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by calhoun137 14y ago
This article made me laugh, let's review. Computer predictions seems to work, but only get you half way there. I don't trust them because they are from a computer, but if I wrote the program myself I would trust it 100 times less. As with
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http://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-strategy/the-pros-of-conf... http://www.learn2holdem.com/poker-strategy/confidence-in-onl... http://www.poker1.com/archives/14247/mike-caro-poker-word-is...
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I'm sorry but where did the jobs go, did they get taken by computers or robots? No, they didn't. Is capital growth decoupled from job growth? No it isn't: all the jobs are simply being shipped off to places with forced/slave labor, abysma
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I might not ever get a chance to work at Google, I probably won't ever get to go to the Institute for Advanced Study, I may never discover anything in science that makes me famous; but if I had those things, deep down I know they wouldn't t
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This comment is totally unnecessary given all the caveats downandout made, and as someone who has lived through hard times it upset me to read your comment, although I do appreciate the edit that was made.
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I don't think the issue is either explaining to kids "how" to code, or "what" to code, but rather "why" to code. We all know why, because it's super awesome and rewarding. The problem is that it's also extremely frustrating, and maybe not
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Confidence is a funny thing: you can't succeed if you don't have it, and you can't have it if you don't succeed. In poker, a game which I am not unfamiliar with, it's well understood that having confidence, even apparent arrogance, is a sig
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I'm sorry but no. This article should be called "The best programmer I know can quickly understand things he finds from google, but I don't really know what he's doing that makes him so awesome". Sure googling something fast can be a nice
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I am little confused by your reply. I said only the power of a strong federal government can take on the more powerful too big to fail banks, not that a stronger government would be effective if everything else stays the way it is. Governm
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I love that we get these political discussions on hacker news, but I sometimes wish we as a community would spend as much time thinking about politics as we do thinking about programming and science. Big banks function very much as part of
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You make a pretty good point here. Breaking up the big banks would be super easy, just like ending slavery, you just set the slaves free, not that difficult. >> Big private corporations are as bad as big public corporations. I thin
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Stuff like this is amazing. I am so happy I switched out of comp-sci freshman year of college, and took a 10 year break from programming to study math and physics. I think if I had stuck with comp-sci there is a big chance I would hate co
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The key issue here is, why did this reporter attempt a drive that was twice as long as the range which he himself admits was displayed by the car? His defense is laughable: because someone on the phone the night before told me it would take
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>> Good thing Musk is willing to "stand up to them" given that he's the truly unbiased one in this situation, right? Fair enough, but let's not pretend that now that this reporter is in the spot light for possibly fabricating a stor
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This looks pretty cool! I wonder if this gives you access to shaders, or if this is a planned feature? That's one of the things about AndEngine that I really like, and is one of the reasons I switched from HTML5/js engines for making mobi
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I think this article has woken some people up to what a lot of us have known since 2003 (or earlier), namely: Don't believe everything you read in the NYT. In case anyone is unaware, it was recently revealed that when the government announc
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I feel really bad for kids these days. It's hard to know what to do to help. If there are any bright, motivated, self-taught young people in your life, please take the time to tutor them, to correct their amateur mistakes before they beco
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I took a 10 min break from another all night programming binge to check out HN, found this, realized it sounded like the story of my life, then realized that the majority of the comments are saying "yea that sounds exactly like me". It sho
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To fully appreciate the answer to this question, you should read the articles which I have linked in my other reply. Here are some relevant quotes (see articles for links): "...For one, smaller countries such as Sweden are generally more s
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"The evidence that the US seeks to prosecute and extradite Assange is substantial. There is no question that the Obama justice department has convened an active grand jury to investigate whether WikiLeaks violated the draconian Espionage Ac
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