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(HTTP) Cookies Aren't Good for Kids(post-gazette.com)
1 points by bmj 14y ago|1 comments
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by bmj 14y ago
The very set of exercises had me working on Pascal's Triangle and binomial co-efficients. The exercises continued to work through math problems. While I'm sure this stuff is old hat for many programmers, I often struggled with the basic a
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by bmj 14y ago
No, I haven't.
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by bmj 14y ago
Yep, all material is still available, but I don't believe you can submit your work for a certificate. I just wanted a structured way to learn Scala, so I wasn't interested in receiving a certificate for my work.
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by bmj 14y ago
I'm in the middle of taking the course, and while I enjoy it, I wish the prerequisites mentioned the heavy emphasis on math. I don't have a CS degree, nor do I have a background in advanced maths, so I find myself struggling with the assig
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by bmj 14y ago
From my experience as a climber[1], it has to do with my own comfort level, and feeling the need to compare myself to others. When I judged others as n00bs, or weaker than I was, it was done mostly to make myself feel better about myself.
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by bmj 14y ago
I went through this phase as a climber (fortunately it preceded my career as a programmer, so I learned my lesson), and I've gotten over myself, and realized that no matter what I do, there are scores of people who are better, and more humb
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by bmj 14y ago
I concur about Intrigue, but I don't mind the Alchemy set. During one game with the Familiar, my brother-in-law and I actually managed to deplete the Curse card supply.
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by bmj 14y ago
I wonder if this situation won't be a bit of a litmus test for Stallman and the FSF. If Canonical says "no, we aren't changing this" does the FSF counter by forking Ubuntu and removing that feature? That response is at the root of Stallma
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by bmj 14y ago
I'm saying if someone can't do intellectual work So anyone who can't do intellectual work is fucking idiot?
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by bmj 14y ago
This is terrible attitude, and it greatly devalues necessary work. Yes, if you are an engineer, you see stocking grocery store shelves as a technical problem to be solved, but other folks look at it as a way to make a rather meager living.
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by bmj 14y ago
So, when production is down, and clients are calling, and revenue is lost, it's okay to say "I'm too stressed to fix this bug?" I'm sympathetic to complaints about overly technical interviews (I've bombed a few in my day because of stress a
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by bmj 14y ago
You aren't feeling like doing this yourself, several companies make systems like this for cleaning cloth diapers before dropping them in the pail. http://www.handyspray.com/Cloth-Diaper-Sprayer.html
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by bmj 14y ago
Tons of folks (think: grandmothers and parents and other potentially non-tech-savvy folks) have been using Skype to communicate with family members across the globe for many years. Simply expecting them to switch to Google Hangouts is a ta
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by bmj 14y ago
Further, if you write a list of instructions (say, a recipe), you will likely follow a convention that puts each instruction on a separate line, and might make use of indentation to further delineate sub-instructions.
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by bmj 14y ago
Yep. My family spends ~2 months a year living in our VW van, travelling to various climbing areas. Though I do enjoy our time on the road, I also really enjoy coming back to my home.
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by bmj 14y ago
I'm not suggesting that the tone of the post determines its veracity. I am suggesting that the reaction the post has received here is due to its tone, not to its content. I'm fairly sure most commenters would agree that his ex-co-workers
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by bmj 14y ago
I agree, but some of his content will be a barrier for some people. I'm sure if the tone of the post was milder, most of the comments here would be supportive. IANAL, but I wonder if this post will hurt his chances of successfully pursuing
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by bmj 14y ago
I've been doing software development for over ten years without a CS degree. Yeah, I've never had a problem that linked list solved, but I suspect having a CS degree might have better prepared me to solve certain classes of problems. Afte
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by bmj 14y ago
Same with Chrome 22 on Windows 7.
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by bmj 14y ago
Many banks will instantly deposit checks up a certain amount (say $500), and deposit some percentage of large checks immediately, with the rest deposited after the check has cleared the writer's bank.
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by bmj 14y ago
Electronic data collection in trials (what we do) also has limited reach in clinical trials as a whole right now. Most of the studies we support tend to be for pain medications (think post-operative pain) and more serious conditions, and t
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by bmj 14y ago
I'm curious to read the book--I write software used to collect data during phase 2 and 3 clinical trials, so I have some understanding of both how trials are designed as well as what the regulators are looking for in the data. In my experie
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Should Facebook Disable the Account of Someone Holding Hostages?(post-gazette.com)
2 points by bmj 14y ago|0 comments
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by bmj 14y ago
This link ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57389858-1/are-any-smart... ) is from earlier in the year, so I'm not sure how applicable it is these days.
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by bmj 14y ago
I've seriously considered using a longboard and public transportation as a replacement for my bicycle. Sadly, the geography here in Pittsburgh is rather hilly, so a skateboard isn't practical unless you're commuting within one of the "plat
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by bmj 14y ago
Yeah, I think this is an important point. If you don't agree with your bosses architectural decisions, you probably should have discussed those initially. If you feel like your boss wasn't listening to reason, does he have a boss? Simply
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by bmj 14y ago
Thanks!
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by bmj 14y ago
Yes, though the light theme doesn't exist yet for all editors (Visual Studio, in my case).
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by bmj 14y ago
Yes, this was my reaction, too, but after some thought, the first question is about seeing a pattern and converting it to an algorithm. I don't have a background in CS or math, so my initial reaction to a problem like that is "math! No fai

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