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by bitops 15y ago
> - An American expat who's most likely never coming back. If you see my others comments in this thread, I'm a Danish expat who's never going back. Perhaps it's the idealism of the immigrant that makes me feel the way I do.
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by bitops 15y ago
> There is a reason that most of emplyees of Apples, Googles and Intels of the world are located outside of US :) Yes, the labor is absolutely cheaper. But US labor has never been cheap. It's a common illusion that politicians have g
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by bitops 15y ago
>Background: I am an United States citizen now working in northern Europe. To quote a TED Talk, "If you want the American Dream, move to Denmark." That's interesting to me as I am a Danish citizen living in the US. I grew up in Denmar
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by bitops 15y ago
All fair points with which I agree. Again, the US could get better, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily bad now. (I, like many, have days where I feel the US is going to hell in a handbasket). But I agree with the things you've pointed o
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by bitops 15y ago
I am not a US citizen either though I live here. (I'm a permanent resident, intent on becoming a citizen, as I like this country a great deal). > this is not a proof that US is a great place to live in. It just means that the neighbour
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by bitops 15y ago
Absolutely, I'm in the same boat. The reason it's so upsetting is precisely for the reasons you state. I (perhaps foolishly?) believe that America has the opportunity to be a role model for the rest of the world in terms of how a society ca
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by bitops 15y ago
> A so-called “blackout” is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals. This statement, in my eyes, s
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Rich Hickey: Value, State and Identity(infoq.com)
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by bitops 15y ago
> perhaps rightly I agree with everything you said except for that. The press, in its true spirit, exists to serve others. If people are better informed, they will make better decisions. At its best, the press could act in a teaching
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by bitops 15y ago
Yes, that is true. But, how those algorithms happen, is based in graph theory; is what I meant. If you saw Jamis Buck's "Algorithms" talk, I believe there's a reference to a "spanning tree" graph in there. That said, I do agree with your po
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by bitops 15y ago
Agreed. Even here in the good old Bay Area there are quite a few trust fund kids with zero work ethic, little motivation and no desire to ever work because their parents will let them ride the money indefinitely. Very sad.
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by bitops 15y ago
Don't forget that that same prime minister was brutally assassinated when she tried to return to her country. And she was kicked out forcibly, had to live in exile for many years. A remarkable woman. The movie "Bhutto" about her life is wel
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by bitops 15y ago
> The thread because this is one of the most hateful and ugly threads I've ever seen on HN. A thread like this would be literally unthinkable a year or more ago, and now I'm not even surprised it is here. I agree with you on this poin
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by bitops 15y ago
Modern IP networking relies extensively on graph theory. The Spanning Tree Protocol is a prime example of this.
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by bitops 15y ago
It's a bold stance, at least. From my experience, it's idiomatic Java and just one of those things you have to do. In practice, it's useful because it allows more easily for instrumentation later on. And you can easily throw a "synchronized
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by bitops 15y ago
Making your code public is a good exercise in taking the criticism of others, and learning which type of criticism you can easily discard. My GitHub page is far from impressive, it's mainly a collection of project that I think are fun to wo
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by bitops 15y ago
You must not have grown up in the US. They do, it's just called "middle school".
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by bitops 15y ago
This article is asking whether the NY Times should be a newspaper.
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by bitops 15y ago
NetShade, you can get a free trial.
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by bitops 15y ago
Where is PG in all of this?
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by bitops 15y ago
Eric Idle already told us that quite a long time ago.
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by bitops 15y ago
I don't mind the downvotes, but I think my comment was misunderstood. Of course, whenever there is any type of gender-related article on HN, it gets pretty nasty pretty quickly. HN, for all the good things I can say about it, is firmly entr
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by bitops 15y ago
Amazing, but unsurprising, that the first slew of comments are all about tearing down the post.
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by bitops 15y ago
You are forgetting to factor in maintenance costs, so yes, absolutely the developers perspective.
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by bitops 15y ago
Though I know it's bad policy to feed the trolls...I hadn't seen the numbers video. And I enjoyed it.
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by bitops 15y ago
Nice writeup. Sometimes I feel like there should be a canonical reference for novice programmers with links to all this stuff. E.g. Want to know what Netiquette is? Read this RFC. Curious about HTTP? Here's the RFC and some other good mater
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by bitops 15y ago
Can you qualify that statement a bit? There's more to HN than meets the eye.
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by bitops 15y ago
Because this kid obviously has drive, ambition, and talent. Caring enough about his dream to put together a site and posting it to HN demonstrates that he's paying attention and he wants to connect with other driven people. Also that he spe
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XKCD reaches 1000 comics(xkcd.com)
5 points by bitops 15y ago|1 comments
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by bitops 15y ago
Neither. Both. Karma. [EDIT: not to be grumpy, but why the downvotes?]

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