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by SandB0x 16y ago
Completely agree with the sentiment, however you may be overestimating the fully rounded student thing. Things may be completely different in the US - what I'm writing is all UK-centric, and somewhat anecdotal - but I suspect they're not. H
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Monstrous Discrepancies(viruscomix.com)
32 points by SandB0x 16y ago|9 comments
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by SandB0x 16y ago
With a mass storage player: At least you have the option , and the device doesn't go out of its way to make life difficult for you and any software that tries to access it. People love to think that users are completely clueless, but it's
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Gee, now I feel like an idiot for buying a portable media player that just mounts as a USB drive.
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Vince Cable will tell scientists they must pay their way(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by SandB0x 16y ago|0 comments
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The Four Levels of Social Entrapment(hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)
159 points by SandB0x 16y ago|84 comments
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Really? Really? Come on, keep this on Reddit please.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Ben Goldacre is another good scientific crusader. It's worth reading his book Bad Science for his rants against the ridiculous poop-inspecting TV nutritionist "Dr" Gillian McKeith, and the more serious issue of quack medicine and its propag
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Show HN: Google "hacker news", see one user's suggestion implemented.
3 points by SandB0x 16y ago|1 comments
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by SandB0x 16y ago
The tags on the very front page need to be improved. "Ignored" tags on the front page just fade the text, rather than filtering. However you will probably be happier using tag-specific views. Questions tagged as Ruby: http://stackoverflow.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Wait wait wait. I don't understand this. Unschooling simply seems to mean "being a good parent". Can someone explain the distinction? The Unschooling website doesn't help me either: "Unschooling is following your children's lead...Unschooli
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Norton & Snoop Dogg fight cybercrime together. Your rapping skills wanted.(hackiswack.com)
3 points by SandB0x 16y ago|0 comments
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Responsibilities: Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform. (Valve)(valvesoftware.com)
1 points by SandB0x 16y ago|1 comments
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Not an Emacs user, I take it?
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by SandB0x 16y ago
This is the most highly monetized social network possible. Direct advertising to your friends, with a Buy button right there in your status.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
An American PhD sounds tougher than here in the UK, or at the very least significantly longer. Here, you get funding for three (or sometimes four) years and I don't know of that many people who have left their programmes. Why is there such
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Ugh, I shouldn't try and post at stupidly late hours. In case you're still reading, in the first paragraph x is NOT also a function of y, as x = +- sqrt(5/y), and we have the choice of signs to deal with. The rest is ok.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
In your example, y is a function of x. x is also a function of y. If you pick a value for x, there is a unique y that satisfies the equality. If you pick a value for y, there a unique x that satisfies the equality. Let's find y as a funct
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Super+e: http://i.imgur.com/UgrxJ.png The normal workspaces on my laptop, running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. From left to right: vim, Gmail/Chrome, Songbird, spare/documentation/second terminal It's quite cramped with just one screen. I really
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Exactly. Just as raganwald suggests on his last line - people will be stung by their experience and simply buy an iPhone next time. Crap like this damages the whole Android brand. Nobody wants to hear "Oh, well you bought this specific in
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Maybe it's more like Greenspun's tenth rule: Any sufficiently large organisation contains an ad-hoc, informally specified, [bug-ridden] implementation of a bank.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
I was under the impression that a CEO: Gets rewarded when their company does well. Gets paid off when their company does badly. (Golden parachutes: http://www.economist.com/node/16685706?story_id=16685706&#38... )
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Yes, this game is absolute genius. Felt really sorry for the guy (X) who got stuck running around in the middle of the Fortress formation a minute ago. Like: ##### #X # # # # # # ##### I'm the one in the blue, by
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by SandB0x 16y ago
I was going to vote you up, but under the circumstances the only thing to say is: http://i.imgur.com/NoDzP.png
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Second update to the Ubuntu Light themes (Canonical Design)(design.canonical.com)
3 points by SandB0x 16y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft: 'We love open source'(networkworld.com)
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Mesmerising Animation of Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010(youtube.com)
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Canonical have really upped their game recently. These days a fresh Ubuntu installation looks pretty slick, compared to a just few releases ago. Maybe it's not quite up to OS X standards yet, but reading the design team and Mark Shuttlewort
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by SandB0x 16y ago
People look at successful companies, see that they have a Facebook page and are posting on Twitter, and assume these things will make them successful too. It doesn't quite work that way round.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
You can't downvote direct replies, and icey's comment is a direct reply to your post. You should be able to downvote a grandchild, if you have sufficient karma.

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