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by araneae 17y ago
Your site is still ugly. If you're interested, I can make it prettier, NSA. I want to try working on my graphic design skillz. araneae@gmail.com
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by araneae 17y ago
The number of H1N1 cases has decreased steadily in the last two weeks. Maybe by "spiral" they mean "spiral downwards."
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by araneae 17y ago
I'm not sure at all. You should have said it was the subject GRE in the original post! I was talking about the section on the regular GRE. I took the biology subject GRE, and tanked it. So I can't be much help here.
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Critical mistakes freelancers make(smashingmagazine.com)
5 points by araneae 17y ago|2 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Yes. It's super easy- a 780 is 90th percentile, and an 800 is 94th percentile. The best thing you really can do are practice tests. Just to warn you though, the Kaplan etc. pre-tests are actually much more difficult than their regular pra
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Mothers should be programmers(lepid0ptera.livejournal.com)
18 points by araneae 17y ago|30 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Rather than extending maternity leave, I would favour extending it as parental leave and making it exchangeable between both parents, however they like. This is done in some fields already, like academia, where both parents can elect to t
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by araneae 17y ago
# Only about half of women return to their previous jobs, a figure largely unchanged since maternity protection was introduced in the 1970s. # Sixty per cent of women signalled their intention to return to work, but research suggests that
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by araneae 17y ago
People are individuals, but there are things which hold true, on average, between certain populations. It's not a contradiction, it's called outliers... or even 1/10th a standard dev, depending on how close the means are.
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Studying the science gender gap at the high school level(arstechnica.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|1 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Why would they want a double-blind marking system? It looks bad if you admit a bunch of black students and then fail a large number of them.
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What your Facebook page says about who you "really" are(scienceblogs.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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The Biology Behind the Milk of Human Kindness(nytimes.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
And the problem is that at the university I teach at, being an ethnic minority is worth 20 pts of the 100 pts necessary for admission; the same number of points as a full grade point average. That means that the black students did a full g
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by araneae 17y ago
A student who has learned nothing will not receive an F because the professor doesn't want to admit that his teaching hasn't been compelling and/or effective. That's not true. Professors would love to fail more students. But if you do,
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by araneae 17y ago
Being not-so-nice can definitely be a symptom of playing well with others. The stereotype of the "popular" kids in high school is that they're jerks. And yet, they're considered the ones with the best social skills!
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by araneae 17y ago
"Plays well with others" as he describes it just translates into "extrovert." Interesting considering the vast majority of HNers are introverts: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943722
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by araneae 17y ago
You wouldn't happen to know this crazy dude named Ken Ludwig, would you? Because he told me the exact same story, except it involved a lot more rambling.
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by araneae 17y ago
So you're saying... The set of all people that think Joyce is pretentious is the same as the set of all people that can't imagine the author speak in an Irish accent. elaborated to emphasize absurdity
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by araneae 17y ago
"Pretty much no one" != "no one" It's very nice that you enjoyed Ulysses. I did not enjoy it for 100 pages. Reading it is pretty much only useful for bragging, which I see is alive and well.
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by araneae 17y ago
You're right; it wasn't really constructive, because I was criticizing the content. A post bragging about how deep and smart you are and complaining that you're lonely belongs on LJ, not HN. And since posts on HN are selected, generally,
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by araneae 17y ago
No, your goal was to sound smart. It's cliche... just like saying "we're all in this together." I'll break your essay down for you. A) A section in which you say you hate small talk. You use this fact to claim that you are deep, because s
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by araneae 17y ago
I can see why it was killed. What a load of drivel... I mean, seriously, who ends a blog post with "[w]e’re in this together"?
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Belle de Jour: On science and prostitution (newscientist.com)
6 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Are There No Women in Web Design?(pbs.org)
5 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Mathematical disasters(timesonline.typepad.com)
4 points by araneae 17y ago|2 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
tl:dr Women don't have unrealistic expectations, they're just saying that the average man is ugly. I disagree with their interpretation that the fact that women rate men as low attractiveness means they "have unrealistic standards for the '
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Mark Cuban's Plan to Choke Google's Super Powers(gizmodo.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|1 comments
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Innovation: The dizzying ambition of Wolfram Alpha (newscientist.com)
3 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Respected developers begin fleeing from App Store platform(arstechnica.com)
25 points by araneae 17y ago|9 comments

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