alberich

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by alberich 14y ago
Maybe that is because face-to-face classes offer a richer experience for the students. Also, it doesn't feel so boring when someone is talking to you (e.g. watching a video on the computer screen is not the same as a person talking to you).
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by alberich 14y ago
Funny that a lot of articles here wouldn't really be categorized as "hacker" news :) Lately, everything is "hacking". Seems like the word lost its meaning.
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by alberich 14y ago
It would be nice to see some benchmarks showing "C like" performance using this tricks.
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by alberich 14y ago
I can't reply to Zirro's and pooriaazimi's posts, so I'll answear here. Zirro: that is good to know. I wish it was the same with the IPad. Owning your hardware, in the sense that you can install alternative stuff on it, is very important fo
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by alberich 14y ago
That's ok, I believe we can agree to disagree :)
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by alberich 14y ago
I just couldn't install any other usable operating system on the hardware other then Apple's OS. The specifications were closed, you couldn't get much anything useful installed on it because it depended on proprietary software that, of cour
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by alberich 14y ago
No. But considering that I paid almost nothing for it makes a big difference. It's not like paying U$ 1k and being locked in. with my Ibook I couldn't install other OS on working conditions because Apple wouldn't just open the specs, so the
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by alberich 14y ago
I always wonder if this is what they call the reality distortion effect. You get what you pay for? Long time ago I had an ibook g4. Supposedly it was very nice back then, and very pricey too. However, after playing with it sometime, it just
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by alberich 14y ago
I agree that Apple should be able to protect what is looks like, not what it works like. Sure this is a point of view (after all, the american patent system didn't come up out of nowhere). I believe that if you let people to patent things l
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by alberich 14y ago
American patent system is weird. Why is it fair for someone to patent "what" you do, what should be fair to patent is "how" you make this thing viable (e.g. the algorithms used, or something like that)? As long as you don't use the mechanis
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by alberich 14y ago
Sure, and I'm also aware that there is cure for this, but you must go for it. If this story is real, I hope that now that he is aware that he is troubled, he will seek professional help.
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by alberich 14y ago
This is bizarre, really. You known, while being addicted to something may be a big problem, the OP sounds much more depressed than addicted. Come one, 21 years old and his life is destroyed? how come? He even has money for beer and cigarret
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by alberich 14y ago
I was wondering how this approach deals with systems running behind NAT also. With IPv6 not happening anytime soon, there will be a large number of systems without individual public addresses available. Routing this UDP packets may require
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by alberich 14y ago
I wonder if the guys that use emacs will really want to use another version of it running on the JVM. I get this feeling that most of them despise the JVM, and the guys who generally use JVM are eclipse/netbeans guys. Sure there will be som
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by alberich 14y ago
Indeed.... "There’s a reason coke and heroin cost so much more on the street than at the farm gate: you’re not paying for the drugs; you’re compensating everyone along the distribution chain for the risks they assumed in getting them to you
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by alberich 14y ago
Startup is about starting a new business isn't it? If your first project was making money, but wasn't a business, with at least a rudimentar business plan, goals, and all the formality involved in doing real business... then maybe it was re
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by alberich 14y ago
I don't know Japan's geography, so, maybe it is possible for it to have tsunamis everywere. However, if there is some part of Japan's territory that is safe from tsunamis, wouldn't it be easier to just build those reactors there, and not in
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by alberich 14y ago
It is really weird. For six months the CEO didn't notice anything bad in the work place, no bad things happening that would make him think that is something is going very wrong. Than, by chance, he notices that one of his employes isn't doi
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by alberich 14y ago
This reminds me of the pointy haired boss, from Dilbert's cartoon.
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by alberich 14y ago
how is the "bigger ipod touch" changing education? I mean, really, what is so great about and ipad that is changing education for better? Or are you talking about just a change in methodology and not quality?
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by alberich 14y ago
> That doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot if those with the power to implement the change aren't willing to listen. The sad part about this is that in many ocasions we are those with the power to implement the changes. Though we can rat
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by alberich 14y ago
I'm not sure they lack such understanding. Isn't this what psychologists call cognitive bias, or something like that? I believe there was a thread here on HK about it, a study showing that people often do irrational things because they assu
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by alberich 14y ago
If it is like you say, it sounds a bit overboard to shut down everything. Maybe with some effort they could come up with regulation to solve those complaints while keeping the good renters legal.
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by alberich 14y ago
I wonder if protecting people from bad neighbours is really the intent here. It looks more like they are trying to shut the short-term rental business down, to please the large hotel business.
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by alberich 14y ago
supporting scientific research is considered applied scientific research?
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by alberich 14y ago
I'd argue that India is not really a 3rd world country anymore. Besides, this terminology doesn't make much sense now that the soviet union is gone.
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by alberich 14y ago
What do you define as low-level stuff? It seems that Node.js was used to communicate with the components running on a regular Linux OS, not really the low-level stuff that you would be able to do with, say, C.
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by alberich 14y ago
not to be picky, but why is it called a robot if it is remotely operated? Isn't a robot supposed to be autonomous, at least in part? I confess that I just gave a quick look at the article, but it seems like a small remotely controlled radio
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by alberich 14y ago
This sounds very 1984. If the police says you have encrypted data, how can they prove it really is encrypted data? Besides, how can they prove that you do have the keys for the hypothetical encrypted data? It sounds absurd that you have to
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by alberich 14y ago
Here in Brazil is guaranteed by the constitution that no one can be forced to produce any evidence against him/herself. Isn't there something like this in the UK? You know... if someone says that you have ilegal encrypted data, they first w

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