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by capote 10y ago
What a bummer considering the BBC is one of the greatest.
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by capote 10y ago
Something makes me feel like HN readers are aware enough to put together that a front-page HN post on some referendum happening today that has something to do with the EU is the Brexit one. If in doubt, a simple click will solve any amb
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by capote 10y ago
I think many other countries have a TV 'tax' as well. I had to pay one living in Germany just for owning a computer. Makes for great public media in many cases.
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by capote 10y ago
So are we expecting tens of millions to vote by the end? Edit: I did some math and figured it out. Thanks for the help, hehehe
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by capote 10y ago
Why are the numbers so microscopic compared to the population of the UK? Is it not a direct vote?
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by capote 10y ago
Mmm, this answer is much better than mine because it uses the word alpha .
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by capote 10y ago
It's explained in the answer on the linked page (and in the top comment). Depending on how it is rendered (due perhaps to a buggy renderer) it might show on a screen.
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by capote 10y ago
This makes sense. I guess I was pointing things out just to point them out.
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by capote 10y ago
News publications cost money?
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by capote 10y ago
Maybe it's just whichever process matches the people and vice versa.
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by capote 10y ago
I was going to say exactly this--never realized how breathtakingly cool/large/long/complex that canal was until now.
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by capote 10y ago
I think time pressure is the worst thing cited here, and it's the reason I tend to stay away from methods in which I sense agility. The time estimate and completion time features on tools like Jira make my insides sink a little bit. I
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by capote 10y ago
That's what I meant by "something more problematic is happening." If a hacker can turn on Mark Zuckerberg's camera without having the light turn on, then there's a big problem, and it needs to be rectified to a gre
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by capote 10y ago
I always thought that problem was solved by the little light next to the camera turning on when the camera is on. And if the light doesn't turn on, it's likely something more problematic is happening.
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by capote 10y ago
1¢ of tape solves the issue of someone gaining unauthorized access to the CEO of Facebook's laptop? I think not.
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by capote 10y ago
I suppose. The underlying problem is still greater, though, than someone seeing you having sex. Someone getting unauthorized access to your webcam, I'd imagine, has the ability and skill to do much worse than look at you naked (which
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by capote 10y ago
I don't get this. If someone gets unauthorized access to your computer's camera, all this prevents is them seeing your face staring into your computer. This doesn't solve the underlying problem of someone getting unauthoriz
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by capote 10y ago
How did this get down voted out of everything I posted on here :/
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by capote 10y ago
Yeah... it's definitely a high price tag. I should've probably gone to a state school to save that money. But I still find it worth it because I see what I got from school as priceless, as silly and dramatic as that sounds. As a
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by capote 10y ago
You're right. Which is why I have been pushing to entirely separate the concepts of university education and of a job in the minds of Hacker News readers. If you want a job, go to dev bootcamp. Or online school. Or watch YouTube videos
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by capote 10y ago
Once again, you've completely missed the point. I am trying to say that the value of university has nothing to do with your ability to get a job. I'm trying to plead with people to stop trying to compare university with a job or
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by capote 10y ago
To me, (colloquially and ignoring subtleties): university = college = tertiary education = higher education = postsecondary education = school = uni
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by capote 10y ago
This is a very pessimistic and conspiracy-theorist-ish way to look at it. Yeah, most entities in the world don't operate at maximum efficiency or make perfect use of their money. Doesn't make them worthless, or even close to it.
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by capote 10y ago
Just to clarify, I and many other Americans use the term school to mean tertiary education (university, higher education).
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by capote 10y ago
You're still, in this post, trying to extract the value of a degree in terms of job power. That's what I'm arguing against. I paid $180,000 to go to university and I think it was 100% worth it, regardless of my job or how mu
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by capote 10y ago
I'm trying to say that I found value in it, and many people do. Like I said in other posts, I'm not going to fully describe this value, because it's up to you to find it. Just know that it's not only for a job. Univers
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by capote 10y ago
If you can't see the point, then maybe university isn't for you. I'm not going to write an essay on what point I saw in school because I don't have time or interest. The point is that I saw value in it. I liked learnin
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by capote 10y ago
> that institutions like that are a societal racket and waste of time and money. This is completely wrong. Universities are tremendously useful and do many great things for society and humanity. I'm not going to provide evidence
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by capote 10y ago
That's true, and I completely understand, but it's besides my point. My point is to implore people to stop looking at a CS degree as just a means to get a job. If you look at it that way, of course you're not going to find
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by capote 10y ago
Post number 7,819,394 talking about how useful or not useful a CS degree is to a programming job. Here are some lessons I learned by going to school that I find incredibly useful: 1. How to shut up and get some work done, even if I don&#x27

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