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by acbabis 10y ago
What happens when someone puts it off their whole life and doesn't have money when they need to enroll?
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by acbabis 10y ago
Weird. Me too. I think it's because it's a frequently-visited site, so it shows up next to the Facebook button in the Chrome default page.
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by acbabis 10y ago
It's not incredible at all; it's reasonable. Peer review should be comprehensive enough to notice if, for example, there are serious numerical errors or if the conclusions can't be drawn from the figures. That some people don
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by acbabis 10y ago
Who has a higher rate?
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by acbabis 10y ago
Global food shortage? If you're talking about ethanol from corn, that doesn't sound correct. Corn-based foods are dirt cheap
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by acbabis 10y ago
This hasn't been my experience. Worldbuilding has hard-science and soft-science tags, and the better posts use them. Puzzle questions tend to get flagged and closed.
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by acbabis 10y ago
I think this is correct, however, it doesn't completely explain why I'll go months without meeting a better applicant. If there were a surplus of capable mid-level engineers then wouldn't I see them too?
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by acbabis 10y ago
I wouldn't know because I don't choose the candidates; I just do the coding interviews
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by acbabis 10y ago
Then why is it that most of the people I interview can barely write a for-loop?
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by acbabis 10y ago
> #17 Tell HN: Political Detox Week I see what you did there
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by acbabis 10y ago
I'm not saying it's not a good idea, but that system's gonna be really tough on the software industry. Consider what would happen when a famous third-party API has security flaw. Most third-party libraries' licenses have
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by acbabis 10y ago
I don't understand
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by acbabis 10y ago
> knows precisely what his/her role is and is capable of fulfilling it I also like Agile when it works, but I'm of the opinion that not following it is a symptom and not a disease. If you're fortunate enough to be on a tea
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by acbabis 10y ago
I would guess that most image macros containing rhetorical arguments don't come from people who've based their beliefs on bad journalism. They come from people who've already made up their mind and want to reach as many peo
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by acbabis 10y ago
I'm not a lawyer either, but I don't think what worked in Sweden will work for the US. Not only is it hard to sue people for libel, but content sites like YouTube fought pretty to hard to make sure they couldn't be responsibl
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by acbabis 10y ago
But I thought Hillary was leading in polls. Also, how would you know how many people lied in the polls?
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by acbabis 10y ago
> many of the bad decisions we've made have been data-driven The author of the article would probably say that people's preconceptions influence their data collection in these cases.
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by acbabis 10y ago
The link near the top of this page (HackerNews) that says "web". It's in an easy-to-miss list of light grey links.
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by acbabis 10y ago
Perhaps you're putting the cart before the horse. Did you play with computers a lot as a kid? Did it come naturally? For myself, I can answer "yes" to both. I suspect it's common for aptitude to come before motivation.
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by acbabis 10y ago
I think it's meaningless to say that anyone can eventually learn X. Even if it's true, it's not really relevant. Suppose you're a prospective CS student and you ask your trusted friend/advisor/teacher if they t
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by acbabis 10y ago
Desktop Dungeons is an excellent one. Gameplay is divided into levels which are designed to be short, and there is a puzzle mode which is tricky but very rewarding. The race/class system is also quite good. Different builds are good on
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by acbabis 10y ago
I interpreted the author's hypothetical future to be an extension of post-modern ideals. It would be weird to call all of art history up to that point of supposed enlightenment "post-modern". The irony of the article I was tr
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by acbabis 10y ago
> The idea that art has an overall goal of advancing or perfecting its terms and techniques is made up. Imagined. Idiotic. Except to those benefiting from this intellectual fundamentalism. Someday, people will look back at this phase of
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by acbabis 10y ago
That's my understanding. People there also obtain radios and listen to South Korean broadcasts, some of which contain anti-NK messages
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by acbabis 10y ago
That's getting less and less common. Apparently its really easy for North Koreans to get smuggled media from other countries, and a lot of the guards look the other way or take bribes. Most North Koreans probably realize how bad their
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by acbabis 10y ago
I agree. A more accurate explanation is that it would cost Microsoft money and/or reputation to take a feature away from people who take it for granted. As the de facto enterprise solution, they're stuck supporting their old mis
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by acbabis 10y ago
That's interesting. I wasn't aware that cases in the jurisdiction of a lower court could "skip" the lower court. And it appears I misread your earlier point. You were talking about the lower court "predicting"
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by acbabis 10y ago
Did anyone else misread the title as saying that the "tiny" CSS library was 720kB in size and think "Oh God, why?!"
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by acbabis 10y ago
I was under the impression that you only have multiple courts review a case when the case is appealed. Wouldn't cases that are appealed be biased in favor of unpredictability by the fact that people believed they could be reversed?
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by acbabis 10y ago
Good point. It is also technically correct to say "that it seemed likely not to be true"

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