually due to having too many students and too many projects. For tenure track faculty, neglect seems to usually be due to too much time spent worrying about writing grants, teaching, and polit
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by RK 16y ago
I was recently at a conference reception where each person was given two drink tickets. My friend and I went up for our first drink and my friend tipped the bar tender well. The rest of the night that same guy just kept handing him his tick
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by RK 16y ago
Basically yes. But more specifically, graduate students in American universities will have had 2+ years of courses and have performed 4+ years of research. My understanding is that PhD students in the UK just finish at the end of the third
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by RK 16y ago
Whenever I see these "Japanese people do the weirdest things" stories, I always wonder if the Japanese read stories that are along the lines of "Americans/Europeans do the weirdest things".
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by RK 16y ago
I think it's hard to make generalizations about tenured vs. non-tenured. Some of the worst experiences I have heard about have been with tenured faculty, usually based on neglect. Many tenure track faculty need to graduate students in order

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