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by araneae 16y ago
Well, I dropped out after 1.5 years :).
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by araneae 16y ago
Here's a better solution: install the BugMeNot extension for firefox. It logs you into NYT and other sites by providing the credentials. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/6349
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by araneae 16y ago
Just because there's a name for feeling like a fraud even if you aren't one, doesn't meant you aren't one! I felt like a fraud in graduate school and it turned out I was one.
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by araneae 16y ago
Arizona is notorious for all kinds of crap like this. For instance, they regularly use exposure - putting people out in the sun - as punishment. One women died as a result of this treatment, and no one was prosecuted: http://blogs.phoeni
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by araneae 16y ago
I don't know how that statement even supports their claim. The point of plant defense is to make whatever's eating them ill. That includes humans. Generally animals, including humans, avoid those plants unless they've found some way to eith
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by araneae 16y ago
Ahem. You don't happen have that .tex template hanging around that was used to produce the .pdf? Because it's absolutely beautiful and I would like to co-opt the template for my NaNoWriMo novel :D.
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by araneae 16y ago
His writing is pretty bad in the original Foundation trilogy, but it was his early work. He got a lot better later on. Have you read Stephen King's first novel, Carrie ? The writing is awful. And yes, there are a lot of direct cold wa
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by araneae 16y ago
I'm not sure it's possible to argue someone into enjoying a work of fiction. I explained why it didn't work for me. Any work of fiction- the successful ones, anyway- will always be about people. If they're too different of a people (genet
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by araneae 16y ago
I've read the comments, and the point still stands. There's a reason that I had never heard of a "weirdtopian" novel before. If something is outside of the scope of what humans are capable of, it's very jarring to one's suspension of disb
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by araneae 16y ago
I love HP and the Methods of Rationality, and absolutely hated "Three Worlds Collide" because a)It was very contrived, and b)Rape will never be legal, sorry, unless it's an anti-feminist society similar to some Arab countries, which that so
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Movement to opt out of full-body scans on Nov 24(optoutday.com)
3 points by araneae 16y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
Why would you buy a physical stop-watch if there are any number of stopwatch web applications and desktop utils? timer-applet for gnome seems more appropriate.
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by araneae 16y ago
Yup. Cindy here really isn't in technology. I know plenty of women who actually do work in real technology and the few that have public blogs rarely write about women's issues.
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by araneae 16y ago
I think he was more commenting on the computer illiteracy. Perhaps this is an older gentleman? The only people I can imagine being unable to set-up a Facebook account comfortably are 50+. And even then, I know for a fact a lot of them can
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by araneae 16y ago
They're stuck in a continuous defect!
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by araneae 16y ago
I've just noticed that Facebook suddenly looks shitty in Chrome (padding on the left up and went). Coincidence?
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by araneae 16y ago
Kayak also has information on this if you're looking up a flight from there. You can also use "has wi-fi" as filter.
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What About The Other Side Of The Noirin Shirley Accusation?(pauloflaherty.com)
2 points by araneae 16y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
"I'm not sure if the author is implying in the final paragraph that sexual assault is one of the main reasons the male-female ratio at most tech conferences is so off." I have a female friend that regularly attends tech conferences, and she
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by araneae 16y ago
"when well-executed these trainings really do work" There's absolutely no evidence that "sensitivity training" or "anger management" or any number of these programs designed to protect companies from liability have any sort of effect on any
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by araneae 16y ago
Exactly. In my experience, if someone wants to look at your code, they will e-mail you and ask for it. Then you e-mail it to them. Sharing on something like sourceforge just simple isn't done. It's not because scientists are "cheating,"
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by araneae 16y ago
I'm sure he gives the size in the paper somewhere. I expect it was probably similar to what I did. It was 5 years ago and the pictures weren't numbered so I really have no idea.
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by araneae 16y ago
I went to Cornell and I'm one of the many students that participated in this guy's experiments (although not this particular one with the erotic pictures. I got regular pictures.) I can tell you that every semester that I was there he was
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by araneae 16y ago
I heard of Diapers.com from HN, and I've seen several articles about it on here, so I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption to make. Diapers.com is a big competitor for Amazon.com on the baby stuff, so it's a good acquisition for the
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by araneae 16y ago
I think that is in some way flawed. For instance, it's possible to mathematically prove in some cases that one algorithm is better than another; a set of ten nested for loops simply has greater time complexity than one. You don't need to a
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by araneae 16y ago
People who believe that they make all their decisions rationally are delusional. I say this with confidence because there is a large amount of research showing that people make decisions with a good deal of input- if not entirely- from the
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Sexual assault, and why men don't get it(lepid0ptera.livejournal.com)
44 points by araneae 16y ago|40 comments
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How voters turned out on Facebook(facebook.com)
2 points by araneae 16y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
You're probably right, but I'm quite happy about this. I had to manually get e-mail addresses from Facebook recently to create a wedding-invitee Google contacts list. And there have been several situations when I needed a number from Face
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Why everyone should learn programming(flowingdata.com)
5 points by araneae 16y ago|0 comments

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