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by aharrison 17y ago
I actually read Strunk and White as part of a computer science course this quarter, and I made many of the same connections the OP makes. Truly, a masterpiece. I did notice, however, that most of the recommendations are extremely time-sensi
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by aharrison 17y ago
I agree with you completely. This whole weekend (including Halloween!) I have been stressing about a paper I need to write on a topic I am not remotely interested in. This reminded me that I need to both relax about the unimportant stuff an
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by aharrison 17y ago
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Pirsig
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by aharrison 17y ago
You have to give this guy some credit for at least trying, but the standing problem with these types of studies is that there are just too many variables. For instance, this particular study only consisted of one program. Also, it doesn't r
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by aharrison 17y ago
I built something similar to this in python once, which was kind of fun. Instead of 1 (alive) or 0 (dead), it was 1 (blue colony), 0 (dead), -1 (green colony), and things spawned as a summation of their neighbours. What this meant was the p
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by aharrison 17y ago
After having gone the whole gamut of caffeine, from 5-6 cups of coffee per day to completely dropping it in the last three months, I have settled on the following: I drink one (1) cup of really good (expensive) coffee as soon as I wake up.
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by aharrison 17y ago
Just this morning I literally wandered around Staples for an hour pondering this exact question. Staples might not be the prime place to look, but it was the best I had. Anyway, my requirements were thus: it had to be reorganizable (e.g. yo
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by aharrison 17y ago
The real problem is not that colleges have been advertising this, but that companies require it. On the one hand, I have learned a hell of a lot about Computer Science in college, but I could have survived an entry level programming job dam
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by aharrison 17y ago
This reminds me of Good Will Hunting: "You dropped a hundred and fifty grand for an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library" A professor of mine is very interested in solving the cost problem of educa
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by aharrison 17y ago
I am not entirely sure that this belongs on HN, but it definitely made me laugh. It was very appropriate with the most recent XKCD. God I hate Gillette.
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by aharrison 17y ago
Thank you for your perspective on the matter. I had assumed something along those lines, but it is still frustrating to see someone making an argument as important as this without two fundamental parts: 1. Data to back the argument up. 2. S
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by aharrison 17y ago
The economy can’t be re-established on a sound basis without aggressive efforts to put people back to work in jobs with decent wages. As a college student who will be in the job market before too long, I have been keeping a decently close