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by Scriptor 17y ago
"it's appalling how freely people joke that they're bad at arithmetic, when they wouldn't joke so freely that they're bad at, say, being able to read." When most people say they're horrible at math they mean they're horrible at the analytic
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Rather surprising to see PHP so high here since I rarely see PHP-related submissions on HN. How do people learn it? I've found that the best thing for me was finding StumbleUpon and reading up as much as I could about best practices in PHP
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by Scriptor 17y ago
You were likely downmodded because a one-line question question doesn't really add to the discussion. Also, telling people to upmod your comment just because they do something you do isn't helping you.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
For some reason the PHP developers think it should be Ok to have a class in your code with the same name as a namespace you're using. I just tested this out with Python and it seems that doing the same thing simply gives you what was last d
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by Scriptor 17y ago
By votes list is here: http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_points
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Outlawed as in banned by the school? I know the technical policy for my high school was that we had to leave them in our lockers. Of course, nobody actually did that. It was entertaining to see teachers catch students though.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
It's just that the message sounds a lot like that website that mass-emailed people with the message "someone wants to share pictures with you, click here to see them" or something like that. A simple textbox containing some optional text to
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Are you using the Japanese or Chinese scoring system? EDIT: Also, I'd like a way to send a message to the person I'm requesting to play with. I checked to see what the message was like and for someone who doesn't know what it's about might
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Oh God, I'm at best a 17 kyu and haven't played in a while either. Well, let's change that.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I also feel that biology requires a different mindset from those who would rather go into physics or engineering. Back in high school I would always excel in biology while one of my friends would excel in physics. On the other hand, it took
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Frankly, this fear just sounds too much like "Oh no, I'd hate to see anything tinge my precious baby!" What's wrong with there being poorly written code in your favorite language? Unless these Lispers also do web development, they likely wo
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I remember hearing about an ants simulator done in Clojure but didn't know the full scope of it. Thanks for that! Speaking of this, the Sync video on TED is pretty cool and touches on complex behavior arising from simple rules: http://www.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Nothing wrong with being an idealist, sure. There is something wrong when someone goes out of his way to criticize something for no reasons other than "it doesn't fit how I think things should be". For a proper criticism, I would have lik
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Actually, and this maybe just be anecdotal evidence, many gen y people only use Facebook for maybe a few minutes at most each day. We get on, look for anything interesting, update status, post or reply to someone if needed, and that's it. I
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I wonder how privacy on the web would have been viewed if Twitter had become popular first. With Facebook, people expect their information to only be circulated among a small group of people (though practically this has been shown to be unr
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I remember seeing the crows video. Do you have the link to where it was shown it was fake? Can't seem to find it by googling.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Sorry, but the more I read that link the more skeptical I become of its contents. Children do not commit suicide because they've been coddled and suddenly are scolded by a teacher. They commit suicide because they are fearful of the consequ
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Pretty much the only band I listen to while programming is Apocalyptica. I just like the driving-ness of their songs. For those who don't know, they're a cello metal band. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptica
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Or maybe the Universe was a hastily done outsourcing job? Seriously though, as messy as organ systems and biochemistry may be, the weird thing is that it all works by itself, using basic chemical properties. I remember how some textbooks ca
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by Scriptor 17y ago
To be fair HTML5 and Flash/Silverlight aren't really comparable to the different media formats. They're just different ways of doing the exact same thing. It'd be more like analog vs. digital.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I still use Gchat and either talk to people directly through it or on AIM. I only know of one other person like you where Facebook chat is the main way to talk online.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
But as vast as life itself? It's pretty much required, as far as I know, for the SICP professor to thoroughly know the whole book, yet it is nearly impossible for any professor to do the same with Campbell and Reece, one of the more common
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Right, because everyone who goes to college is rich and primarily motivated by alcohol, since as everyone knows most alcohol consumption for teens starts in college. University gives you the chance to have more or less complete control of
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Ah, of course, I was wondering what this articles equivalent of "But it won't happen to us because we're special!" would be.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
And who will pay the for the instructors, the manuals, the instruments, the lab materials, etc? At least for science labs, there's no "special building", just a specialized room. Also, in majors such as biology universities house research p
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Why is it slightly misleading to say it lets you loan to small businesses?
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by Scriptor 17y ago
It takes a great deal of discipline to not use goto for quick fixes when you feel lazy. Unfortunately, many PHP programmers simply don't have the experience to properly structure code, since PHP is their first actual experience with program
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by Scriptor 17y ago
That might work, though of course the reviews would have to be constructive and useful. This is where having a small community is a problem, if you use a vote system even a few votes will be enough to game the system.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Digg, Reddit, etc. provide new content people can read. People don't have to comment. On the other hand, a review site depends entirely on people commenting in some way. Compounding on that is the fact that the only content would come from

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