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by biotech 17y ago
I dont understand how some company hasnt gone into the market, treated their customers fairly, and wiped the floor with the competition. Any small company will be priced out of business by the big telco companies. It's a pseudo-monopoly,
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by biotech 17y ago
It's interesting to hear about what people's dad's taught them when they were 11 years old. So far, I've got: robg's son - Code optimization (result pending) aristus - Circuit debugging (turned out to be very useful) J_McQuade - How to tend
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by biotech 17y ago
Anybody know who Tamino is? Specifically, I was curious if he has some scientific background.
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by biotech 17y ago
15 y.o., life guard at a pool. Minimum wage @ $5.00/hr. Ouch!
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by biotech 17y ago
I have been on a "gluten-free" diet for a couple years now. This means that I have to carefully inspect the ingredients list of everything I eat, something that I didn't really do before. The results are unappetizing to say the least. Even
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by biotech 17y ago
I can't seem to link to an individual comment, so I'm just going to repost it here. It's by Katie Lucas. Begin Quote: The problem with IT, generally, is lack of respect. Because it's something that looks easy and looks like something anyon
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by biotech 17y ago
"Some objected to the way I asked the question...." Here Atwood links to a very insightful blog post by Paul Buchheit: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/question-is-wrong.h... To continue the quote: "...but it was a simple question
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by biotech 17y ago
Actually, one of the major problems in filling teaching jobs in the USA is the hiring process itself. If schools organized their hiring processes better, they could create a pool of qualified teachers looking for a job. As it happens, it's
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by biotech 17y ago
Great teachers are often willing to sacrifice pay for the ability to teach at a great school, to be allowed to teach to the best of their abilities, to be able to hold their students to a higher standard.
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by biotech 17y ago
"I suddenly learned that I didn’t have the slightest idea what to say to someone like him." It's really not that difficult: watch sports. For men, it's the easiest icebreaker. A plumber in Boston? Chances are good he knows that the Red Sox
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by biotech 17y ago
I had the same problem with highschool textbooks. Unfortunately, many college texts are not much better. I recommend finding out what books are being used at good private colleges (for math/compsci, MIT is a good place to start) or in hon
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by biotech 17y ago
I installed Chromium on my Ubuntu box the other day. It is missing many features (plugins, bookmarks weren't working right, options missing, etc), as I expected from an alpha build. It looks pretty good so far, though: - It's really fast (c
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by biotech 17y ago
I have no problem with people using the word "decimate" loosely. It's the word "literally" that gets me. If you say, "I literally have to decimate the pool", then it should be the literal definition of decimate you're talking about.
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by biotech 17y ago
They can do more than one thing! Why shouldn't they?
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by biotech 17y ago
It seems to me, the point of the charter school system is to try new ideas in education. This school seems to have certain ideals: - teach to the test - observe all rules, to the letter, no exceptions I'm sure there are better ways of doing
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by biotech 17y ago
This is a great habit to get into when you really need to remember/understand the material. I have worked at several science and engineering labs; when someone demonstrates a procedure, you better have a damn good memory if you aren't writi
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by biotech 17y ago
Okay! A well thought-out argument about religion/atheism. It's very rare thing. I'm a theist, but the way I see it, God made atheists (or made the conditions under which atheism would occur) to get a new and important perspective on things
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by biotech 17y ago
The routerstation pro has a 680 MHz processor with 256 MB RAM, which is okay for certain applications. But for many uses, 680 MHz is kind of low. The SheevaPlug has 1.2 GHz processor and 512 MB RAM, which isn't too bad considering the cost.
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by biotech 17y ago
To summarise: 2 roomates, private bath, and - parking included in a great location: near the lake, near the loop. Parking is at a premium around here, and could cost over $200/month easily. The ad does not specifically mention "hackers".
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by biotech 17y ago
The website does have some good advice on the matter: They’re completely fake, of course, and would be illegal to use in any situation where you actually have to show ID, but for showing fake cops when they cite fake laws? Nothing more app
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by biotech 17y ago
This is probably a bad idea; the main advantage of this controversial section is to keep prostitution ads off the main personals listings. I'm guessing there'll be an increase in these types of ads in the other sections.
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by biotech 17y ago
I agree - after freshman year, don't worry about whether the students have prior experience in a language or not. My first experience with Java was in a Database class: The teacher gave us a project, said "use Java". She linked to the Java
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by biotech 17y ago
Maybe we should use call by value: make a copy and link to the internet archive. (When legal)
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by biotech 17y ago
Save your first programs, even print them out. Yes! I wish I had done that. I vividly remember writing my first programs when I was a kid; alas, the code is gone forever now. I really should've printed it out.
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by biotech 17y ago
It's probably a good idea to start with the individual/high deductible plans while the company is still young, especially if you're both healthy. As you expand and take on a few more employees, you'll probably want to start looking at group
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by biotech 17y ago
Carrying insurance has been a major hiring win for us. I agree; it is much easier to take a job with a small company knowing that the health insurance situation is secure. For many, the two most important things about a job (other than th
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by biotech 17y ago
For many start-ups, not being sold is synonymous with failure. So, without knowing any real details... Try to get a good price, and congratulations.
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by biotech 17y ago
Looks like an interesting language for scientific/engineering applications. It's designed to be heavily parallel (for-loops are parallel by default), it uses math-type notation (although I'm dubious about the whole "2 x" being the same as "
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by biotech 17y ago
There are certain things some people enjoy that I do not understand the appeal of. Among those are smoking cigarettes, drinking urine and self-flagellation. Pretty sure that if you enjoy self-flagellation, you're doing it wrong.
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by biotech 17y ago
People here are very critical of Jeff Atwood. I realize that he has some shortcomings, and is sometimes flat-out wrong about things, but I'd like to point out a couple of things in his defense: 1. His blog and podcasts are pretty entertaini

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