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by barik 14y ago
Sometimes I wonder if HN posters like to be argumentative simply for the sake of being argumentative. My exact statement was, "It reminded me of people ...", which this article does in fact remind me of. That is, there are people who spend
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by barik 14y ago
That's a broad brush, and though it's probably a good categorization, I don't find this distinction to be all that useful as a boundary. For instance, the field of artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology branched at one point, so m
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by barik 14y ago
This article was actually really confusing. It reminded me of people who spend their time coming up with the "perfect productivity system", a quest which ends up ironically consuming all their time and preventing them from actually getting
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by barik 14y ago
I'm not sure how that link helps me. I've already seen many of those studies. Which one satisfies, "students were given identical tasks, and a fairly large amount of time to do them"? That is the specific study I am searching for to add to
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by barik 14y ago
"In fact, one of the few studies that people actually believe is the "some programmers are 10x better" study, and that was actually fairly well conducted - many students were given identical tasks, and a fairly large amount of time to do th
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by barik 14y ago
I don't really see a purpose in hiding my password. So, as a counterpoint, my password is in the list. This is my LinkedIn password: AxEWS9rg5V This is the sha1: caf28fcc9c3e4d88b830b8e5cc52c5b65d3db5f4 It is found in Line 3612910 of combo_
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by barik 14y ago
I usually give most of the money to charity. While I have purchased the majority of the Humble Bundles, I don't actually have time to play games. For many of the bundles, I've not even bothered to download the files. That's how I rationaliz
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by barik 14y ago
I would actually like to see more gaming articles on HN, as long as they have as technical slant like this article does. Video games are a huge avenue for computational exploration, with many difficult research problems in graphics, AI, phy
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by barik 14y ago
I've gotten several of these types of notices before. Usually, it isn't Microsoft that does them directly ("Internet1@microsoft-antipiracy.com"). For instance, the ones I've received as usually signed as "on behalf of Microsoft Corporation"
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by barik 14y ago
I've become a loyal fan of DuckDuckGo. In November of 2011, just for the heck of it, I decided to e-mail support@duckduckgo.com about an issue (the difficulty of performing academic searches). I was extremely impressed when I received a res
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by barik 14y ago
I've also noticed a strange "anti-college" sentiment being expressed recently. Or, it could just be my own personal bias after having decided to go back to school after being in industry for several years.
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by barik 14y ago
Because I suspect that presenting the data this way masks the reality of why there are sheer number of people who can't find work. But even without major (which I was simply curious about), the data set is suspiciously aggregated. For examp
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by barik 14y ago
But you can be smart about this by hedging your bets and still achieving the same effect. A degree in basket weaving and a degree in Engineering will both serve to expand your abilities by teaching you critical-thinking skills, teaching you
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by barik 14y ago
This is hugely important, and seems to have been glossed over. "attending college" != "graduating from college". College is, for better or worse, a binary signal. You either graduated or you didn't. When you apply for an Engineering license
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by barik 14y ago
"You know close to 50% of new grads are unemployed right?" No, I didn't know that, but the statistic itself is largely unhelpful without a demographic breakdown. I would be curious as to the distribution itself by degree. I would additional
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by barik 14y ago
Maybe I'm the minority here, but I find disposable e-mail addresses to be a solution in search a problem. It pushes so much additional work on the user, that it just seems simpler for me to accept the fact that I'll receive spam anyway and
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by barik 14y ago
Don't feel bad, you weren't the only one. When I first read the title I already read it as "Institutional Review Board", whose paperwork requirements normally increases my blood pressure by several points. Opening the URL made it obvious wh
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by barik 14y ago
Using dot as a name separator is actually the convention the R programming language, so it's certainly not a new idea. Ironically, it used to be the case that R did not allow _ as a variable character.
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by barik 14y ago
The usual way that these get in is when people upgrade WordPress by simply doing a tar -zxvf wordpress.tar.gz. This replaces files, but often there are many legacy files from older installs that never got deleted. In my case, the attack was
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by barik 14y ago
Samir: Hmm... well, why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael? Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
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by barik 14y ago
That's because most corporations seem to define experience incorrectly. Experience is not simply time. Instead, I prefer Hunt's definition of experience: "By experience, I mean specifically that performing this skill results in a change of
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by barik 14y ago
As another poster pointed out, I see these numbers and variants often cited, even in professional educational conferences. Perhaps that is because it so closely and cleanly matches our own personal intuition about teaching. Unfortunately, i
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by barik 14y ago
Can anyone provide a suggestion on what to use to learn Smalltalk under Windows? The article mentions both Squeak and Pharo, of which only I've used Squeak briefly in college, but there I really had a hard time with the interface. At least
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by barik 14y ago
This issue isn't really that the service is down. From the perspective of the "help desk", the issue at the moment seems to be that the help desk is now "helpless desk", which an awkward situation to be in. Earlier, I e-mailed my University
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by barik 14y ago
The status page indicates that it's a service disruption: http://www.google.com/appsstatus Some Universities have also posted the issue to their pages: https://sysnews.ncsu.edu/ There's certainly an opportunity of a side discussion on t
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by barik 14y ago
But that's just it. Being that it's 2012, the e-mail client should be smart enough to do this. I should be able to attach a large attachment to an e-mail (since that's the logical place to make the association), and then, depending on the a
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by barik 15y ago
"So they rely on referrals. If you know someone at the company, asking them to pass on your CV will hugely increase the chance of getting a phone screen." This is probably the best piece of advice you can give for starting the job applicati
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by barik 15y ago
I think the idea is pretty interesting (at least on the surface), but after trying it a few times I wonder what the utility of it will be in practice. In particular, I'm trying to think of use cases where I would have access to e-mail, but
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by barik 15y ago
Indeed, it is interesting that the focus is on these web-based file download services, yet NNTP services like GigaNews ( http://www.giganews.com/ ) continue to make money while falling under the radar. And let's face it -- most of their tra
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by barik 15y ago
What equally stops someone from simply logging in using those account details, deleting all the files, or simply changing the password? Feels like whack-a-mole to me.

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