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by astine 15y ago
Edit: (A few examples) My brother went to West Point and got a degree in CS. At West Point people with higher grades get first pick the corps they go into. People with exceptionally low grades get saddled with chem-corp or transpo. I have a
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by astine 15y ago
"Anyone who disagrees isn't thinking?" I didn't say that. But the whole world is not the Bay Area. I've known folks for whom this was an issue.
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by astine 15y ago
"I am a walking talking counter-example" A single counter example is not a trend. Your experience is not the entire industry and the tech industry is just a small portion of jobs available to college graduates across the nation. Many, many
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by astine 15y ago
You're failing to think things through. Employers only base their hiring decisions on grades for recent graduates, but nearly all employers base their hiring decision on the student's degree and the institution it comes from. Good grades he
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by astine 15y ago
"In the end, the only people they are harming is themselves " No they're not. Grades are important in moving on in academia and moving on one's career ultimately. Cheaters are hurting other students by out-competing them on graduate entry e
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by astine 15y ago
"few days vomiting in an orbiting can." You clearly underestimate the desire of the average American to make himself severely uncomfortable for the sake of a thrill. At the current level of expense, space tourism will never be more than a s
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by astine 15y ago
I disagree. He went through a lot of effort to lay down the foundations of parsing html with regexps. If anything, he's demonstrated exactly how difficult doing this is and how finicky the solution is. In short, he's stripped the sexy out o
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by astine 15y ago
It's been a few months since I messed with it so it might not be as bad now, but the main problem for me was that Clojure on Android is slooowwww. This is mainly in terms of startup. You have to include the Clojure runtime with any programs
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by astine 15y ago
If you are writing video games, then you're not likely to be using the built in GUI tools. I agree to an extent about the resources, but games almost always use a lot of resources in my experience.
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by astine 15y ago
I like how #25 is forgetting to use a salt when storing passwords. It seems to me that the majority of security discussion on HN these days is about hashing passwords and why one should use bcrypt or whatever, while everything from SQL inje
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by astine 15y ago
"First, let's be clear: I am speaking to anyone but console/mobile/AAA developers here." Well, if you're targeting mobile, and by 'mobile' you include Android, you already have to use Java. You could use Clojure in this case as well, but Cl
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by astine 15y ago
"Cynical?" That seems like a strange word choice to me. Either way, I agree that saying the Internet is somehow America's weapon, as if the US government was somehow the architect of these revolts or that they are specifically in the US's
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by astine 15y ago
I think this tutorial was meant for designers rather than developers who would be familiar with the emulator. You'll note that they went through the steps of informing the reader to actually install the sdk? This way might have a few advant
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by astine 15y ago
My condolences to the man and those he was close to. I hope he died comfortably and untroubled.
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Vatican hopes iPod can bring silence to Rome’s churches.(catholicnewsagency.com)
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by astine 15y ago
"and there are several words in the Hebrew bible that are usually translated as "soul"" I stand corrected on this. "The notion of the "soul" in Greek philosophy predates Aristotle." True, but my point is that certain sects of Christianity b
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by astine 15y ago
The salt is usually in the db as you should have a different salt per password. The purpose of the salt is to add some complexity so that each password is in fact hashed by a slightly different algorithm (in order to defeat pre-computation
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by astine 15y ago
"Religions that believe in immortal souls will simply maintain that the uploaded copy is just that: a copy, a soulless simulation of a real person." This might be true of some religious institutions but not of all. The concept of the 'Soul'
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by astine 15y ago
No, this is technically wrong. There are better ways of stopping a brute-force attack on a password form, such as attack detection, and black-lists. If you rely on a computational delay to slow attackers down on your servers, you will merel
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by astine 15y ago
But then you'd be violating copyright. Also it'd be stupid; It's not like people won't realize that the pop-stars aren't real.
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by astine 15y ago
If all our celebrities were CG-generated illusions... what would all the tabloids print to sell magazines? Actual news? I think I'm looking forward to the future!
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by astine 15y ago
I do work for the US government. Government jobs, even the good ones, combine all the worst parts of working for a large multi-national with all the worst parts of working in academia. You have reams of bureaucracy and even simple things ca
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by astine 15y ago
Well, I can see it as a phishing opportunity for user logins.
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by astine 15y ago
"Its users will slowly lose interest, moving on to other networks and platforms (possibly Twitter, or whatever emerges from Apple's iCloud)." Facebook is not going to be supplanted by Twitter or iCloud, neither of these serve remotely the s
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by astine 15y ago
I'm not certain if you're trolling, but IBM stands for International Business Machines.
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by astine 15y ago
I do work for the Library of Congress and no, it is not part of the mission of the Library to maintain a physical copy of every book ever written, though it does have extensive collections. Regardless, having redundancy in efforts will only
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by astine 15y ago
I've used Clojure in production. Specifically I coded database driven system monitoring app with a web interface, so I can say it works fine with SQL and in a webapp context.
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by astine 15y ago
But to claim that some history books are better than others is just wrong. How can you even write that? That statement is just so ridiculous as to befuddle belief. There are history books in existence written with deliberate lies mean to
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by astine 15y ago
The author's complaint seems to be that the Khan Academy's history lectures give an overly simplified view of history and that this, along with their availability, will make them more attractive to students who, the author fears, will watch
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by astine 15y ago
It could be your use of the word 'trivia.' At least in the US, it sometimes carries a negative connotation. It might read to some like you are being sarcastic.

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