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by blah32497 13y ago
I would expand this to include the sciences. I did a 2 month industry internship in Japan a few years ago and I was blown away by the effects of the language barrier. They are incredibly disconnected from the rest of the world. While the re
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by blah32497 13y ago
There isn't enough data to have meaningful statistics. No statistics is always better than bad statistics.
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by blah32497 13y ago
Plug in Hybrids? My gues is that they will not be around for long. The beauty of the Leaf is that it's so fundamentally simple. A battery, some electronics and an electric motor. It's fundamentally so much more reliable and simple
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by blah32497 13y ago
This is a natural consequence of the type of journalism they practice. I recently listened to an interesting interview on the BBC with the late french spy novel author Gérard de Villiers. One of the things he mentions is that journalists ne
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by blah32497 13y ago
They have plans for a cheaper vehicle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_BlueStar But they'd be competing against the Nissan Leaf (The Model S costs about as much as two Leafs). I think the way car manufacturers s
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by blah32497 13y ago
Exactly. "Get Shit Done" is basically Agile development. If developers were left to draw their own agendas most would get bogged down in refactoring code so that it's perfectly extensible and uses the latest prettiest and mor
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by blah32497 13y ago
That's what I use, but keep in mind it's closed source (not sure what their business model is)
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by blah32497 13y ago
The table top should have been done with plywood. There is this persistent myth that plywood == cheap which is absolutely wrong. You can get very nice expensive plywood that will be stronger, prettier, cheaper, and longer lasting than a so
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by blah32497 13y ago
I think the idea behind the "czar" title is that the official has more authority to change the underlying organization and it lets the government pretend it's not a giant bureaucracy.
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by blah32497 13y ago
Okay, but if you steal a phone on the subway, why would you even bother unlocking it? Just sell it on ebay as a locked phone. Some bored teenagers will buy them up, unlock them, wipe them and then resell them for a few dollars more.
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by blah32497 13y ago
There is a trade off. If you don't swap your people around then they become very one dimensional. Sometimes it better to put someone less experienced in an area on a project so that he gains perspective (ie. see all junior staff)
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by blah32497 13y ago
Why hasn't this affected Take-Two's stock noticeably?
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If you can keep something secret, why would you bother patenting it? I think that the most important secondary effect is that it puts all inventions on a more of less level playing field. Inventions that can't be kept secret due to pra
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by blah32497 13y ago
But it's a fundamentally uneven relationship. If Apple starts getting marketshare, Apple wins and Samsung wins. If Android starts getting marketshare. Samsung wins and Apple loses. I bet each production cycle Apple starts threatening i
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by blah32497 13y ago
You're right. I would just guess that most people are there there to learn and do research. And TA'ing takes away from that. But plenty of people do from PhD to teaching positions - in which case a TA'ship is perfect and gets
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by blah32497 13y ago
You're missing the point. Most people don't have a dedicated computer to play pc games. They have one machines that they use to browse, email and play. The argument is that in the near future virtually all of those systems will ha
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by blah32497 13y ago
no no, it's not an issue of people actually caring how much you work. I agree that people aren't going to call you out or tell you to work more. It's more of a self-consciousness about taking breaks. People are much harder on
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by blah32497 13y ago
In the US you get paid to do a PhD - either as a research assistant, grants/fellowships, or if you get the shit end of the stick - TA'ing
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by blah32497 13y ago
Well whenever you take a break from coding you would know that everyone around you knows you are not working. This can be needlessly stressful and would probably lead to people overworking themselves and burning out.
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by blah32497 13y ago
I think this is a perfectly legitimate question. What is the parent post genuinely concerned about? (assuming he's not hauling drugs)
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by blah32497 13y ago
I think the conversation has turned into an echochamber where everyone rehashes the same old arguments and complaints as before. I don't get anything new out of the newer NSA stories. No one seems to be really ready for a real debate a
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by blah32497 13y ago
size_t is covered within the first 50 pages of C++ Primer. incorrect behavior is incorrect behavior. You want it to crash when you decrement past some value, instead it does something that looks like crazy voodoo to you (from a boolean alge
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by blah32497 13y ago
Another language with un-googleable name.
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It was all over HN a while back. They were incredibly cryptic and slow to respond after they got hacked. They tried to downplay what happened instead of saying it straight. So clients didn't know what measures they needed to take to pr
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Objectively I think rainbows are worse than purple, but it works for Google. I think the purple really sets them aside. HN is orange, Reddit is light blue, Facebook is darker blue, Yahoo is purple. shrug
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True, but there is also potential for some re-branding here. Maybe one of them is more "hip" and "fun" but people don't associate it with the Yahoo! brand. Ideally you would have different people use different logos
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by blah32497 13y ago
People keep saying facebook will disappear... but maybe it won't? Maybe it will become like email, less used but ever-present.
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I do study history, I just don't see the cyclicality of it. I think it's an illusion that people want to see. The late 19th century was a period of extreme nationalism. There wasn't a similar period 100 years before, and ther
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by blah32497 13y ago
Actually you just aren't reading carefully. "No advanced society (past a certain GDP) has slipped back into tyranny" The only reason I need to clarify things is because when I say "advanced society past a certain GDP
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by blah32497 13y ago
A bit off-topic, but Facebook has always very intentionally been on the cutting edge of eroding privacy and frankly it doesn't really matter what you do. In 10 years people will care even less about privacy than they do now. Due to Fac

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