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by biotech 14y ago
How is it misleading? Saying that someone is in the "Top 5%" most viewed profiles is pretty straightforward. Just because there are a lot of people in the top 5% doesn't make it "misleading".
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by biotech 14y ago
I love to see these articles. It's uniquely challenging to teach children to program at that age. I'm starting an after-school program to teach kids (~10 years old range) how to program. When researching tools available to teachers and stud
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by biotech 14y ago
> If change from within worked, it would have accomplished measurable effect within the first decade. Why do you think that's true? Is that just a gut feeling, or is it based on some logic that you did not include here? To be clear, it
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by biotech 14y ago
This is great. I'm working with a local elementary school teacher this fall to teach kids (9-10 year olds) programming. We plan to use Scratch as it gives immediate results and demonstrates many core programming concepts (variables, loops,
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Ask HN: What's the best Language/IDE to teach a group of kids programming?
1 points by biotech 14y ago|2 comments
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by biotech 14y ago
Looks like they don't (except under very specific circumstances which include not living within the USA) https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#Anonymous
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by biotech 14y ago
> 40% of voters believe the Rapture/end of the world will occur in their lifetime. This is unprecendented in any secular country This is unprecedented because it's simply not true. The best statistic I could find for this is 11%. Even
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by biotech 14y ago
A Bachelor's Degree.
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by biotech 15y ago
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fail+upwards
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by biotech 15y ago
Many people will say that humans are the exception, but I think it is nonetheless interesting to look at this from an ecological point of view. A common pattern of population growth for animals includes a period of exponential growth (as we
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by biotech 15y ago
I can't edit the post, so here's an update (bar by popular demand): http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/unledlauv.png/
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by biotech 15y ago
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/708/unledpyj.png/
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by biotech 15y ago
I just graphed the data: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/839/unledwte.png/
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by biotech 15y ago
SEEKING WORK I work with back-end systems; most of my experience is with C, C++, and Java. I can work with most technology stacks, though - it's the application that interests me. I have experience with telemetry and data analysis for avion
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by biotech 15y ago
I like the comments after the article - many people suggesting that Intel is selling themselves short with this prediction.
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Intel predicts 10GHz chips by 2011 (from 2000)(geek.com)
21 points by biotech 15y ago|30 comments
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by biotech 15y ago
No doubt there are many organizations capable of building an operating system, and a few with enough influence to cause widespread adoption. Indeed, Google is a great example, as they are responsible for more than one OS: Android and Chrome
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by biotech 15y ago
C is probably the most firmly entrenched programming language that ever existed, and it's not going away in the near future. One big factor here is the fact that all major operating systems are written in (and have core libraries to support
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by biotech 15y ago
The documented evidence is from a case in 1996. According to the article: Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set. I'm not so
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by biotech 15y ago
If you smoke or drink caffeine, these can cause vasoconstriction which reduces blood flow to your hands. If the problem is really serious, it could be a medical problem called Raynaud's Syndrome.
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Ask HN: Where do you get your stock photography?
9 points by biotech 15y ago|10 comments
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by biotech 16y ago
It's interesting how common this is in New Space: Jeff Bezos - From Amazon.com to Blue Origin Richard Branson - From Virgin Records to Virgin Galactic Robert Bigelow - From Budget Suites to Bigelow Aerospace Elon Musk - From PayPal to Space
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by biotech 16y ago
I see many comments pointing out that it may be a good technical decision to develop on Windows. This is a good point; many skilled engineers target Windows and .NET with great success. In that case, having a Windows development environment
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by biotech 16y ago
Here is the my naming convention: 1. Desktop computers are any land animal 2. Laptops are birds 3. Virtual machines and servers are any water dwelling creature I try to progress through the alphabet. For example, "Buck" is an old, now defun
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by biotech 16y ago
The article you are referring to was recently posted on HN, but published in 2005: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
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by biotech 16y ago
It would be a challenge to find a spot on the North side that wasn't near a Dunkin Donuts. That being said, I think this is a reasonable thing to look for if you aren't sure. I personally don't go to DD, but if you enjoy going there on a
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by biotech 16y ago
How so?
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by biotech 16y ago
This is a question from "Google Answers", a website that ran from 2002 through 2006. People were paid a small amount (usually; occasionally the amount would be reasonable) to do research (usually on the internet) and answer arbitrary questi
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by biotech 16y ago
> I'd be lying if I said I don't doubt you are not incorrect Holy Shnikes, that's a tough one to parse! I wasn't sure what you were saying here, so I'm gonna break it down, working from the end of the sentence: 1. I'd be lying if I said
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by biotech 16y ago
After reading this and some of your previous posts, I can see that your English is excellent. There's no need to second-guess your corrections.

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