alberte

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by alberte 11y ago
...actually when you think about it - if the market forces argument was all there was to it administrators would be getting paid very little to, there's an abundance of administrators
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by alberte 11y ago
The solution is get on the administration track https://www.higheredjobs.com/salary/salaryDisplay.cfm?Survey... e.g. Chief Student Financial Aid Officer $83,726
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by alberte 11y ago
twit.tv I listen to it's a nice radio level stream of tech
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Rise of the Professional Manager in Japan (2005)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by alberte 11y ago|0 comments
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by alberte 11y ago
I think in all these discussions of bean counters, the underlying assumptions non bean counters make is that the bean counters are trying to improve things. That, in my experience, is seldom the case. Mostly the act of bean counting is to c
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by alberte 11y ago
That could be possible - though we'd like to believe other wise the human eye isn't well calibrated. After all maps of the canals of mars came about from eye balling - and they never existed.
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by alberte 11y ago
That can't be right, sounds more like a grab for consultant dollars :-). I've been 25 years a developer, and never been on a failure. Had one small one cancelled - but for business reasons. I have seen one spectacular failure - th
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by alberte 11y ago
#insert standard weekly hackernews attack academia article response here
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by alberte 11y ago
yes, unfortunately that is one interpretation of events, even so I feel more comfortable knowing that people like Martin Bryant can't get guns. I guess we'll just have to wait for more data points
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by alberte 11y ago
> but it seems to do the trick in keeping firearms out of the hands of crazies thus far. Yes you wouldn't think this change would be enough - because if you want to get a gun you can but for some reason it has.
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by alberte 11y ago
Australian here, we had a mass shooting in Australia some years ago. As a result of this Assault rifles were banned (Edit: without a demonstrable need), licenses were required for rifles and hand guns. Any guns could be traded in to the gov
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by alberte 11y ago
yes I see your point. Mine was degrees have been dumbed down and in many was are glorified vocational courses now, the courses have more people, a greater student to teacher ratio, and stray from theoretical considerations to the more immed
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by alberte 11y ago
I'm not sure how this relates to MBA's? Please expand if you would
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by alberte 11y ago
It's not grammatical nitpicking it's teleological nitpicking. You've made some incredibly broad statements without a shred of evidence, this I grant you is the norm for an internet forum, however it is not something that an a
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by alberte 11y ago
You do make my point well. What used to be taught in an arts degree is how to structure an argument, e.g. 'psychology studies cannot be replicated' should really be 'some psychology studies cannot be replicated' use of t
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by alberte 11y ago
>I do respect the humanities, but there's only so much you can do with them. I believe someone from the humanities would have trouble with this statement. Of what use is all the techno gadgets if we lose what makes us human? I'
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by alberte 11y ago
perhaps it's less of an issue in delphi (and pascal) since parameters that change in procedures have the var keyword? In practice it doesn't seem to cause issues since pretty well every thing is a pointer, the only time it causes
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by alberte 11y ago
Interesting - I've always thought Delphi was easier to use than many other systems, but could never put my finger on why. It seems they thought about it a lot at the beginning in a hundred little ways.
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by alberte 11y ago
Due to L-Theanine they say http://www.worldoftea.org/caffeine-and-l-theanine/ it relaxes you and mellows out the caffeine
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by alberte 11y ago
Have you tried a tea strainer - something like this http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-3-Inch-Strainer/dp/B001... the old school way Edit: http://www.amazon.com/Online-Stores-Inc-Tstr-Strainer&#x
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by alberte 11y ago
If you want to try tea I wouldn't try earl grey first, it has a funny taste to me - and I drink a lot of tea. Try english breakfast (twinings if you can get it), or even better orange pekoe, but all the other instructions are spot on.
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by alberte 11y ago
...Delphi's not dead - see http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi , now it's cross platform, modern language features - generics, lambdas etc etc. Writing a Mac app in it right now :-)
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by alberte 11y ago
His dog has dreads - very cool
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by alberte 11y ago
lots in database land - Oracle Enterprise Manager, quest had one - forget the name - the makers of Toad, it was very pretty. Splunk is one for server log management. a quick google turned up https://www.paessler.com/router_m
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by alberte 11y ago
epsilons are fun, epsilons like to play and run
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by alberte 11y ago
the startup lifestyle seems very unappealing to me, work 60 hour days for some lottery tickets, that will probably become diluted over time. Maybe thats not the truth but thats how it appears to me on the other side of the pond. I'm pr
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by alberte 11y ago
oh - lol, never seen it, my comments still stand even though it's a fictional business.
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by alberte 11y ago
Why didn't you patent it? I often think when I see the tag no one will steal your idea, only applies if you're idea isn't worth stealing - 'I'm gonna sell some stuff' isn't really an idea, it's just b
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Ask HN: Good site to ask / discuss software libraries
1 points by alberte 11y ago|0 comments
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by alberte 11y ago
The question should be "If two objects approach at 75 percent the speed of light relative to me then what is their speed relative to each other"

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