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by abhayb 7y ago
Both are true because this is a government official. A key skill for a government official is to communicate in a way that gives no information to people who disagree with them. This is a sensible adaptation to their conditions. You disagre
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by abhayb 7y ago
Former student and TA here. There is so much great stuff in this class and its assignments! Couple of highlights: - Data lab formally verifies all of the submissions and gives you an exact failing test case if the submission isn't corr
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by abhayb 8y ago
Roughly three parts to this. First off, these folks are already "here" . Busy learning to America. Paying tuition to their schools and taxes from their internships/OPTs. Contributing and being contributed to so that there&#x2
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by abhayb 8y ago
This will make getting work visas even harder for folks with only U.S. undergrad degrees. Expect growth in 4+1 and 3+1 integrated Masters programs to compensate. Prioritizing people with U.S. degrees is a pretty reasonable move. And given t
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by abhayb 8y ago
Thank you! This is the argument that made me give TypeScript a try. I work in Kotlin day to day which tries to fix its base language (and batteries included with it) while not fixing it too much. TS sounded like a language in that vein.
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by abhayb 8y ago
I believe that you get good by getting better. And I think it's easier to tell that you've gotten better than it is to tell that you've gotten good. Look back 6 months, a year, 2 years. How have you grown? What can you do now
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by abhayb 14y ago
I think the piece illustrates a very good point that the general public would enjoy reading about. Which is that booms can push out diversity and that a tragedy of the commons is occurring in SF with people driving out the character they ca
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by abhayb 14y ago
The title is somewhat inaccurate/misleading. The conclusion the blog comes to is that there are far better chocolates available for far less and that Noka are intensionally obtuse and misleading about how their chocolate is made and where i
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by abhayb 14y ago
Couldn't pass this one up seeing as I should actually be dealing with this for a class instead of commenting on Hacker News. What it means is that certain sets of symbols cannot be parsed unambiguously without information generated during t