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by andylei 17y ago
The handbook referenced by the article does NOT say that yard sales are illegal. It just says that yard sales are regulated by laws. There are certain things you can't sell at yard sales, specifically "potentially hazardous products". Now
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by andylei 17y ago
There are many elements of getting a 6 figure developer job. The things you mentioned are important, but answering interview questions are important as well. If you can't answer interview questions, you can start up (nothing wrong with th
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by andylei 18y ago
the argument "you need to be smart in order to be part of the group" is the not the same as "being smart means you are in the group".
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by andylei 18y ago
>> No one would design anything like our system if they were doing it from scratch. Why not? If I implemented a system, it would probably involve certain things that I wanted students of different age groups to learn (a curriculum)
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by andylei 18y ago
why? most people can probably get through life just fine not knowing how gravity works at non-earth locations.
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by andylei 18y ago
don't forget investment bankers
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by andylei 18y ago
This is better than an unpaid summer internship, but unpaid summer internships suck. I'm sure you can find some desperate students to take this, but I still don't think it's a good deal. Even if you're not offering that much now, I think
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by andylei 18y ago
that's a reason why abusive contracts are bad, not a reason why allowing foreign workers into the united states is bad. we should allow more foreign workers into the united states for the same reason we should let automobiles overtake horse
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by andylei 18y ago
In other news, the invention of the automobile cuts horse and buggy driver's wages by 100%. Ban automobiles!
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by andylei 18y ago
Actually, there was a contract. It's called the terms of service.
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by andylei 18y ago
why do they assume satisfaction with financial situation equals financial situation? there are plenty of people making 6 figures that want more, and there are plenty of people making 40k that are happy with their lives.
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by andylei 18y ago
/dev/audio doesn't exist. i think sounds go through core audio or something. i'm not really sure. the command say is pretty interesting though
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by andylei 18y ago
why should an educational endowment act any different than a hedge fund? hedge funds are designed to maximize return for some level of risk. if you think the level of risk they pursued was too high, that's another issue, but hedge funds a
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by andylei 18y ago
this argument isn't that bad. he makes a bad assumption that living expenses are the same in both countries, but this can easily be remedied. say skilled individuals make $1 an hour in India or China, after expenses. say those skilled ind
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by andylei 18y ago
wait, who is to say that bill gates wasn't a good student? he dropped out of harvard because he wanted to, not because he was getting bad grades. i don't know as much about jobs and ellison, but i can't imagine that they'd be ones to get C
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by andylei 18y ago
should probably standardize that test, so that students across the country could be judged based on the same benchmarks :)
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by andylei 18y ago
well, duh. minorities and underprivileged individuals get lower sat scores. colleges that take into account sat scores prefer students with higher sat scores, all else equal. why did they need to do a "study" to come to this conclusion?
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by andylei 18y ago
The offer isn't necessarily "over". Withdrawing the offer is probably a negotiating technique. Sun is trying to sell, and IBM is reminding Sun that it's probably the only interested buyer.
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by andylei 18y ago
i don't think it's that ridiculous. if i'm a recruiter for a consulting company (or any type of company), i want to know if you're smart. i can figure it out by talking to you, but that's limited by your ability to bullshit and my ability
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by andylei 18y ago
selection bias is compounded by the fact the costs of voting. i like the redesign, and i was going to vote YES, but it's not a Facebook poll, it's an application. I'd have to sign up to use the app, allowing it access to my user data, jus
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by andylei 18y ago
ha, this is nothing. i'm developing a femtoblogging platform that only allows 1 character posts.
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by andylei 18y ago
that's odd, i thought this link would just take be back to the HN homepage
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by andylei 18y ago
I think it really depends on what kind of university you get into. If you get into a university like MIT, Stanford, CalTech, etc, there's a good chance that you'll be surrounded by a lot of entrepreneurial engineers. Even if you don't get
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by andylei 18y ago
i'm generally skeptical when people claim they have discovered the single X that caused Y, especially when Y is this particular Wall Street collapse. i don't think this article gives a particularly convincing argument about why this formul
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by andylei 18y ago
http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp#illiteracy The federal department of education was created in 1867. Strange how illiteracy decreased with the expansion of schools
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by andylei 18y ago
http://www.somethingtoputhere.com/commentdemo/gallery.php?pi... it seems like the widget already allows for people without facebook accounts to comment
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by andylei 18y ago
most people probably would be illiterate without a mandatory government education
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by andylei 18y ago
http://zetamac.com/arithmetic/ ok, not really the math you want, but still fun!
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by andylei 18y ago
it sounds like you're trying to use your pinky to hit the command key. it's a lot more comfortable if you use your thumb to hit the command key. it's a lot more natural to hit the command key for me, since i only have to curl my thumb in a
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by andylei 18y ago
regardless of whether it has "theoretical basis", there are plenty of hedge funds that make plenty of money with it.

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