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by arikrak 14y ago
"Write as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects: a brick... average students had much more diverse answers than students with high I.Q.’s. " Asking a question like list things you can do with a brick is meaning
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by arikrak 14y ago
"But for approximately 93% of the fortunate developers that “won” the chance to write code against the Campbell’s soup API (!), they get… nothing." "If you want to go it alone, just pay $25 to Google (or $99 to Apple) and start writing and
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by arikrak 14y ago
That might make sense for type B criminals, but type A criminals may still be choose to get away with the lower sentence. And it doesn't address the issue of innocent (or mostly innocent) people who confess to a crime they didn't commit. I
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by arikrak 14y ago
> On the other hand, procedures are such that trials are dispatched quickly at reasonable cost. There is virtually no room for the procedural/technical shenanigans that drag out litigation in the US and make it so expensive. That's the
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by arikrak 14y ago
I don't think the prison companies are the ones in charge of prosecution or judging.
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by arikrak 14y ago
I don't understand why the system works this way. Shouldn't the goal be to achieve justice? I.e. if someone committed a crime that actually deserves 20 years in prison, why should the government settle for only 2 years? And if the person is
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by arikrak 14y ago
It's true that long-term the government shouldn't be investing, but it can sometimes help to get things going. Israel was successful in this regard - it gave some funding in the 90's and then got out of the way. The questions is if Canada r
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U.S. warns on Java software as security concerns escalate(reuters.com)
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by arikrak 14y ago
Also like in Medicine, the US publishers charge US students much more than they charge students elsewhere (even in other Western countries). I think part of the reason they're able to do this is because college itself costs much more here.
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by arikrak 14y ago
Its not fair capitalism, students are forced to buy the books .
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by arikrak 14y ago
It turns reddish gradually, so I don't really notice it. If I disable it at night, the sudden blueness hurts for a second, which implies there's some benefit to being redder.
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by arikrak 14y ago
Warning: May freeze your browser.
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by arikrak 14y ago
What are people so afraid of when Google shows them ads? And Google lets you manage your ad preferences and control your privacy settings. (You can also use adblock to block ads entirely.) Also, Google doesn't use all the sources of data i
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by arikrak 14y ago
Maybe create an investing game to teach about the stock market..
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by arikrak 14y ago
Why not work for a year somewhere and then decide if you want to get a full degree? If you decide not to go back, then after a few years of work experience, I think few companies will care that you didn't get a 4-year degree.
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by arikrak 14y ago
There are over 30,000 jobs listed on SimplyHired with "Java" in the title. http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobs/list/t-java
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by arikrak 14y ago
I understand there are some formatting issues, but PDF's dont work well on smaller devices. In fact, I find they don't even work well on Laptops, since you need to scroll down each time to the bottom of a page. EBooks formats are better for
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by arikrak 14y ago
Windows laptops have many different brands and models, and even Macbooks have been around long enough that there's different types, but there's basically just 2 Chromebooks. This means they might only be a tiny fraction of PC sales, but st
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by arikrak 14y ago
You don't need to pay for a physical copy, so it would make more sense to charge so you get the same profit from each, or maybe a bit less.
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by arikrak 14y ago
I'm not sure why people don't also look at job sites to see language popularity. I quickly compared a few languages here http://www.zappable.com/2012/12/job-market-for-programming-l... but one could do a more in-depth analysis. I created
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by arikrak 14y ago
Scala seem to have much more job results on every site than Clojure and Haskell: http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobs/list/q-scala+developer . See also Dice.com. To see startup jobs, check Startuply or Angel.co: http://www.startuply.com/#/sc
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by arikrak 14y ago
I have sites on Amazon S3 and OpenShift, but my Domain Name registar (1&1) didn't support redirection, so I pointed it to Cloudflare and created a rule there to redirect from the root to 'www'. This looks simpler though.
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by arikrak 14y ago
I think there's a big chicken-and-egg problem here since why would websites use it before there are users? But it also seems like it would be too much of a hassle for users. If they let their browser or Lastpass save the passwords, they can
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by arikrak 14y ago
They're not currently good enough, but they have haptic feedback, and they'll probably improve in the future.
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Programming for all, part 1: An introduction to writing for computers(arstechnica.com)
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by arikrak 14y ago
Other people need to type besides programmers. If touch-screen keyboards eventually become good enough., programmers will be able to use them too. And programmers may use some more visual interfaces, but pure-text will still be more powerfu
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by arikrak 14y ago
The article seems to be discussing the overall history, but it should focus on the present. Android has grown a lot in the past couple of years so how does it compare to iOS now?
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by arikrak 14y ago
Even though they won't be developing git further, Expression Web and Design are decent programs, so its nice that they'll be free.
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by arikrak 14y ago
Ouch.
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by arikrak 14y ago
It would be nice if that was true, but people have been able to successfully game Google with SEO. Google can't actually tell the quality of content, so the SEO shortcut often works.

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