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by biotech 16y ago
> Do you have a source to back it up? It seems unreasonable to expect others to provide sources when you don't source your own information.
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by biotech 16y ago
The two things about software engineering: 1. You have to figure out what you need to build. 2. Engineer the solution in such a way that changes in the requirements result in relatively minor changes to the code.
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by biotech 16y ago
You have a point. It's the Heisenberg principle at play here. By making the observation, you change what you are observing.
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by biotech 16y ago
This kind of thing is key to selling git to other members of my team. I haven't used it, but there is a tortoisegit project: http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ Anyone know the status of EGit? I can't download source or binaries; it loo
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by biotech 16y ago
Outside of California it's $2.99 a bottle, but still often called "Two Buck Chuck". It is of comparable quality to wines in the $8-$10 range. Almost any $15 bottle of wine will be better than Charles Shaw, IMHO. Still, for $2-$3, it's a goo
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by biotech 16y ago
"...I figured I should just stick the interview out" I had that experience at an interview. Among other things, the interviewer was late, I was stuck in a tiny office with three people interviewing me, etc, etc. It was quickly apparent to
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by biotech 16y ago
You have a few years of programming experience, and you are aware that that's not a lot. It sounds to me like you are useful now . On a team with more experienced developers, I'd probably have you working with parts of our test suite and t
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by biotech 16y ago
It seems to me that humans evolved as herbivores. I've never heard anyone argue that humans should be carnivores, but it seems like that's what you're arguing against. 1. Our teeth evolved to chew plants and veggies, true. As omnivores, we
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by biotech 16y ago
I think the gp was referencing the movie "Serenity". Good movie :)
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by biotech 16y ago
There are certain terms (like "a software") that are never used by people who's first language is English. IANAL (I am not a linguist), but I'd consider myself a "descriptivist" when it comes to defining a language. I think that a living la
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by biotech 16y ago
you have kids hitting Multivariate Calculus and Differential Equations who haven't seen a proof in their lives. Really? My AP Calc class was not very proof-focus (probably because the AP Calc test was not), but 10th grade (~15-16 y.o.) G
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by biotech 16y ago
When programming life support software for spacecrafts, A and B converge. Nothing less than excellent is good enough. I know there are other industies like this too, where 'release early and often' can result in death or some other disaster
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by biotech 16y ago
They do both. For example, compare the ETFs "United States Oil Fund" (ticker USO) with "United States 12 Month Oil Fund" (ticker USL). Every month, USO buys the next month's future as the previous month's future expires. Also every month, U
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by biotech 16y ago
The hardware and software would not necessarily be as distinct as it is in our technology. Alien technology might more closely resemble that of organic life, where the decision making processes are built into the physical structure of the s
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by biotech 16y ago
That's the interesting thing about this type of predicting: they usually fail to account for certain technologies being pushed out by others. You probably won't send a fax because faxing is nearly obsolete. Everyone uses email instead. And
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by biotech 16y ago
I don't know the whole story, but I have known very good, moral people who worked for companies that they didn't completely agree with ethically because they put their family or their health first. Ethics isn't always so simple. If "a v
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by biotech 16y ago
The article quotes McCarthy musing about a possible successor language to lisp: "[the language] will be more like a declarative description of the facts about a goal and the means available for attaining it than a program per se." It sounds
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by biotech 16y ago
Yep! There is some error-checking built into dna-replication. The protein that does the replication is called DNA Polymerase. From its wikipedia article: Error correction is a property of some, but not all, DNA polymerases. This process cor
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by biotech 16y ago
All of these work, sometimes. Especially the last one.
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by biotech 16y ago
"I'd rather have someone who's a very good EE who didn't quite grok recursion working on my power grid software than a very good programmer who can't tell an amp from a volt. At least the EE can tell when its broken." A great deal of terr
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by biotech 16y ago
For those who are concerned about privacy, you could request that they delete your information after you have received the product. It says in their refund policy: You can, however, request deletion of your genetic data by providing us wit
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by biotech 16y ago
The first time I ever used Bump, I "bumped" in the air (just moved the phone back and forth). It asked me if I wanted to exchange contact info with someone who I had never met; I tried it again and it asked me to accept contact exchange wit
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by biotech 16y ago
Please put me on the list too. Thanks proexploit!
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by biotech 17y ago
That format was driven into our heads in high school. When I was a freshman in College, I was amazed that very few of my peers could write an essay - a skill I had thought to be pretty basic. At the time, I wondered, "if they didn't learn h
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by biotech 17y ago
At a family event recently, my 13 y.o. cousin was playing with his new iPod Touch. So I started asking him questions about it, and he tells me about how he's going to root it, going into some decent detail. I was pretty impressed! It just g
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by biotech 17y ago
> Fix your language implementation.... This is a perfectly valid response if this was LTU or comp.compilers, but here on hacker news only a small percentage of us are actually in a position to "fix our language implementation". Know y
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by biotech 17y ago
.. and now the second link is a reddit page. Since I wasn't able to use the original link (xkcd.com), I used a google search. I probably should have used the google search with the query "q=xkcd" instead. Unfortunately, I can't change the l
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by biotech 17y ago
http://xkcd.com/ The front page has an embedded command prompt. You can navigate the comics by typing "prev" and "next". It also supports some unix commands. According to "license.txt": Client-side logic for Wordpress CLI theme :: R
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go to xkcd.com: The webcomic XKCD now has a command prompt(google.com)
224 points by biotech 17y ago|91 comments
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by biotech 17y ago
If we filled the entire area of the United States with that population density, we could fit 132.8 billion people!

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