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by benesch 14y ago
How would one go about building a list of said right phone numbers? (legitimately curious)
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by benesch 14y ago
Really? That's certainly not the way it's perceived today. The course is called "Intro to CSII" [1], it's offered spring term only, and Malan's CS50 FAQs explicitly discourage skipping to CS51. [2] Sounds like it could be a shame if the CS5
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by benesch 14y ago
Ah, yes, the paper Atwood mentions is the one. The draft paper has since been taken offline (and I can't seem to find the published paper) but still available on archive.org. [1] Thanks! [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20091122080500/http:/
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by benesch 14y ago
Malan truly is a fantastic lecturer, isn't he? He's also been leading the charge for free, online education—his course has been on MIT's OCW since 2007 [1]. Did you find that the lectures provided enough basis to complete the problem sets?
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by benesch 14y ago
This is really good to hear. On campus, CS50 has a cult-like reputation. You'll regularly see CS50 t-shirts worn on campus; upperclassman insist that CS50 is one of those classes "you just have to take"; Malan is practically a celebrity. (I
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by benesch 14y ago
All anecdotal. Maybe it's Trident (the rendering engine) then, but it really hangs for me after a few tabs. (Exactly. It's probably political as I mentioned before.)
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by benesch 14y ago
Not a Google engineer, but I can offer a partial explanation. As you probably know, up until the release of IE9, supporting apps across the major browsers (Safari/Chrome, Firefox, IE) was a massive PITA. Not just obscure features, either; e
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by benesch 14y ago
Now that I think about it you're right—it's been every year or two for me. (On a standard Timex Ironman.)
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by benesch 14y ago
I'd actually be quite interested in purchasing one of these. To address your points: > Who still wears a watch? I do. (I'm young, too.) It's nice to be able to tell time by glancing at your wrist rather than fishing through your pocke
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by benesch 14y ago
I don't think consumer space is dead. I think the mentality of "get users now, get money later" is dead. It was always a flawed philosophy. There's no guarantee that if you build a network of people, those people will actually want to pay y
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by benesch 14y ago
Prior discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4616945
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by benesch 14y ago
I'm not talking about explaining to my grandma. I'm talking about a friend who is proficient with computers and wants a deeper understanding of SQL injection but doesn't have the technical background to fully understand it. An explanation b
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by benesch 14y ago
17 of 10 for me... (all correct, after a few attempts) http://i.imgur.com/PlXPQ.png
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by benesch 14y ago
How so? I thought it was brilliant. Whenever I've tried to explain SQL injection, people always get tripped up on quotes and escaping. The "blanks in a form" analogy works perfectly.
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by benesch 14y ago
Seconded. Neon green on black is very, very jarring to read. White on black causes strain for large amounts of text. (There's a reason no news sites use white on black.) Lowering the contrast is bad enough, but the green clashes with the bl
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by benesch 14y ago
Looks like a default Excel 2007 style to me :/
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by benesch 14y ago
I suppose it's kid-themed, but having the words appear one by one (like Santa is actually typing) is incredibly irritating. The lack of a save function would be bearable if the words appeared all at once.
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by benesch 14y ago
But sadly, beginners these days learn "jQuery" before they learn JavaScript.
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by benesch 14y ago
I'm certainly not a jQuery fanboy, but jQuery's DOM-manipulation functions are certainly more concise and abstract away some of the funky internals (NodeLists, etc.). That said, I've always found jQuery's function naming to be particularl
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by benesch 14y ago
Agree with you on Instagram, but Facebook had the benefit of one-at-time rollout to universities, which upped its exclusivity and draw. (Granted it was also good product.)
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by benesch 14y ago
I'll agree that the Constitution is horribly outdated in many situations and that the amendment process is unnecessarily complex. But this is one situation that DID exist in 1787. Surely there were criminals in big(ish) cities, and surely t
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by benesch 14y ago
It's better than restricting speech through law AND enforcement. I'm not supporting the current state of affairs; not at all. Just pointing out that you'd have trouble pushing such a (legal) restriction on the US press.
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by benesch 14y ago
Right, so "in the majority of rapes." Which extends to the "majority of crimes."
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by benesch 14y ago
True, but a restriction on printing the names of criminals and victims would be considered a "content-based restriction," which are subject to strict scrutiny. There is an established legal basis for allowing publication of victim's names:
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by benesch 14y ago
The US's fall from #20 is largely a result of arrests of reporters attempting to document the Occupy movement. While freedom of the press in the US may be violated pragmatically, you'd have a much harder time challenging it philosophically.
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by benesch 14y ago
You'd run into quite a bit of trouble with the first amendment and freedom of the press.
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by benesch 14y ago
Some of these books are absolutely ridiculous. I can't imagine there's a market for "Finished Weft Knit Fabrics Made of Broad Fabrics Measuring at Least 12 Inches Wide That Have Been Knit and Finished in the Same Establishment Excluding Hos
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by benesch 14y ago
That's a fantastic catch. I always knew something bothered me about that icon.
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by benesch 14y ago
Coming up as "Temporarily Unavailable" when I try to download it. Not yet appearing in search results either—maybe it's just still processing?