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by blahblahblah 16y ago
What about your increased cancer risk due to daily (assuming you're a pilot) exposure to ionizing radiation? Does that matter to you? Remember that risk is proportional to cumulative radiation dose. I think it's perfectly reasonable for
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
No, it's not missing the point at all. The professor in this story is making an invalid assumption that all of their students have met the custodian. It is atypical for custodial staff to perform their duties during normal business hours.
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
And why would any professor presume that their students had ever met the cleaning staff?
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Another important point regarding disease, in general, and especially malaria is that disease often leaves survivors with permanent physical disabilities and/or neurological deficits. I think a lot of people in the U.S. and Europe have thi
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
The conflict of interest problem could be significantly reduced by having a third party read the x-rays (i.e. make the interpretation of dental radiographs a radiology subspecialty or create a subspecialty within dentistry for doing this).
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
The password is among the contents of your brain.
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
I'm curious how the candidate who claimed 18 years experience with Java got past the phone screen. Unless the candidate is a former employee of Sun Microsystems who worked on the team that invented Java, a claim of 18 years experience with
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
I'll second that recommendation. It's such a quick read and yet so incredibly insightful. The same author also wrote a sequel to the book intended specifically for the web. I haven't read her web design book, but if it's anything like th
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
To further confuse non-painters, although painting is done with a subtractive color system and, technically, cyan, magenta, and yellow are the primaries of such a system, painters don't actually mix their colors from a palette of cyan, mage
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Feeling intimidated by your competition isn't a prerequisite for wanting to eat their lunch. There's also potential to expand the market for MATLAB by getting some of the Fortran & C scientific computing crowd to reconsider whether wri
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
I'm kind of surprised that MathWorks hasn't acquired Accelereyes yet. It seems to me that Jacket would be a great thing to either integrate into the core of MATLAB, boosting MATLAB's competitiveness with other tools such as IDL and Maple,
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
"The object of the educational system, taken as a whole, is not to produce hands for industry or to teach the young how to make a living. It is to produce responsible citizens" -Robert Maynard Hutchins, "The University of Utopia" See also,
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Yet another reason why the airline industry needs to be re-regulated to stop the ongoing race to the bottom in customer service.
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Let me guess... it's now going to be a skateboarding game with a turtle as the main character. ;-)
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
There is no bubble. The return on investment for a college education may be less than what it once was, but the net present value of a bachelor's degree is still positive. That's an economic argument predicated on the proposition that an
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
My main annoyance with HN posts lately is the use of profanity in post titles and occasional posts that are, in general, NSFW. For those of you in startup land this probably isn't an issue, but on behalf of those of us who are still "worki
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Don't read too much into it. I've never gone to an interview in anything other than a suit and, trust me, if my employer asked me to fill a management role, I'd decline the offer (and if told that I didn't have a choice to decline, I'd sta
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
'seizure' is not the issue. 'search' is the issue.
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
You can't see the undercarriage of somebody's car in their driveway from the street nor can you see it flying over in a airplane and there is little doubt that the police would have placed the device in a well hidden place on the car's unde
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
The court is wrong on the privacy issue. Setting that issue aside, isn't what the police did in this case an illegal act of vandalism? If you attach a bumper sticker to a police car without the knowledge and consent of the police departme
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
His work on compressed sensing is ground-breaking, seriously game-changing stuff. Full-fidelity reconstruction of a data set from sub-Nyquist sampling through the use of a priori information about the data set's properties in some sparse r
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Sounds like a terrible idea to me. You're using your most precious (and expensive) human resources to do a task that doesn't require them. Part of the function of ITIL practices in the support team (assuming you're large enough to have a
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
We're in agreement about the "If you advocate X you should expect to be criticized" remark. It was inarticulately phrased. I am only interested in criticizing behaviors and ideas, not people. The intended meaning was "you should expect t
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
My incandescent bulbs are nearly 100% efficient for about 75% of the year here. Heat is not always a waste byproduct.
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
"Given any mechanism for filtering people, I claim that there are smart, productive people who will be filtered out. These are called false negatives. It is impossible to create a repeatable hiring process that does away with false negative
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
The idea that if you don't program outside of work you're not a good programmer is just silly. I can understand that you might regard with some suspicion the abilities of someone who has never in their entire life written code outside of w
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
"You're backing it up with your own personal anecdote?" No. I provided a counterexample that falsifies an implicit assumption of the 6-year cutoff model of the college dropout rate. If you measure your dropout rate as the percentage of st
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
Well, I really enjoyed college and I wasn't in any hurry to graduate. I took a lot of classes that had absolutely nothing to do with computer science, had a lot of fun doing so, and I think I am a much more well-rounded human being for hav
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
24" 1920x1200 display as a bonus? Seriously? A 24" CRT display was standard equipment that I was issued as a entry level hire ten years ago. If you want to make your devs feel like valued employees now, you're going to have to aim a litt
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by blahblahblah 16y ago
The average (mean) is useless as a measure of central tendency when applied to a data set with outliers. Salary data has a highly skewed distribution with no shortage of outliers. If the author wanted to be credible, they should have comp

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