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by araneae 16y ago
You are reading the comment too literally. It was more of an "FYI" than a rebuttal.
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by araneae 16y ago
They can. http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
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by araneae 16y ago
a) Sometimes the music is really bad/and or loud. People noise doesn't bother me. b) Yes. This is why I am constantly checking out new places. Luckily I live in a place with lots of options. c) Generally don't notice due to b). And I wor
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by araneae 16y ago
I had the same reaction. I personally would change the tab.
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by araneae 16y ago
I'm having flashbacks to the dot com bubble.
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by araneae 16y ago
For the most part that was completely incomprehensible to me. I read it three times, though, and I think he was saying that knowledge was irrelevant when it came to spirituality, and that spirituality has to do with how we experience life.
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by araneae 16y ago
But instead of saying that, he said "fuck you" which is more open to interpretation, I think.
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by araneae 16y ago
I'm curious which ones. I have not bought any yet.
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by araneae 16y ago
This kind of question is made absurd by our current understanding of evolution and eye physiology. The ability to see a spectrum of colors was developed millions of years ago. Ancient Greeks being able to only see 3 colors would require a
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by araneae 16y ago
The bigger issue here is that programming and computer science are related, but not as much as you might think. It's like saying that if your main goal is to be a proficient writer you should study English literature in college. There ar
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by araneae 16y ago
Agreed! I've always thought that it's an innate-ish lack of affinity towards machines that's partially responsible. Human infant females show a toy bias away from toys modeling machines, and even female baby primates of other species prefe
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by araneae 16y ago
I've bought probably 5 or so groupons, and I've been happy with them. I do feel a little sheepish using them, but the staff have seemed fine with it so far.
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by araneae 16y ago
ITS. ITS. Really, I'm only that angry because seconds ago I saw this caption: http://somerville.patch.com/articles/photo-gallery-snow-art-... I mean, maybe we should change that rule or something so people stop breaking it.
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by araneae 16y ago
Right, but we're talking about the "weed-out" class effect here. If the girls get weeded out in 101 whatever happens later isn't relevant.
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In my own undergrad CS program, the CS101 hotshots fared no better, on average, than the kids who came in with no experience at all. How do you know this? At the school where I went, the distribution for CS101 was bimodal; higher peak wer
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by araneae 16y ago
I almost signed up until the Facebook app asked to post to my wall. Too far.
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On the site it says, "You will be asked to log into Facebook. Getaround is a community built on trust and by connecting with Facebook, you enable safe and open sharing." Probably the reason is they want to verify your real identity (i.e. le
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by araneae 16y ago
Just because you can teach anyone to program doesn't mean that certain personality types don't gravitate or acclimate to it more readily than others. I agree that conversations about the differences do contain an air of superiority, but it
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by araneae 16y ago
Well, if you buy Meyer's Briggs types, programmers do think differently than others, because programmers are not uniformly distributed among the different types. HN survey: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943722 And there have been be
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by araneae 16y ago
It could very well be beneficial to you. But it doesn't make your life less complex. The more social interactions you have, the more complicated your life becomes.
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by araneae 16y ago
How is that uncluttering? Filling your head with names of people you don't need to know is definitely clutter.
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by araneae 16y ago
If that happens, you call the cops Just because one child did it, doesn't mean all children can. Heck, even adults can't sometimes. Haven't you ever heard of Stockholm syndrome? Or battered wife syndrome? Going up against someone who ha
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by araneae 16y ago
The methodology has changed. Now they use humans instead of a point system. The result is identical. Entering "minorities" and athletes enter with lower GPAs and SATs. It's a fact, not a strawman.
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by araneae 16y ago
It's not a strawman. At UoM, the point system was designed so that being a racial or ethnic minority was worth the same number of points as a full grade point (i.e. a white student with a high school 4.0 was equivalent point-wise to a blac
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by araneae 16y ago
How is that misguided or offensive? It's simply a fact that if you lower academic standards for athletes, then the stereotype will be that the athletes are of lower academic caliber. Because they are. It was a statement of fact. I suppo
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by araneae 16y ago
First you say I used the phrase affirmative action when anyone could see that I didn't. And then you say that I have offensive and misguided views about minority students when I have not professed any views about minority students. I don'
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by araneae 16y ago
I'm pretty sure I didn't use the phrase affirmative action so I'm rather taken aback that you think I don't know what it means. I'm sure you don't know what καλημέρα means, but I have better chance at being right because it's in Greek.
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by araneae 16y ago
This is oft-said, but I'd like to see some concrete evidence of this. I'm not being skeptical to be skeptical, I'd really be interested if there were any proof that this helps people. I have heard some evidence to the contrary, that white
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by araneae 16y ago
besides the offensive nature of those words The point was that the stereotype is formed quite strongly because those groups do exist on campus. He was using those words to demonstrate why using different academic criteria for different
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by araneae 16y ago
I think what makes programming particularly hard is that there is such a large space of possibilities. There's pretty good research out there that people flounder when there are too many choices. When I was first starting out I remember b

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