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by benesch 13y ago
The difference here is that a software engineering job at Google is widely considered one of the best corporate software engineering jobs in the world. There are thousands who'd love to be in her place; as she notes, the external press
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by benesch 13y ago
I've never understood what it means to live an "authentic" life. I really wish I did, because it sounds nice. Is it slowing down to enjoy life? Is it finding the things that make you happy and pursuing them? Is it doing what
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by benesch 13y ago
I can't speak to other undergraduate programs, but it's taught as the second course in Computer Science (Intro II) at Harvard College [0]. That said, it was chosen because it was less popular than other functional languages (nam
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by benesch 13y ago
Douglas Crockford has also posted his explanation on Google+: https://plus.google.com/118095276221607585885/posts/RK8qyGVa...
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by benesch 13y ago
The Borowitz Report [1] is a well-known, immensely popular satirical column. Granted, this isn't immediately clear unless you're familiar with the column. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Borowitz
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by benesch 14y ago
Turn the question on its head. Why is it right to prolong human and animal suffering to minimize the suffering of a few lab animals? These experiments are incredibly important for science and healthcare.
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by benesch 14y ago
US laws essentially encourage unwritten quotas. While actual numbers are prohibited [0], race is explicitly listed as a legal factor to consider in admission. (Supreme court decision; can't remember the citation.) So you can't say "we're le
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by benesch 14y ago
> There is nothing that prevents people from deciding to pay him more if they feel like it. That's a fallacious argument. That's not how the market works—consumers are very biased by prices. The more something costs, the more the percei
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http://i.imgur.com/4oDNx1q.png
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by benesch 14y ago
I'd also recommend choosing different colors. When scanning the list, I want the hottest movies to jump out, while the less-good movies fade into oblivion. As it stands now, red is the dominating color, and my eyes are naturally drawn to th
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by benesch 14y ago
And you can always fix the bug yourself. Granted, web browsers are a special case, since you can't patch everyone's Chrome and Firefox and Opera, but for every other type of software it's another strong incentive for OSS.
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by benesch 14y ago
Exactly my thoughts. The quote from the manager of crime operations made me laugh: > "Criminals are attempting to exploit the international mail system through online networks, but the recent arrest demonstrates that we are one step ahe
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by benesch 14y ago
Since the video link in the article seems not to work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs&feature=playe...
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Rochester is a tough place to go to college, but Troy is even worse. I wouldn't second guess it. I grew up in Rochester and only recently began to appreciate it; curious to hear what your opinion is.
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Guarded by the threat of 35 years in prison, perhaps.
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So if Belkin hasn't ever made good hardware, and Linksys hasn't made good hardware in a few years—what company is making solid consumer networking hardware at a decent price? Legitimately curious.
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by benesch 14y ago
There's probably nothing inherently wrong or slow with running Django through nginx. That said, one of the most common deployment strategies is gunicorn. It's better documented [1], and it's always good to separate your web app server from
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by benesch 14y ago
See dangrossman's comment below. [1] (I was shocked too.) iwantmyname [2] is great and supports .io registrations, but you'll pay a little extra for the clean interface. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5085850 [2] http://iwantmyn
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While in practice I don't think it'd be much of an issue, that's really scary. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Namecheap is a decent registrar, and I'm glad to see they support a free and open internet. But if you want a good registrar: [1] https://iwantmyname.com [2] http://www.gandi.net iwantmyname has a refreshingly clean interface and abso
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by benesch 14y ago
CPanel needs to hire a) some decent UX guys and b) some decent English-speaking translators. I've used dozens of CPanel-based shared hosting providers—enough to deduce that their product must be mostly technically sound. Everything seems
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by benesch 14y ago
I'm with the OP on this one—wireframing on the computer is unreasonably slow. It's four to five times faster to draw something out on paper. Seriously, try it. Come up with a design in your head. Try drawing it on paper. Then put the pape
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by benesch 14y ago
"There are no words to can contain love, to cloth it in words is to kill it, to mummify it and hope that somewhere in the heart of a reader, they have the strength and the magic to resurrect it." This is perhaps the most profound statement
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by benesch 14y ago
I think judofyr means that parents/friends/anyone close to Aaron will likely reveal any knowledge they have about his situation in the coming days.
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It's a reasonable assumption. We may never know the true cause. There's no harm in discussing possible factors.
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This talk makes me sick to my stomach. There's so much life, so much energy, so much passion. So much potential—you can feel, through a videotaped talk no less—that he wants to go somewhere in life. What a screwed up world.
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by benesch 14y ago
I think he meant that there's a stigma associated with depression—that many of us unfortunately view depression as the "fault" of depressed individuals, as if it were some sort of choice they make. No one would ever blame you for a [genetic
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by benesch 14y ago
See charonn0's comment below ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5047044 ). "This sort of stress tends to eat away at your insides. You can't make long-term plans of any kind; meet a nice person at the bar and you're reminded that you can
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Seriously though, this is by far the best solution if you have the space. Just design your bathroom so that you have to round a corner (or place some other obstruction behind the doorway) to move bathroom users out of the line of sight. No

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