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   by aggieben 18y ago

   Uh, wouldn't this actually be called something like "the US Department of Education"? It's been a rousing success, too - it's allowed our Ministry of Truth to claim things like "comrades! Our production of students that pass the standardize
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   by aggieben 18y ago

   This is Outlook's fault for encouraging poor email habits, like using "reply-all" by default instead of being conscious of the recipients of an email.
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   by aggieben 18y ago

   The best way to counteract inequality is by raising more revenue and then spending it on things that the middle and lower classes need, like national health insurance. It ain't the job of the gubmint to "counteract inequality" i
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   Ask YC: Worst job title (anything with "Excellence")

   1 points by aggieben 18y ago|0 comments
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   by aggieben 18y ago

   I can't say I agree. We have increased our pool by accepting sub-par students, and it seems to be shifting the entire curve backwards, rather than "spreading the tips". I don't know what the right answer is (or if there is one); what feel
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   by aggieben 18y ago

   I'm not so sure a simple drop in enrollment is such a bad thing. I recently taught a couple of graduate level courses in a nearby CS department, and I can tell you that they should "un-enroll" about half of their graduate students, and it
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   Breaking News: Girls don't become engineers because they don't want to(boston.com)

   51 points by aggieben 18y ago|104 comments
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   by aggieben 18y ago

   Switch to an ARM or PPC chip, and it's a completely different process. Yup. That's why you should do it for learning purposes - getting your head around how a machine bootstraps itself is, to my mind, one of the harder things to
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   by aggieben 18y ago

   Eh. This isn't really very interesting, anyway. 27 years of screwing around with physics still hasn't produced any offspring (quantum computing doesn't count yet). yawn
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    You could get your band expanded and wear it on your forearm closer to your elbow. I do that sometimes with my velcro strap.
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    here it is: google "site:news.ycombinator.com <insert terms here>"
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    lovely. eSafe says: The URL http://earth2tech.com/2008/05/15/6-electric-cars-you-can-buy... was blocked, it is in the Restricted Illegal Drugs category. Is this content available elsewhere?
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    I made my own opportunity: I just started tutoring. I made an announcement in my church's newsletter, and I told people in person. People come, we talk math, and that's it.
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    I'd rather not malign the school. Let's just say they're overrun by populations of students that are underqualified - a condition I think is common among schools not in the "top tier".
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    Shop Class as Soulcraft. Maybe software too?(thenewatlantis.com)

    5 points by aggieben 18y ago|1 comments
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    This is good general advice for anyone with even a remote interest in writing academic papers (or even just good technical papers). I just finished teaching a graduate course in computer architecture, and I was shocked at how unprepared the
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    Writing one is not a waste of time, because you learn what's really going on just after POST. But trying to actually use your own and maintain it is pretty much a waste. Write one to learn how it works, then throw it away and use Grub.
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    I think the main consideration when talking about renting or buying is the time involved. In Texas, I've found that if you're going to live somewhere for at least 2 years (or so, depending on the market), and you set out to find a particul
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    Good thoughts I agree with in general, but I think this only barely passes the smell-test for strongly-typed-dynamic-language snobbery (and the little table of language characteristics is suspect, I think). Sometimes you just forget a semic
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    any good ones in Dallas? I've heard of StarTech, but they seem a little different than these type of seed funds.
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    I've had that problem before too. It's just the basic bootstrapping problem of starting a career that everyone goes through. To answer your question, my only professional experience before finishing school was through internships, includin
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    Dallas meetup tonight(dallas.startupdrinks.com)

    4 points by aggieben 18y ago|0 comments
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    Curious: computers couldn't count to 2 mil?(telegraph.co.uk)

    1 points by aggieben 18y ago|0 comments
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    I get the point, but live performances by musicians are a pretty weak example. A performer can only do one performance at a time like a masseuse, but unlike a masseuse, a performer can service a very scalable number of people simultaneousl
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    and the nice thing about Octave is that it's largely Matlab-compatible, so all your knowledge of programming Matlab doesn't go wasted.
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    No Git support. No sale. Next?
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    by aggieben 18y ago

    In 2005, I had two offers upon finishing my master's: one in Austin for $61K and one in the Dallas area for $64K. My officemate took an offer in Baltimore for $75K-ish, I think.
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    Among the worst craigslist jobs(dallas.craigslist.org)

    1 points by aggieben 19y ago|0 comments
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    by aggieben 19y ago

    uhh....how about http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=<username&#62 ; ? This link is available in your user profile.
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    by aggieben 19y ago

    just in case you guys are just following your own threads (like I do), we have http://dallas.startupdrinks.com