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by araneae 15y ago
I find it amusing that godaddy.com is the second most searched for domain.
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by araneae 15y ago
It depends on what branch of CS you're in. Just like computer science is not about computers, it's also not really about programming. Certainly there's overlap. I have a pH.D. student friend who works on proving the correctness of programs.
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by araneae 15y ago
Damn, that's really awesome. It seems like a cool way to get into web programming from other fields since they don't require RoR or even a programming background. I might have considered it if my due date wasn't in May...
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by araneae 15y ago
It's absolutely a data structure question. You have to know what functions are available to you from within the data structure. For instance, in a singly linked list you only have the function "getNext()" and "getHead()"; in a doubly linked
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by araneae 15y ago
As someone moving from the U.S. (possibly) to London in a few years, that's actually pretty comforting. I'm mostly self taught so any hardcore CS problems will throw me. I CAN reverse a linked list, but only if it's a doubly linked list :).
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by araneae 15y ago
Try "socializing" an animal that lacks the evolved capacity for empathy. See how far you get. We have incredibly complex apparatus in our brain with a dedicated purpose of socialization. Empathy, language, and cooperation are things which h
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by araneae 15y ago
>What about the need for sleep? I don't often read comments compelling founders to heed that biological requirement. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39699 http://www.ted.com/talks/arianna_huffington_how_to_succeed_g... Besides y
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by araneae 15y ago
>This is the 21st century. Are we really still talking about "natural imperatives"? I do think that "imperative" is a little strong. But males are biologically different from females in all species, and in all species this translates in
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by araneae 15y ago
Does anyone know why there's a little thumbnail of "reproduction" there? My understanding is that in women, a lack of reproduction causes cancer. Basically, each period you have adds to your risk of breast cancer. Did the BBC just get it wr
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by araneae 15y ago
Smoking causes cells to mutate. So no. Mutation is unpredictable and there is no "immutable" cell. Just some are more susceptible to the effects of certain common mutations than others.
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by araneae 15y ago
Stage II is not early, it's actually right in the middle. There are 5 stages: 0, I, II, III and IV. http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/diagnosis/staging.jsp
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by araneae 15y ago
>I believe we are reaching a point where we have the technology to cure most maladies, Not to cherry pick or anything, but most cancers still have a fairly high death rate. And chronic leukemias, for instance, are incurable.
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by araneae 15y ago
It was not caught early. It had already metastasized (gone into a lymph node.) It was good she went in when she did, but not going to the doctor for 10 years was pretty stupid.
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by araneae 15y ago
You need to make sure http://mealmogul.com/ goes to @ as well as the www subdomain.
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by araneae 15y ago
What's nonsense? Obviously there's individual variation. Any individual person with AA could have more prosocial behaviors than any individual person with GG. It's still cool that a difference in behavior is detectable by others even in a r
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by araneae 15y ago
This was especially cool for me because I have an account with 23andme, and this SNP is sequenced with them. If you're also on 23andme you can see what your genotype is: https://www.23andme.com/you/explorer/snp/?snp_name=rs53576 I'm AA, m
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Strangers Spot People With Compassionate Genes in Seconds(livescience.com)
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by araneae 15y ago
The reason I asked is because I've had knowingly had unprotected sex with a Heb B positive person. I had had a successful vaccination (meaning the antibodies were detectable in my blood) and consequently never got infected from him. He disc
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by araneae 15y ago
Was she having sex with you? She might be disclosing it to her partners, just not every random guys she knows, understandably.
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by araneae 15y ago
I disagree with all the reasons he listed... because this is true of all careers, not just programming. I think it has more to do with our ideas about pay more than anything else. Quite simply put, in almost all professions you're paid for
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by araneae 15y ago
>Also, another problem is that student classification is based on faculty opinion. This is not strictly true. The elite group were taken from students who were violin performance majors. The non-elite group were taken from students who
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by araneae 15y ago
Ugh, I hate titles like these. It's not a graph? Of COURSE it's a graph. It's just a very complex one. Just because you could make many such graphs representing the same relationships doesn't mean it's not a graph. And it's not social becau
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by araneae 15y ago
Everyone here seems to be a big fan of the "no true Scotsman." If you write code you're a programmer. End of story. "Programming, and then there's programming" and "code plumbing" are, in fact, semantics.
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by araneae 15y ago
My point is that programming is useful in a variety of contexts and you don't have to be that great at it to accomplish something. You're right, I probably wouldn't work out at most programming jobs. I do contract work; the web app I'm writ
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by araneae 15y ago
Ah yes, the "no true scotsman." A programmer is someone who programs for a living. I program for a living. I have never programmed in C, have no idea what generic programming is, and I really couldn't care less about hardware memory protect
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by araneae 15y ago
Not all "programmers" are Joel. Not all programmers do something hard. For instance, writing an online survey is not hard. It is programming, but it is relatively easy, but boring and repetitive. It's also something that is commonly done by
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by araneae 15y ago
The top comment is bullshit. I could not get through those three books but I get paid to program. My code is repetitive and shitty but I can produce a working web app as long as it doesn't have to support too many users, and it's fine. My h
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by araneae 15y ago
It's not a possibility, because he did not hold them captive. Stockholm Syndrome only refers to situations where people who are held against their will have positive feelings towards their captors.
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by araneae 15y ago
University libraries usually require accounts to use the wireless internet.
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by araneae 15y ago
I challenge you to find someone who regularly brings their TV into bed with them and watches it under the covers. Yes, obviously there are many non-hackers who have this problem. Just thought it was funny it wasn't one of the hypotheses lis

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