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by akavi 15y ago
If this works, Square will join the narrow ranks of companies who I want to succeed because my life would be dramatically worse without them. Please let it work.
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by akavi 15y ago
I was under the impression that the gender disparity was actually age dependent: A surplus of both young men and older women.
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by akavi 15y ago
Yeah, Yale makes this sort of thing a LOT easier than many schools thanks to how generous its leave policy is. The math would be a lot different for a school where dropping out meant losing your seat entirely.
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by akavi 15y ago
This is very difficult to phrase without sounding like I'm attempting to insinuate my intelligence. But I don't believe that many very intelligent men took more than 10 minutes to solve this problem, unless it was presented to them in some
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by akavi 15y ago
How are you going to deal with fraud? (And you will have fraud)
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by akavi 15y ago
That makes it possible , but far from easy/convenient enough to be worthwhile . What I imagine is intended by this is a text editor tailor made for browsing and editing code on a touch screen with limited real estate. A non-trivial proble
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by akavi 15y ago
That's a secondary, and arguably unwanted purpose of voting. The primary purpose is to push a valuable comment up towards the top of a page (or, conversely, push down a non-contributory comment).
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by akavi 15y ago
It was created by pg. What other language (type) would he have used?
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by akavi 15y ago
Most of those people are relatively unknown now, outside of specialized fields. viz. Bush, Venter, Roberts, Shockley, Stallman.
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by akavi 15y ago
I'm pretty sure this is the correct answer too. Visualization tip: Consider the possible nets of the rectangular prism that makes up the room, and find what the shortest path on one of them would look like.
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by akavi 15y ago
I'm a CS senior, and just speaking anecdotally, my friends who interned at $BigTech all received offers above 100k.
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by akavi 15y ago
>Nothing will display if there is an infinite loop. Did someone solve the halting problem while I wasn't looking?
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by akavi 15y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but how is it possible to encrypt the video on the fly? Doesn't the client software have to know how to decrypt it in order to view it? And once that's available, what's to prevent someone from grabbing that decrypted
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by akavi 15y ago
It's somewhat amusing to read this essay while sitting in Yale's CS 323 class. I do wonder, though, how much of this essay is Spolsky's investment bias (Ie, It must be worthwhile, because if not I suffered for nothing.)
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by akavi 15y ago
Can somebody explain to me why we allow philosophers to make explicitly positive claims about the mind and psychology without empirical evidence, when were they to do the same thing with regards to, say physics (claiming perhaps that "the s
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by akavi 15y ago
It'd be nice to see some more face-centric auto-avatars like robohash, but in a variety of styles. While they're pretty cool looking, the cartoon-y feel doesn't necessarily work with every site design.
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by akavi 15y ago
Is an arbitrary bit sequence valid unicode? If so, I'm curious if a simple per-character Huffman encoding of English would be more efficient.
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by akavi 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand how choice of programming language affects choice of algorithm.
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by akavi 15y ago
A corroborating argument for dropping the stars: A lot of people who've tried multi-value rating systems have found that they get a heavily bimodal distribution anyways: people vote when they think something is awesome, or when it sucks, bu
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by akavi 15y ago
Thank you.
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by akavi 15y ago
I really would appreciate if they'd SHOW what those modifications look like. Alternatively, link to the study(ies) and let me see for myself.
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by akavi 15y ago
I don't think (and hope) that I don't vocalize it, but I've definitely caught myself making the finger motion in thin air.
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by akavi 15y ago
And so continues HN's recapitulation of Reddit
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by akavi 15y ago
Is this comment being downvoted for being sarcasm, for being poor sarcasm, or for having been misinterpreted as serious? Just to sate my curiousity.
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by akavi 15y ago
Can somebody post a screenshot for those of still in the emoji-less stone age?
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by akavi 15y ago
Note that in Chinese, character is not the same as word. Most modern Mandarin words are bisyllabic, and represented by the combination of two characters, and their meaning does not necessarily derive in a straightforward way from the meanin
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by akavi 15y ago
Bug report: It seems to choke if you scroll down the page after opening the bug muncher (ie, the lightbox doesn't follow the scrolling, and clicking preview doesn't do anything)
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by akavi 15y ago
I wonder if a solution similar to what Reddit does to subreddits might make sense. The likelihood of a link showing up on your front page is not just a function of votes, but also how many votes the average story from that subreddit gets (i
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by akavi 15y ago
Yale (not considered a top CS school, I know) still uses scheme for its introductory classes. With both Berkeley and MIT switching away, I wonder if Yale's one of the last holdouts. I'm not sure I agree with you that language is irrelevant
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by akavi 15y ago
Interesting that the only non-Anglophones seem to Chinese, and that many of those names appear to be pseudonyms.

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