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by anindyabd 12y ago
I think one reason why Oliver enjoys so much success is the fact that HBO posts the main news story section on Youtube after every show. The ready availability of these digestible segments helps extend the show's reach. For Comedy Cent
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Free upgrades for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users -- wow, that's different from the Microsoft of old. Clearly they've decided that they've got enough in the coffers to be not as concerned about losing money in the short term to
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WHOA. Did not know that. (edit: added sentence)
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I don't understand. Why would a collapse in population cause wars over resources? If there are less people, shouldn't that mean that there will be more resources to go around for everyone?
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It's not just about productivity. As the article says, "People in Japan tend to live a long time; elderly Japanese are expensive to care for because they spend so many years in retirement and because they're accustomed to a h
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Basically, college grads today should do exactly what college grads were doing during the dot com boom? Yeah sure that's great advice!
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by anindyabd 12y ago
Such a sad state of affairs. I hope Wikipedia gets its act together. The attitude of the "established" editors toward new editors and female editors is particularly disturbing. I admire the site and its mission, but the execution
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Three ex-Google engineers have created a Microsoft Surface clone(theverge.com)
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I enjoyed reading this more than I enjoyed the original article. I agree that you should write more about your travels!
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> I'm not a writer, but I feel that its the work of someone who hasn't written much trying to write something grand. Actually, if you scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll find that the article has been written by Pico
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> Yep, even Ballmer made fun of the new OS Well Ballmer also made fun of the iPhone when it first came out. Best not attach too much weight to his opinions.
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> It's still in the best interest of Wikipedia to keep up traffic. That interest is clearly not "making more money". Can you explicitly explain what those interests are? I may be naive in believing that Wikipedia's
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> It's all the competing products that were never created because the barriers to entry were too high. Are you claiming that they weren't created because of Wikipedia? If you do have evidence of that, then indeed Wikipedia wa
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I'm not sure how much competition Wikipedia has as a free online encyclopedia. Also, Wikipedia is a non-profit, and doesn't really make more money by having more people use the site. It's strange to claim that Wikipedia is be
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How Much Does Height Matter in Career Success?(linkedin.com)
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The students were conforming. As this paper [1] explains, people -- especially young people -- will often answer incorrectly in order to gain social acceptance: "...the group answered incorrectly on purpose; it appears that when we are
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Bill Gates Will Drink Water Made from Poo to Prove New Sanitation Tech Works(techcrunch.com)
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You were on the Fire Phone team? Fascinating. Care to elaborate on some of the inaccuracies?
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I'm not sure how citing the article discounts your opinion about interviewing. All it does is say that it's common for people to make comments without reading through entire articles. I'm sure there are plenty of people who
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Thank you. It seems that people read the title of the post, skimmed through half of it, then rushed to post their opinion. Reminds me of an Ars Technica experiment I read about in Jeff Atwood's blog [1]: "Ars Technica ran a little
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It doesn't seem that the author actually asks candidates to code up the Tower of Hanoi in an interview. > I usually start with a fairly easy warm-up question — some sort of a toy problem like an operation on lists or trees, often t
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by anindyabd 12y ago
Did not know this. Thought self was equivalent to this in Java. Mind = blown.
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> I do wonder if the West will be criticized in 50 years for its intellectual draining of the third world, not unlike the West's draining of colonies' natural resources 50 or 100 or more years ago I do not think these are equiv
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Yes, I came to the same realization. One of the problems I had with the pdf version was that the flags given for compiling the program did not work correctly for my version of GHC.
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> this is a weak statement The author admits as much: "I might be on thin ice here. I need an example of a profession which does not have the same kind of enormous talent differentials that we see in sports. I could choose something
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Interesting... I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 too, and Firefox fails for me, but Chrome succeeds.
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I am not Muslim, but I was born and raised in a Muslim country, and almost all my friends are Muslim. As you note, in the month of Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. Right before dawn, they eat seheri , and after dusk, they eat ifta
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Great post. Recently I wrote an interpreter for Scheme using Haskell using the guide "Write Yourself a Scheme" [1]. It was great fun, and it seems that it will be fairly straightforward to write a new domain-specific language usin
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>> People choose careers for social reasons as well as for money. Adding a significant fraction of third world immigrants to a career lowers that career's prestige, meaning that talented natives who might have joined the field ar
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>> it's often an uncomfortable fact that we pay taxes to the government who willingly allows companies to outsource or externally hire our jobs I think your argument is weakened by the fact that H1B holders pay the same taxes as

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