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by blahblahblah 14y ago
In addition to the inter-rater reliability issue, there are also a lot of unanswered questions about the statistical distributions involved. The results are reported as population means, but without information about the underlying distrib
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
I mostly agree with the article in the context of distribution of a final mix. However, the article ignores one glaringly obvious reason to distribute in 24/192 format: to allow the listener to be a participant in the creative process, ena
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
I agree that many programmers need to work on improving their writing skills. However, I disagree with the notion that the humanities department is suited to providing an education in the kind of writing skills CS students need. The human
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
The books that are beloved by practitioners in a field are not always the best choice in terms of pedagogy. Clearly, these professors think that another book choice will help their students really grok the material. If they're successful,
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
Apparently, neither of these guys paid attention in high school civics class. Slander involves oral, not written, communication. Libel (not "liable") is the term for a tort involving false and damaging written communication.
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
These are hardly the "most dangerous" programming mistakes. Nobody is maimed or killed by SQL injection attacks on a website unless there is physical machinery that is under the direct control of the website. The most dangerous programmin
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
The really bad news, if they decide to be evil, is that the purchase of MySpace provides a means to circumvent anti-spam and anti-telemarketing laws - if you have a MySpace account, you can be construed to have an existing business relation
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
How do I end up paying more in taxes? Because I'm aware that I undoubtedly bought something from Amazon in the past fiscal year and, therefore, in compliance with my state's laws, I check "yes" in the box and pay the flat fee for use tax
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
Frankly, I wish Amazon would just give up the fight and go ahead and charge sales tax for all 50 states. They're the only retailer that I do any business with that doesn't charge sales tax and, because it's a PITA to remember to save every
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
"Supposedly the same argument could apply to a safe combination, hence a defendant cannot be compelled to reveal a combo but can be compelled to open the safe." Can the defendant even be compelled to open a safe? Suppose you have a case in
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
"Your expectation that you will understand it without the necessary background is misinformed and frankly amusing. That being said, the popular press is there to do exactly that; contact your favorite media source and ask that they cover mo
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
Hats off to you, sir. That is the most excellent troll post that I have seen in a very long time. Well done!
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
Wow. Here comes the bury brigade to crush my dissenting opinion without bothering to address anything that I said... How dare I criticize the sacred cow? How dare I challenge conventional wisdom? Conform, conform, conform. Everybody lo
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
"2 million unique students are viewing our videos every month by choice" Page hits isn't a very good metric if you're trying to get feedback about what viewers actually thought of the videos. A lot of people have heard of Khan Academy thro
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
Regarding #3: Division by zero should be a recoverable error in many programming situations. That's part of the beauty of NaN as defined by the IEEE standard for floating point numbers. It's quite a handy thing to be able to just do the
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
The ongoing attacks on academia have little to do with geek culture in particular. Academia is under attack primarily for cynical political purposes. Specifically, because the political right wing sees institutions of higher learning as b
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
This article totally fails to mention the #1 reason why Kenya is becoming a tech hub. Specifically, it's one of the first places to get a fibre connection to the Internet. Kenya is one of the landing points for the SEACOM undersea fibre n
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
In my opinion, using antidepressants by themselves to treat depression is like buying a faster computer to run a computation that is implemented with an O(n!) algorithm. Sure, it may have some effect on application performance, but it does
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
Watson isn't a replacement for the physician. It's a physician's extender, a tool that allows a physician to "see" more patients in a day and provide diagnostic results in a more timely manner. The physician will still be the one responsi
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
Why is this "get rich quick" crap on the front page of HN?
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
Of course the period should follow the quotation marks. Periods, exclamation marks, and question marks are the delimiters for English sentences and belong at the end in the same way that a semicolon belongs at the end of a line in C/C++.
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
Disbelieving the official story doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist. Disbelieving the official story and also believing that you know what really happened is what makes you a conspiracy theorist. The null hypothesis, "I don't f%#@$ng
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
Glad he had fun because that's kind of an expensive boarding pass. When I've printed posters at Kinko's before, it usually comes out to about $40 for a 1 meter^2 poster.
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
I agree. She's way off base. If you search for worldwide rankings of universities, although answers vary depending on the source, higher education in the United States is universally well-regarded and the only other country that can reall
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
Whether displayed or not, the points never really contained any useful information about the quality of a post. The ability to dispassionately evaluate an argument solely on the basis of whether it is logically consistent, based upon a rea
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by blahblahblah 15y ago
A couple other pointers. 1) Always tin the tip before soldering and tin it again before you put the soldering iron in the stand. This prevents oxidation of the tip. 2) Put some flux on the joint before soldering or desoldering. Always use
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
I've always been somewhat puzzled as to why NYC is the software development hub that it is. It's easy to get why the Bay area is such a powerful draw for developers. It's the one place in the continental U.S. where the climate is perpetua
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
I didn't say that I was qualified to work an electrical engineering job at Intel. (I'm not.) However, I know enough (from watching Feynman's University of Auckland lectures - see http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8 ) to understand that
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Assuming that it was an interview for an electrical engineering position, the Intel question "Explain quantum electrodynamics in two minutes, starting now" doesn't seem at all ridiculous. If you don't understand the topic well enough to gi
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
>>make crack legal -----> crack-use increases a LOT Seriously? You really believe that? Would you, personally, be down at the government crack store buying some rock to smoke today if it were legal (I'm assuming that you curre

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